St. Thomas christens new building with some wild ones; UMD men sweep Gophers

It was a wild opening to the new Lee and Penny Anderson Arena on the campus of St. Thomas this weekend, UMD is starting off the men’s season on a heater, while the other Minnesota State, Bemidji State and St. Cloud State all picked up sweeps. The powers in women’s hockey are still that. It’s another week of college hockey action on the ice in the State of Hockey, so it’s time for Minnesota’s College Hockey Scoreboard Show, where there’s no breakdowns, no analysis, it’s just the scores! Division I MenFri: St. Thomas 2, #14 Providence 2 (UST wins SO)Sat: #14 Providence 7, St. Thomas 4St. Thomas’ men’s program opened up its new barn by jumping out to a 2-0 lead on a pair of shorthanded goals against No. 14 Providence, but the Friars tied things up with a pair in the third to earn a 2-2 tie. The Tommies won the shootout, giving them absolutely no points in this non-conference tilt. St. Thomas’ new rink is off to a wild start. The wild women’s series coupled with the men’s series against Providence may have not given the hosts the desired outcomes, but man, they were some fun games. No. 14 Providence won the weekend picking up a 7-4 win on Saturday night, rallying from a 4-1 deficit to score the games last six goals and leave St. Paul with a victory. Alex Gaffney scored his fifth of the season for the Tommies, who fell to 2-4-1. St. Thomas will have a home-and-home to open its final CCHA season with Minnesota State. Fri: #18 Minnesota-Duluth 3, #13 Minnesota 0Sat: #18 Minnesota-Duluth 4, #13 Minnesota 1Zam Plante scored his fifth of the season and Adam Gajan picked up his first shutout of the season as No. 18 UMD opened up a weekend series at Mariucci with a 3-0 win over the host Gophers. The Bulldogs outshot the Gophers 24-17. Max Plante scored a pair of goals and No. 18 Minnesota Duluth completed its first sweep of No. 13 Minnesota since 2021 and the first sweep at Mariucci since 2009. The Bulldogs are off to a 7-1 start for the first time since the 1989-90 season. The Gophers fell to 2-5. UMD will open up NCHC play next week in Grand Forks, taking on North Dakota, while the Gophers will have a Thursday-Saturday series at No. 17 Wisconsin to open up Big Ten play. Fri: #20 Minnesota State 4, RPI 2 Sat: #20 Minnesota State 2, RPI 1 In Mankato, 20th-ranked Minnesota State outshot RPI 40-19 as four different player scored as the Mavericks opened up the non-conference series with a 4-0 win. In Game Two, RPI outshot Minnesota State 30-18, but Alex Tracy stopped 29 of those 30 attempts. It was enough as Charlie Lurie’s third goal of the season came 32 seconds into the third period, which was good enough to be the game winner. Minnesota State improved to 3-1-2. RPI is 0-6. Minnesota State will open CCHA play next weekend with a home-and-home with St. Thomas. Fri: Bemidji State 1, Augustana 0, OTSat: Bemidji State 3, Augustana 2Oliver Peer continued his solid early season, scoring his fourth of the year in overtime giving host Bemidji State a 1-0 over Augustana to open up CCHA play. Raythan Robbins stopped 27 shots to earn his first career collegiate shutout. Max Namestnikov scored his first career goal as three different Beavers scored to give Bemidji State a 3-2 win over visiting Augustana to earn the weekend sweep. Bemidji State will head east to take on Bowling Green. Fri: St. Cloud State 5, Alaska Anchorage 2Sat: St. Cloud State 5, Alaska Anchorage 1Five different players scored and Finn Loftus scored his first career goal as St. Cloud State beat old WCHA foe Alaska Anchorage 5-2 on Friday at the Herb Brooks National Hockey Center. Austin Burnevik scored twice, giving him eight on the season, which currently stands second in the country behind Penn State’s J.J. Wiebusch. Patriks Berzins stopped 28 shots for his second win of the season, while Aiden Welch scored his first collegiate goal for the Huskies to cap off the homecoming sweep at The Herb. The Huskies host returning national champion Western Michigan to open up NCHC play next weekend. Division I WomenFri: #3 Minnesota 4, #4 Minnesota Duluth 0Sat: #3 Minnesota 3, #4 Minnesota Duluth 2Ava Lindsay scored twice as third-ranked Minnesota scored three second-period goals to skate past host UMD in game one of their WCHA series at Amsoil. Hannah Clark made 24 saves for her third shutout of the season. Abbey Murphy scored twice, giving her a nation-leading 14 goals in the first 10 games of the season as the Golden Gophers finished off the road sweep against fourth-ranked Minnesota Duluth 3-2. Hannah Clark stopped 37 shots. Duluth’s Caitlin Kraemer scored her eight goal of the season, which is fifth in the nation. Minnesota heads to top-ranked Wisconsin next weekend, while UMD heads over to St. Cloud to take on the host Huskies. Sat: #1 Wisconsin 4, Minnesota State 0Sun: #1 Wisconsin 8, Minnesota State 0Four different players scored as top-ranked Wisconsin opened up its Saturday-Sunday series with Minnesota State with a 4-0 win in Madison. It was a rough outing for visiting Minnesota State as the top-ranked Badgers closed out the sweep with an 8-rip shutout of the Mavericks. Eight different Badgers scored, and contrary to what you might have heard on BTN+, it’s highly unlikely Minnesota State’s Avery Stilwell was having too much fun in there in goal. Badgers must have loaded up on that Destination Hydration Jump Around Spring Water … or as we used to call it, BadgerMax. Minnesota State drops to 5-5 on the season and will host Bemidji State next weekend. Bemidji was off this weekend. Fri: #2 Ohio State 5, #10 St. Cloud State 1Sat: #2 Ohio State 4, #10 St. Cloud State 2Sanni Vanhanen scored twice as Ohio State broke open a 2-1 game with three third-period goals. Maria Mikaelyan scored her fifth of the year for the Huskies, who were outshot in Game One 40-12. Second-ranked Ohio State rallied from a 2-0 deficit to compete the home sweep over 10th-ranked St. Cloud State with a 4-2 win on Saturday in Columbus. Joye Dunne scored a natural hatty in the third period to give her eight goals on the season. St. Cloud State hosts UMD this coming weekend. Fri: Providence 7, #13 St. Thomas 6, OTSat: #13 St. Thomas 5, Providence 1The women’s debut at Lee & Penny Anderson Arena was an exciting one, but not a winning one for the host St. Thomas Tommies. Despite holding Providence to 14 shots, half of those shots found the net as the Friars picked up a 7-6 overtime win in a wild game in St. Paul on Friday afternoon. Reichen Kirchmair scored four goals, including the game-winner halfway through the extra period. Four different players found the net, including Rylee Bartz, who scored her seventh of the season as the Tommies rebounded from Friday’s heartbreaker with a sound 5-1 win over Providence to earn the home split at the new building. St. Thomas improved to 7-3 and will host Ohio State next weekend. I’m Jason Bryant (@jasonmbryant). Leave a rating, review, or feedback at collegehockeyscoreboardpod.com and check out all the shows from The Sota Pod. For now, that’s Minnesota’s College Hockey Scoreboard Show for October 24-26, 2025.The Sota Pod is dedicated to covering anything & EVERYTHING when it comes to hockey or craft beer in the great state of Minnesota. The Sota Pod (Apple Podcasts): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sota-pod/id1495602444YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thesotapod