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The Minnesota Wilderness returned from their holiday break, slipping from first place in their division after a home split with Alaska’s Kenai River. The Wilderness won 4-3 on Friday, coming back from 3-1 down to win in a shootout. The next night, the Brown Bears gained the shootout win, following a 0-0 regulation and overtime. Isak Posch made 31 shots in the shutout, but surrendered a pair of shootout tallies to Minnesota’s one, giving Kenai River the win. The split left the Wilderness at 19-10-1 on the season, with their 42 points trailing th...
The Minnesota Wilderness finished the early part of its campaign in first place in its division over the weekend, splitting a pair of games in Springfield, Illinois. The Wilderness got power-play goals from Michael Quinn and Donovan O’Neil to defeat Springfield 3-1 on Friday, breaking a 1-1 tie. Quinn’s goal was his sixth of the season and extended his points streak to five games. Goaltender Isak Posch made 26 saves on 27 shots for the win, improving to 11-7-2. The Wilderness fell 5-2 to the Jr. Blues on Saturday, surrendering three pow...
One's from Duluth and the other a waterborne city in Sweden that's about the size of Duluth. They're both 20 years old, but one's got more junior hockey experience than the other. They're basically alternating starts in goal for a Minnesota Wilderness team that's close to reaching the holiday break in first place in its North American Hockey League division. They are Isak Posch and Konrad Kausch, and they're goalies leading the Cloquet junior hockey team that's off to a banner start under first-...
The University of Minnesota's Bell Museum is known for its dioramas and the massive wooly mammoth in its main exhibit hall. But it is also home to a giant herbarium - a collection of nearly a million plant specimens collected from all over the world. Amid the vast holdings are hundreds of specimens collected by the peripatetic, boot-clomping, chain-smoking librarian who grew up in Carlton and blazed a trail across the Arctic starting before World War II. Margaret Oldenburg "was an early pioneer... 
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A stellar week found the Minnesota Wilderness atop the standings, while saying a temporary goodbye to one of the team's premier playmakers. Defenseman Gustavs Ozolins will play Friday's game in Chippewa Falls before leaving to join Team Latvia for the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, which begins in Canada the day after Christmas. Ozolins will fly to Riga, Latvia's capital city, to prepare with the national team, before moving on to Moncton, New Brunswick for the tournament. It's the...
The Minnesota Wilderness needed to fight back both nights last weekend, and they completed a home sweep of the Janesville Jets and solidified their spot near the top of the North American Hockey League Midwest Division standings. The Wilderness (15-7-1) won by twin scores of 4-3, converting six power play goals in 11 chances over the weekend, while the team's penalty kill held Janesville to 1 of 8 on the power play. On Friday night, the Wilderness struggled in the first period with a ferocious...
The Minnesota Wilderness followed a dramatic road win Friday with a trip-ending 5-2 loss Saturday in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. The Wilderness got Gustavs Ozolins’ first goal at the perfect time in a 4-3 overtime victory over the Steel on Nov. 18. The 19-year-old from Riga, Latvia broke a 3-3 tie with 1 minute, 20 seconds remaining in the extra period. Ozolins took a pass and weaved to the slot before “roofing” the game-winning shot over goaltender Adam Gajan, a Wilderness game account said. Joe Cesario scored twice for Minnesota, inclu...
The Minnesota Wilderness wrapped up a successful road trip to Alaska last weekend by splitting with the Fairbanks Ice Dogs, winning 2-1 on Friday before falling 5-3 on Saturday. The loss snapped a four-game road win streak to start the season for Minnesota, and left the Wilderness with a 3-1 road swing through the 49th state. The Wilderness are 11-6-2 heading into a pair of games in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, on Friday and Saturday. Against Fairbanks, the Wilderness got goals from Eddie Shepler and Beau Janzig in Friday’s win. Goalie Isak P...
The Minnesota Wilderness built a three-game winning streak last weekend, winning twice in Alaska to go with the team’s record-setting performance to end October at St. Cloud. The Wilderness beat Anchorage, 3-1, on Sunday, and Kenai River, 2-1, on Saturday, to kick off their four-game road trip to the 49th state. Duluth native Konrad Kausch and Isak Posch, of Umea, Sweden, starred in goal for the team, combining to stop 65 shots in the two games in Alaska. The two goalies have been swapping turns in net throughout the campaign to date. Oliver St...
The Minnesota Wilderness split a pair of games last weekend, one that saw only three total goals scored in games against the Springfield (Illinois) Jr. Blues. The Wilderness fell 1-0 on Friday, before taking a 2-0 win Saturday as goaltender Isak Posch earned the shutout. Posch stopped all 26 shots, one night after Springfield’s Carson Dorfman made all 34 saves for a shutout of his own. The Friday loss snapped the Wilderness’ eight-game point streak. Beau Janzig notched his third goal of the season to start the scoring Saturday. After a lacklust...
Voters in Cloquet will see two sales tax proposals on their ballots during early voting and the midterm general election Nov. 8. Carlton County voters will have to pay attention, too, because they're part of half of this. The ballot questions both ask voters to raise the existing sales tax by 0.5% - half-a-penny per dollar to raise $8 million in project funds for the city of Cloquet, and another half-penny countywide to fund the $66 million Carlton County Justice Center already under...
The Minnesota Wilderness, junior hockey inhabitants of Northwoods Credit Union Arena in Cloquet, named its captains this week for the remainder of the 2022-23 season. Cole Gordon and Gunnar Thoreson were announced to serve as co-captains, a team news release said this week. Both are in their third season with the Wilderness and spent the 2021-22 season as alternate captains. Gordon, of Windsor, Colorado, is a 19-year-old forward who has played 96 regular season games over his career with the...
