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COLLEGE HOCKEY PRIMER<br />
GOPHER MEN:<br />
MINNESOTA NOT<br />
MISSING OUT<br />
SEASON’S STUNNING FINISH, NEW LEADER MOTIVATE GOPHERS<br />
At top: Tyler Sheehy and the University of Minnesota missed out on the NCAA playoffs last year by the tiniest of margins.<br />
Above: Bob Motzko on the bench with the St. Cloud State men’s hockey team. Motzko was hired to take over the Gophers’<br />
program after Don Lucia stepped down in the offseason.<br />
Photos by Jonny Watkins<br />
By Brian Halverson<br />
Unbelievable.<br />
That’s the word University<br />
of Minnesota men’s hockey<br />
captain Tyler Sheehy used to describe<br />
what will likely be remembered in Gopher lore as<br />
the <strong>2018</strong> St. Patty’s Day Massacre.<br />
“I can’t remember the odds of what happened<br />
happening,” Sheehy said. “But it just kind of<br />
unfolded and we were kind of sitting there and our<br />
heads just started sinking when that last game was<br />
going on.”<br />
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