Friday night started the Bemidji series at Ridder Arena. It also kicked off a promotion event, “Fear the Frost Night,” which featured ice cream treats and an altered photo of Minnesota head coach Brad Frost looking like a Frozen character, as seen in the @GopherWHockey twitter feed.
The Beavers came out in full force and Emily Bergland recorded the first shot on goal—which Sidney Peters blocked, but didn’t cover—then tried again with her rebound. It took a couple of minutes for Minnesota to get on the board with a left point shot by Patti Marshall into Lauren Bench’s center mass, but once that happened the Gophers had Bench going from pipe to pipe.