The Minnesota Gophers men’s hockey team will step onto the ice in TD Garden in Boston for their first game at the NCAA Frozen Four since losing the NCAA Championship game to Union in 2014 Thursday night. Their opponents—the team that ended their season last year, Minnesota State Mavericks. It’s an all-Minnesota battle to get one team to the national championship game.
Minnesota earned their spot with Worcester Regional wins over defending NCAA Champion the UMass Minutemen and then the #1 seed in the region the Western Michigan Broncos. Now they come to Boston in a relatively unusual position, the lowest ranked team remaining at the Frozen Four and statistically the biggest underdog of the bunch.