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For the first time since 2014, the St. Cloud State men's hockey team was bounced in the first round of the NCHC tournament when it got swept by Minnesota Duluth last weekend. It may end up being a blessing in disguise with starting goalie David Hrenak and captain Spencer Meier both still trying to recover from the flu and graduate student defenseman Seamus Donohue trying to come back from an upper...

Dave Starman will provide color analysis of this weekend's NCH Frozen Faceoff at Xcel Energy Center for CBS Sports Network. He breaks down keys for Denver, Minnesota Duluth, North Dakota and Western Michigan in their games on Friday. He also discusses the Big Ten championship game between Minnesota and Michigan, his initial reaction to the top 10 Hobey Baker Award finalists and gives his take on w...

The Rink Live's Kirsten Krull, Mick Hatten, Matt Wellens, Jess Myers, and Brad Schlossman meet to catch up on the weekend of hockey action. Visit  The Rink Live for more hockey coverage.  

Whether it has been television, writing, or radio, Ashley Chase has done it all. Chase currently is the director of operations, media relations and play-by-play for the St. Cloud Norsemen of the North American Hockey League, but it wasn't an easy path to get to this point.  https://www.therinklive.com/junior-and-prospects/ashley-chase-makes-history-as-the-first-female-junior-hockey-play-by-play-br...

Full interview from The Rink Live's weekly YouTube show Today in the USHL with Kirsten Krull .  https://www.therinklive.com/junior-and-prospects/today-in-the-ushl-with-kirsten-krull-top-5-plays-tri-citys-noreen-gets-300th-win

Full interview from The Rink Live's weekly YouTube show Today in the USHL with Kirsten Krull .  Make sure to head over to our  YouTube channel to watch the full episode. Former head coach of the Fargo Force and 2018 Clark Cup champion Pierre-Paul Lamoureux joined the show as a guest analyst, and we welcomed on head coaches and general managers from five different clubs to discuss the moves they ma...

The Rink Live's Kirsten Krull, Mick Hatten, Matt Wellens, Jess Myers, and Brad Schlossman meet to catch up on the weekend of hockey action. Visit  The Rink Live for more hockey coverage.

You hear of hockey players playing through injuries pretty regularly. How about playing through an entire season when you know you have to have surgery to repair an injury? That's what St. Cloud State graduate student Emma Polusny did in 2021-22. She found out before the season she would need surgery to repair a hip labral tear. But she says it may have actually helped her as a goalie. The proof i...

Nadine Muzerall was an assistant coach for the University of Minnesota women's hockey team from 2011-16. She left her alma mater to take over an Ohio State team that had gone 10-25-1 overall in 2015-16. By 2018, the Buckeyes were playing in the Frozen Four for the first time. Ohio State also reached the Frozen Four in 2021. She discusses some keys to her success as a coach, talks about her time as...

The Rink Live's Kirsten Krull, Mick Hatten, Matt Wellens, Jess Myers, and Brad Schlossman meet to catch up on the weekend of hockey action. Visit  The Rink Live for more hockey coverage.

After a year off from the WCHA playoffs due to the pandemic cutting the field down, every team in the conference will be involved again. The seventh-seeded St. Cloud State women's hockey team (9-21-3 overall) opens the playoffs against second-seeded Ohio State (25-6-0). The teams play at 5 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m. Saturday and, if necessary, 2 p.m. Sunday in Columbus, Ohio. The Huskies go into the seri...

Dave Schwartz spent most of the last 15 years covering sports for KARE 11 in the Twin Cities. He started a new position (senior manager of communications and engagement) for the Minnesota Wild on Tuesday. Schwartz talks about coaching youth hockey, how different youth hockey is in Minnesota vs. New York (where he grew up), how he got to KARE 11, memories of working in Bemidji, covering Shreveport...

