DETROIT — Perhaps no one in Ford Field this weekend will have as much experience in Frozen Fours as Boston College head coach Jerry York.<\/p>\n
York, who played in the Frozen Four in 1965, falling to Colorado College in the title game as a member of the Eagles, not only has led BC to the national title twice (2001, 2008), he also coached Bowling Green (led by captain Wayne Wilson, who will coach RIT this weekend in Detroit) to national title game in 1984.<\/p>\n
To say that this event has grown since then would be an understatement. But as this year\u2019s event moves to its biggest landscape of all time, Ford Field, where the attendance is expect to exceed 30,000, York put the growth into perspective.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think back to 1984 in Lake Placid, it was a sold out building, it was loud, there was a lot of energy in the building,\u201d said York. \u201cI had played in the mid 60\u2019s at Brown when there were 3,000 people at an NCAA championship game. There was energy in the building. There was a lot of excitement. So there\u2019s a lot of parallels with Frozen Fours as you go through the years.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow what\u2019s happened is it\u2019s gone from 3,000 to 8,000 to who knows, 33 or 35 thousand tomorrow. What\u2019s happened is the world has found out how tremendous our college hockey game has become. The enthusiasm of the fans \u2013 generally earlier it was just the participant\u2019s fans that were there \u2013 now we\u2019re getting fans from all the conferences despite whoever is playing in the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the energy and the enthusiasm of the coaches, the athletes is the same. Now the world is finding out that with college hockey we better get to Anaheim, we better get to Milwaukee, we better get to Detroit to watch this event.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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