North Vancouver’s Dexter Dancs left it all on the ice for the Michigan Wolverines in the famed Frozen Four NCAA Div. 1 championship tournament held earlier this month at Xcel Energy Centre in Saint Paul, Minn.
Dancs notched a goal and assist while registering a +1 rating in a losing effort as the Wolverines lost a heartbreaker to Notre Dame in the national semifinal. The Irish scored with 5.2 seconds left in the third period to record a 4-3 win and move on to the final. Minnesota Duluth topped Notre Dame 2-1 in the national final.
Dancs was fourth on the team in points this season, picking up 12 goals and 16 assists in 39 games. The senior forward played on Michigan’s vaunted “Run DMC” line with junior Cooper Marody and team captain Tony Calderone. Those three combined to score 53 goals, accounting for 39 per cent of the team’s total tallies.
"Everyone was so close and we had so much fun,” Dancs stated in a University of Michigan release. “It wasn't the most talented team I've had here in four years, but it was the best team, and we just loved being around each other.”
