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Chaz Lucius should go in the first round Friday night | gophersports.com Up to five future Gophers could be drafted this weekend The 2021 NHL Draft kicks off Friday night from Columbus, Ohio with the first round while rounds two through seven will occur on Saturday. The Minnesota Gophers will hear at least three of their freshmen for the 2021-22 season names called … [Read more...] about Gophers 2021 NHL Draft Preview

Jeff Curry-USA TODAY Sports Nine current or former Gophers will compete in Tokyo The 2020 2021 Tokyo Summer Olympics are finally here...well hopefully unless the allready really bad COVID situation in the Olympic Village gets even worse. It was a delay of a year, and some athletes didn’t know whether their Olympic dreams would be realized or not. But, at the end of … [Read more...] about Meet your Nine Gopher Olympians

Jesse Johnson-USA TODAY Sports The Gophers look to right the ship in 2021 after a rough 2020 Minnesota Golden Gophers head football coach P.J. Fleck will make the pilgrimage to Indianapolis on Thursday for the Big Ten Media Days, where he and a handful of players — Tanner Morgan, Mohamed Ibrahim, and Boye Mafe — will face questions from the media. And there are … [Read more...] about The biggest questions for P.J. Fleck ahead of Big Ten Media Days

Photo by Marlin Levison/Star Tribune via Getty Images Which Gopher football records could be surpassed in 2021? There are a handful of Gophers who have a chance of moving up the lists of Gopher career records. Tanner Morgan has already had a distinguished and record-setting career. But now as he enters what would typically be his senior season, which career records does … [Read more...] about Which Gopher football records could be surpassed in 2021?

Photo by Mark Goldman/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Who is going to breakout this season for the Gophers? I am very clearly on record that I have high expectations for this upcoming Gopher football season. I’ve stated it here, I’ve stated it there, I’ll state it anywhere. Based on the talent coming back at very key positions, I don’t think it is an extreme take to … [Read more...] about Two key players for overall success in 2021. Who will breakout?

Matthew OHaren-USA TODAY Sports The Gopher forward will miss the 2021-22 season The Gopher basketball roster saw some significant turnover this offseason. The one (ONE!) player returning from last season’s team was Isaiah Ihnen. (Until Eric Curry changed his mind a few weeks ago). But it was announced this afternoon that Ihnen suffered a knee injury during a summer … [Read more...] about Isaiah Ihnen suffers knee injury and is out for the season

Nate Schmidt is back for 2021 | DaBeautyleague twitter More than 20 current and former Gophers will suit up for some fun summer puck! It’s another sign that things are getting closer and closer to normal....Da Beauty League is back for 2021! The summer hockey league that features tons of local college and pro players took 2020 off just like just about everything and … [Read more...] about Da Beauty League is Back and so are the Gophers!

Strike up the fanfare! Gopherguy05 is left high and dry once again this week by the rest of his friends and goes solo. This week’s Pahd is a short and sweet update on current and former Minnesota Gophers who will represent the maroon and gold, and red, white, blue and a few other colors in the Toyko Olympics that begin next week. He also talks a bit of football, both good and … [Read more...] about Pahd 4.40 Gopher Olympian Preview!

Homefield Apparel Elite Gopher apparel is now available to the world You may have noticed over the last week that Homefield was going to be adding the University of Minnesota to their apparel collection. Today is Big New Saturday and that means the collection is released and ready to be purchased. LINK TO BUY Every week, for 16 weeks, Homefield is adding a new school to … [Read more...] about Homefield just launched their vintage Minnesota Gophers apparel line