A small-town hero, a college star who helped the Gophers to a NCAA crown, an Olympic champion and a long-time NHLer whose career culminated with a Stanley Cup, Neal Broten's pace is easy these days.
Limited to just 16 games last season in Arizona due to a serious injury, the former Minnesota Gophers standout is enjoy a chance to skate for the team he idolized as a Twin Cities kid.
A new six-team league will begin play in 2024, meaning that one of the current clubs in the seven-team Premier Hockey Federation could be folded. All current PHF contracts have been voided.
As is painfully normal at this time of year in the State of Hockey, the focus now switches to fishing and flowers and anything but this game that is so much a part of the local fabric.
Two from Minnesota and one from Michigan are the trio remaining in contention for college hockey's top individual honor, which will be handed out April 7 in Tampa.
Finally, a solution is at hand for those who want Bally Sports North programming but are stuck in a contract with a TV carrier that doesn't offer the channel. The September launch of Bally Sports Plus will allow a direct subscription to the channel.
The annual one-day celebration of hockey in the state will be coming to one of the northernmost communities in the state in early 2024, as officials from the Minnesota Wild announced the awarding of Hockey Day Minnesota to Hockeytown USA.
Before he will don a NHL sweater for what all expect will be a lengthy and lucrative pro career, Logan Cooley will skate for the Minnesota Gophers for at least one season. But when he is ready to try hockey for a paycheck, it will be as a member of the Coyotes.
Playing at Xcel Energy Center for the first time since he was a Delano high schooler five years ago, Colorado Avalanche rookie forward Ben Meyers had his own cheering section of former Gophers teammates in his return to Minnesota.
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