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The #2 ranked Gopher Hockey team held their weekly press conference at Mariucci Arena. Head Coach Don Lucia met with the media, as the team prepares to take on Bemidji State this weekend at Sanford Center in Bemidji. The Gophers are coming off a weekend split last weekend with Denver at home...

After a disappointing 1-0 loss to the Denver Pioneers on Friday night, the Gophers (22-7-5, 14-7-5 WCHA) played DU in their final home regular season game in the WCHA tonight at Mariucci Arena in front of 10,124. Minnesota rebounded to defeat the Pioneers (17-11-5, 12-9-5 WCHA) by a final score...

The #2 Gophers (21-7-5, 13-7-5 WCHA) and #10 Denver Pioneers (17-10-5, 12-8-5 WCHA) went at it tonight at Mariucci Arena in front of 10,094. In a frustrating game, Minnesota lost to Denver 1-0, giving up the game winning goal eighteen seconds into the third period, when a rebound went off a...

Minnesota has had 22 players named Top-10 finalists since the award began in 1998. The USA Hockey Foundation announced the Top-10 finalists for the 20123 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award on Thursday afternoon, and four University of Minnesota women’s hockey players were on the list. Megan Bozek...

The #2 ranked Gopher Hockey team held their weekly press conference at Mariucci Arena. Head Coach Don Lucia met with the media, as did Senior Defenseman Seth Helgeson, and fellow Defenseman Nate Schmidt. The team takes on the University of Denver this weekend at Mariucci Arena. Gophers are...

Since the Ms. Hockey Award began in 1996, the Gophers have signed 14 of the 18 award winners. Future University of Minnesota women’s hockey player Dani Cameranesi was crowned the 2013 Minnesota Ms. Hockey Sunday afternoon at the St. Paul RiverCentre. Cameranesi is the 14th Golden Gopher to...

The second ranked Golden Gophers (21-6-5, 13-6-5 WCHA) and Minnesota-Duluth (10-17-5, 8-13-5 WCHA) met again tonight at Mariucci Arena in front of 10,241, for the regular season finale for the two teams as foes in the WCHA. The Gophers twice saw their one goal lead disappear, and had to settle...

The Gopher Women's hockey team improved to 33-0-0 on the season, and 27-0-0 in the WCHA, with a 2-0 shutout of St. Cloud State Friday. Minnesota NCAA record winning streak moved to 41 consecutive games, and with a win over St. Cloud State on Saturday, the Gophers will become the first program in...

The #2 ranked Gophers (21-6-4, 13-6-4 WCHA) defeated the Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs (10-17-4, 8-13-4 WCHA) 5-3 tonight at Mariucci Arena, in front of 10,078. With the Gophers win, and a loss by St. Cloud State tonight at Colorado College, the Gophers are now only one point behind the Huskies...

Anyone have a lead on tickets for the Bemidji State series in Bemidji? I haven't had any luck finding if/where there is a place to buy tickets that have been set aside for the U of M. Isn't that pretty standard in college sports, that the visiting school gets a block of tickets set aside for...

The #2 ranked Gopher Hockey team held their weekly press conference at Mariucci Arena. Head Coach Don Lucia met with the media, as did Captain Zach Budish, Defenseman Jake Parenteau, and Winger Travis Boyd. The team takes on Minnesota-Duluth this weekend at Mariucci Arena. Gophers are coming off...

The #2 ranked Gophers (20-6-4, 12-6-4 WCHA) took on #18 Wisconsin (13-10-7, 10-7-7 WCHA) this afternoon at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois in the Hockey City Classic. Following a 3-2 win in Madison on Friday night, Minnesota fell to the Badgers by the same score this afternoon in the matinee...

The #2 ranked Gopher Hockey team held their weekly press conference at Mariucci Arena. Head Coach Don Lucia met with the media, as did Center Erik Haula and Defenseman Mark Alt. The team takes on Wisconsin this weekend in an away series that includes a Friday night matchup in Madison, and then a...

The Gophers (19-4-4, 11-4-4 WCHA) were nipped by St. Cloud State (17-11-1, 14-6-1 WCHA) tonight 4-3 at the National Hockey Center in front of another standing room only crowd. Here is what I saw. * Gophers dug themselves a hole they couldn't get themselves out of, despite a valiant effort in...

After Adam Wilcox stellar play in St. Cloud last night, I started asking for people to come up with a nickname for the Freshman Goaltender. I'm liking a couple of the names people came up with, but wanted to start a discussion on a good nickname for him. Here are some of the submissions. Cox...

The Gophers (19-4-4, 11-4-4 WCHA) took on St. Cloud State (17-11-1, 14-6-1 WCHA) tonight at the National Ice Center in St. Cloud. Let's keep this simple. Here is what I saw. * Waaaay too many turnovers in the defensive zone! * Wilcox was stellar, mostly because of the turnovers he had to bail...

The #1 ranked Gopher Hockey team held their weekly press conference at Mariucci Arena this afternoon. Head Coach Don Lucia met with the media, as did Defenseman Nate Schmidt, who returns home to St. Cloud for this weekends series with the first place Huskies. The two teams will match up Friday...

Amanda Kessel scored two goals and Noora Raty earned her NCAA-record 101st win as the No. 1 University of Minnesota women’s hockey team beat No. 10 Minnesota Duluth to clinch its seventh WCHA regular season title. The Golden Gophers (27-0-0, 21-0-0 WCHA) sit atop the standings with 63 points and...

The University of Minnesota women’s hockey team completed their first season sweep of Wisconsin since the 1999-00 season with a 5-1 win in Madison, Wis. on Sunday. The victory goes down as senior Noora Raty’s 100th of her career and ties her with former Mercyhurst goaltender Hillary Pattenden...

The Gophers (17-4-4, 9-4-4 WCHA) traveled to Mankato on Saturday after losing a tight one to MSU-Mankato (16-8-3, 10-8-1 WCHA) on Friday night at Mariucci Arena. Saturday night in front of 5,134 at Verizon Wireless Center, Minnesota got the job done, bouncing back with a 4-1 win over the...