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Michigan will most likely be without starting goalie Jack Ivankovic, who has played in every game, but was injured in the last game.  Stephen Peck replaced him during the last game for his 1st action of the year.
 
For the Gophers, something to keep your eyes on. Rombach played only 8 minutes on Saturday. Not sure if that was because of injury or illness. He was out there for shifts in the 3rd period, but missed a lot of shifts in the middle of the game. 
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Posted : Mon. Jan 12, 2026 9:14 am
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At the moment, FOX 9 lists basketball on at 7pm on Friday.  It is also the same game scheduled to be on Fox 9+ at 7pm so guessing they update the guide.  

My Spectrum DVR is dumb in that it won’t record if the name of the program changes after a timer is set.  I can’t set it to just record based on time, so hoping this is updated before Friday.  🤷‍♀️  (First world problems, I know). 


 
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Maybe I’m a hopeless optimist but I feel like they get one this weekend. Michigan is always so careless defensively and now they don’t have a stud goalie bailing them out. That is of course if they don’t drop 8 on us.


 
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Maybe I’m a hopeless optimist but I feel like they get one this weekend. Michigan is always so careless defensively and now they don’t have a stud goalie bailing them out. That is of course if they don’t drop 8 on us.

They have a tendency to smell blood and run up the score. We can’t win a track meet so we have to shut it down all weekend. 

 


 
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Maybe I’m a hopeless optimist but I feel like they get one this weekend. Michigan is always so careless defensively and now they don’t have a stud goalie bailing them out. That is of course if they don’t drop 8 on us.

They have a tendency to smell blood and run up the score. We can’t win a track meet so we have to shut it down all weekend. 

 

Remember when it was to our adavantage to turn games into track meets.

 


 
Posted : Tue. Jan 13, 2026 10:34 am
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Posted by: @maroon_and_gold
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Maybe I’m a hopeless optimist but I feel like they get one this weekend. Michigan is always so careless defensively and now they don’t have a stud goalie bailing them out. That is of course if they don’t drop 8 on us.

Need Thomas and Rombach to stay glued to Will Horcoff at all times

 


 
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Posted by: @norm
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Posted by: @snowcool08
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Maybe I’m a hopeless optimist but I feel like they get one this weekend. Michigan is always so careless defensively and now they don’t have a stud goalie bailing them out. That is of course if they don’t drop 8 on us.

They have a tendency to smell blood and run up the score. We can’t win a track meet so we have to shut it down all weekend. 

 

Remember when it was to our adavantage to turn games into track meets.

 

Yeah, just last year. But it feels like a lifetime ago… 

 


 
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Posted by: @walker-barely-know-her
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Maybe I’m a hopeless optimist but I feel like they get one this weekend. Michigan is always so careless defensively and now they don’t have a stud goalie bailing them out. That is of course if they don’t drop 8 on us.

Need Thomas and Rombach to stay glued to Will Horcoff at all times

 

 

There is no rule against using adhesives in the game?

 


 
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Posted by: @koho
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Posted by: @walker-barely-know-her
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Posted by: @maroon_and_gold
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Maybe I’m a hopeless optimist but I feel like they get one this weekend. Michigan is always so careless defensively and now they don’t have a stud goalie bailing them out. That is of course if they don’t drop 8 on us.

Need Thomas and Rombach to stay glued to Will Horcoff at all times

 

 

There is no rule against using adhesives in the game?

 

You mean like this?

 


 
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What do we think the crowds will look like this weekend? I’m not expecting a great turnout. 


 
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What do we think the crowds will look like this weekend? I’m not expecting a great turnout. 

 online tickets sold on gophersports looks pretty good (surprised me tbh).

Online resellers also quieter than expected

 


 
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What do we think the crowds will look like this weekend? I’m not expecting a great turnout. 

 online tickets sold on gophersports looks pretty good (surprised me tbh).

Online resellers also quieter than expected

I’d be curious to know if a lot of ticket volume sold early when optimism was higher and Michigan wasn’t predicted to do so well, vs. how much is people buying recently. If it’s the former, that could mean a lot of no-shows.

 


 
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They did build demand by not playing at home for almost two months.  It does seem like attendance is better when they play games during hockey season rather than during football season too


 
Posted : Thu. Jan 15, 2026 4:24 pm
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Culver's sweep 😂
Seriously this weekend is not make-or-break for the Gophers. Even one win vs. No. 1 Michigan at home would be a huge confidence boost. A glimmer of hope for the rest of the season and for the Big Ten tourney.
  Retro Goldy



 
Posted : Thu. Jan 15, 2026 4:30 pm
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How many times did wooger say “will beats skill frank”? Maybe we can be the “will team” and flip the script. I remember wooger referring to teams like AA or a Michigan tech giving us more than we could handle certain nights when he’d say that. Bring the wolf that feeds the legs and win the small loose puck battles and out work them. It can definitely happen. 


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Culver's sweep 😂

The way Michiganders are talking about Ivankovic being out long-term… Crazier things have happened. Now that could go either way, considering Justen Close brought us 2min 38s away from the promised land.


