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Potter "Shocked" By Minnesota Offer
The Golden Gophers are looking to address their linebacker depth and add instant talent and experience. They have not shied away from the JUCO route and offered Orange Coast C.C. (CA.) linebacker Caleb Potter, which was an offer he didn't see coming
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6 days ago
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Minnesota Reporter Loses It During Riot After Gophers’ Loss
Minnesota reporter Jonathan Choe, for Minneapolis Fox affiliate KMSP, lost it while reporting from the Golden Gophers' hockey riots on Saturday night.
Union College Wins Their First National Championship In NCAA Men’s Hockey
from David Albright of ESPN,
His nickname is Ghost.
Without a doubt the Minnesota Golden Gophers and their fans will be seeing Shayne Gostisbehere in their nightmares for a long time to come, while the Philadelphia Flyers and their fans hope to be seeing a lot more of him in their future. (Is he available for Sunday's regular-season finale against Carolina?)
The...
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Union defeats Minnesota for college hockey national championship
For the first time in their school's history, Union College is the national champion in ice hockey. The Dutchmen defeated national powerhouse and No. 1 overall seed University of Minnesota, 7-4, to claim college hockey's top prize in Philadelphia.
It was a wild game that included a six-goal first period in which Union scored three times in a span of 1:54 to erase a 2-1 deficit...
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7 days ago
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Union Defeats Minnesota 7-4 To Win First NCAA Hockey Title
Union College won its first NCAA hockey championship Saturday night, defeating the University of Minnesota 7-4 in a wild, high-scoring game at the Wells Fargo Center.
With the Gophers leading 2-1 midway through the first period, the Dutchmen unleashed a flurry of shots, scoring three goals in a 1 minute, 54 second span. Union’s Mike Vecchione, a native of Saugus, Mass., tallied...
Frozen Four Buzzer Beater: Minnesota Scores With Less A Second
((HT: ESPN/NCAA))Union gets their first-ever finals appearance in the Frozen Four after a surprising win over Boston College in one semi-final.The other went to the bitter end and it looked like their match with North Dakota was heading to overtime.But, then this happened...Justin Holl scored a short-handed goal with 0.6 seconds left to give Minnesota a 2-1 win. All three goals in...
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9 days ago
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Minnesota Beats North Dakota in Frozen Four Semis with .6 Seconds Left in Regulation
The Minnesota Golden Gophers are headed to the Frozen Four Finals on Saturday to play against Union College, thanks to a goal by Justin Holl. The senior defenseman got the puck with roughly six seconds left in regulation and while shorthanded, followed up the play and put the puck home with .6 seconds left. It was remarkably Holl’s first goal of the season, and it came in a timely...
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9 days ago
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Minnesota Scores Last-Second Goal, Advances To NCAA Championship (GIF)
Talk about down to the wire.
The Minnesota Golden Gophers took down North Dakota 2-1 in their Frozen Four match-up on Thursday night, advancing to the NCAA Championship. The game was tied until the end of the third — the very end of the third — when Justin Holl scored for the Gophers in the last second of the game. The buzzer beater was the senior defenseman’s first goal...
Stollings brings fast-paced style to Minnesota women's program
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- New coaches at major conference programs often inherit struggling or talent-deficient teams.
That won't be the case for Marlene Stollings at Minnesota.
"The cupboard is not bare, and that's exciting for me to come into a program with the amount of talent that exists here," Stollings said at Tuesday's introductory news conference at Williams...
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11 days ago
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Pitino's first season with Gophers a success
As Richard Pitino coached his Minnesota Golden Gophers to an NIT championship on Thursday, the TV cameras seemed to find his famous father, Rick, just as often as they focused on the son. When the younger Pitino left Florida International to take the Gophers coaching job last April, his well-known surname was the only thing many Minnesotans knew about him.
Yet now that Richard Pitino...
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15 days ago
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Rivalry renewed: Minnesota, North Dakota amped up for Frozen Four clash
MINNEAPOLIS -- When the University of Minnesota hockey team left the WCHA conference to join the Big Ten this season, the biggest fear among Gophers fans was the loss of their longtime rivalries.
In particular, it meant that fierce rivals Minnesota and North Dakota would no longer play each other on a regular basis.
During the Gophers' first season in the new six-team Big Ten...
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16 days ago
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Osenieks surprises, helps Minnesota Gophers advance to NIT final
Three weeks ago, Williams Arena fans thought they’d witnessed the end of Oto Osenieks’ career.
Hampered by knee injuries, the junior power forward had announced he would hang up his sneakers, ending his career in maroon and gold as a student manager rather than a player.
Tuesday, it was that future retiree — who hadn’t played since that day — who helped bring new life...
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17 days ago
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Senior Condon leads Gophers in rout of Robert Morris
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Minnesota's freshmen -- and there are a lot of them on this roster -- had never been part of an early exit in the NCAA tournament.
Nate Condon had.
The Gophers' senior captain made sure his final year in a Minnesota sweater didn't end early. Condon opened the scoring with the first of three first-period goals for the Gophers to ignite Minnesota en route...
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21 days ago
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Gophers hockey looks to end NCAA championship drought
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- As the Gophers men's hockey team addressed the media Friday in advance of Saturday's NCAA tournament game, Minnesota head coach Don Lucia sported some extra jewelry.
Lucia, the Gophers coach since 1999, was wearing his NCAA championship ring on his right hand. It's a reminder of Minnesota's dominance in the early 2000s when the Gophers won back...
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22 days ago
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WATCH: Gophers fan pulls out sign during Kiss-Cam appearance
Minnesota Gophers 'Kiss Cam' dude uses the sign to his advantage, YouTube views.**Follow us on Twitter, Subscribe by Email, View via Our Mobile Site, or Return Home
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February 18, 2014
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