Today the WCHA launched the Minnesota Cup, a new little tournament featuring four Minnesota based teams in two days of non-conference play. This tournament will rotate locations and participants, but for this initial event play took play took place at Ridder Arena and featured Minnesota, Minnesota Duluth, Minnesota State, and St. Cloud State. To kick off the tournament St. Cloud State and Minnesota State played the opening game early in the afternoon.
The game started with a lot of end-to-end puck chasing as the teams felt each other out. The Huskies had more and better chances in the first five minutes of the game.