Randy Johnson
Multi-Platform Editor at The Minnesota Star Tribune
Gophers football/hockey writer for the Minnesota Star Tribune. Also cover the Minnesota Wild. Bilingual in speaking both South and North Dakotan.
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startribune.com | Randy Johnson
It's one more year of "Murph" for the Gophers women's hockey team. All-America forward Abbey Murphy will return to the Gophers for the 2025-26 season, coach Brad Frost announced Tuesday, keeping one of the top women's hockey players in the world with Minnesota for a fifth collegiate season. "I'm beyond excited to announce I will be coming back for my final year of college hockey," Murphy said in a statement. "I am pumped for another go around with this team.
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1 week ago |
startribune.com | Randy Johnson
Six Gophers teams received perfect multiyear scores of 1,000 in data that includes the 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23 and 2023-24 academic years, while seven others had scores of at least 990. Every Minnesota team was well above the multiyear score cutline of 930, a number the NCAA requires programs to meet to avoid penalties that include postseason bans and possible scholarship losses.
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startribune.com | Randy Johnson
By Randy Johnson Tate Pritchard, a former Lakeville South forward who amassed 82 points over the past two seasons for Sioux City of the USHL, announced Monday on Instagram that he has committed to the Gophers hockey program. Pritchard, a 20-year-old Savage native, previously had committed to Minnesota State Mankato. Pritchard had 19 goals and 34 assists in 54 games for Sioux City this season after collecting 13 goals and 16 assists in 57 games for the Musketeers in 2023-24.
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1 week ago |
startribune.com | Randy Johnson
The whirlwind that is Zeev Buium's hockey season continued Sunday morning when the Wild 's 19-year-old defenseman went through exit interviews with the third of the four teams for which he will play in 2025. Afterward, he was whisked to Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport to catch a flight to Sweden, where he was to join Team USA for the IIHF men's world championship.
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startribune.com | Randy Johnson
The Gophers football program on Saturday night received a commitment from Hudson Dunn, a heavily recruited linebacker from Peoria, Ariz., who announced on the X social media platform that he will be part of Minnesota's 2026 recruiting class. Dunn, a three-star recruit from Peoria's Liberty High School, is a 6-1, 219-pounder who is rated the sixth-best recruit from Arizona and the 45th-best linebacker nationally in the 247Sports composite rankings of major recruiting services.
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I imagine Reilly Smith's buzzer-beater for Vegas with 0.4 left brought back some fond memories for @12JHoll.
April 10, 2014: Justin Holl scores game-winning goal at the buzzer against North Dakota, sending @GopherHockey to the National Championship. https://t.co/tvqIpZzTxb
0.4 is a new wrinkle in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Hatty for @GopherHockey commit in opener of USHL final.
THE BLACK HAWKS TAKE GAME 1 ✊ @BlckHawksHockey Teddy Townsend gets a hat trick for Waterloo and Reid Morich scores twice, along with the final empty net goal #ClarkCup https://t.co/k0dSvBFqb0
