Gopher Puck Live Podcast

Derek Burns from Dinkytown Athletes joined us to talk everything "NIL" related that is happening down at the University of Minnesota. We also got in to the BSU exhibition game and previewed the series with St. Thomas this coming weekend.

We kick off the 13th season of the GPL Podcast by joining the Pulltab Sports family! Great to be part of their family! But a lot of other changes this season too! We cover all of the off-season news with Gopher Hockey and preview what should be a very exciting season!

Returning Gopher goalie Justen Close joins us for this special offseason podcast. He is enjoying the last few weeks of his summer break at his family cabin 3 hours north of his hometown of Kindersley, Saskatchewan. We get in to the disappointment of losing the National Championship game. The new NIL opportunities with Dinkytown Athletes as well as some of his favorite cooking.

A lot happening at Mariucci during the offseason. So we thought we would get the main architect behind all of the changes. So a few weeks ago we visited 3M Arena at Mariucci and had Tom Betti from JLG Architects joined us to talk about the changes being made to the arena this offseason. This is more of a vidual podcast, so it is recommended that watching on our YouTube channel may be a better resu...

We recap the devastating National Championship game lost to Quinnipiac. Talk about the players that have signed contracts and look ahead a bit to next season.

A short post game segment after Minnesota lost to Quinnipiac in the National Championship game.

This is a short post game segments that we did after the Frozen Four Semi Final victory over Boston University.

We were live from Amalie Arena and the Frozen Four in Tampa. Todd Milewski was our main guest, but we also had Mike Grimm join early on in the show as well. We previewed the two big semi final matchups with MN vs BU and MI vs QU. Should be a great Frozen Four.

John King from Pulltab Sports joins us to talk about the big NCAA regional wins for the Golden Gophers as they now head to the Frozen Four in Tampa.

Nate Wells and Drew Cove joined the podcast to preview the NCAA Tournament this weekend. We gave our predictions on the tournament, but also looked back on the Big Ten title game that Minnesota lost.

We had Connor Earegood from the Michigan Daily join us to preview the Big Ten Championship game this weekend. He also gave us a bit more insight on former Michigan coach Mel Pearson who is still showing up to home games.

After a week off, the Gophers head full speed in to the Big Ten Semifinals at Mariucci this weekend. We preview that along with all that happened or will happen this weekend in the Big Ten.

Jack Ramsey helps us recap the OSU sweep and get us ready for the other BigTen games this weekend. With a bit of Minnetonka Skippers talk as well!

Former Buckeye and current BTN analyst, Paul Caponigri joined the show to recap a fun weekend at Penn State and preview the weekend with Ohio State. Fun show as always with Cappy.

The Gophers did not look great at all in Madison against the BADgers this past weekend. We covered that along the injuries to Faber and Chesley. Arena changes at 3M at Mariucci as well as at Ohio State. And of course we previewed the games at Penn State this coming weekend.

Pat Micheletti joined us to give us his insight on the Gophers this season and help us preview the series in Madison this weekend!

The Gophers split with Michigan after two great overtime games with a victory a piece! We get in to that, the Hobey Baker candidates and of course the Michigan State series this weekend.

Connor Earegood from the Michigan Daily was our guest as we talked about the state of Michigan Hockey before the big series at Mariucci this weekend. Got a few good tidbits about their former coach Mel Pearson too! FUN guest! Hope to have him on again in the future!

Former Gopher goalie Eric Schierhorn joined us to give us his perspective on the team this season. We recapped the split with St. Cloud State. Talked about a few new NCAA changes coming in July. And the consensus was that the Gopher should sweep Notre Dame this weekend. Let's go!

Drew Cove returns to the GPL Podcast to help us preview the big home and home series with St. Cloud State. Other topics we covered. The UW Sweep. USA vs Canada. When will the Junior Tournament come back to Minnesota?

Always fun have Todd Milewski, from the Wisconsin State Journal, on to help us preview the series with the Badgers. We got in to the Minnesota series with Michigan State and the Badger series with Michigan. Of course we had a look at the series this weekend at Mariucci.

Play by play announcer from the Big Ten Network, Ben Holden joined us as we previewed the big series at Michigan State.

Former Gopher Jack Ramsey joined us on the podcast this week. We covered a bunch of topics from the Michigan sweep. The Jagger Joshua situation. As well as the Thanksgiving series at Arizona State.

Jess Myers from The Rink Live joined us for an update on the state of the Gopher Hockey program. He also gave us some great insight on the Mel Pearson situation that happened over the summer. Of course we talked PSU and this week's games against Michigan.

We are back after a week off. The Gophers earned a split at Ohio State and then followed it up with a home sweep of Notre Dame in very impressive fashion. We talked about those 4 games as well as which players are playing well and which ones we are just waiting for an explosion. It's just a matter of time!