Jimmy Snuggerud ties the game at 4 in the 3rd.

North Dakota’s Five Good Minutes Good Enough to Down Gophers

Minneapolis, MN – When you outshoot a team 41-20 in a hockey game, something weird needs to happen for your team to lose. Unfortunately for the Gophers, North Dakota brought five minutes of weird to squeak out a win. In a dominating effort, Minnesota (4-2-0) lost to North Dakota (3-2-1) by a 5-4 overtime score….

Logan Cooley celebrates Matthew Knies overtime winner.

Minnesota Knies!

Minneapolis, MN – When Minnesota and North Dakota get together, the intensity always seems to get turned up to 11. It’s nice when the game lives up to the bill. In front of a lively Mariucci crowd, the Minnesota Gophers (4-1-0 Overall) beat the North Dakota Fighting Hawks (2-2-1) in dramatic fashion, scoring with the…

Matthew Knies goes air born

Gophers Beat Mavericks 4-1

Minneapolis, MN – Since the start of the 2014-2015 season, Minnesota State has had the Gophers’ number. The Gophers are 38-18-6 all time against Mankato, but since 14-15 Minnesota State has won 8 of their last 10 games against their ‘bigger brothers’, including dominating victories in the NCAA tournament to end Minnesota’s season the last…

Logan Cooley waiting for the puck

Opportunity to Improve Against In-State Rivals Ahead

Minneapolis, Minn. — When the University of Minnesota men’s hockey program decided it was time to make a change in leadership behind the bench, it wasn’t necessarily because the team was losing the majority of their games, it was because they were losing the wrong ones. The Gophers seemed to struggle on the biggest stages…