The Rink Live

It's been two days since the St. Cloud State men's hockey team played in the NCAA Division I championship in Pittsburgh. Huskies coach Brett Larson joins The Rink Live's Mick Hatten and Jess Myers to talk about the experiences for his team on and off the rink during the Frozen Four and gives a peek into what the offseason looks like for his team.  

Broadcaster John Buccigross has been the play-by-play voice of ESPN's Frozen Four coverage for several seasons. The Rink Live's Mick Hatten and Jess Myers discuss this year's Frozen Four, which is a return to his hometown of Pittsburgh. They also discuss where Buccigross' love of hockey comes from, the return of the NHL to his network, this year's Hobey Baker Award, what a Pittsburgh accent is and...

The 2021 Frozen Four field is set with Minnesota Duluth playing Massachusetts and St. Cloud State playing Minnesota State University-Mankato in the semifinals on April 8 at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, Pa. The championship game will be played at 6 p.m. April 10 (ESPN2). Minnesota Duluth beat reporter Matt Wellens, MSU-Mankato beat reporter Jason Feldman, ESPN and CBS Sports color commentator Da...

On Sunday, the six men's hockey teams that have beat reporters for The Rink Live were all given bids to the 16-team NCAA Division I tournament field. With that in mind, we got all six reporters together to talk about the teams they cover and the regionals that the teams will be playing in. Brad Schlossman (North Dakota), Matt Wellens (Minnesota Duluth), Austin Monteith (Bemidji State), Jason Feldm...

The Rink Live reporters Matt Wellens, Jess Myers and Mick Hatten are in three different locations for postseason play. Wellens is in Erie, Pa., to cover the NCAA Division I women's hockey tournament. Myers is in South Bend, Ind., to cover the Big Ten tournament. Hatten is in Grand Forks, N.D., covering the NCHC Frozen Faceoff. The three reporters discuss the NCAA women's tournament, the difficult...

Mike Sertich grew up playing hockey in Virginia, Minn., played college hockey at Minnesota Duluth and went on to coach at Grand Rapids High School, UMD and Michigan Tech and was an assistant coach with the Team USA sled hockey team. Sertich was recently named the 2021 Hobey Baker Legend of College Hockey and he talks about how it affected him when he got the news. Sertich also tells some great sto...

Katie Emmer was able to return to FOX Sports North on Saturday to help with its Hockey Day Minnesota broadcast. Emmer began her professional broadcasting career at FSN before working on Philadelphia Flyers broadcasts last season for NBC Philadelphia. Because of the pandemic, she and Chris Therien were laid off before this season started. But Emmer is staying busy as a freelancer and she talks abou...

NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Committee chair Mike Kemp joined The Rink Live's Mick Hatten and Jess Myers on Feb. 22, 2021, to discuss the unique situation of picking a field of 16 this season. He ended up sharing that Albany, N.Y., will be the fourth regional site for the tournament. The other regional sites are Loveland, Colo.; Fargo, N.D.; and Bridgeport, Conn. Originally, Manchester, N.H.,...

A bit of a turn-back-the-clock episode of The Rink Live podcast with Mick Hatten and Jess Myers. Hatten and Myers discuss the weekends for the University of Minnesota and St. Cloud State men's hockey teams, take a look at the conference races for the Big Ten and NCHC, take a look at the NCAA Division I tournament picture and throw in some Minnesota boys hockey talk in this episode.  

The 2020-21 season has been an odd one because of the coronavirus pandemic with men's hockey teams being forced to play virtually no nonconference games and unbalanced conference schedules about. How the NCAA Division I committee is going to pick the 16-team field for the national tournament has not yet been determined. There are no PairWise Rankings this season to take a lot of the guesswork out...

Kyle Oen discusses how his website (www.vintagemnhockey.com) came about, how he goes about making vintage jerseys, shows off some of his hockey jersey collection, reminisces about the Minnesota North Stars, discusses the Minnesota Wild's reverse retro jerseys, the state hockey history available on his website and more with The Rink Live's Mick Hatten and Jess Myers.  

Anthony LaPanta took over as FSN's play-by-play announcer for Minnesota Wild telecasts in 2012. He joins The Rink Live's Jess Myers and Mick Hatten to discuss this season's Wild team, memories of Hockey Day Minnesota and his love of cooking. LaPanta also has worked some recent Minnesota Gophers men's hockey games for FSN and he talks about this season's Gophers. LaPanta shares memories of how Hock...

