Yale became the first ECAC team since Harvard in 1989 to capture the national title.
"It's great for Connecticut, it's great for the ECAC, it's cool to see, " he said.
Quinnipiac (29-7-5), the regular-season ECAC champions and the top-ranked team in the nation, takes on St.
The Bobcats shut out the Bulldogs 3-0 in the consolation game of the ECAC tournament.
The Skating Dutchmen finished above .500 in the ECAC just twice in their first 16 seasons.
Yes, the Bobcats and Bulldogs are rivals, members of the ECAC Hockey League.
It wasn't always this easy for Quinnipiac, which struggled down the stretch and didn't even make the ECAC tournament final.
Quinnipiac, which joined the ECAC just eight years ago, is in just its second NCAA tournament, and has never been to the Frozen Four.
Yet Quinnipiac coach Rand Becknold insisted the Bulldogs weren't the same team the Bobcats steamrolled 3-0 three weeks ago in the ECAC tournament consolation game.
Union, the ECAC champion, will face conference rival Quinnipiac, the top seed in the 16-team tournament, on Sunday for a spot in the Frozen Four in Pittsburgh.
Yale, which plays in the ECAC Hockey conference, is an underdog on Saturday against its Connecticut neighbor: The Bobcats are the top-seed overall in the 16-team tournament and beat the Bulldogs three times this season.
To Roger Hull, Union's president at the time, joining the ECAC and building a great hockey team would raise the profile of a college then known as something of a safety school for the most selective northeastern institutions.
The Bobcats, upset in the ECAC semifinals by Brown but still the No. 1 overall seed in the field of 16, will face defending national champion Boston College or Union on Sunday for a spot in the Frozen Four.
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