Gopher Puck Live Podcast

Former Gopher goalie Eric Schierhorn helps us celebrate the big sweep of North Dakota. It appears that the Gopher players have really started to buy in to what coach Larson is selling them. Effort with and without the puck was off the charts against UND. Now we get to see if they can continue what they started with Penn State coming to town this weekend.

Grand Forks Herald writer, Brad Schlossman, joined the podcast for the 9th time as a guest. Great to get his insight on the Hakstol hire at ASU and how that entire process went down.

Minnesota had a very rough Friday night against UMD in a 7-1 loss, but took nice steps forward with a 2-2 tie Saturday night. But now #3 North Dakota comes to town for a pair of games against Minnesota. We get you ready for the big Thr/Fri series.

We had Max Veech on to get us ready for the weekend at Amsoil Arena as the Gophers take on the UMD Bulldogs. Max Plante is out for the weekend for UMD, will Mooney be back for Minnesota? Got a bit in to the the ASU/Hakstol situation as well as the big #1 vs #2 matchup in Denver this weekend when Michigan visits.

Fun to have Jess Scott on from the Gopher Women's Hockey team. She is the first person in women's college hockey to have the title of "General Manager". Both Veegs & Jûpe also know her back when she played Superrink Beer League hockey against us both 15-20 years ago. She gave us some insight on this new role and how much the women's game has changed in recent years.

We also had GPL's newest writer, Reid Lemker, on to give us even more insight on the women's game. Really fun to be covering this team on Gopher Puck Live now!

Jûpe and Veegs kicked off the 2026-27 GPL Podcast season talking Gopher Men’s Hockey under the new leadership of Brett Larson. Minnesota has lots of new players like transfers Austin Burnevik, Evan Murr and Tanner Henricks that will play big roles this season as well as freshman Wyatt Cullen and Axel Löftgren that will make big impacts. The duo also touched on the situation at Arizona State, new NCAA rules, the pending retirements of the Serratores and the first series of the year at Michigan Tech.

Coach Boom May, Chloe Primerano and Belle Fanale talking to the media this afternoon to kick off the 2026-27 season.

Brodie Ziemer, John Whipple and coach Larson speak to the media to kick off the 2026-27 season.

We closed out season 15 of the Gopher Puck Live podcast with quite a bit of chaos happening in college hockey. Denver is the Champ again. The Transfer Portal was/is crazy. Minnesota will look completely different next season and will be a top contender. On top of all of that is the new 5 for 5 NCAA eligibility that is likely coming next fall!

We get in to all of it along with an interesting overtime with beverages! Another great Gopher Puck Live season is in the books!

We had brand new Gopher Hockey Coach Brett Larson on the show. We spent about 20 minutes getting to know Brett and what some of his goals are for his first season behind the Minnesota bench. We also learned what he'd like to see for the NCAA regional format as well. Fun to have him on the show and cannot wait to have him on again!

We also recapped the regionals and preview the Frozen Four with Denver vs Michigan and Wisconsin vs North Dakota!

Brett Larson has been hired away from St. Cloud and is your NEW Gopher Men's Hockey coach! How did this all come together? How does affect the roster? Who is coming and going? So many questions need to be answered.

It is NCAA Regional weekend, the best 4 days of hockey each season. We preview all 4 regions and give you our thoughts.

New Gopher Men's Hockey coach was introduced to the media this afternoon. Took questions. Mark Coyle also took questions as well.

Audio of Minnesota Athletic Director, Mark Coyle, talking about the search to replace Bob Motzko as the Men's Hockey coach.

Minnesota and coach Bob Motzko have "mutually agreed to part ways." Some expected this and some did not, but we had Paul Caponigri on to help us figure it all out. Who will replace Bob? So far the two most prominent names are Garrett Raboin and Ben Barr. We expect a replacement to be named very quickly.

The Gophers head to Penn State to keep their season going in a single game winner take all in the BigTen Tournament quarterfinals. We get in to that as well as the recently completely High School Hockey Tournament.

A special episode at the Pulltab Sports booth from Let's Play Hockey Expo. Former Gopher Brian Bonin joined us to talk all things youth and college hockey. Brian is super passionate about community hockey support and how it has been a huge blessing for Minnesota Hockey.

Coach Motzko, Zach Wiese and Brodie Ziemer talk about the Shootout win over Michigan State.

Coach Motzko talks about the 7-1 loss to Michigan State.

We had Connor Eargood join the podcast from the Detroit News to catch up on Michigan State as Minnesota faces the Spartans for the final regular season series this weekend.

We celebrated double Gold medals for the US Hockey Teams at the Olympics with BTN's Ben Holden. 46 years in the making for the men's team and boy did it feel good! We also got in to what happened at Notre Dame a few weeks ago by the Gophers. Can they turn it around the next 2 weeks against the best 2 teams in the country?

USCHO.com’s Creator and President Tim Brule joined us on the podcast to talk about a season that has not gone well at all this year for Minnesota. We get in to that Ohio State sweep of the Gophers and preview this coming weekend with Notre Dame. But USCHO has been THE source for College Hockey in the internet for 30 years now due to the work Tim has put in over the years. We also get heavy in to the new NPI rankings as well.