Current Record: 4-5-0 overall, 0-0-0-0 Big Ten Breakdown: H: 2-3-0, A: 2-2-0, N: 0-0-0 Streak: L1 2015-16 Gopher Hockey 2015-16 Gopher Hockey Schedule Date: Friday, Nov. 27, 2015 OCTOBER TIME TV 10 Vermont (U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame Game) L, 0-3 Time: 6:05 p.m. CT 16 Minnesota Duluth L, 1-3 Arena: Mariucci Arena 17 @ Minnesota Duluth L, 0-3 Location: Minneapolis, Minn. 23 Northeastern W, 4-0 TV: FOX Sports North 24 Northeastern W, 4-3 Stream: FOX Sports Go, BTN2Go NOVEMBER Minnesota No. 7 St. Cloud State Radio: 1500 ESPN, Gopher Radio Network 9-3-0 Overall 6 @ Notre Dame L, 3-4 4-5-0 Overall Twitter: @GopherHockey 0-0-0-0 Big Ten 5-1-0-0 NCHC 7 @ Notre Dame W, 4-1 Facebook: facebook.com/GoldenGopherHockey 13 @ Minnesota State W, 4-0 14 Minnesota State L, 2-3 (OT) 27 St. Cloud State 6 pm FSN The Gopher Hockey program celebrates the Thanksgiving holiday with a nonconference series against No. 7 29 St. Cloud State 6 pm FSN St. Cloud State this weekend at Mariucci Arena. Minnesota opens the series on Friday, Nov. 27 and con - DECEMBER cludes the two-game meeting on Sunday, Nov. 29. Both games are set for 6 p.m. CT. FOX Sports North will 4 Ohio State* 7 pm FSN televise both games with the action also available via stream on FOX Sports Go and BTN2Go. Radio broad - 5 Ohio State* 7 pm ESPNews casts for both games will be on 1500 ESPN and the Gopher Radio Network. 11 @ Michigan* 6 pm BTN 12 @ Michigan* 7:30 pm ESPNews Kloos Lets Loose JANUARY Junior forward Justin Kloos was held without a goal for Minnesota’s first six games of the year, but the team captain has found his scoring stride in the last three games. Kloos has a goal in each of the last three games 1 UConn (Mariucci Classic) 7 pm FSN (one even-strength goal, one short-handed goal, one power-play goal) for a new career-best goal scoring 2 Harvard/Ferris St. (Mariucci Classic) 7 pm streak. The junior tallied his first career hat trick in Minnesota’s last meeting with the Huskies -- a 4-3 over - 8 @ Penn State* 5:30 pm BTN time win at Mariucci Arena on Nov. 1, 2014 with Kloos capping the hat trick with the overtime game winner. 9 @ Penn State* 2 pm The forward is Minnesota’s active-leading scorer with 70 points (32 goals, 38 assists) in 89 career games 15 Michigan State* 8 pm FSN+ with the Maroon & Gold. 16 Michigan State* 7:30 pm BTN 22 @ Wisconsin* 8 pm BTN The Swedish Sensation 23 @ Wisconsin* 7 pm ASN Sophomore forward Leon Bristedt saw his career-best five-game point streak and four-game goal streak 30 Bemidji State (NSCC) 4 pm FSN snapped in the Minnesota State series finale, although plenty of positives came during the streak for the 31 Minn. St./SCSU (NSCC) 1/4 pm FSN sophomore. Bristedt, who leads the Gophers with five goals this year, has scored all of his seven points this FEBRUARY season during the five-game stretch. The forward scored five goals in four games entering Minnesota’s last 5 Penn State* 7 pm BTN game after totaling five goals in 35 games as a freshman last season. 6 Penn State* (Hockey Day Minnesota) 4 pm FSN 12 @ Ohio State* 5:30 BTN Lucia Looks for Milestone Win 13 @ Ohio State* 6 pm Minnesota head coach Don Lucia’s next win will give him his 400th win behind the Gophers bench - making 25 Michigan* 7:30 pm BTN the Grand Rapids, Minn. native the first coach in program history to reach the mark. Lucia is Minnesota’s all- 26 Michigan* 8 pm BTN time winningest coach with 399 victories to his name after passing Doug Woog late last season. Lucia’s 678- MARCH 362-97 all-time record ranks ninth all-time among college hockey coaches and is third among active coaches 4 @ Michigan State* 8 pm FSN+ (Jerry York, Red Berenson). 5 @ Michigan State* 6 pm 11 Wisconsin* 7 pm ESPNews Penalty Kill on the Rise 12 Wisconsin* 7 pm BTN The Minnesota penalty kill has held opponents without a power-play goal in seven of nine games this season Big Ten Tournament (Xcel Energy Center) and has only allowed one power-play goal in its last six games (25-for-26 over that span). The Maroon & 17 Quarterfinals Gold rank seventh nationally and first in the Big Ten on the penalty kill (.906, 29-for-32). 