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The No. 1 University of Denver hockey team takes on the Alaska Fairbanks Nanooks this weekend at Magness Arena in the Pioneers' first games following the two-week ....
63 It was mid-April and Tyler Johnson was struggling. The veteran Lightning center was in the middle of a 21-game goal drought. The same Johnson who once carried this team on his back in the run to the 2015 Stanley Cup Final, the same Johnson who was an All-Star No. 1 center, had been relegated to fourth-line duties. He averaged the lowest ice time of his career. The game before? He had a turnover and missed a backcheck that led to a loss. Fans were all over Johnson on social media. Scratch him. Enough! Lightning coach Jon Cooper knew better. He’s been the only pro coach Johnson has ever had. They won a championship and 28 straight games for AHL Norfolk in 2012. They won a Stanley Cup last year. Had Johnson, 30, not pulled off his heroics in a first-round series against the Red Wings in 2015, who knows how the core, or coaching staff, might have changed? ....