Friday night at the Xcel Energy Center gets capped off by two of top-five teams in the country.
After a thrilling 5-4 win by Minnesota-Duluth on an Alex Iafallo overtime goal with 26.5 seconds left, it's time to find out who the Bulldogs will play in tomorrow's North Star College Cup championship game.
#1 Minnesota (17-2-3, 7-0-1-0 Big Ten) and #5 St. Cloud State (12-4-4, 7-3-2-0 NCHC), who is 8th in the Pairwise, face off Friday night. It's a battle between two teams which shared the MacNaughton Cup and split a series in St. Cloud last season.
There are no surprises in either lineup. While Gophers senior defenseman Jake Parenteau is getting closer to full health from a broken leg suffered December 6 against Michigan State, he will sit at least one more game. Redshirt freshman Connor Reilly also sits after playing in Minnesota's last 11 games.
St, Cloud State University Huskies
Forwards
Jimmy Murray (#16) - Nic Dowd (#26) - Brooks Bertsch (#21)
Cory Thorson (#8) - Kalle Kossila (#11) - Jonny Brodzinski (#22)
Daniel Tedesco (#6) - David Morley (#13) - Ryan Papa (#10)
Nick Oliver (#27) - Joe Rehkamp (#37) - Joey Holka (#17)
Defense
Andrew Prochno (#28) - Ethan Prow (#12)
Kevin Gravel (#7) - Tim Daly (#40)
Ben Storm (#19) - Niklas Nevalainen (#15)
Goaltender
Ryan Faragher (#29)
Charlie Lindgren (#35)
Joseph Phillippi (#33)
University of Minnesota Golden Gophers
Forwards
Taylor Cammarata (#13) - Kyle Rau (#7) - Hudson Fasching (#24)
Sam Warning (#11) - Justin Kloos (#25) - Nate Condon (#16)
Tom Serratore (#14) - Travis Boyd (#22) - Seth Ambroz (#17)
A.J. Michaelson (#15) - Vinni Lettieri (#19) - Christian Isackson (#26)
Defense
Brady Skjei (#2) - Justin Holl (#12)
Mike Reilly (#5) - Michael Brodzinski (#20)
Jake Bischoff (#28) - Ben Marshall (#10)
Goaltenders
Adam Wilcox (#32)
Michael Shibrowski (#1)
Ryan Coyne (#31)
Tonight's game starts at 7:00 p.m. CT and airs on Fox Sports North.
Follow Nate Wells (@gopherstate), Chris Dilks (@chrisdilks) and Matt Christians (@matt_christians) for live updates from the Xcel Energy Center.
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