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North Dakota and Minnesota Duluth are preparing to face one another this weekend in Grand Forks with neither team where anyone expected them before the season — in seventh and sixth place, respectively, in the NCHC.

Brad Schlossman discusses the Fighting Hawks continuing challenges in goal after getting swept at home by Western Michigan. Matt Wellens talks about the Bulldogs getting swept at home by Nebraska Omaha. Wellens also talks about the continuing strong season of the UMD women's hockey team, which is seventh in the PairWise Rankings.

Jess Myers talks about the strong defense being played by the University of Minnesota men's and women's teams. Mick Hatten talks about St. Cloud State's series split with Colorado College and the Huskies women's team getting swept at Minnesota State University-Mankato. He also previews this weekend's Denver at SCSU series between the top two teams in the NCHC.

Sydney Wolf discusses Team USA winning the bronze medal at the recently completed Under-18 women's world championships and some of the key players in the tournament.

The question of the week is the NCAA Division I committee has approved the addition of a fourth paid coach: How do you think this will affect college hockey?

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The 2021-22 season was Allie Cornelius' fourth season with the St. Cloud State women's hockey team. Because the NCAA granted another season of eligibility to athletes who participated in the 2020-21 season due to the coronavirus pandemic, Cornelius had a decision to make about this season.

Then head coach Steve Macdonald was let go in March 2022, so the Huskies would be going into this season with a new head coach. Cornelius decided to return and is glad she did. Under new head coach Brian Idalski, the Huskies (13-10) have won the most games that the program has won in a season since going 13-18-4 in 2015-16.

Cornelius talks about growing up a Huskies fan in St. Cloud and what her time at SCSU has been like with The Rink Live's Mick Hatten.

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Dave Starman has been in and around about every facet of hockey from the youth level to the NHL. He's been a player, a coach, a scout and a color analyst over his career.

As a bit of a wild 2022-23 NCAA Division I men's hockey season heads into the second half, Starman checks in to talk about several topics including the recently completed IIHF World Junior Championships, St. Cloud State, Minnesota, the NCHC and touches base on the other five conferences in college hockey. Always entertaining and informative, Starman chats with The Rink Live's Jess Myers and Mick Hatten.

In the first full weekend of men's college hockey since the holiday break, St. Cloud State and Minnesota split (Jess Myers and Mick Hatten discuss), North Dakota swept Lindenwood (Brad Schlossman) and Minnesota Duluth got a tie and a win over Bemidji State (Matt Wellens). In women's hockey, UMD pulled off a stunning sweep at Wisconsin and the Gophers and Huskies both won twice in the East/West Showcase and the Under-18 world championships are going on. This all comes on the weekend after an entertaining — and somewhat controversial — IIHF World Junior Championship in Canada in which Team USA won the bronze medal. And the question of the week is whether or not a college hockey NIT is a good idea? Sydney Wolf hosts a spirited discussion.

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College hockey analyst Pat Micheletti joins The Rink Live podcast to help preview the St. Cloud State vs. Minnesota series this weekend.

He also tells stories of Iron Range hockey growing up in Hibbing, how he saw a player die on the ice in Italy in 1992 and previews the Michigan State vs. Ohio State series.

A colorful and fun discussion with The Rink Live's Jess Myers and Mick Hatten.

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Beau Marchwick, aka @BeauKnowsHockey on Twitter, joins Sydney Wolf to talk about his journey from the USPHL to now working for Elite Prospects. Marchwick discusses some of the new features to the website database and his commitment to keeping up with statistics for Minnesota high school hockey and women's hockey across the country.

With the NCAA Division I men's hockey season about to start its second half, St. Cloud State associate head coach Dave Shyiak discusses the team's defense, breaks down some of their key players and also takes a look ahead to this weekend's nonconference series with Minnesota.

With SCSU sophomore defenseman Jack Peart playing for Team USA at the IIHF World Junior Championships, Shyiak also talks about Peart's development.

Two Huskies recruits — Latvia's Martins Lavins and Finland's Verner Miettinen — have also played in the tournament. Shyiak gives scouting reports on the two forwards, who are expected to join St. Cloud State in the fall.

Shyiak, whose son Sheldon plays for the St. Cloud Crush, also talks about the hockey community in St. Cloud and how it has rallied for the family of Charlie Boike. Boike, a Crush player, died recently in an auto accident.

All this and more on this episode of the podcast with The Rink Live's Mick Hatten.

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Mandy June Turpin grew up in the San Diego area and has worked in TV and movies as an actor and producer since 1999. So how the heck did she end up producing a romantic comedy movie called "Merry Kiss Cam," which was shot in Duluth with hockey as a background? She discusses how it all came together, the challenges of shooting the film in two weeks in the summer, a project she is working on on former NHL forward Theo Fleury and another that she is working on on Peyton Compton, a hockey player from Orlando, Fla. All of this and more on this episode of The Rink Live podcast with Jess Myers and Mick Hatten.

After a light weekend of college hockey, Jess Myers discusses the first WCHA sweep for the University of St. Thomas, Brad Schlossman talks about Bemidji State's sweep over Minnesota State in Mankato and Myers and Schlossman talk about Gophers and Fighting Hawks recruits who competed in the World Junior A Challenge.

With the IIHF World Junior Championships beginning Dec. 26, Mick Hatten talks about St. Cloud State defenseman Jack Peart, Myers talks about Gophers Logan Cooley, Jimmy Snuggerud, Ryan Chesley, Luke Mittelstadt and (cough) Chaz Lucius and Schlossman talks about UND forward Jackson Blake being named to Team USA.

The group also shares their favorite stories of the first half: Schlossman (UND's Ryan Sidorski), Myers (Gophers' Matthew Knies), Hatten (SCSU's Jaxon Castor) and Wellens (Sophie's Squad).

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Klara Hymlarova is having her best statistical season of her college hockey career for the St. Cloud State women's hockey team. The senior from Opava, Czech Republic, is tied for 14th in NCAA Division I in goals with 12 and has 17 points in 21 games.

She was limited to 15 games last season due to a knee injury and to playing for the Czechia national team. She helped Czechia qualify for the Olympics and she discusses her Olympics experience, this season's hot start, what hockey is like in the Czech Republic, why she played a season in Canada after high school and more on this episode of the Huskies Hockey Insider podcast with The Rink Live's Mick Hatten.

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