The Ohio State women's hockey team is the defending NCAA Division I champion and is 8-0 and ranked No. 1 a month into the season. The Buckeyes play host to second-ranked Minnesota this weekend. Nadine Muzerall has a lot of history with both teams. She played for the Gophers from 1997-2001 and was an assistant coach for Minnesota from 2011-16. She left the Gophers to become the head coach for the Buckeyes. So she knows a lot of people on both side of this weekend's series. Muzerall talks about her career, previews this weekend's series and a lot more on this episode of The Rink Live podcast with Jess Myers and Mick Hatten.

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The two places that Mike Gibbons has spent the most time at in his playing and coaching career are Bemidji State and St. Cloud State. Gibbons played defense for the Beavers from 1975-79, was an assistant coach in 1981-82 and then the interim head coach for BSU in the 1982-83 season when Bob Peters was on sabbatical. Gibbons' coaching career also took him to the pro, junior and high school levels. He got back into college coaching as an assistant for Bob Motzko at SCSU and was with the Huskies from 2007-20. He retired from coaching ... for seven months.

But Bemidji State head coach Tom Serratore needed to make an emergency hire for an assistant coach and called Gibbons, who has been back with the Beavers since the beginning of the 2020-21 season. The Huskies (6-0) and Beavers (2-1-1) play a home-and-home series this weekend. The teams play at 7 p.m. Friday (FloHockey) at the Sanford Center in Bemidji and at 6 p.m. Saturday (FOX 9+) at the Herb Brooks National Hockey Center in St. Cloud. Gibbons discusses both teams and shares some SCSU memories with The Rink Live's Mick Hatten on this episode of the Huskies Hockey Insider podcast.

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The Rink Live's Kirsten Krull, Mick Hatten, Matt Wellens, Jess Myers, and Brad Schlossman meet to catch up on the opening of college hockey action. Hatten recaps St. Cloud State's homecoming sweep over Minnesota State University-Mankato and women's series between Huskies and Gophers. Wellens reviews the series sweep for Wisconsin at Minnesota Duluth and the women's series between Ohio State and Bulldogs. Schlossman and Myers discuss a couple of epic games that were decided in overtime between North Dakota and Minnesota. Wellens previews the Cornell at UMD men's series and the Wisconsin at Minnesota Duluth women's series. Schlossman discusses the unique game on Saturday between North Dakota and Arizona State in Las Vegas. Hatten previews the home-and-home series between SCSU and Bemidji State. Myers previews the Gophers at Ohio State for both men and women. Also, the reporters answer the question of which veteran player who is off to a slow start needs to get going for the teams that they cover.

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Dave Shyiak talks about why his team has given up just three goals through four games, the challenges of playing MSU-Mankato, breaks down the early play of his team's defensemen and more on the Huskies Hockey Insider podcast.

Rick Zombo played defense for the University of North Dakota, Detroit Red Wings, St. Louis Blues and Boston Bruins. Since 2008, he has been a coach for Lindenwood, a university in St. Charles, Mo. He discusses his career, the art of coaching and more on The Rink Live podcast.

The Rink Live's Kirsten Krull, Mick Hatten, Matt Wellens, Jess Myers, and Brad Schlossman meet to catch up on the opening of college hockey action. Hatten recaps St. Cloud State's sweep at Wisconsin and women's series between Huskies and Badgers Wellens reviews the series sweep for the Minnesota State men over visiting Minnesota Duluth. Schlossman takes a look back at the tie and loss for North Dakota at home against Quinnipiac. Myers and Schlossman also preview this weekend's series with the Fighting Hawks playing at Minnesota. Wellens previews the Wisconsin at UMD men's series and the Minnesota Duluth at Ohio State women's series. Hatten previews the Minnesota State at SCSU men's series and he and Myers preview the home-and-home series between St. Cloud State and Minnesota in the WCHA.

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Taylor Lind likes to be busy and she likes to talk. Those two things have combined and explain some of why she enjoys playing hockey. The captain of the St. Cloud State women's hockey team, Lind is leading the team in assists (4) and points (6) through its first four games. Last season, she led the Huskies in assists (17) and points (25) in 34 games. Now in her fourth college season, her production has increased each season. Lind talks about the reasons for her improvement. She also discusses having a brother, Kole, see time in the NHL with the Seattle Kraken last season, her brother Kalan being a 17-year-old forward for the Red Deer Rebels in the WHL and what it is like when she goes home to the family farm in Shaunavon, Saskatchewan. She discusses all this and more on this episode of the Huskies Hockey Insider podcast with The Rink Live's Mick Hatten.

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A look at some of the questions facing Minnesota, its key players and what expectations are like as it opens the NHL season against the Rangers. Wild beat reporter for the Pioneer Press checks in on The Rink Live podcast.

The Rink Live's Kirsten Krull, Mick Hatten, Matt Wellens, Jess Myers, and Brad Schlossman meet to catch up on the opening of college hockey action. Myers recaps the top-5 matchup between Minnesota State and Minnesota. Wellens previews the Mavericks vs. Minnesota Duluth. Schlossman talks about North Dakota opening in impressive fashion against Holy Cross and previews the series against Quinnipiac. Hatten recaps the weekend for the rest of the NCHC and previews St. Cloud State at Wisconsin. The question of the week is which veteran player on the team(s) you cover do they need to keep healthy?

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St. Cloud State men's hockey coach Brett Larson's team got off to a 2-0 start with a series sweep in a home-and-home series last weekend against St. Thomas. Larson takes a look back at the series, notes his likes and dislikes on how the team played, gives an update on defenseman Josh Luedtke's condition, discusses whether the hit on him was clean and then gives scouting reports on all eight freshmen on the Huskies roster. All this and more on this episode of the Huskies Hockey Insider podcast with The Rink Live's Mick Hatten.

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