Slap Shot - 444 might want to consider a restraining order. dggoddard - Minnesota is THE ELITE Program in all of college hockey. wasmania - you have to be the very best to get ice time with the great gophers!
The No. 4 Minnesota men's hockey team makes its first-ever trip to Vermont this weekend for a two-game nonconference series with the Catamounts in Burlington. After splitting the first-ever meeting between the two teams last year at Mariucci Arena, the Gophers (7-2-2 overall, 4-2-2 WCHA) look to stay perfect in nonconference play this season after picking up a pair of wins over Michigan State (CCHA) and edging Canisius (AHA) earlier this year. Vermont (2-5-2, 2-5-2 Hockey East) will get its first taste of nonconference play this season when the Gophers arrive in town. The Catamounts have a short week to prepare for the weekend's series after falling to UMass 3-1 on Tuesday in Amherst.
Gophers Against Hockey East
While the Gophers are 1-1-0 all-time against the Catamounts, Minnesota has had great success in general against teams that call Hockey East home. The Gophers are 82-50-7 all-time against the confernece. In addition to two games against Vermont last season, the Gophers also met a pair of Hockey East teams in the NCAA tournament -- topping Boston University 7-3 on March 24 in route to the NCAA West Regional title and falling 6-1 to eventual national champion and current No. 1 Boston College in a Frozen Four semifinal matchup.
Rare Trip Out East
This weekend's series in Vermont marks Minnesota's first regular-season road trip to the east coast since the 2004-05 season. The Gophers split a pair of 2-1 games with Boston University on 1/2-3/05 and have only returned to the east coast on two occasions since -- the 2008 NCAA West Regional in Worcester, Mass., and the 2012 NCAA Frozen Four in Tampa, Fla.
Originally posted by CavalryNate
Disrespecting the Gophers is like disowning your mother the first time you get a girlfriend.
This was one of the trips I wished I could have made this year and had it in the back of my head, but we traveled a lot this summer (far more than normal) and it was not in the cards. Seems like a decent set of fans that would welcome visitors and obviously a beatiful area to visit.
This was one of the trips I wished I could have made this year and had it in the back of my head, but we traveled a lot this summer (far more than normal) and it was not in the cards. Seems like a decent set of fans that would welcome visitors and obviously a beatiful area to visit.
This was one of the trips I wished I could have made this year and had it in the back of my head, but we traveled a lot this summer (far more than normal) and it was not in the cards. Seems like a decent set of fans that would welcome visitors and obviously a beatiful area to visit.
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