18 Semifinals 19 Championship Gophers Sign Five in Early Period NCAA West Regional (Xcel Energy Center) The newest crop of Golden Gophers signed their National Letters of Intent last week with five Minnesota 25 Semifinals natives looking to join the ranks of the Maroon & Gold in the coming years. Defensemen Ryan Lindgren 26 Championship (Minneapolis, Minn.), Sam Rossini (Inver Grove Heights, Minn.) and Ryan Zuhlsdof (Edina, Minn.) as well as All Times Central forwards Rem Pitlick (Plymouth, Minn.) and Garrett Wait (Edina, Minn.) all inked National Letters of Intent Home Games in Bold with Minnesota. * Big Ten Conference Game Gopher Hockey 2015-16 Record Breakdown Coaching Connection - Round Two Four to Lead in 2015-16 Overall Record 4-5-0 For the second-straight series, Mariucci Arena will The Gophers will see a new crop of leaders in the Big Ten Record 0-0-0-0 be visited by a head coach who used to stand next locker room this season with junior forward Justin Nonconference Record (Regular Season) 4-5-0 to Don Lucia on the Minnesota bench. St. Cloud Kloos serving as team captain while redshirt junior Home Record 2-3-0 State head coach Bob Motzko served as an assis - forward Connor Reilly, junior forward Hudson Road Record 2-2-0 tant coach at the University of Minnesota for four Fasching, and junior defenseman Jake Bischoff will Neutral Site Record 0-0-0 seasons (2001-2005) and helped the Gophers cap - act as alternate captains for the Maroon & Gold. Last 5 Games 3-2-0 ture back-to-back national championships in 2002 Kloos, who returns as Minnesota’s active leading Scoring A Power-Play Goal 2-2-0 and 2003. Motzko also served as an assistant coach scorer, replaces two-year team captain Kyle Rau Not Scoring A Power-Play Goal 2-3-0 under Lucia for the U.S. at the 2013 IIHF World while the cadre of alternate captains take over for Allowing A Power-Play Goal 1-1-0 Junior Championships in Sweden. Former assistant Ben Marshall and Seth Ambroz. This year’s group of Not Allowing A Power-Play Goal 3-4-0 coach Mike Hastings brought Minnesota State to leaders mark the 161st-164th players to serve as Scoring A Short-Handed Goal 1-0-0 Mariucci Arena two weeks ago. either captain or alternate captain for the Gophers in Allowing A Short-Handed Goal 0-0-0 10 Or More Penalties Minnesota 0-0-0 a tradition that dates back to the program’s first year Fewer Than 10 Penalties Minnesota 4-5-0 Four Championships -- A Program First of play in 1921-22 when Chet Bros led the Maroon & More Penalties Than Opponent 2-1-0 For the first time in Gopher Hockey history, the Gold. Fewer Penalties Than Opponent 1-3-0 Maroon & Gold have earned four-straight regular- Same Amount Of Penalties 1-1-0 season conference titles after repeating as Big Ten Fresh Faces on the Team champions last year. Minnesota’s 6-2 win over Penn With six seniors graduating last season and three In One-Goal Games 1-2-0 State in the regular-season finale clinched the cham - In Two-Goal Games 0-1-0 juniors signing professional contracts, a sizable rook - In Three-Goal or More Games 3-2-0 pionship for Minnesota with the title standing as the ie class will be joining the Gophers roster this year. In Overtime Games 0-1-0 16th regular-season conference crown in program Coach Lucia has added 10 incoming freshmen to Scoring 4 or More Goals 4-0-0 history. Prior to the back-to-back Big Ten titles, bolster the roster (Jack Sadek, Curt Simonson, Brent Scoring 3 or Fewer Goals 0-4-0 Minnesota won two-straight MacNaughton Cups as Gates Jr., Brock Kautz, Tyler Sheehy, Ryan Norman, Scoring 3 or More Goals 3-1-0 WCHA regular-season champions in the team’s final Tommy Novak, Jack Ramsey, Eric Schierhorn, Scoring 2 or Fewer Goals 0-4-0 two years in the league (co-champions in 2012-13). Allowing 4 or More Goals 0-1-0 Darian Romanko). Broken down by position, Allowing 3 or Fewer Goals 4-4-0 Minnesota adds two goalies, two defensemen and Scoring First Goal Of Game 4-1-0 Against the Huskies six forwards. Additionally, the Maroon & Gold have Opponents Score First 0-4-0 In a series that dates back to 1990, the University of added junior forward Mike Szmatula to the roster fol - Leading After One Period 3-1-0 Minnesota is 55-29-12 all-time against St. Cloud lowing a transfer from Northeastern. (Szmatula will Trailing After One Period 0-2-0 State including a 30-10-5 mark on home ice. The sit out the 2015-16 due to NCAA transfer rules.) Tied After One Period 1-2-0 Gophers are 7-3-0 in the last 10 games against this Scoring First Goal Of Second Period 2-1-0 Leading After Two Periods 3-1-0 weekend’s opponent.