Believe it or not but the college hockey season is rapidly approaching. The Minnesota Gophers women’s team plays their first exhibition game this weekend while the Gopher men kick off the regular season on October 1st. With the start to the season comes the preseason polls and prognostications. Both the Gopher men and Gopher women are ranked highly to start the season and have steep expectations to be in the national title hunt come March and April.
The Gopher Women’s hockey team was ranked #2 in the Preseason USCHO Poll and #3 in the Preseason USA Hockey Poll released last week.