All-state hockey team for 2014-15 season
The 2014-15 all-state hockey team is led by player of the year Travis Work of Air Academy.
The 2014-15 all-state hockey team is led by player of the year Travis Work of Air Academy.
High school hockey in this state is growing in a number of ways, but what the sport’s committee did on Friday is perhaps the biggest indication: The group unanimously recommended the addition of junior varsity teams.
It’s not often you get a championship that was 25 years in the making.
Cherry Creek won hockey’s state title on Saturday with a three-overtime, 3-2 win over Monarch on Saturday.
Seventy-six minutes and 36 seconds into the game, the night ended. After six overtimes. But before the game had to be suspended.
After their respective performances in the quarterfinals, the stakes were high for goaltenders Brady Mielnicki and Joey Owston. Neither would disappoint.
When Monarch hockey fell to Regis Jesuit 4-1 just over a month ago in league play, the feeling was there that we hadn’t seen the last of the two-time runner-up.
Cherry Creek and Monarch will meet in hockey’s championship game on Saturday after both teams won in the semifinals on Thursday night.
It wasn’t always pretty, but when the dust (snow) had settled and all was said and done, it was the Monarch Coyotes who would advance to take on Regis Jesuit in the state hockey semifinals.
Cherry Creek upset two-time defending champion Ralston Valley in hockey’s playoffs on Saturday, 2-1.