Duluth, MN, USA / 95 KQDS
Jan 22, 2021 9:23 PM
It’s one thing to talk about how a COVID issue and potential pause were practically inevitable. Just look around. Half the NCHC Colorado College, Omaha, Denver, and now UMD has endured some sort of COVID-related shutdown that caused games to be moved (so far, none have been officially lost).
So the bottom line was that this was probably going to happen. It happened to the UMD women’s hockey team. And both basketball teams.
(I should note that, while every one of UMD’s active winter sports teams has endured a pause due to COVID positives, the actual number of positive tests in each case has been quite small. The pauses have come as a result of necessary contact tracing around the positive tests. As much as we probably have grown to despise the phrase “out of an abundance of caution,” it’s appropriate here, as none of these shutdowns have come as the result of outbreaks of COVID within teams. Instead, they’ve happened
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The Thunder Bay native spent two seasons between the pipes for the Minnesota Wilderness.
December 15, 2020
CLOQUET, Minn. – UMD sophomore goalie Ryan Fanti has been the breakout star of the NCHC pod. But did you know that before he ever suited up for the Bulldogs, he played junior hockey up in Cloquet?
The Thunder Bay native spent two seasons between the pipes for the Minnesota Wilderness. In 75 games, Fanti had a goals against average of less than three while his save percentage was above 90%. General manager Dave Boitz says he has enjoyed watching his former goalie quickly taking control of the UMD net.
Duluth, MN, USA / 95 KQDS
Dec 11, 2020 8:24 AM
There are no secrets when UMD is playing North Dakota. The game will likely be fast, physical, intense, and emotional. Zero pretense.
The emotions really didn’t spill like we’ve so often seen in Thursday’s 2-2 tie at the NCHC Pod, which was followed up by a three-round shootout that UMD won 1-0 for an extra point in the league standings. In fact, the five combined penalties for just ten minutes are the fewest we’ve seen in a UMD-North Dakota game going back at least 20 years, to the point where collegehockeystats.net started publishing game box scores.