The Denver men’s hockey team used a formula that it used throughout the postseason to wrap up its NCAA-record 10th championship.

The No. 3-ranked Pioneers scored two goals in the second period and Matt Davis stopped all 35 shots he faced to beat top-ranked Boston 2-0 in the Frozen Four championship game Saturday at Xcel Energy Center. The title breaks a tie that Denver had shared with Michigan.

Denver, which outscored its opponents 80-39 in the season, took a 2-0 lead into the third period.

Left wing Rieger Lorenz made a pass from above the top of the faceoff circle to the right of goalie Jacob Fowler down to right wing Jared Wright at the faceoff dot. Wright, a sophomore from Burnsville and a Los Angeles Kings draft pick, took a few strides toward the net and his shot went off of Fowler’s shoulder and crept over the goal line at 9:42 of the second period.

Lorenz, a sophomore from Calgary and a Minnesota Wild draft pick, made it 2-0 with his 16th goal of the season at 15:16. The play was set up with a dynamic play by freshman defenseman Zeev Buium. Buium skated up the left wing boards, drew two BC players toward him, made a power turn toward the boards and then hit Lorenz with a no-look, behind-the-back pass. Lorenz got the puck between the faceoff dot and the hash mark to the right of Fowler and beat him with a shot over his right shoulder.

That was more than enough support for Davis, who was named the Frozen Four MVP after being named the regional MVP. In four NCAA tournament games, Davis, a junior from Calgary, stopped 153 of 157 shots in the national tournament.

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