Duluth Denfeld (3-0) at Duluth East (1-2)
Pequot Lakes (3-0) at Esko (3-0)
Grand Rapids (2-1) at Hermantown (2-1)
Pine City at Hibbing
Cook County at Cherry
Barnum at Braham
Cromwell-Wright at Carlton-Wrenshall
Ely at Chisholm
Greenway at International Falls
Moose Lake-Willow River at Mesabi East
Mora at North Branch
Proctor at Two Harbors
The old fellas at the café won’t need a study to understand it. They’ve seen this dance too many times before. They’ll sip their burnt coffee, shake their heads, and say what they always say when the next “big thing” blows through town: “Should’ve just built another rink.”
Minnesota Duluth turned an early two-goal deficit into a rout Friday night, exploding for seven unanswered goals to roll past Bemidji State 7-3 in a nonconference men’s college hockey game in Bemidji. The Beavers jumped out fast when Noah Quinn and Vincent Labelle scored less than five minutes apart,
From Brett Hull’s cannon to Bill Watson’s Hobey, from Hunter Shepard’s iron-man streak to Mark Pavelich’s Miracle, these 20 players are the spine of a program that turned a scrappy hilltop school into a national power.
“I thought we were the most physical we have been to date. We did a pretty darn good job bottling up that power-T offense that North Branch runs — which has notoriously caused us problems in the past.” -- Hawks coach Mike Zagelmeyer
