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Minnesota junior Nick Bjugstad announced today that he is returning to the Golden Gopher hockey team for the 2012-13 season. The 6’5”, 211-pound center from Blaine, Minn., was named All-WCHA First Team and Second-Team All-American after recording 42 points in 40 games as a sophomore. He led Minnesota with 25 goals (tied for fifth in […] READ MORE
Incoming freshman defenseman Brady Skjei was selected in the first round, 28th overall, by the New York Rangers in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft this evening at Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh. Incoming freshman defenseman Brady Skjei was selected in the first round, 28th overall, by the New York Rangers in the 2012 NHL Entry […] READ MORE
Norwood Teague shaking hands with popular coach Shaka Smart who Teague hired and has managed to keep after two very succesful post-season runs. University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler has announced Norwood Teague as the finalist for the university’s director of athletics position. Teague is currently the director of athletics for Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) […] READ MORE
Don Lucia instructs the Gophers at a recent practice in Tampa. It has been seven years since the University of Minnesota Men’s Hockey team participated in a Frozen Four, losing to North Dakota in the 2005 semifinal by a 4-2 score. This year it was the Gophers beating North Dakota in the NCAA West Region […] READ MORE
The Gophers advanced to their 20th Frozen Four on Sunday at the X. The Gophers met North Dakota this afternoon for the sixth and final time this season at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul. The two teams played for the NCAA West Region championship, and a birth in the NCAA Frozen Four in […] READ MORE
Ideally, you want to come into the NCAA Ice Hockey Championships riding a hot streak. But when you’re coming off perhaps your most disappointing game of the year, squandering a 3-0 lead against North Dakota in the WCHA Final Five, the University of Minnesota hockey team had to appreciate coming into the NCAA West Regional […] READ MORE
The 2-1 Gophers win puts Minnesota one win away from the Final Five. The fifth-ranked Minnesota men’s hockey team jumped out to a 1-0 lead in its best-of-three first-round playoff series by earning a 2-1 win over Alaska Anchorage at Mariucci Arena on Friday night. With a win against the Seawolves on Saturday or Sunday […] READ MORE
The Gophers celebrate after capturing the MacNaughton Cup on its home ice. The #5 ranked Minnesota Gopher hockey team used solid goaltending, good special teams, and timely scoring to upend Wisconsin by a final score of 2-1 at Mariucci Arena tonight, claiming the MacNaughton Cup as WCHA Champions in front of 10,421 appreciative fans. […] READ MORE
If you didn’t know any better, you’d think Mike Carman was the product of a military family. The Defenseman turned Center has certainly gotten around for a young man. Born in Augusta, Georgia in 1988, he started his hockey days in Texas at the age of five, before moving to England a year later. His […] READ MORE
President Kaler hopes to have the new AD in place by July 1. University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler has named a search committee and selected Parker Executive Search to lead the search for the next director of athletics. A 21-member search advisory committee and a four-person search committee will work with the leading national […] READ MORE