 
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Culver's sweep 😂

The way Michiganders are talking about Ivankovic being out long-term… Crazier things have happened. Now that could go either way, considering Justen Close brought us 2min 38s away from the promised land.

 particularly given how bipolar this team is, yes anything is possible particularly when DiPasquo is playing well. Some of their fortune is pending health. We getting Pritchard or pahlsson back this week? Last change is big this weekend so we aren’t getting our 4th out there paired with their 1st like we were last weekend. Didn’t hurt us much on the scoreboard, but it flipped the ice consistently all weekend with us ending up back in our defensive end an awful lot

 


 
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Goldy isn’t going to be there.  No point in going to the games now I guess.  

The email the U sent out said Goldy is at the mascot championships.  


 
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Goldy isn’t going to be there.  No point in going to the games now I guess.  

The email the U sent out said Goldy is at the mascot championships.  

there goes the free pizza hand out in the student section. 🤷🏽🍕

 


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Goldy isn’t going to be there.  No point in going to the games now I guess.  

The email the U sent out said Goldy is at the mascot championships.  

there goes the free pizza hand out in the student section. 🤷🏽🍕

 

There's only one stinky Goldy costume?!?!?!

😉

 

 


 
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Just listened to the podcast episode for this week. Wish I had Nick’s slides to comb through. Second, oh ye of little faith predicting 0 points on the weekend (I think we’ll get 1 B1G point and somehow feel good about it; Michigan are always headcases). Wonder how much the “Michigan men” thug it up; maybe 0 injuries will be a stretch goal for us.


 
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Goes without saying but we gotta get pucks to Peck early. If one of the first couple shots he sees goes in some doubt might start to creep in.


 
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Good to have Pritchard back


 
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What’s the deal with Paulsson? How long until he’s back?


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Honestly, probably our best possible lineup. Here’s hoping we can steal a game this weekend. OT or regulation I don’t really care at this point. 


 
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Nice to see we're down to only one guy out.


 
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Honestly, probably our best possible lineup. Here’s hoping we can steal a game this weekend. OT or regulation I don’t really care at this point. 

Came here to say this. This is the best lineup. Pahlsson can prove me wrong whenever he wants.

 


 
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What’s the deal with Paulsson? How long until he’s back?

addition by subtraction 

 


 
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How long until he’s back?

Hopefully not until he can be a contributor rather than a black hole on his line


 
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Chat will be going both nights, as usual. 


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They may lose by 7 or 8 with how this has started 


 
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Goldy isn’t going to be there.  No point in going to the games now I guess.  

The email the U sent out said Goldy is at the mascot championships.  

there goes the free pizza hand out in the student section. 🤷🏽🍕

 

phew. Can confirm the students did still get semi cold dominos 

 


 
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They may lose by 7 or 8 with how this has started 

Luca looking really good so far, team is showing some signs of life but are clearly outmatched.

 


 
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Michigan's roster,  11 Canadians    2 from Michigan  3 from Minnesota

 


 
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Michigan's roster,  11 Canadians    2 from Michigan  3 from Minnesota

 

joy of being right by Toronto and basically the heart of Canadian jr

 


 
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Michigan's roster,  11 Canadians    2 from Michigan  3 from Minnesota

 

joy of being right by Toronto and basically the heart of Canadian jr

 

The joy of having a lot of NIL $$$ to bring in CHL players

 


 
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Whipple needs to stop sh**ing his breezers every time he has the puck.


 
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That’s an interesting one to not review for what they normally do


 
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Man do I hate Michigan 


 
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Team needs to shoot the puck, peck looks terrible


 
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And you roll Begely out after the goal, C’mon Man.


 
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Michigan's roster,  11 Canadians    2 from Michigan  3 from Minnesota

 

joy of being right by Toronto and basically the heart of Canadian jr

 

The joy of having a lot of NIL $$$ to bring in CHL players

 

they’ve recruited there very well for a long time my dude. Well before NIL

 


 
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In no way deserving of a tie after 1, by goll damnit I’ll take it 


 
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LDP the rest of the way, unreal.


 
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Michigan's roster,  11 Canadians    2 from Michigan  3 from Minnesota

 

joy of being right by Toronto and basically the heart of Canadian jr

 

The joy of having a lot of NIL $$$ to bring in CHL players

 

they’ve recruited there very well for a long time my dude. Well before NIL

 

Maybe so, but all the rules have changed.  Now days it's who can buy  good players.

 


 
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Posted by: @upnorthkid
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Michigan's roster,  11 Canadians    2 from Michigan  3 from Minnesota

 

joy of being right by Toronto and basically the heart of Canadian jr

 

The joy of having a lot of NIL $$$ to bring in CHL players

 

they’ve recruited there very well for a long time my dude. Well before NIL

 

I’m not sure it’s NIL.  I think it’s the fact that they recruit Canada well historically and now CHL can come.

 


 
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Being tied is amazingly fortunate. 
I would have been happy if MN had had more shots than umi had goals. 

 


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So this is what it’s like to be on the other side of dominating but tied. I don’t like it as much as I thought I would


 
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