The Minnesota Gophers hockey team heads to Notre Dame this weekend in a critical Big Ten series for not only the conference standings, but for Minnesota to take as much momentum as possible into the “MO” Missing Olympians period of the season. It’s the final Gopher series for at least the next three weeks for Ben Meyers, Mathew Knies, and Brock Faber before they head to Beijing. With those three arguably being the best three players on the ice for the Gophers the last few weeks—well it’s now or never to put up some points this weekend.