Todd D. Milewski

Photographer Jim Rosvold captured these images Wednesday at Amsoil Arena, where Minnesota-Duluth celebrated its 2011 national championship: [photoshelter-gallery g_id=’G0000Qel6zj2c6cs’ g_name=’2011-04-13-UMD-Bulldogs-Welcome-Home-at-Amsoil’ f_show_caption=’t’ f_show_slidenum=’t’ img_title=’casc’ pho_credit=’iptc’ f_link=’t’ f_bbar=’t’ fsvis=’f’ width=’500′ height=’375′ bgcolor=’#AAAAAA’ bgtrans=’t’ btype=’old’ bcolor=’#CCCCCC’ crop=’f’ trans=’xfade’ tbs=’4000′ f_ap=’t’ linkdest=’c’ f_fullscreen=’f’ f_constrain=’f’ twoup=’f’ f_topbar=’f’ f_bbarbig=” f_htmllinks=’f’ f_enable_embed_btn=’f’ f_show_watermark=’f’ f_send_to_friend_btn=’f’ f_smooth=’f’ f_mtrx=’f’ f_up=’f’ target=’_self’ wmds=’llQ6QNgpeC.p1Ucz7U.Y4gApIw9C4g_klBHFSQcgvT_ChU2dI.RATxMJvBgU8BUUnh5ghg–‘ ]

North Dakota’s Brock Nelson, who left Thursday’s semifinal loss to Michigan on a stretcher after going into the boards back-first, has a fracture in his tail bone and an inguinal sprain, the Grand Forks Herald reported. That injury requires six to eight weeks of recovery time, the newspaper reported. Read more on the injury on … Read more

Here are videos with reaction from players to Minnesota-Duluth’s 3-2 overtime victory over Michigan in the national championship game. Minnesota-Duluth’s Kyle Schmidt: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTv7_FFD4RI Minnesota-Duluth’s Justin Faulk: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9tB1JrHl50 Minnesota-Duluth’s Jack Connolly: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIaMgcAW_64 Michigan’s Greg Pateryn: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyFs3zIyYbc Minnesota-Duluth players hold the trophy: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJW57jjX9lU

Here are the lines for the national championship game between Michigan and Minnesota-Duluth: MICHIGAN (29-10-4) 12 Carl Hagelin-29 Louie Caporusso-10 Chris Brown 3 Scooter Vaughan-11 Kevin Lynch-21 A.J. Treais 16 Ben Winnett-19 Matt Rust-23 Luke Glendening 9 Luke Moffatt-22 Jeff Rohrkemper-18 Derek DeBlois 24 Jon Merrill-7 Chad Langlais 4 Kevin Clare-2 Greg Pateryn 13 Lee … Read more

North Dakota’s Brock Nelson was taken from the ice on a stretcher in the first period of Thursday’s national semifinal game against Michigan and was being transported to Regions Hospital in St. Paul. Nelson slid into the boards back-first after being checked following the release of a shot. The freshman forward was wiping sweat out … Read more

Check here Thursday for updates from USCHO’s photographers in St. Paul as they capture images from the festivities and the games on the first day of the 2011 NCAA Frozen Four. Here is the gallery for the first semifinal, Minnesota-Duluth against Notre Dame. Refresh to get the latest photos. [photoshelter-gallery g_id=’G0000eNl8hR5OgHo’ g_name=’20110407-duluth-notredame’ f_show_caption=’t’ f_show_slidenum=’t’ img_title=’casc’ … Read more

One of the new items at this year’s Frozen Four is a red carpet arrival for the teams. Here’s how it looked when Notre Dame and Minnesota-Duluth arrived Thursday afternoon: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIv3rnA4fDw httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3OYXxNnYno

Here are the lines for today’s first semifinal between Minnesota-Duluth and Notre Dame MINNESOTA-DULUTH 22 Mike Connolly-12 Jack Connolly-37 Justin Fontaine 7 Kyle Schmidt-11 Travis Oleksuk-23 J.T. Brown 17 Mike Seidel-15 Jake Hendrickson-18 Joe Basaraba 14 Keegan Flaherty-19 Max Tardy-27 David Grun 25 Justin Faulk-24 Mike Montgomery 28 Wade Bergman-2 Brady Lamb 8 Drew Olson-5 … Read more