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Golden Gopher hockey alumnus Ben Gordon begins his ninth year behind the bench as an assistant coach for the Maroon and Gold in 2026-27, a role he took on starting in 2018. It will be his first season on the staff with new Head Coach Brett Larson. Under Gordon's guidance, Minnesota made a fifth-consecutive postseason trip and won its third Big Ten Conference regular season championship in a four-year span during the 2024-25 campaign. The Gophers were well represented on the Big Ten Conference postseason awards list as seven different players were honored along with AHCA/CCM Hockey All-Americans Sam Rinzel (First Team) and Jimmy Snuggerud (Second Team). It was a banner year for Minnesota in 2022-23 as the team won its second-straight B1G regular season title and earned a trip to the NCAA Championship game. The Gophers were the highest-scoring offense in the nation, averaging 4.2 goals per game, and had a pair of 50-point freshmen in Logan Cooley and Snuggerud leading the charge. Cooley and Matthew Knies were named Hobey Baker Hat Trick Finalists, while Brock Faber joined the pair as All-American First Team selections, the second time in program history with three first-team honorees. During the 2021-22 campaign, Gordon and the Gophers won the B1G regular season championship and advanced to the NCAA Frozen Four for the first time since 2014. Minnesota made a late-season surge winning 11 of their final 13 games, including wins over Massachusetts and Western Michigan in the NCAA

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