DENVER — It was the Denver Pioneers' return to glory.
The University of Denver hockey team had already hung five national championship banners, but the Pios then went through a 35-year title drought.
On this day in sports, April 10, 2004: DU reclaimed the label of national champions with a 1-0 victory over the Maine Black Bears at the Fleet Center (now TD Garden) in Boston.
Denver would repeat as back-to-back champs in 2005, and would later add its eighth national title in 2017.
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