Hockey Wilderness · Mar 21, 2018
Wilderness Walk: End of an Era
It’s the end of an era. Well, two eras actually. The first is that Don Lucia is retiring as head coach of the University of Minnesota’s men’s hockey team. Our friends over at The Daily Gopher are covering the story in depth, but suffice it to say this will mark a big change for the program. Lucia retires as the winningest coach in Gopher history and certainly has many accolades to his name, but there has also been a feeling that the program’s development had stalled. How much of that is due to Lucia and how much is due to the still mostly terrible Big Ten hockey conference is a discussion worth having, but it’ll be purely academic with Lucia gone and the Big Ten going nowhere.