The Western Michigan University Broncos advanced to the Frozen Four for the first time in school history.
This isn’t some prodigy program filled with a bunch of kids playing on national teams.
For most of these guys, this semifinal game was the biggest game that they’ve ever played in.
That’s no tall order.
They know how to get the job done.
Biggest game of your life and it gets sent to overtime.
The emotions are going through the roof.
Everybody dreams of this moment, and everybody wants to be the hero.
But your nerves are also going berserk.
Every shift feels like a lifetime.
Every time you’re waiting on the bench to go back out on the ice feels like an eternity.
Just a kid from Northville, Michigan.
He grew up less than 30 minutes away from Ann Arbor.
Right in the backyard of the University of Michigan.
But he never got an offer from the Wolverines.
That’s why you grind.
That’s why you don’t give up on the dream.
That’s why you play college hockey.
And for the girls, of course.
