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GPL Podcast #189: Guest John King

You know him from the State Hockey Tournament “All Hair Team” videos and the “Bevvy with Bob Motzko” videos from last season. John King joins us to talk about all that and more! SPONSORED BY… Jerry Peters of First Class Mortgage! Click this link to check out a custom page we have created just for him and First Class Mortgage! Audio Video You can listen to the podcast above, or on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, […]

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Gophers Sweep Spartans

Minnesota Inches Further Ahead in the Race for the Big Ten Title; Magic Number at 1.5 Wins Minneapolis, MN – And then, there were two. Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota each entered the weekend with a chance to win the Big Ten title still, but after Michigan’s Friday loss to Ohio State, just the Gophers and Badgers remained alive in the quest for the championship. Wisconsin took care of business Friday night against Notre Dame before […]

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NCAA Tournament Details — Well Sort Of…

Minneapolis, Minn. — Gophers men’s hockey coach Bob Motzko has joked this season anytime when questions about the NCAA Tournament come up that the media should let him know when they hear something, because no one is asking him for his opinion or telling him what’s going to happen. This week NCAA Division I Men’s Ice Hockey Committee Chairman Mike Kemp, also Omaha’s associate athletic director, made the rounds of the college hockey media landscape […]

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GPL Podcast #188: Guest Frank Mazzocco

Frank was back for the 9th time as a guest of the GPL Podcast. He was our very first guest back in Episode #2 in October of 2011. We talked about the bounce back against Notre Dame. Answered a few of your questions and previewed the MSU series. SPONSORED BY… Jerry Peters of First Class Mortgage! Click this link to check out a custom page we have created just for him and First Class Mortgage! […]

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Shutout Sweep in South Bend!

Gophers Bounce Back with Pair of 3-0 Wins South Bend, IN – If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a thousand times: leaders have to lead, especially at critical moments of the season. Perhaps no juncture of the 2020-2021 Gopher hockey season has been more critical than this weekend’s series against Notre Dame. Minnesota is coming off a home sweep at the hands of the Wisconsin Badgers, who vaulted over the Gophers into first […]

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Show Me Series with Notre Dame Up Next

Minneapolis, Minn. — Starting the season with ten straight victories raised optimism for Gopher Hockey this year. Coach Bob Motzko had a veteran roster that showed down the stretch of the pandemic shortened 2019-20 season that they were starting to understand the style of play preferred by their coach and it seemed like banners were possible if COVID didn’t derail the college hockey season. Instead, after getting swept 1-4 and 1-8 to Wisconsin, the coach […]

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GPL Podcast #187: Beatdown by the BADgers

The Gophers get swept at Mariucci by the BADgers and it was really close in game 2 as Bucky killed the Gophers. We talk about that debacle as well as preview a big series with Notre Dame. SPONSORED BY… Jerry Peters of First Class Mortgage! Click this link to check out a custom page we have created just for him and First Class Mortgage! Audio Video You can listen to the podcast above, or on […]

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Gophers Humbled As Badgers Sweep

8-1 Saturday Win Moves Wisconsin Into 1st Place in Big Ten Minneapolis, MN – The biggest series of the season thus far pitted first-place Minnesota against second-place Wisconsin. The Gophers maintained a five-point lead in the conference standings over the Badgers, and a home sweep would have put Minnesota in the driver’s seat to capture the regular season Big Ten title. Wisconsin had other ideas. The Badgers’ top players came to play, as first round […]