{"id":1570,"date":"2011-04-08T19:33:24","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T00:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/frozen-four\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2011-04-08T19:33:24","modified_gmt":"2011-04-09T00:33:24","slug":"frattins-bittersweet-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2011\/04\/08\/frattins-bittersweet-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Frattin’s bittersweet Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"
Matt Frattin admitted the sting of North Dakota’s 2-0 semifinal loss to Michigan still lingered as he faced the media for the last time as a college hockey player.<\/p>\n
“Obviously, I’m disappointed about the loss last night where a few bounces didn’t go our way,” Frattin said at the press conference following the Hobey Baker Memorial Award presentation Friday at the Xcel Energy Center.<\/p>\n
“But today was a life experience that not many people can cherish.”<\/p>\n
Frattin did not win college hockey’s top individual award but, as one of three finalists, appeared before a national television audience, a thousand or two UND fans and his Fighting Sioux teammates in the seats.<\/p>\n
“It was a group decision with the coaching staff for the team to stay back today and be here for moral support,” Frattin said.<\/p>\n
UND coach Dave Hakstol and his wife, Erinn, Frattin’s parents, Val and Giby, and Frattin’s brother accompanied Matt on the ice for the presentation.<\/p>\n
Frattin said he is flying to Toronto on Saturday to join the NHL team that drafted him in the fourth round of the 2007 draft, the Toronto Maple Leafs.<\/p>\n
He’ll join the club Saturday night for the season finale against Montreal.<\/p>\n
“There’s so much history between those two clubs and I can’t even imagine how crazy the fans and the atmosphere is going to be,” Frattin said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Matt Frattin admitted the sting of North Dakota’s 2-0 semifinal loss to Michigan still lingered as he faced the media for the last time as a college hockey player. “Obviously, I’m disappointed about the loss last night where a few bounces didn’t go our way,” Frattin said at the press conference following the Hobey Baker […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1426],"tags":[677],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n