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The Minnesota Wilderness closed in on a playoff berth last weekend, sweeping Janesville by scores of 3-1 and 1-0 in Cloquet. The wins put Minnesota's magic number at 3 to clinch a berth in the Robertson Cup playoff. The top four teams from each of the four divisions in the North American Hockey League advance to chase the cup. With 69 points, the Wilderness (31-16-7) sit alone in second place in the Midwest Division with six games remaining. With 71 points, the division-leading Wisconsin...
The Minnesota Wilderness split a weekend series against the Chippewa Steel, falling 2-1 Friday, March 17, before turning the tables in a 2-1 shootout win Saturday, March 18. The Wilderness carried 1-0 leads into the third period of both games, against the team from Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. The split allowed the red hot Wisconsin Windigo to build on its now 4-point division lead over Minnesota. Kevin Marx Norén scored the shootout goal that clinched Minnesota's win Saturday. The forward from...
For the first time in franchise history last weekend, the Minnesota Wilderness finished an Alaska road swing undefeated, with 6-2 and 4-2 wins over the Anchorage Wolverines on March 10 and 11. Sawyer Scholl led the way, scoring four goals and adding an assist in the two games. The Wilderness finished 4-0 in two weeks of play in Alaska, beating Anchorage and the Kenai River Brown Bears twice each to extend Minnesota’s winning streak to five games. Scholl, 21, is a 6-foot-2, 190-pound native of Green Bay, Wisconsin. He was awarded North A...
Beginning a two-week swing through Alaska, the Minnesota Wilderness swept the Kenai River Brown Bears last weekend by twin scores of 4-1. With the wins, Minnesota climbed into second place in its division and kept pace with the red-hot Wisconsin Windigo. The Wilderness got Bo Cosman’s first two goals for the team on Saturday, March 4. In Friday’s game, the Wilderness scored three goals in the span of 2 minutes, 44 seconds. Brian Lonergan, Michael Quinn and Reid Daavettila scored the goals in quick succession, putting the game away 10 min...
The Minnesota Wilderness ended a five-game losing streak on Saturday, getting a pair of goals from Sawyer Scholl to beat the Springfield Jr. Blues 4-1 at Cloquet’s Northwoods Credit Union Arena. The win gave the Wilderness a split in the weekend series, having lost 5-3 to the visitors from Illinois on Feb. 24. Minnesota now travels to Alaska for the next two weekends, with four games beginning March 3. Against Springfield on Saturday, Scholl opened the scoring midway through the second period. He intercepted an errant backhand pass and swooped...
Fresh off a series of roster moves aimed at bolstering the team for its stretch run, the Minnesota Wilderness promptly laid an egg last weekend in Eagle River, Wisconsin. The team dropped a pair of games to the Wisconsin Windigo, allowing the home team to leapfrog Minnesota atop the Midwest Division of the North American Hockey League. Minnesota (23-14-7) is tied with Fairbanks (24-17-5) at 53 points in second place in the division. Wisconsin (26-15-3) now leads with 55 points. The Wilderness failed to protect a three-goal lead Saturday,...
Division-leading Minnesota Wilderness made a number of transactions within the last week ahead of the North American Hockey League's roster freeze. In the process, the team parted ways with Joe Cesario and Ren Morque, two players who'd been instrumental in helping Minnesota to the top of the Midwest Division. Five new players were acquired to help bolster a lineup ahead of the regular season's final stretch, a team news release said. New to the team are: • Bo Cosman, a 21-year-old forward f...
A topsy-turvy three-game weekend left the Minnesota Wilderness falling up, into sole possession of first place, despite ending on a two-game losing streak. The Wilderness surrendered three-goal leads in two of the games, saw one of the team’s veterans reach a 100-point milestone, and became the first team in the Midwest Division of the North American Hockey League to surpass the 50-point plateau. At 23-13-6, the Wilderness lead the division with 52 points, followed by the Fairbanks Ice Dogs with 50. Minnesota beat Fairbanks, 5-4, on Feb. 2 a...
It's complicated. That's the phrase that often comes to mind when delving into exactly how acres within the Fond du Lac reservation came under non-Native control, paving the way for today's Cloquet Forestry Center. It is also quite simple. A series of laws passed in the late 1800s kick-started a land rush on reservation lands across the country. They allowed "allotments" for Native residents with promises of eventual ownership of land within reservations. It was an attempt to assimilate Native...
By earning three points last weekend, the Minnesota Wilderness reclaimed a share of first place in the Midwest Division of the North American Hockey League. With 49 points each, the Wilderness are tied atop the standings with the Fairbanks (Alaska) Ice Dogs. The division-leading teams were scheduled to play one another Thursday in Cloquet after this edition of the newspaper went to press. The Wilderness will then host a pair at Northwoods Credit Union Arena against the resurgent Wisconsin Windigo on Friday and Saturday. The team from Eagle...
In a forest several miles north of Grand Rapids, John Pastor places his hands on the trunk of a giant white pine, cranes back his neck and gazes up into its crown, a hundred feet above. “For me, I just get a feeling in my brain and my heart and my soul,” said Pastor, a retired University of Minnesota Duluth ecologist. “Good job, old boy. You survived all of this and you’re still here. Great job.” The tree is likely about 150 years old. That’s not even middle age for an Eastern White Pine. It wa... 
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The top scorer for the Minnesota Wilderness delivered his most dramatic goal of the season on Friday. Kevin Marx Norén scored as time expired in regulation, giving the Wilderness a 4-3 win en route to a home-and-home series sweep last weekend against the Chippewa Steel. A 20-year-old from Knivsta, Sweden, Norén scored twice in Friday’s game in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, then added a goal and an assist in Saturday’s 2-1 win at Northwoods Credit Union Arena in Cloquet. Norén has seven points in his last three games, and leads the team with 1...
The Minnesota Wilderness opened the door to adversity when they entered the 2023 calendar year. The team got swept in Eagle River, Wisconsin, last weekend, managing only three goals, coughing up seven and finding themselves spinning further away from the top spot in the North American Hockey League’s Midwest Division. The Wilderness dropped a pair to the Wisconsin Windigo, losing 3-0 and 4-3, on Jan. 13-14. Minnesota is 4-4-2 in its last 10 games, a stark contrast to the club’s surging November and December that saw the team reach and hold firs...
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... Website
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...