Judd Zulgad of skornorth.com discusses the much-awaited (and enjoyed) debut of Minnesota Wild rookie Kirill Kaprizov. Zulgad also gives some perspective as to what his talent appears to be and where he could end up ranking among the Wild's players all time. Zulgad also gets nostalgic with The Rink Live's Jess Myers and Mick Hatten about the Minnesota North Stars, Met Center, the one-class Minnesot...

Dave Starman has been one of the voices of the IIHF World Junior Championships for more than a decade and has been a color analyst for college hockey games for CBS Sports Network since 2003. He had quite a month of December with working the majority of games in the NCHC Pod and then providing analysis for Team USA games on NHL Network. Starman is a former college and pro goalie, has been a coach a...

Minnesota Hockey, the governing body for amateur hockey in the state, has been hard at work to get players and teams back on the ice. The organization's executive director, Glen Andresen, joins The Rink Live's Mick Hatten and Jess Myers to discuss how teams are getting back on the ice on Jan. 4. He discusses some of the key rules that have been implemented to try to ensure the sport will not be sh...

University of Minnesota men's hockey assistant coach Garrett Raboin discusses some of the keys to his team's fast start and No. 1 rating in NCAA Division I. He also discusses some of the key players, how he is armchair quarterbacking a team during the holiday break, some of the Gophers' key players, playing Arizona State this weekend and more with The Rink Live's Mick Hatten and Jess Myers.

Wally Shaver moved to Minnesota from Canada when his father, Al, became the play-by-play announcer for the Minnesota North Stars. He ended up following some of his father's career path and has been a play-by-play announcer for the University of Minnesota men's hockey team for the last 20 seasons. Wally's son, Jason, is a play-by-play announcer for the Chicago Wolves of the American Hockey League....

In Part 2 of this week's podcast, Matt Wellens and Brad Schlossman rejoin to continue the discussion of the NCHC and the Pod. In this episode, they discuss the finances of putting the Pod together, how testing of the athletes may be in the post-Pod portion of the schedule and they look at the post-Pod schedule and which teams may have an advantage in the conference race because of the unbalanced s...

The NCHC has been able to get through the first two weeks of its Pod being held in Omaha, Neb. In Part 1 of this week's podcast, Matt Wellens, Brad Schlossman and Mick Hatten discuss what happened in the second week, some surprises, coaching decisions that have been made and how this Pod may benefit the teams in the NCHC in the long run. This week's podcast is in two parts because of some Wifi iss...

OMAHA, Neb. — Of the media covering the NCHC pod at Baxter Arena, there were four print journalists who were given credentials for the first week. Two of them are Brad Schlossman and Mick Hatten. Schlossman covers the University of North Dakota for the Grand Forks Herald and The Rink Live. Hatten covers St. Cloud State and helps manage The Rink Live website. So what was it like to cover games with...

If you have heard of the game of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, you know that the actor has been in so many films that you can make connections from him to about anyone in Hollywood within six people. The hockey version of this game could be Six Degrees of Mike Gibbons . Gibbons, recently hired as an assistant coach at Bemidji State , has been a hockey coach at the college, high school, junior and pr...

Tom Serratore is beginning his 20th season as Bemidji State men's head hockey coach. His ties to the university go back to his college playing days and he has several family members who attended the university, including his brother, Frank , the Air Force head hockey coach. Serratore talks about this season's Beavers, his playing and coaching career, growing up in Coleraine, Minn., and more with T...

Former Hibbing High School and University of Minnesota standout Pat Micheletti has become one of the most well-known color college hockey commentators in the area in recent years. Micheletti joins The Rink Live podcast and tells stories about his career, takes a look at the University of Minnesota, Minnesota State University-Mankato, University of North Dakota and Minnesota Duluth men's hockey tea...

Fairbanks Ice Dogs general manager Rob Proffitt discusses what all went into the decision to move his NAHL franchise to Marshall, Minn., for a season, his history with the franchise, the support his team continues to get in Fairbanks, the team's new home and more with The Rink Live's Mick Hatten and Jess Myers.  

Dani Cameranesi has had some big news recently. Cameranesi, a 25-year-old forward from Plymouth, Minn., is one of 53 players taking part in the U.S. Women's National Team Evaluation Camp through Oct. 31 at The Super Rink in Blaine, Minn. Cameranesi, a former University of Minnesota standout, also recently got engaged to Michael Brodzinski, her longtime boyfriend. Brodzinski, a former Gopher defens...