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Taylor Lind grew up in Shaunavon, Saskatchewan, a town of about 1,700. She grew up in a hockey family with two brothers and a sister, who all play hockey. One of her brothers, Kole, has played forward for the Vancouver Canucks and Seattle Kraken in the last two seasons. She discusses her family, her improvement each season with the Huskies, helps preview this weekend's series against Minnesota Duluth and more in this podcast with The Rink Live's Mick Hatten.

:35 Playing in a tournament in Pittsburgh, scoring an overtime goal against Penn State 3:00 Assessing the team going into the second half 4:30 Previewing the series vs. UMD 5:20 Discussing her improvement as a player, her linemates 8:00 Going home for the offseason, working out with her siblings, growing up 12:00 Her small hometown has some famous hockey players 14:00 How she ended up at SCSU 18:00 Watching her younger brother play over the break in the WHL 18:47 Her major, doing well in school 19:55 Having another year possible with NCAA COVID exception 20:30 IIHF cancels Women's World Under-18 Championship tournament

Mike Gibbons has played or coached hockey for 60 years and is one of the great storytellers in the game. He played college hockey for Bob Peters at Bemidji State from 1975-79 and was a two-time All-American as a defenseman and helped the Beavers win a national title. Peters also enticed Gibbons to start his coaching career in 1981 at Bemidji State. Gibbons shares some of his memories of Peters, who died recently. Gibbons also discusses this season's Bemidji State team, coaching against St. Cloud State (where he was an assistant for 13 seasons), coaching at Northern Michigan and a lot more with The Rink Live's Mick Hatten and Jess Myers.

2:00 Memories of former Bemidji State coach R.H. "Bob" Peters 6:15 Getting recruited to play for BSU 7:05 The first season of the CCHA, 30 national title contenders 9:35 Playing against SCSU for the first time after coaching there 13:25 Bemidji State beating Wisconsins in the NCAA tournament last season 18:25 Coaching at Northern Michigan before the Wildcats won the national title 24:25 Coaching the Sillinger brothers at Bemidji State 27:00 Preview of Lake Superior State vs. BSU series 28:50 How Bob Peters helped him get started in coaching

Bemidji State men's hockey head coach Tom Serratore discusses how his team played in the first half — strengths, things it needs to work on, playing St. Cloud State, how former Huskies assistant coach Mike Gibbons came back for another season and more in this podcast with The Rink Live's Mick Hatten.

Here's the time stamps: :45 The first half for Bemidji State 2:50 The Beavers power play 3:19 2 underclassmen seeing time in goal for BSU 5:00 Scouting SCSU 6:50 Tough nonconference schedule 7:20 Former SCSU assistant Mike Gibbons on staff for a second season.

Sloane Martin did not take a common route to being a hockey play-by-play announcer. She grew up in Southern California and did not watch hockey growing up. She played NCAA Division III basketball and then was the play-by-play voice for the University of Buffalo. She talks about moving to Minnesota, discovering high school hockey in the state, being the first woman to do play-by-play for the boys state hockey tournament, working for the Big Ten Network and more with The Rink Live's Mick Hatten and Jess Myers

Here are the time stamps: 2:50 Background: Growing up in California, moving to Buffalo, Minnesota, introduction to hockey 5:35 Former college basketball player, high school athlete 6:12 Being first woman to do play-by-play of Minnesota boys hockey tournament 9:00 Preparation time for broadcasts, memorizing line charts 14:40 First Minnesota hockey exposure 17:30 Moving from WCCO to Big Ten Network 20:30 Adjustments of pacing of basketball to hockey games 23:30 WCHA this season 26:40 Doing play-by-play for Minnesota Lynx www.therinklive.com

Aidan Spellacy is home for Christmas, but took the time to be on the podcast this week. He discusses how he ended up at St. Cloud State after three seasons playing for Robert Morris University, how he is adapting to a new school and teammates, growing up and playing hockey in Ohio and winning the NAHL's Robertson Cup as a member of the Lone Star Brahmas in 2017. Discover all this and more in this podcast with The Rink Live's Mick Hatten.

