Fighting Sioux vs. Minnesota: Notes & Links

North Dakota vs. Minnesota - Series Notes & Links:

• Friday 7:37 CST/Saturday 7:07 CST
• The games will be broadcast on a variety of media outlets across the region. Here's the standard Broadcast Information.
• Series Notes in PDF: North Dakota and Minnesota
• Brad Schlossman's Friday Morning Reading
• This weekend marks the final time these two teams will meet in Grand Forks for a regular season WCHA series. With North Dakota moving to the NCHC and Minnesota to the Big 10 come 2013-14, Timothy Boger says this is the beginning of the end.
• The Gophers swept UND earlier this season, but the fortunes have turned a bit as Minnesota will be looking to cool down the hot Sioux.
• The Fighting Sioux enter this weekend having gone 7-1-1 over its last nine games in what is hopefully the beginning of its annual second half surge.
• Nathan Wells of SB Nation Minnesota examines how things have changed over the past two and a half months, and Gopher Puck live covers that topic as well.
• Kevin Gorg of Fox Sports North chimes in on the renewal of the rivalry.
• Minnesota freshman Kyle Rau came up big in November, and he's excited for his first series at The Ralph.
• GF Herald beat writer Brad Schlossman participated in a Q&A with Gopher Sports.
• The Fighting Sioux remain pretty nicked up as Rocco Grimaldi is out for the weekend while Corban Knight and Derek Forbort are both questionable.
• USCHO's Weekend Picks
• USCHO's This Week in the WCHA
• CHN's Tale of the Tape
• CHN's WCHA Power Rankings
• INCH's Friday Four-Cast
• WCHA Weekly Press Release
• Goon's World Series Preview