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After a year off from the WCHA playoffs due to the pandemic cutting the field down, every team in the conference will be involved again. The seventh-seeded St. Cloud State women's hockey team (9-21-3 overall) opens the playoffs against second-seeded Ohio State (25-6-0). The teams play at 5 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m. Saturday and, if necessary, 2 p.m. Sunday in Columbus, Ohio. The Huskies go into the series with Olympians Jenniina Nylund and Klara Hymlarova back in the lineup. A look at the Huskies, their season, their playoff prospects and more with head coach Steve Macdonald.

Dave Schwartz spent most of the last 15 years covering sports for KARE 11 in the Twin Cities. He started a new position (senior manager of communications and engagement) for the Minnesota Wild on Tuesday. Schwartz talks about coaching youth hockey, how different youth hockey is in Minnesota vs. New York (where he grew up), how he got to KARE 11, memories of working in Bemidji, covering Shreveport in the CHL, his Arkansan wife doing play-by-play for squirt hockey and more with The Rink Live's Jess Myers and Mick Hatten.

The Rink Live's Kirsten Krull, Mick Hatten, Matt Wellens, Jess Myers, and Brad Schlossman meet to catch up on the weekend of hockey action. They wrap up the college hockey play from the weekend, including North Dakota's sweep of Minnesota Duluth and Minnesota's big comeback against Penn State. Also included is a wrap up of the Olympics, the Gophers clinching the WCHA regular season title, and Minnesota State's fifth MacNaughton Cup in a row.

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David Hrenak may be the lone starting goalie in NCAA Division I to work in the ticket office for the team he plays for. Hrenak discusses his work there, the Western Michigan series, previews the series at Nebraska Omaha, goalie camp at SCSU, the Olympics, his parents, goalie masks, speaking to Ondrej Trejbal in his native tongue and more with The Rink Live's Mick Hatten.

Corey Millen is in his second season as a coach for the St. Cloud Norsemen in the North American Hockey League. The Norsemen are the hottest team in the league and he talks about his team's 10-game winning streak. Millen also discusses playing on the 1984 and 1988 Olympic hockey teams and the players he played with. He also discusses playing with Hall of Fame players in the NHL, including Wayne Gretzky.

The Rink Live's Kirsten Krull, Mick Hatten, Matt Wellens, Jess Myers, and Brad Schlossman meet to catch up on the weekend of hockey action. Visit The Rink Live for more hockey coverage!

College hockey and IIHF World Junior Championship color analyst Dave Starman joins The Rink Live's Jess Myers and Mick Hatten to discuss Denver, St. Cloud State, the U.S. Olympic team, styles of play in the Olympics, coaching an Olympic team, talking to veterans vs. younger players, Nebraska Omaha, Michigan State, top NHL prospects in college hockey and UMass.

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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 weekend of hockey action. They begin by discussing the chaotic action in the Olympic women's ice hockey tournament underway in Beijing, as well as the many area connections involved. They then transition into college hockey talk and an update on when Jake Sanderson might be ready to join his Team USA teammates in China.

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Nick Oliver has been through being on the staff for St. Cloud State men's hockey head coach Brett Larson when he has had to leave to be on the staff for Team USA before. Larson was an assistant coach for the Americans at the 2020 IIHF World Junior Championships. Larson, senior defenseman Nick Perbix and senior forward Sam Hentges left Wednesday to represent Team USA at the Beijing Olympics. Oliver discusses associate head coach Dave Shyiak, director of operations and video coordinator R.J. Enga becoming a temporary assistant coach, previews this weekend's series at Denver and compares former SCSU teammate Nick Jensen to Perbix. All this and more with The Rink Live's Mick Hatten.

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Kirsten Krull hosts this weeks episode of The Rink Live Weekend Rewind, as she was joined by reporters Jess Myers, Matt Wellens and Mick Hatten. Lots to unpack from college hockey recaps from this past weekend, the Olympics almost upon us and then troubles in Michigan.

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