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Recap your news day with the Grand Forks Herald Minute Podcast. Join us daily for the latest headlines from news, weather and sports in the northern Red River Valley area. The Grand Forks Herald Minute can be found on Spotify, Apple and Google Podcasts as well as the Herald website.

Recap your news day with the Grand Forks Herald Minute Podcast. Join us daily for the latest headlines from news, weather and sports in the northern Red River Valley area. The Grand Forks Herald Minute can be found on Spotify, Apple and Google Podcasts as well as the Herald website.

The Herald's Brad Schlossman previews No. 7 UND's series against No. 1 Minnesota and the next edition of the rivalry. Last week's series against Quinnipiac gets recapped before breaking down how the Hawks can bounce back from the tie and loss. Luckily, from a standings standpoint, the rest of the NCHC had a rough week.

This series should see some dynamic freshman production as well.

You can watch or listen to the podcast here, on YouTube or wherever you may listen to your podcasts—including Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

*LINKS*

UND Hockey Central --

https://www.grandforksherald.com/undhockey

Six players who could make a difference -- https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/six-players-who-could-make-a-difference-in-the-und-minnesota-rivalry-series 

What head coach Brad Berry says of the rivalry -- https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/i-dont-know-if-theres-anything-that-matches-it-in-college-hockey-berry-says-of-und-minnesota-rivalry

The Herald's Brad Schlossman sits down to preview UND hockey's second series of the year against Quinnipiac. After sweeping Holy Cross and checking off a lot of boxes, the Hawks start a very tough stretch of games in this top 10 matchup. Topics discussed include Gavin Hain's start to the year, what makes Quinnipiac so good, and a look around the NCHC. 

LINKS: 

UND Hockey Central -- https://www.grandforksherald.com/undhockey

Inside the NCHC -- https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/inside-the-nchc-teams-are-seeing-what-theyve-got-in-net

Jake Sanderson's NHL debut -- https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/jake-sanderson-makes-nhl-debut-for-ottawa-senators

You can catch UND Gameday Previews online at grandforksherald.com, on YouTube @Grand Forks Herald, on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or wherever you choose to get your podcasts.

The Herald's Brad Schlossman goes over UND hockey's season-opening series against Holy Cross while also previewing the season. What makes the Hawks so dangerous this year, the difficulty to their early schedule, and what we could see unfold during the regular season regarding the contenders in the NCHC.

LINKS:

Subscribe to the Herald at www.grandforksherald.com/subscribe

Check out our page dedicated to UND hockey at https://www.grandforksherald.com/undhockey

Follow the Herald on Twitter at www.twitter.com/gfherald 

Recap your news day with the Grand Forks Herald Minute Podcast. Join us daily for the latest headlines from news, weather and sports in the northern Red River Valley area. The Grand Forks Herald Minute can be found on Spotify, Apple and Google Podcasts as well as the Herald website.

Recap your news day with the Grand Forks Herald Minute Podcast. Join us daily for the latest headlines from news, weather and sports in the northern Red River Valley area. The Grand Forks Herald Minute can be found on Spotify, Apple and Google Podcasts as well as the Herald website

Recap your news day with the Grand Forks Herald Minute Podcast. Join us daily for the latest headlines from news, weather and sports in the northern Red River Valley area. The Grand Forks Herald Minute can be found on Spotify, Apple and Google Podcasts as well as the Herald website.

The Herald's Brad Schlossman previews UND's start to conference play. The Fighting Hawks host Denver in their first NCHC series after dropping a tough game against Penn State in Nashville and splitting with Bemidji State and Quinnipiac. 

R.J. Enga was born in Germany, where his father was stationed in the U.S. Air Force, and he speaks fluent German and played a lot of soccer in his early years. When his family moved to Colorado Springs, he went to an Air Force hockey game, fell in love with hockey and started playing. He went on to play soccer, hockey and baseball for Culver Military Academy (Ind.) before playing hockey for Colorado College (1991-95) and then professionally until 2007. Enga coached in the NAHL for the Topeka Roadrunners and in the USHL for the Chicago Steel before being an assistant coach at Colorado College from 2014-21. A conversation on the 3.3 degrees of separation in hockey with the St. Cloud State men's hockey team's new director of operations and video coordinator.

