DENVER – University of Denver hockey alum Logan O’Connor added another trophy to his resume on Sunday night as he won the 2022 Stanley Cup with the Colorado Avalanche.
A member of the Pioneers’ 2017 NCAA National Championship squad, O’Connor wrapped up his fourth season with the Avalanche after signing with the team as a free agent on July 23, 2018. He had a career-high 24 points with Colorado during the 2021-22 regular season, registering eight goals and 16 assists while playing in 81-of-82 NHL games.
In the 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs, he had four points (one goal, three assists) in 17 contests. The Avalanche defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning 2-1 in Game 6 at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida, on Sunday to win the best-of-seven series 4-2 and capture its third Stanley Cup (1996, 2001).
Born in Missouri City, Texas, and raised in Calgary, Alberta, O’Connor becomes just the 33rd player all-time to win both an NCAA Championship and a Stanley Cup in their career and just the second Denver player to accomplish the feat. John MacMillan, the uncle of current assistant coach Tavis MacMillan, is the only other DU alum to win both trophies as he won NCAA titles with the Pioneers in 1958 and 1960 before hoisting the Stanley Cup with the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1962 and 1963.
He becomes the third collegian to accomplish the feat with the Avalanche, as Troy Murray won the Cup in 1996 (North Dakota, 1982) and Chris Drury did so as well in 2001 (Boston University, 1995).
O’Connor is the first Denver player to win the Stanley Cup since Tyler Bozak (2007-2009) in 2019 with the St. Louis Blues and stretches the program’s streak of having a Pioneer win the NHL championship for a fourth-straight season. Former DU assistant coach Derek Lalonde (2006-2011) had won the cup in the previous two years while in the same role with the Tampa Bay Lightning (2020, 2021).penguins pittsburgh calendar
Suiting up in 108 collegiate games for DU from 2015-2018, O’Connor scored 16 goals and added 27 assists and 25 penalty minutes for the Pioneers. He had a career-high 21 points (seven goals, 21 assists) during his final season in 2017-18.
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This is the third time that O’Connor has been a part of a championship team, as he also won the Clark Cup in the United States Hockey League with the Sioux Falls Stampede in 2015.
With the Pioneers winning their record-tying ninth NCAA National Championship back on April 9, 2022, Denver becomes just the second city and the first in 50 years to be home to both the NCAA and NHL and champions. Boston was the last to do it in 1972 with Boston University and the Boston Bruins winning titles that year.
Overall, this is just the fifth time that both the professional and collegiate champions come from the same state as the Detroit Red Wings and Michigan Wolverines—roughly 40 miles away in Ann Arbor—also won titles in 1952, 1955 and 1998.
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