The Rink Live's Kirsten Krull, Mick Hatten, Matt Wellens, Jess Myers, and Brad Schlossman meet to catch up on the weekend of hockey action. They wrap up the college hockey play from the weekend, including North Dakota's sweep of Minnesota Duluth and Minnesota's big comeback against Penn State. Also included is a wrap up of the Olympics, the Gophers clinching the WCHA regular season title, and Minn...

David Hrenak may be the lone starting goalie in NCAA Division I to work in the ticket office for the team he plays for. Hrenak discusses his work there, the Western Michigan series, previews the series at Nebraska Omaha, goalie camp at SCSU, the Olympics, his parents, goalie masks, speaking to Ondrej Trejbal in his native tongue and more with The Rink Live's Mick Hatten.

Corey Millen is in his second season as a coach for the St. Cloud Norsemen in the North American Hockey League. The Norsemen are the hottest team in the league and he talks about his team's 10-game winning streak. Millen also discusses playing on the 1984 and 1988 Olympic hockey teams and the players he played with. He also discusses playing with Hall of Fame players in the NHL, including Wayne Gr...

The Rink Live's Kirsten Krull, Mick Hatten, Matt Wellens, Jess Myers, and Brad Schlossman meet to catch up on the weekend of hockey action. Visit  The Rink Live for more hockey coverage!

College hockey and IIHF World Junior Championship color analyst Dave Starman joins The Rink Live's Jess Myers and Mick Hatten to discuss Denver, St. Cloud State, the U.S. Olympic team, styles of play in the Olympics, coaching an Olympic team, talking to veterans vs. younger players, Nebraska Omaha, Michigan State, top NHL prospects in college hockey and UMass.   Visit  The Rink Live  for more hock...

The Rink Live's Kirsten Krull, Mick Hatten, Matt Wellens, Jess Myers, and Brad Schlossman meet to catch up on the weekend of hockey action. They begin by discussing the chaotic action in the Olympic women's ice hockey tournament underway in Beijing, as well as the many area connections involved. They then transition into college hockey talk and an update on when Jake Sanderson might be ready to jo...

Nick Oliver has been through being on the staff for St. Cloud State men's hockey head coach Brett Larson when he has had to leave to be on the staff for Team USA before. Larson was an assistant coach for the Americans at the 2020 IIHF World Junior Championships. Larson, senior defenseman Nick Perbix and senior forward Sam Hentges left Wednesday to represent Team USA at the Beijing Olympics. Oliver...

Kirsten Krull hosts this weeks episode of The Rink Live Weekend Rewind, as she was joined by reporters Jess Myers, Matt Wellens and Mick Hatten. Lots to unpack from college hockey recaps from this past weekend, the Olympics almost upon us and then troubles in Michigan.  www.therinklive.com

Sophomore from Maple Grove will join the Olympic team on Sunday after series against Notre Dame. The Los Angeles Kings draft pick discusses his career with the National Team Development Program, playing in two IIHF World Junior Championships and more. Timestamps  :50 Playing against Notre Dame 2:15 The whirlwind day that the World Junior Championships were cancelled and he was named to the Olympic...

Senior defenseman Nick Perbix talks about the reasons for the success of the special teams for the St. Cloud State men's hockey team. He also discusses the fastest players on the team, gives summaries of the other Huskies defensemen, discusses growing up in Elk River, his brother playing for the Gophers, his dad being a former college player, being named to the Olympic team, pheasant hunting and w...

Former Gophers All-American joins The Rink Live podcast. Hosted by Mick Hatten and Jess Meyers. www.therinklive.com  

The Rink Live team takes a look at the tight conference title races in the NCHC, Big Ten and WCHA. They also look back at Hockey Day Minnesota in Mankato. www.therinklive.com

Eric Rud has spent two stints as a coach at St. Cloud State. He was an assistant coach for the men's team from 2005-10. He then returned to be the head women's coach for the Huskies from 2014-19. Rud talks about recruiting during the pandemic, the transfer portal, recruiting kids a second time due to the "COVID" extra year of eligibility and where this season's Miami team is at. He also shares mem...