A look at the list of Gopher hockey coaches counts 14 (depending on what you think of interims), with I.D. MacDonald being the teams first coach back in 1921-2. That’s fine, I guess as 1921 was the first year the school recognized it as a varsity sport. But hockey at the University of Minnesota dates back to 1895(!).
Left off that list is Doctor H.A. Parkyn who is credited with organizing the first game on February 18, 1895. That game was a mighty L to Winnipeg, but it is credited as the second college hockey game (University of Baltimore played the Baltimore Athletic Club a couple months before this game).