Since the first season of the NCHC in 2013-14, the conference has established itself as arguably the most consistently outstanding of the six in NCAA Division I men's hockey.

The eight-team conference has had at least one team reach the national championship game in each of the last five seasons that there has been an NCAA tournament and won four national titles. In the eight seasons that the Frozen Four has taken place since the NCHC began, the conference has had 12 teams make the Frozen Four.

For comparison, in that span, Hockey East has had seven teams reach the Frozen Four, the Big Ten has had five, the ECAC three and the WCHA one.

During an #AskWellensAnything for the weekly Bulldog Insider Newsletter, a reader submitted a question to Matt Wellens of the Duluth News-Tribune and The Rink Live, asking him to pick an All-NCHC team for the first eight seasons and also to pick an All-UMD team in that span. Wellens reached out and asked me to do the same and pick an All-SCSU team.

My All-NCHC team ended up being heavily influenced by the four teams that have dominated the conference: Denver, Minnesota Duluth, North Dakota and St. Cloud State. Those four teams have combined to win five of the seven NCHC Frozen Faceoff titles and all eight of the NCHC Penrose Cup (regular season) titles.

St. Cloud State men's hockey forward Zach Okabe discusses his strong start to the season, how his offseason work has helped, living in five countries, scoring four goals in a game with his dad and sisters in attendance, what it is like to play on a line with two players from Finland, his family's history at SCSU and more.

On Jan. 8, Chase Brand scored on a set play off a faceoff to snap a 15-game streak without a goal. Brand talks about his season to this point with The Rink Live's Mick Hatten. He also discusses his winding road to get to the St. Cloud State men's hockey team: four junior teams in two leagues, de-committing from Miami and going through the recruiting process a second time.

He also talks about fun subjects like who the Huskies' best golfer is, some of the intricacies of fly fishing, his athletic family (mom and dad were college athletes, his sister plays in the NWHL), his love of baseball and what it was like growing up in Nevis, Minn.

The sixth-ranked St. Cloud State and fourth-ranked Minnesota Duluth men's hockey teams' next four games against one another. So The Rink Live's Mick Hatten and Matt Wellens take a look at how the teams match up, what we saw out of both teams in the NCHC Pod and also take a look at the second half of the NCHC season in this episode.

OMAHA, Neb. — St. Cloud State men's hockey forward Micah Miller discusses what may have been a key to his quick start in the season-opener, his background growing up in northern Minnesota, his track and field career, who his roommate is during the three-week NCHC pod and what they are doing to pass their down time.

All this and more on this week's podcast with The Rink Live's Mick Hatten.

The career in hockey of Dave Shyiak includes a couple of pretty big connections to former St. Cloud State assistant coach Gibbons. Gibbons retired after last season and Shyiak was hired to replace him in May.

But the two go back farther. Gibbons was an assistant coach for Northern Michigan from 1983-88. One of the players that Gibbons recruited to play for the Wildcats was ... you guessed it, Shyiak, who played junior hockey for the Humboldt Broncos before playing forward for Northern Michigan from 1987-91.

After a season of pro hockey, Shyiak coached in juniors for the Kimberly Dynamiters and Merritt Centenials before getting back to college hockey as a coach. He was an assistant coach for Northern Michigan from 1995-2005, the head coach at Alaska-Anchorage from 2005-13 and Western Michigan from 2014-20.

If you have a conversation with Kevin Fitzgerald, you quickly learn that he is someone who enjoys a lot of aspects of life.

He's a former high school baseball shortstop, has been an intramural soccer and hockey referee, enjoys being an accounting major and all of his hockey stops along the way.

Fitzgerald grew up playing in Hinsdale, Ill., a suburb of Chicago, then played junior hockey in Topeka, Kan., Burlington, Vt., and Aberdeen, S.D., before getting to St. Cloud State. The senior was named an alternate captain for the Huskies on Wednesday and joins The Rink Live's Mick Hatten to talk about all of this and more.