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Long before he was an Olympic hero and a Stanley Cup winner with the Washington Capitals, TJ Oshie was a high school sophomore moving from his home near Seattle to Warroad, where his family had roots, to play hockey.

Back in his adopted hometown this week, the star forward discusses his time with the University of North Dakota, playing for the St. Louis Blues, playing in the Olympics and picking hockey over basketball. All this and more with The Rink Live's Jess Myers and Mick Hatten.

Bryant owns www.mattalkonline.com, which edits and produces, edits and distributes wrestling podcasts. He has worked at three Olympic Games in the sport of wrestling and lives in New Brighton. He discusses his career and more on the Huskies Hockey Insider podcast with The Rink Live's Mick Hatten.

1:15 How he found out about the position and the process to being named the new public address announcer

5:35 What he read in the in arena audition, keeping sponsors happy, how the NHL franchise team nickname should be North Stars instead of Wild

9:45 His passion for college, Olympic sports, SCSU's hockey fan base, similarities to the wrestling fan base

12:25 His background, working in the ECHL, his background as a journalist

18:25 What he does for a living, how he got to Minnesota, working in wrestling since 2004

20:22 What he's excited about in working for the team, catching his first walleye

22:08 Working as a journalist and English public address announcer for three Olympic Games in wrestling, the pressures of it, working NCAA Division I, Division III and NAIA national championship tournaments

29:12 His family, his kids having Olympic names

Adam Fantilli is only 17 years old, but after winning a Clark Cup and being named playoff MVP with the Chicago Steel he'll take his talents to Michigan to play for the Wolverines this fall ahead of next summer's draft. TRL Prospects Reporter Kirsten Krull sat down with Fantilli to talk his career so far, what he's looking forward to, and how he tries to block out the outside hype.

Read/Watch the Prospect Profile here.

St. Cloud girls hockey coach Amanda Pickett joins Sydney Wolf on The Rink Live podcast to talk about the team's past season. They discuss changing the team name from the Icebreakers to the Crush, honoring Anne Schleper, the various college commits on the team, road trip shenanigans, and more.

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Jon Anderson is one of the organizers for the 2023 Hockey Day Minnesota event in White Bear Lake. A former White Bear Lake and University of Minnesota (1986-90) hockey player, Anderson discusses the event, where it will be, how teams and cities are chosen for the event, his playing career and more with The Rink Live's Jess Myers and Mick Hatten.

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Charlie Lindgren had a big week last week. On July 13, Lindgren signed a three-year, $3.3 million contract with the Washington Capitals. Unlike in the past, this is an NHL contract and not a two-way deal. Lindgren played last season in the St. Louis Blues organization, winning all five of his starts with the Blues and then helping the Springfield Thunderbirds reach the AHL's Calder Cup championship series. Lindgren discusses his pro career, playing for St. Cloud State (2013-16), his hockey family and more on the Huskies Hockey Insider podcast with The Rink Live's Mick Hatten.

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Sydney Wolf talks with Eagan boys hockey Head Coach Todd Carlson about how the team went from 1-15 to 9-17 in just one year, the flourishing youth program in the area, and the depth that the team hopes to use next year.

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For around a decade, Cody McLeod was a guy that Minnesota Wild fans loved to hate, as he scored goals and dropped the gloves for the hated Colorado Avalanche. After two years as a player in the Wild's minor league system, McLeod recently retired and has joined the team in a coaching role.

Steve Miller has been a men's college hockey assistant coach since 1988. After three seasons at St. Mary's University, he moved up to the NCAA Division I level with Miami University in 1991. He has been an assistant coach at Denver (1994-2014), Providence (2014-15) and Ohio State (2017-22). He recently accepted the job as associate head coach for the University of Minnesota and he is reuniting with head coach Bob Motzko, who was an assistant when Miller was at Miami. Miller discusses the stops along his career with The Rink Live's Jess Myers and Mick Hatten.

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Kevin Fitzgerald is getting a little taste of one tradition of European hockey. In a number of European leagues, the league leader in points wears a gold helmet during games. For Fitzgerald, he wore the gold helmet on July 2 playing for Team Mullen in a 3ICE tournament in Grand Rapids, Mich.

After the season is completed, Fitzgerald will play this fall for SaiPa in the top league in Finland in the city of Lappeenranta. Fitzgerald discusses all this and more with The Rink Live's Mick Hatten on this episode of the Huskies Hockey Insider Podcast.

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