Minnesota
Logan Cooley returning to Minnesota
Arizona Coyotes prospect Logan Cooley will return to Minnesota for his sophomore season of college hockey, the Gophers confirmed on Friday. Here’s what you need to know:
- Cooley was drafted by the Coyotes with the No. 3 pick in the 2022 NHL Draft out of the U.S. National Team Development Program.
- The 19-year-old forward was named a Hobey Baker finalist and scored 22 goals and 60 points in 39 games with the Golden Gophers last season. Quinnipiac defeated top-ranked Minnesota 3-2 in overtime in the Frozen Four to capture the 2023 NCAA men’s championship.
- Cooley also represented the United States at the 2022 and 2023 world juniors, helping the team to a bronze medal in 2023.
9️⃣2️⃣ IS BACK‼️
Hobey Baker finalist Logan Cooley will return for his sophomore season with the #Gophers!#PrideOnIce pic.twitter.com/sjUaidi4QW
— Minnesota Men’s Hockey (@GopherHockey) May 19, 2023
How beneficial will this be for Cooley?
It’s not a huge surprise as it had been rumored for some time that Cooley would return to Minnesota. Arizona is not in a position to win yet; it keeps him in a stable, competitive environment with a team that should contend again next season. A lot of top prospects in recent years have been doing two years at college for development purposes. — Corey Pronman
This is big news for the Golden Gophers, who get one of their Hobey Baker finalists back for another year. It’s not a major surprise. Being around Cooley with the team at the Frozen Four, you could tell how much he was enjoying college life and his teammates. With all the uncertainty surrounding the Coyotes, this gives Cooley a chance to further develop in a stable, contending program and chase that national title he came a few minutes shy of in April. I asked Cooley about the NHL then.
“We’re always talking about it,” said Cooley. “It’s so hard not to. We all want to play in the NHL.
“There’s no point to rush. But if you feel you’re ready, you feel ready. We’re still in college, still a kid. Once you go to the NHL, it’s all business.” — Joe Smith
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(Photo: Mike Ehrmann / Getty Images)
Minnesota
If Arizona hosts Los Angeles Rams vs Minnesota Vikings due to fires, it wouldn’t be a first
NFL Wild Card playoff picks: Consider Eagles, Commanders and Vikings
Lorenzo Reyes is back with his three best bets ahead of Sunday and Monday’s games during Wild Card Weekend.
There could still be one more football game played in Arizona this season. On Wednesday, the NFL announced that it has a contingency plan to potentially move Monday night’s wild-card game between the Minnesota Vikings and Los Angeles Rams to State Farm Stadium due to ongoing wildfires raging across Southern California.
For now, the league is preparing for the game to take place at SoFi Stadium, the Rams’ home in Inglewood. But if a change of location is deemed necessary, the Cardinals’ stadium in Glendale would play host, giving Arizona its first playoff game — excluding Super Bowls — since the 2015 divisional round.
It would, however, not be the first time that NFL teams have had to move to Arizona. Here are the other times that similar moves have occurred:
2020: San Francisco 49ers
Due to the spread of COVID-19 in the fall of 2020, Santa Clara County briefly banned all contact sports. That forced the San Francisco 49ers to play three home games at State Farm Stadium. The team used fields near the stadium as its practice facility and stayed at the Renaissance Phoenix Glendale Hotel and Spa across the street.
2007: San Diego Chargers
It would not be unprecedented if the Rams had to make Arizona home due to fires. The then-San Diego Chargers practiced at the Cardinals’ Tempe facility for three days in 2007 due to the Witch Creek Fire, which forced 40 members of the organization to evacuate their homes. The team returned to San Diego for their game that Sunday, defeating the Houston Texans.
2003: San Diego Chargers
Four years earlier, the Chargers had a Monday Night Football game against the Dolphins moved to Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe. Again, the move was due to fires in Southern California, which caused poor air quality. The Chargers’ home field, Qualcomm Stadium, was also used as an evacuation center during the fires. Both teams flew to Arizona on game day for a game Miami won, 26-10. The NFL distributed 73,104 free tickets to the game.
Minnesota
Boston Fleet fall to Minnesota Frost in overtime
Taylor Heise scored the overtime winner to lift the Minnesota Frost to a 2-1 victory over the Boston Fleet on Wednesday night
The win is the Frost’s third in as many games this season against the Fleet, and the second in seven days by an overtime finish. Hannah Bilka scored early on for the Fleet, making this the first time Boston has opened the scoring against Minnesota this season.
Later in the first period, Denisa Křížová scored her first goal of the campaign, tying the game at one and ending the game’s regulation scoring. Heise’s winner came at 3:20 of the extra frame on Minnesota’s first shot of overtime on Emma Söderberg, who stopped 24 shots throughout regulation. Maddie Rooney picked up her fourth win of the season with a 26-save performance.
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