Podcast Timestamps

:50 First half of the season

1:20 Process of getting to SCSU

4:40 Finishing undergraduate degree in 3 years

6:20 Working on an MBA with teammates Brenday Bushy, Kevin Fitzgerald

7:50 Teammates he is living with, including international players

9:14 Transition to a new program after 3 years of college, Fitzgerald's personality

13:05 Hockey getting reinstated at Robert Morris University

14:35 Playing for coach Derek Schooley

16:35 Competing for playing time at SCSU, Huskies coaching staff

18:15 Working on faceoffs

20:35 Hockey playing family in Ohio

26:00 Playing junior hockey in Texas

Derek Schooley has been the head men's hockey coach at Robert Morris University since 2004. The last eight months have been unlike any that most college coaches experience. RMU was the host institution for the Frozen Four in Pittsburgh in April with a number of restrictions in place due to the pandemic. Then on May 26, the university announced it was cutting its men's and women's hockey programs. The university allowed a fundraising campaign to save the program and on Dec. 17, it announced that the sport was being reinstated. Schooley discusses all of this, his career in hockey and more with The Rink Live's Mick Hatten and Jess Myers.

Time stamps: 1:20 The 205 days from when they dropped to reinstated the program 3:20 Fundraising, beginning Sept. 1, for $1.4 million in cash, $1.4 million in donations 5:09 Pittsburgh College Hockey Foundation, legal mediation 6:45 Ryan Malone helping 8:03 Pittsburgh names helping the cause 9:43 Consider leaving RMU? 11:40 Playing junior hockey for Frank Serratore in Omaha 13:42 Story of playing for Frank Serratore 15:06 Playing at Western Michigan 16:35 Working for Frank Serratore at Air Force 17:58 Becoming head coach at Robert Morris in 2004 19:35 The next steps for RMU 20:55 Watching players he's coached playing college hockey this season 22:30 Former RMU player Aidan Spellacy playing for SCSU 24:00 Hockey in Western Pennsylvania 25:30 Facilities for RMU, unique rink manager www.therinklive.com

If you had asked St. Cloud State men's hockey fans before the season which player would lead the Huskies in scoring at the holiday break, it is fair to say that Kevin Fitzgerald would not likely have been the first pick. But the graduate student has 21 points (already a career high) through 16 games. Fitzgerald talks about his fast start, takes a look at where the Huskies are, discusses teammate Jack Peart, how he got started in hockey, playing Tier III junior hockey, being a walk-on for SCSU. Discover all this and more in this podcast with The Rink Live's Mick Hatten.

Podcast Timestamps:

Final exams, degree he is working on and teammates in classes to open

4:05 hearing from people "you play on the hockey team?!"

5:05 his quick start to the season

6:45 Matt Cullen coming in to teach session on faceoffs, how Cullen treats others

11:05 assessing the Huskies at the holiday break

17:35 Jack Peart being named to USA roster for world championships, having him as a teammate

23:10 playing pro an option?

25:15 starting out playing hockey, his winding junior hockey career

27:50 playing junior hockey for the Aberdeen Wings

30:10 how he ended up walking on at SCSU

35:00 playing in 38 games as a freshman walk-on

On Dec. 3, Josh Fenton announced he will be leaving the NCHC at the end of this season to become the commissioner of the Summit League. He discusses what it was like starting the conference, the success of the Frozen Faceoff tournament, his most challenging stretch as commissioner, what makes a good commissioner and more with The Rink Live's Mick Hatten and Jess Myers.

Time stamps: 2:40 the process that led to getting Summit League commissioner position 5:26 challenges with becoming a commissioner of a multisport conference after being in charge of a single sport conference 8:10 the start of the NCHC and becoming the commissioner 17:57 the success of the Frozen Faceoff 20:30 the most challenging stretch as NCHC commissioner 23:15 could NCHC merge with Summit League 25:28 what makes a good commissioner 29:00 not being able to show emotion at conference games 30:43 how NCHC.tv, CBS Sports Network, social media has helped fan engagement

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Former Gophers All-American and TV analyst Pat Micheletti breaks down last weekend's NCHC series split between North Dakota and St. Cloud State. He also takes a look at the the Huskies 16 games into the season and discusses the play of Kevin Fitzgerald, Veeti Miettinen, Jack Peart, Micah Miller, Seamus Donohue, David Hrenak more in this podcast with

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Natalie Darwitz is one of the most decorated players to play hockey. Darwitz is a member of the USA Hockey Hall of Fame, the Minnesota Sports Hall of Fame and the Minnesota High School League Hall of Fame.

Timestamps: - Opened with talking about current University of Minnesota women's team 4:45 -- How Natalie ended up as an assistant coach with the Gophers this season 7:00 -- How women's hockey has changed in the last 10 years 10:00 -- Why she decided to retire in 2010 at age 25 14:25 -- How she got into coaching and how coaching helped her as a player 17:10 -- How and why she started playing hockey 19:20 -- Playing high school hockey 20:15 -- Joining the USA senior national team at age 15 22:30 -- What was it like playing in the Olympics 26:45 -- Turning Hamline University into a national title contender during her time there. www.therinklive.com