The GPL Podcast

The GPL Podcast

The GPL Podcast, part of the Pulltab Sports family, is a roundtable type of format that talks about the University of Minnesota Men's Hockey Team, BigTen Hockey and College Hockey in general. It is a weekly podcast that happens during the college hockey season. (October - April) The host is Craig Cotner "Jupiter" who runs the GopherPuckLive.com website. He is joined by Eric Vegoe who covers the Gophers as a writer for GopherPuckLive. We also have special guests join the program from time to time.

Episodes

#287: Season Finale

July 18, 2025 • 57 mins
The Gopher season ended with a big THUD as they were eliminated in the 1st game of the NCAA Tournament. What went wrong? Blame the refs? It is not that simple. 6 underclassmen players have left to sign pro contracts. 5 players have graduated. There are a lot of spots on the roster for next season. Portal add. New recruits. So much to talk about on the fina show of the season.
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#286: It's Tourney Time with Carman!

July 18, 2025 • 105 mins
Former Gopher Mike Carman joined the show as we previewed the NCAA Tournament regionals coming up this weekend. The big guns need to show up if the Gophers are going to advance to the Frozen Four. We cover that as well as the small things that are important to make that happen.
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#285: Venting frustration with Micheletti

July 18, 2025 • 57 mins
The Gophers not only get knocked out of the Big Ten playoffs by Notre Dame. They lose Senior Aaron Huglen for the season to a broken leg in the process. We have Pat Micheletti on to vent all of our frustrations on this weeks show.
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#270: Paul Caponigri helps us preview the Big Ten Season.

July 18, 2025 • 66 mins
Cappy is back on the GPL Podcast to give us his thought on the upcoming Big Ten season as well as this weekend against Penn State. He thinks Minnesota is the best team in the country right now, but there are a lot of good teams out there!
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#269: Tommie PxP guy Sam Ekstrom is our guest

July 18, 2025 • 66 mins
Former Gopher hockey TV announcer and current St. Thomas play by play guy Sam Ekstrom is on our show! He goes in to what happened when he was replaced by Fox9 in the booth, but also gave great insight on the Tommies and Gophers! We recapped the big sweep in Duluth which was a first since the 2011-12 season!
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#268: U.N.Oh no

July 18, 2025 • 52 mins
The Gophers started strong at the Ice Breaker Tournament in Vegas, but didn't finish well. We talk about the 54 shot, 2-1 loss against UNO as well as the win over Air Force. Also get in to the coming weekend in Duluth!
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#267: Pat Micheletti is our guest.

July 18, 2025 • 66 mins
Pat Micheletti is back on the GPL Podcast as the team heads to Vegas for the Ice Breaker Tournament. We covered that along with the new rules for this season. The exhibition win over St. Cloud. Even got in Name Image Likeness (NIL) and how National Letter of Intent (NLI) may be going away as well.
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#266: Season Premiere

July 18, 2025 • 55 mins
We are back for season number 14 of the GPL Podcast! A lot has happened. Pitlick to Minnesota State. Guys leaving. New guys from the transfer portal. 6 players with letters. We covered a lot!
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Summer 2024

July 18, 2025 • 42 mins
A special summer GPL Podcast as we test new streaming software that we will start using next season. We talk about Snuggerud's return, Matthew Wood coming over from UConn and Liam Souliere from Penn State. Current gopher hitting the transfer portal. The non-conference schedule. Basically an off-season update for the Gophers.
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#265: Season Finale with John King

July 18, 2025 • 61 mins
John King, from Pulltab Sports, joined us to recap the season and preview next year! A lot of Transfer Portal talk. Pino, Strobel, Fish and Barto gone. Wood and Souliere in. Snuggerud is back. So much to talk about so many things along with the opponents for next season.
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#264: NCAA Tournament Preview

July 18, 2025 • 47 mins
We dig in to this years NCAA Tournament and give our predictions to what we think is going to happen. But really it is just a celebration of the best 4 days of the season as the teams go from 16 to 4!
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NCAA Sioux Falls Regional Semi

July 18, 2025 • 15 mins
The Gopher's come back and get the 3-2 win over Omaha. We did a quick 15 minute wrap of the big win.
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#263: Great stories with Nick Angell

July 18, 2025 • 61 mins
Former Gopher Nick Angell joined the show to share some great stories of hockey in the KHL, The Wooger, Guentzel, The Don. This is definitely an episode where watching overtime on YouTube is worth your while!
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#262: Talking BigTen Tournament with Todd Milewski

July 18, 2025 • 62 mins
Todd Milewski from the Wisconsin State Journal joined us to talk about the BigTen Semi-Finals this week. We get in to how the Badgers got knocked out by Ohio State. We also got in to the Minnesota struggle with Penn State, but did advance.
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#247: Marissa Voss is our guest.

July 18, 2025 • 59 mins
Marissa Voss joins the show as we recapped the BADger sweep of the Gophers and previewed the home and home with Minnesota- Duluth.
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#246: BADger week with Todd Milewski

July 18, 2025 • 58 mins
We are so happy that Todd Milewski is back covering hockey after spending half of last year on Basketball. We recap last weekend. Talk about their new coach Mike Hasting. And of course preview the weekend.
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#245: Live from Ralph Engelstad Arena with Brad Schlossman

July 18, 2025 • 53 mins
We preview the big weekend between MN and UND live from the Ralph Engelstad Arena in Grand Forks. Brad Schlossman from the Grand Forks Herald joins us for the show.
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#244: Guest: Derek Burns

July 18, 2025 • 59 mins
Derek Burns from Dinkytown Athletes joined us to talk everything "NIL" related that is happening down at the University of Minnesota. We also got in to the BSU exhibition game and previewed the series with St. Thomas this coming weekend.
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#243: Season Premiere

July 18, 2025 • 69 mins
We kick off the 13th season of the GPL Podcast by joining the Pulltab Sports family! Great to be part of their family! But a lot of other changes this season too! We cover all of the off-season news with Gopher Hockey and preview what should be a very exciting season!
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#242: Gopher goalie Justen Close joins the podcast

July 18, 2025 • 45 mins
Returning Gopher goalie Justen Close joins us for this special offseason podcast. He is enjoying the last few weeks of his summer break at his family cabin 3 hours north of his hometown of Kindersley, Saskatchewan. We get in to the disappointment of losing the National Championship game. The new NIL opportunities with Dinkytown Athletes as well as some of his favorite cooking.
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