Relying on a red-hot scorer, the Minnesota Wilderness made team history last weekend, sweeping a three-game series at home for the first time. Playing inside Northwoods Credit Union Arena, the Wilderness topped Anchorage Wolverines, 4-3, 2-1, and 3-2 from Sept. 30 to Oct. 2, respectively. Kevin Marx Noreen scored his second hat trick of the season in Sunday’s game, giving him six goals in seven games since being traded to the team. Joe Cesario scored his second overtime game-winner in as many games Friday. The Wilderness typically play t...
Trades are frequent in junior hockey, and to determine if one works can take weeks or months. But for the Minnesota Wilderness last weekend, the return was instant. The team went 2-1 after acquiring forwards Kevin Marx Noren and Noah Griswold on Thursday, including a record-breaking performance from Noren in his first game with the team. After scoring only five goals in losing its opening three games, the team went on to score 11 while participating in the four-day, 29-team conference showcase at the National Sports Center in Blaine,...
The Minnesota Wilderness announced Monday that Brett Skinner had been promoted to head coach. In a corresponding move, David Boitz announced he was stepping down from head coaching to focus solely on being the team’s general manager. Skinner had arrived in August as an associate head coach, acquitting himself immediately on his way to becoming the fifth head coach in the franchise’s North American Hockey League history. Skinner — a Brandon, Manitoba native — quickly convinced his new boss he could handle the role of head coach. “Brett...
Former Minnesota Wilderness junior hockey coach Brendan Phelps won’t face charges after two men in an online video alleged that Phelps had traveled to Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, for an intimate encounter with someone he believed was a 16-year-old male. Instead, when Phelps arrived, he found the men — private citizens, not police — with video cameras, one who claimed he had posed as the boy online. The 18-minute video was posted to YouTube in July by a group called Midwest Predator Catchers. While...
The hockey journey of former Lumberjack Jamie Langenbrunner continued this past week when it was announced he is the new assistant general manager of the Boston Bruins. Langenbrunner starred for the Cloquet hockey team in the early 1990s and went on to an 18-year professional career. He played for the Dallas Stars, the New Jersey Devils and the St. Louis Blues. During his professional career, Langenbrunner won the Stanley Cup twice, and also played for the U.S. Olympic team twice, and was team...
The final piece of the Minnesota Wilderness coaching staff puzzle is in place with the hiring of Brett Skinner as associate head coach. Skinner is a Brandon, Manitoba, native who has been the assistant coach of the Sioux Falls Stampede of the USHL for the last five seasons. Prior to his coaching career, Skinner played 12 seasons of professional hockey, including 11 games in the NHL with the New York Islanders in 2008-09. He also had a very decorated collegiate career, winning two national championships over three seasons with the University of...
The Minnesota Wilderness have added former Bemidji State Beaver Kyle Brodie to its coaching staff. A native of Northglenn, Colorado, Brodie comes to Cloquet after spending the last six seasons working with AAA programs in Wenatchee, Washington. Brodie’s playing career ended in 2015-16, as he concluded with 51 games as a defenseman with the Columbus Cottonmouths. Brodie’s college career included two seasons with Bemidji State, where he earned NCAA All-Academic team honors both seasons. Brodie then transferred to University of Wis...
The Minnesota Wilderness junior hockey team held its main training camp last week. Roughly 135 players were expected to attend the three-day event, which concluded Thursday with an all-star game at Northwoods Credit Union Arena in Cloquet. According to a Wilderness news release, coaches said they would use the all-star game to determine who will be invited to the season-opening training camp later this summer. All NAHL teams must have rosters reduced to 25 players by Sept. 1. The team is...
A coach for the Minnesota Wilderness was fired this week after a disturbing video was posted to YouTube. The video showed Brendan Phelps, age 31, responding to accusations that he had driven to a park in Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, to allegedly rendezvous with someone he believed to be a 16-year-old boy, after “meeting” on Grindr, an LGBTQ dating app. Instead he found at least two men — private citizens, not police — with video cameras, one who claimed he had posed as the underage boy online. The 18-minute video was posted by a group called Midwest...
One of the top scorers in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League was the top pick for the Minnesota Wilderness in the June 15 NAHL draft. The Wilderness selected Elliot Dutil from the Notre Dame Hounds as the 30th overall pick in the draft. Dutil, a native of Montreal, had an impressive rookie season, piling up 37 goals, 30 assists and 67 points in 58 games for the Hounds. His totals were good enough for second in the SJHL in goals and fourth in the league in points. The Wilderness selections also included former Grand Rapids High School...
A penalty-filled first period was too much for the Minnesota Wilderness to overcome in Friday night's home 5-1 playoff loss to the Anchorage Wolverines. The loss eliminated the Wilderness from the North American Hockey League playoffs as the Wolverines took the series three games to one. "We got off to a rough start in the opening period," said Wilderness head coach Dave Boitz. "We started out down 2-0 and had three straight first-period penalties, which was just too big a hole for us to dig...
The road to the Robertson Cup for the Minnesota Wilderness has been bumpy. A week ago the Wilderness fought out of a two-game deficit to eventually eliminate Fairbanks, setting up a second series with another Alaskan team, the Anchorage Wolverines. That meant another trip to Alaska that resulted in the Wilderness coming home Monday down two games to one in the best-of-five series. In Friday’s 4-1 loss to the Wolverines, the Wilderness opened with a strong first period in which they outshot t...
The Minnesota Wilderness returned home last week a wounded animal. The Cloquet junior hockey team had dropped back-to-back road playoff games in Alaska to the Fairbanks Ice Dogs. Any hopes of moving on in the NAHL playoffs rode on the Wilderness winning three straight games in Cloquet on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. And that is exactly what they did, capping things off with an impressive 5-1 win on Sunday evening in front of a large crowd that seemingly willed the team to victory. "The...
