GRAND FORKS, N.D — North Dakota’s Tyler Kleven has only just dipped his skates into the college game. As a freshman last season, the defenseman played 22 of the 29 games scoring five goals and dishing out two assists. “Getting 20-30 games under my belt and getting adjusted to the speed and the physicality and just being able to play…
GRAND FORKS, N.D — North Dakota hockey’s season is just around the corner with their first exhibition getting it started October 2nd against Bemidji State. Before then, there are still some kinks to work out. UND had eight players leave for the NHL after last season ended in the NCAA Tournament’s Fargo regional final. 14 new players have since joined…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. – (UND ATHLETICS) Forward Jasper Weatherby will pursue his professional career, signing with the NHL’s San Jose Sharks, the club announced on Tuesday. Weatherby, a fourth-round selection by the Sharks in the 2018 NHL Entry Draft, inks an entry-level contract and will report to the club immediately. “This weekend we learned that Jasper (Weatherby) would be signing…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. — (UND ATHLETICS) Senior forward Mark Senden has been named the 2021-22 University of North Dakota hockey captain in a vote by his peers on Thursday. Joining him in the leadership group are fellow senior and now two-time assistant captain Jasper Weatherby, senior forward Gavin Hain, junior defenseman Ethan Frisch and sophomore defenseman Jake Sanderson, who will…
FARGO, N.D. — With how hot it has been outside it’s time to think cooler thoughts especially or all those North Dakota hockey fans out there. The 2021-22 season schedule is out!. There are 11 non-conference games featured including two home series with Cornell and Minnesota over thanksgiving weekend and the second week in January. A road match-up against Quinnipiac…
FARGO, N.D. — A familiar face is heading up the NHL’s newest franchise next season as former North Dakota hockey player and coach Dave Hakstol was hired to be the head coach of the Seattle Kraken. Hakstol returns to a bench boss position after being let go by the Philadelphia Flyers in 2019. With UND, he led the Fighting Hawks…
GRAND FORKS, N.D — Forward Grant Mismash becomes the sixth North Dakota hockey player this week to sign a pro deal. Mismash put pen to paper on a two year contract with the team that drafted in the second round back in 2017, the Nashville Predators. The senior had a career year in 2021 scoring ten goals and adding 9…
GRAND FORKS, N.D — After the college hockey season comes to an end there is a decision that every player needs to make: Should I stay or should I go? That was the case for five North Dakota players this week signing NHL deals. Two of them, D-line mates Jacob Bernard-Docker (Ottawa Senators) and Matt Kiersted (Florida Panthers) were introduced…
GRAND FORKS, N.D — The captain has signed. North Dakota hockey’s Jordan Kawaguchi is heading to the Dallas Stars on an entry level deal. The 2020 NCHC forward of the year will report to the organization’s AHL affiliate, the Texas Stars on an amateur tryout for the rest of the season. Kawaguchi ranked third in the NCAA with 26 assists…
FARGO, N.D. — In their first NCAA Tournament Regional game since 2017, number one seed North Dakota hockey came out and beat the four seed American International, 5-1, at Scheels Arena. The Fighting Hawks were firing on all cylinders in the first period with four goals, two coming for forward Jasper Weatherby. Senior Collin Adams also had two goals in…
