This past weekend, the Gophers were swept by the Wisconsin Badgers both with a score of 2-1. Taylor Cammarata (@Cammy12Scores) was able to put one past Rumpel on Thursday night and Seth Ambroz (@Ambroz17) scored the lone goal on Friday night. The Gophers had not been swept in nearly two years, the last time being February 10-11, 2012 at Denver. The Badgers haven't swept the Gophers at the Kohl Center since 1999, although they did sweep the Gophers in 2008-09 at Mariucci. Definitely a tough loss, and a hard fought game on both sides. Both Joel Rumpel and Adam Wilcox played phenomenal. Rumpel stopped 59 of the 61 shots he faced which ultimately led the Badgers to a sweep and the B1G's First Star weekly honor.
Michigan Wolverines
The Wolverines are 14-7-3 overall this season, 6-3-1 in the B1G whereas the Gophers are 19-4-5 overall this season, and 8-2-2 in the conference. The Minnesota Gophers have the most wins over Michigan than any other team in college hockey with an overall record of 128-117-15. Minnesota is Michigan's second oldest rivalry. Both teams were a part of the WCHA from 1951-1981 before Michigan moved to the CCHA before the 1981-82 season.
John Mayasich
This Friday, February 14, Minnesota will honor U.S. Hockey Hall of Famer (inducted in 1976) John Mayasich during the game against Michigan. There will be a pre-game ceremony that Mayasich will be part of and he will also drop a ceremonial puck to start off the series. Mayasich is Gopher Hockey's all-time leading scorer, and he is the only Gopher to have his jersey - 8 - retired. Mayasich has an Olympic silver medal from the 1956 games along with a gold medal from the 1960 games.
Defense
The Gophers remain ranked No. 2 for most goals scored by a defensive unit. Altogether our defense has scored 22 of our 97 goals. Denver is the only team that has more goals scored by defensemen with 24 goals.
Freshman
The Gophers also remain ranked No. 2 for most goals scored by a freshman class in the NCAA. The Gophers freshman have scored 37 out of the 97 goals so far this season. Boston College is the only team that has more goals scored by a freshman class with 38 goals. Two out of the many outstanding freshman that decided to attend the University of Minnesota this year are Justin Kloos (@jkloos15) and Hudson Fasching (@Hfasching22). Fasching is familiar with Ann Arbor, MI, the home to the Michigan Wolverines, as he played two seasons with the USA National Team Development Program there. Both Kloos and Fasching are tied for most goals by freshman on the Gopher Hockey team and ranked 12th in the nation with 9 goals each. Kloos is 9-15--24 this season and Fasching is 9-13--22. Cammarata follows at 6-10--16 this season.
Junior Class
The Minnesota Gophers junior class has scored 41 of the 97 goals this season. Interestingly enough, every single junior on the team has tallied at least one goal this season. Ambroz leads the way with 12 goals, followed by Sam Warning with 10, Travis Boyd (@Tboyd93) with 8, Kyle Rau (@KyleRau) with 7, Ben Marshall with 3, and Christian Isackson (@ChristianIsacks) with 1. The three teams that are ranked above Minnesota with highest scoring junior class in the NCAA cannot say that all of their juniors have tallied a goal. Mercyhurst ranks No. 1 followed by Ohio State and Air Force, respectively.
Captain Condon
Nate Condon (@Condo16) remains 6 points away from reaching the milestone of 100 career points. His all-time career stats with the Minnesota Gophers are 36-58--94. So far this season, Condon is 5-11--16.
Good luck to the Gopher Men's Hockey team as they face the Michigan Wolverines this weekend. They play Friday at 8:00pm and Saturday at 7:00pm. Friday night's game will be broadcasted (watch) on BTN and Saturday night's game will be on FSN. Both games will be streamed (listen) on 1500 ESPN.
In 1993 the Mariucci-Renfrew Trophy shown above was created for the winner of the annual Minnesota vs. Michigan hockey game. The trophy is named after legendary coaches John Mariucci (Minnesota) and Al Renfrew (Michigan). The trophy will be awarded to the team with the most points after the weekend's series.
This Friday, February 14, Minnesota will honor U.S. Hockey Hall of Famer (inducted in 1976) John Mayasich during the game against Michigan. There will be a pre-game ceremony that Mayasich will be part of and he will also drop a ceremonial puck to start off the series. Mayasich is Gopher Hockey's all-time leading scorer, and he is the only Gopher to have his jersey - 8 - retired. Mayasich has an Olympic silver medal from the 1956 games along with a gold medal from the 1960 games.
Defense
The Gophers remain ranked No. 2 for most goals scored by a defensive unit. Altogether our defense has scored 22 of our 97 goals. Denver is the only team that has more goals scored by defensemen with 24 goals.
Freshman
The Gophers also remain ranked No. 2 for most goals scored by a freshman class in the NCAA. The Gophers freshman have scored 37 out of the 97 goals so far this season. Boston College is the only team that has more goals scored by a freshman class with 38 goals. Two out of the many outstanding freshman that decided to attend the University of Minnesota this year are Justin Kloos (@jkloos15) and Hudson Fasching (@Hfasching22). Fasching is familiar with Ann Arbor, MI, the home to the Michigan Wolverines, as he played two seasons with the USA National Team Development Program there. Both Kloos and Fasching are tied for most goals by freshman on the Gopher Hockey team and ranked 12th in the nation with 9 goals each. Kloos is 9-15--24 this season and Fasching is 9-13--22. Cammarata follows at 6-10--16 this season.
Junior Class
The Minnesota Gophers junior class has scored 41 of the 97 goals this season. Interestingly enough, every single junior on the team has tallied at least one goal this season. Ambroz leads the way with 12 goals, followed by Sam Warning with 10, Travis Boyd (@Tboyd93) with 8, Kyle Rau (@KyleRau) with 7, Ben Marshall with 3, and Christian Isackson (@ChristianIsacks) with 1. The three teams that are ranked above Minnesota with highest scoring junior class in the NCAA cannot say that all of their juniors have tallied a goal. Mercyhurst ranks No. 1 followed by Ohio State and Air Force, respectively.
Captain Condon
Nate Condon (@Condo16) remains 6 points away from reaching the milestone of 100 career points. His all-time career stats with the Minnesota Gophers are 36-58--94. So far this season, Condon is 5-11--16.
Mike Reilly
Mikey Reilly (@mreilly93) is 8-14--22 in the 28 games he has played this season. Reilly leads all B1G Ten defensemen in both goals and points this season, followed by Wisconsin's Jake McCabe (7-12--19). Reilly is tied for No. 4 nationally for defenseman with most goals this season. Out of our five sophomores on the team (one is Wilcox), Mikey has scored 8 out of the 12 goals by sophomores this season. Brady Skjei (@BradySkjei) has scored 3 goals this season and AJ Michaelson has one. Ryan Reilly is the other sophomore on the team, which means I'm still waiting for my Reilly from Reilly and Reilly goal.Good luck to the Gopher Men's Hockey team as they face the Michigan Wolverines this weekend. They play Friday at 8:00pm and Saturday at 7:00pm. Friday night's game will be broadcasted (watch) on BTN and Saturday night's game will be on FSN. Both games will be streamed (listen) on 1500 ESPN.
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