| National Championship: Saturday, April 13th. |
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| Final Score: Quinnipiac 0, Yale 4 |
2013 NCAA National Champions: Yale University Bulldogs!
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Yale
COACH ALLAIN: "I'd like to congratulate Jack McDonald and the whole Quinnipiac hockey team on having such an outstanding season. They carried the banner for our league all year long, and they were a really tough opponent. I think tonight was our turn. Our kids were ready, committed, and congratulations to them for having a fine hockey season. . .
REGARDING THE GAME: "Well, it was a tie game until late in the second period. We've been stressing getting pucks and bodies to the net. And we threw it to net there, and Bourbs [Bourbonais] tipped it in, and that gave us momentum going into the third. That forced them to take some chances, and we were patient defensively and counter attacked pretty well, and came out on top."
REGARDING HIS BELIEF IN THE PROGRAM: "Our athletic director, Tom Beckett, and our associate who is in charge of hockey, Wayne Dean, were as committed to the program as I was. Actually, the senior fellow of the Yale Corporation, Roland Betts, was also involved at the time as well.
We talked about what the program needed to get to the next level. And part of it was a major renovation on our rink, and they made it happen. And they showed me that they were committed to Yale hockey the same way that I was. I came back to prove that you could go to the best university in the world and compete in hockey at the highest level. And this group has proven that so far this year."
REGARDING THE DIFFICULTY OF WINNING AND REPEATING THE CHAMPIONSHIP: "I think, first of all, the nature of college sports is that your team turns over. So if you win it, you're probably going to win it with a great senior class, and the odds of having that back to back aren't terrific. Then I think youth hockey coaching throughout North America is so good these days that there's a real broad base of talent. And that helps lead to the parity in college hockey."
REGARDING SHUTTING OUT QUINNIPIAC: "Well, I think particularly we were more committed to blocking shots. We were more committed to keeping a third guy high in the offensive zone. I thought we did a better job of pressuring their defense. One of the things that I felt coming into the game tonight that gave us an edge is they hadn't seen our A game in the previous three games. They saw the result of it, but I don't think they knew what we had become as a hockey team. And I thought we could surprise them a little bit with that. One thing that I would have you think about is that what are the strengths of that team that we just played are, I think that they have as good of depth as any team in the country. Then their top line is outstanding. We ruled all four lines tonight. I don't have a checking line. So it was a team effort. We shut them out because everyone was involved in the process."
ANDREW MILLER: "I think for everyone, it's an honor to represent our school in the national tournament. To win a national title is an absolute team effort. Everyone played their hardest and competed their hardest. To bring a National Championship back to Yale is unbelievable."
JESSE ROOT: "This is what you dream about as a young player. We came into this and just took it a game at a time and just kept working. To get a goal in the biggest game in my life in this arena and in this town, it just leaves me speechless."
KENNY AGOSTINO: "This is something every kid dreams of. You watch the Frozen Four, you watch a team hoist the National Championship trophy. Every one of us has played hockey since we were two years old and you dream of being champions and now we stand as the best team in the country."
This program has a lot of great history but I think you can clearly see that Coach Allain has really changed the whole atmosphere and the whole view of this program. He’s one of the best hockey coaches there is. He took this group from the beginning, he had a goal, and we all bought into it. We grew as a team and got even closer as the year went on. We peaked tonight."
| 2013 Frozen Four - CONSOL Energy Center, Pittsburgh, PA |
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| Semifinals: Thursday, April 11th. |
Yale 3 O.T. Lowell 2  |
Quinnipiac 4 St. Cloud State 1 |


| 2013 Hobey Baker Hattrick Finalists |
| Johnny Gaudreau, Boston College |
| Eric Hartzell, Quinnipiac |
| Drew LeBlanc, St. Cloud |
| 2013 Hobey Baker Winner: Drew LeBlanc, St. Cloud 
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