Denver Cup

The Denver Cup was a mid-season college ice hockey tournament with the first iteration played in late December 1992. It was Discontinued after the 20th edition of the series.
==History==
Denver began hosting a mid-season tournament during the winter break for the 1992–93 season. The series was held at the team's home rink, the DU Arena, for the first two years before moving to the larger McNichols Arena, the future home of the Colorado Avalanche. By 1997, the Pioneers were able to get Wells Fargo to sign on as the sponsor to help fund the tournament.
After the McNichols Arena was closed in 1999 and the Avalanche moved to the Pepsi Center, the tournament returned to Denver's campus. In the interim, the Pioneers had built the Magness Arena which, though smaller than the McNichols Arena, had a much larger seating capacity than the DU Arena. By the end of the 2000s, interest in the tournament had waned and Wells Fargo ended its sponsorship after the 2009 series. Denver moved the tournament to the Thanksgiving weekend but, when no sponsor was secured after two years, the series was discontinued. In the final two years the tournament was styled as the 'Denver Cup Classic'.
During its 20-year run, Denver overwhelmingly dominated the series, 15 championships. The series had a Single-elimination format for all but one season; the 2009 series was a round-robin tournament with all matches set before the series began.
==Results==
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==Game results==
===1992===
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===1999===
† Denver won in a shootout.
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===2005===
† Boston College won in a shootout.
===2006===
† Massachusetts–Lowell won in a shootout.
===2007===
===2008===
† Denver won in a shootout.
===2009===
Date 	Winning Team 	Score 	Losing Team 	Score
1 January	Denver 	7 	Nebraska–Omaha	0
1 January	St. Lawrence 	5 	Boston College	2
2 January	Denver 	4 	Boston College	3
2 January	Nebraska–Omaha	2 (SOW)	St. Lawrence 	2
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==Participating teams==
Team 	# of times participated	Titles
Denver 	20 	15
Miami 	3 	2
Boston College 	4 	1
Maine 	2 	1
Boston University 	1 	1
Air Force 	8 	0
Colorado College 	4 	0
Princeton Tigers 	3 	0
Brown 	2 	0
Clarkson 	2 	0
Ferris State 	2 	0
Lake Superior State 	2 	0
Massachusetts–Lowell	2 	0
Nebraska–Omaha 	2 	0
New Hampshire 	2 	0
Notre Dame 	2 	0
Providence 	2 	0
Yale 	2 	0
Army 	1 	0
Bowling Green 	1 	0
Colgate 	1 	0
Cornell 	1 	0
Dartmouth 	1 	0
Harvard 	1 	0
Holy Cross 	1 	0
Mercyhurst 	1 	0
Niagara 	1 	0
Northeastern 	1 	0
Northern Michigan 	1 	0
Ohio State 	1 	0
Rensselaer 	1 	0
Sacred Heart 	1 	0
St. Lawrence 	1 	0
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Category:College ice hockey tournaments in the United States