The Minnesota Gopher hockey teams both will have monumental tasks this weekend as they hit the road for critical conference series against highly ranked teams. The Gopher men are headed to Ann Arbor to face off against #3 Michigan for the right to take the Big Ten lead into the holiday break while the Gopher women head to Madison to play the #1 Wisconsin Badgers in WCHA play. While neither series will clinch or cost a conference title in December, both could have large ramifications on the conference races come February.
The Gopher men head to Michigan after their fourth consecutive weekend split.