Herb Brooks National Hockey Center

Wisconsin is at six, St. Thomas at four, and Bemidji State and Minnesota State are both searching for their first league victory of the season.

The only WCHA series next week is Bemidji State traveling to the newly renovated Herb Brooks National Hockey Center to take on St.

Cloud State Huskies.

Ohio State hosts Colgate Thursday and Saturday.

Sydney, you probably remember this.

Gophers playing at the National Hockey Center October...

Four or five years ago? Yes, I know

what you're talking about.

I watched a little of the game over the weekend, the Friday game, I think.

And, God darn it, it's just dress up like an empty chair night every night at the National Hockey Center, isn't it? And I don't get the new ice.

It didn't look any different to me.

Is it bigger or smaller? What's the new ice? I thought it would be like, wow, it looks totally different.

Did they make it bigger or smaller? I don't know.

But good for them.

We got new ice at the National Hockey Center.

Now, if only we could get people.

And you're going into a building that I think is going to have more juice in it than there's been in recent years with a new coach, with the rink renovations.

I mean, they just started practicing in the Herb Brooks National Hockey Center this week because they got rid of the Olympic ice.

It's a hybrid ice now.

So, yeah.

But I think both sides of our special teams will continue to evolve based on some of that competition I talked about.

Coming up this week, coming home, get to see the new renovated and the renovations of the Herb Brooks National Hockey Center, shrunk ice, new lights, new glass, new boards.

That's gonna be exciting to be home.

And then the team that's coming in, it's Michigan Tech coming off a, a sweep of Minnesota, 3-2 and 3-1.

Here.

[laughs] No.

Big changes at the rink, the Herb Brooks National Hockey Center.

You guys haven't even skated on the ice yet, have you?

So and it was one of those things that was like, you know, I recognize Sondland.

I've talked to her drunk a couple of times or especially once at the National Hockey Center.

So so, you know, the other player wasn't as comfortable with who it was.

So I should have just asked.

Then I had a chance to go visit with the new head coach at St.

Cloud State and also got a tour of the work being done, the $12 million of renovations to the Herb Brooks National Hockey Center.

As they told me, I don't care what

they told you.

problem.

What?

But they were able to get the approval for a $12 million refurbishing of the Herb Brooks National Hockey Center, both the practice facility, which is now official NHL size instead of Olympic size, And the Olympic-sized main sheet at the Herb was shrunk down, I think, six feet on each side in St.

Cloud.