Every year there is a team that surprises in the WCHA. This year’s top candidate to fill that role is Minnesota-Duluth. Sure, the Bulldogs finished a dismal ninth a year ago, but it was a rebuilding season and one that should springboard UMD into a successful 2006-07 campaign. Head coach Scott Sandelin will look to … Read more
Minnesota-Duluth head coach Scott Sandelin has signed a three-year contract extension that will keep him behind the Bulldog bench through the 2009-10 season, UMD Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Bob Nielson announced. “We very pleased with the leadership Scott has provided to our men’s hockey program and are encouraged about what lies ahead for the Bulldogs,” … Read more
Five years after Maria Rooth made history as the first NCAA Women’s Frozen Four MVP, the former Minnesota-Duluth star has made history again — with the help of future UMD star all the way. Rooth (UMD ’03) scored both Swedish goals and the shootout clincher to defeat the U.S. in the Olympic semifinals. The win … Read more
The opening day of Olympic women’s hockey action provided a showcase of recent Minnesota-Duluth stars, no matter which nations were on the ice. The onslaught started with current UMD freshman Mari Pehkonen scoring the first goal of the Olympics for Finland in a 3-0 win over Germany, and the Bulldog success never let up. Maria … Read more
Minnesota-Duluth women’s coach Shannon Miller has asked one player to leave the team, disciplined three other players, and decided to select new captains, according to the Duluth News Tribune. The Tribune reports that junior Becky Salyards has been asked to leave the team and junior Juliane Jubinville, freshman Mari Pehkonen and junior Jill Sales will … Read more
Surefire NHL Hall of Famer and former Minnesota-Duluth forward Brett Hull will have his No. 29 jersey retired by UMD in a ceremony Feb. 3 between the first and second periods of the Bulldogs’ WCHA contest against Wisconsin at the DECC. “Retiring Brett’s jersey is a fitting and lasting tribute for the tremendous impact he … Read more
Women’s college hockey’s top rivalry between Minnesota and UMD makes its first appearance on the broadcast schedule, come Saturday night.
Wonder what a team does at holiday tournament time? Dave Starman knows, as he checks in with Minnesota-Duluth at the Florida College Classic.
Three-time NCAA champion No. 4 UMD visits WCHA rival co-No. 1 Wisconsin in Sunday’s 3 p.m. ET broadcast.
After a major step in the wrong direction sent 11 seniors out of the Minnesota-Duluth program on a disappointing note, this year’s group of seniors has a different sendoff in mind. A year after going to the Frozen Four, the Bulldogs stumbled to a sixth-place WCHA finish and a 15-17-6 overall record that was a … Read more
Minnesota-Duluth defenseman Jay Rosehill signed a multi-year contract with the 2004 Stanley Cup champion Tampa Bay Lightening, foregoing, in the process, his final three years of eligiblity with the Bulldogs. Rosehill, a 6-3, 210-pound native of Olds, Alb., suited up in 34 of UMD’s 38 games this past winter and concluded his debut collegiate season … Read more
Early on in the season, my CSTV studio partner Adam Wodon and I were asked for our teams to watch in the ECACHL, Hockey East, CCHA, and WCHA. My four were Minnesota-Duluth in the WCHA, Michigan State in the CCHA, Cornell in ECAC, and Maine in Hockey East. Colorado College was my dark horse to … Read more
No. 3 UMD swept No. 4 Wisconsin at the DECC back in November. The Badgers look to do better on their home ice at 2 p.m. CT Saturday.
The recruiting wars are never easy, especially for those in the trenches, the assistant coaches. But rewards can be great.
Ohio State, the only team outside of the top four in women’s hockey to beat a top four team, hopes to pull another upset when it hosts No. 3 UMD this weekend.
Ryan Geris has been officially forced to retire from hockey with post-concussive symptoms. Geris sat out most of last season with a concussion, and his symptoms still were reoccuring this season. A doctor advised him last week that he should stop playing hockey. “I started waking up with really bad headaches, like last year, and … Read more
David De Remer counts down the top 10 games in the rivalry’s brief yet colorful history.
Tim Hambly has always had a lot expected of him — and the senior defenseman is fulfilling that promise for Minnesota-Duluth.
It’s not hard to see why so many people are picking Minnesota-Duluth to win the WCHA this season, even after losing a Hobey Baker Award winner. Junior Lessard fits into the equation because he and three other players are the only ones from the lineup at the end of last season not returning to the … Read more
Minnesota-Duluth is the coaches’ preseason pick to win the WCHA, while Wisconsin goaltender Bernd Brückler topped voting for preseason player of the year honors. The coaches poll, conducted by the Grand Forks (N.D.) Herald, put the Bulldogs atop the rankings for the first time. UMD, which returns 73.5 percent of its scoring from last year’s … Read more