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KALAMAZOO — The hockey season at St. Cloud State is over.
With the SCSU men’s loss Saturday to No. 5 Western Michigan, their season ends in the NCHC tournament before the Frozen Faceoff. The No. 13 SCSU women lost in the same round to No. 6 Minnesota Duluth earlier this month.
Playing on the road in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the SCSU men lost by a score of 6-2 in back-to-back games. They are ranked No. 36 in the most recent NCAA Pairwise rankings and finished ahead of only Miami (3-28-3) in NCHC standings.
None of the last four teams in this weekend’s Frozen Faceoff at the Xcel Energy Center are from Minnesota. The best offenses in college hockey, Western Michigan (28-7-1) will take on No. 17 North Dakota (21-14-2) and No. 10 Denver (28-10-1) will play and No. 15 Arizona State (21-13-2) on Friday for a chance at the championship Saturday.
The only teams scoring more than four goals per game, Western and Denver, are the only NCHC teams ranked in the Pairwise top ten. The Broncos scored in every quarterfinal period against the Huskies.
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SCSU (14-21-1) sophomore Verner Miettinen scored in both games for the Huskies. Senior captain Josh Luedke also scored a goal in the first game and sophomore Tyson Gross scored on a power play in the second game. Freshman Austin Burnevik assisted two of the goals across the series.
Burnevik ends the year leading a cadre of young Huskies atop the team’s offensive statistics. He had the most goals (13) and points (28) scored by a Husky this winter and Gross leads the assists category with 16. Sophomore Barrett Hall and Miettien had 22 and 21 points, respectively, and sophomore Daimon Gardner had 14. Captains Mason Salquist and Nick Portz are graduating from leadership roles on the second and checking lines.
The Huskies scored just 2.19 goals per game — 59th in Division 1. St. Cloud State was 4-14-2 against ranked opponents and the team had to overcome an 11-game losing streak from Jan. 10 to Feb. 16.
Where the team is losing most of its experience to graduation is on defense. Luedtke and Karl Falk are seniors on the back line and fifth-year transfer Gavin Enright played goal for 22 games while starting sophomore Isak Posch recovered from an injury. There are also talented underclassmen defensemen who have shifts under their belts after this year as well as juniors Cooper Wylie and Mason Reiners.
The Huskies gave up just over three goals per game in 2024-25.
Across town from the NCHC Frozen Faceoff this weekend the women’s Frozen Four will feature No. 1 Wisconsin (26-1-2) versus No. 4 Minnesota (28-11-1) and later No. 2 Ohio State (27-7-3) versus No. 3 Cornell (24-4-5) on Friday at the Gophers’ Ridder Arena. Wisconsin beat Minnesota 4-3 in the WCHA final.
The St. Cloud State women’s final losses to NCAA quarterfinalist Duluth (21-14-2) were both within a goal. SCSU (15-15-6) lost five games to end the year with the same .500 winning percentage as last season. But the Huskies played well against well-regarded opponents. They won or were within two goals in 13 of their 20 ranked matchups.
Three of the team’s top five scorers were underclassmen: sophomore Alice Sauriol, sophomore Sofianna Sundelin and redshirt sophomore Laura Zimmermann. Sauriol led the team in assists (15) and points (22) and Sundelin had the second most goals on the team with 11. She had 20 points and Zimmermann had 15.
Captain Emma Gentry graduates ninth in program history in career points with 90 after growing the total by 20 in her graduate season. Unless they return for graduate years, SCSU is also losing two senior captains on the defense. Dayle Ross and Grace Wolfe are 41st and tied for 42nd all-time with 40 and 37 points, respectively. Ross had the second most assists on the team this winter with 13.
Two athletes received postseason conference honors. Fifth-year goaltender Sanni Ahola was named to the all-conference third team after making the first team in 2024. She leaves the team in the hands of Emilia Kyrkkö, who was named to the WCHA all-rookie team.
So far three sophomores have transferred from St. Cloud State: forwards Grace Delmonico and Greta Henderson and defender Carmen Bray. Henderson and Bray both played more than 30 games and contributed nine and eight points, respectively. Delmonico played in seven games.
Contact reporter Reid Glenn at [email protected].
This article originally appeared on St. Cloud Times: St. Cloud State 2025 hockey seasons end in conference quarterfinals
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With the SCSU men’s loss Saturday to No. 5 Western Michigan, their season ends in the NCHC tournament before the Frozen Faceoff. The No. 13 SCSU women lost in the same round to No. 6 Minnesota Duluth earlier this month.
Playing on the road in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the SCSU men lost by a score of 6-2 in back-to-back games. They are ranked No. 36 in the most recent NCAA Pairwise rankings and finished ahead of only Miami (3-28-3) in NCHC standings.
None of the last four teams in this weekend’s Frozen Faceoff at the Xcel Energy Center are from Minnesota. The best offenses in college hockey, Western Michigan (28-7-1) will take on No. 17 North Dakota (21-14-2) and No. 10 Denver (28-10-1) will play and No. 15 Arizona State (21-13-2) on Friday for a chance at the championship Saturday.
The only teams scoring more than four goals per game, Western and Denver, are the only NCHC teams ranked in the Pairwise top ten. The Broncos scored in every quarterfinal period against the Huskies.
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SCSU (14-21-1) sophomore Verner Miettinen scored in both games for the Huskies. Senior captain Josh Luedke also scored a goal in the first game and sophomore Tyson Gross scored on a power play in the second game. Freshman Austin Burnevik assisted two of the goals across the series.
Burnevik ends the year leading a cadre of young Huskies atop the team’s offensive statistics. He had the most goals (13) and points (28) scored by a Husky this winter and Gross leads the assists category with 16. Sophomore Barrett Hall and Miettien had 22 and 21 points, respectively, and sophomore Daimon Gardner had 14. Captains Mason Salquist and Nick Portz are graduating from leadership roles on the second and checking lines.
The Huskies scored just 2.19 goals per game — 59th in Division 1. St. Cloud State was 4-14-2 against ranked opponents and the team had to overcome an 11-game losing streak from Jan. 10 to Feb. 16.
Where the team is losing most of its experience to graduation is on defense. Luedtke and Karl Falk are seniors on the back line and fifth-year transfer Gavin Enright played goal for 22 games while starting sophomore Isak Posch recovered from an injury. There are also talented underclassmen defensemen who have shifts under their belts after this year as well as juniors Cooper Wylie and Mason Reiners.
The Huskies gave up just over three goals per game in 2024-25.
Across town from the NCHC Frozen Faceoff this weekend the women’s Frozen Four will feature No. 1 Wisconsin (26-1-2) versus No. 4 Minnesota (28-11-1) and later No. 2 Ohio State (27-7-3) versus No. 3 Cornell (24-4-5) on Friday at the Gophers’ Ridder Arena. Wisconsin beat Minnesota 4-3 in the WCHA final.
The St. Cloud State women’s final losses to NCAA quarterfinalist Duluth (21-14-2) were both within a goal. SCSU (15-15-6) lost five games to end the year with the same .500 winning percentage as last season. But the Huskies played well against well-regarded opponents. They won or were within two goals in 13 of their 20 ranked matchups.
Three of the team’s top five scorers were underclassmen: sophomore Alice Sauriol, sophomore Sofianna Sundelin and redshirt sophomore Laura Zimmermann. Sauriol led the team in assists (15) and points (22) and Sundelin had the second most goals on the team with 11. She had 20 points and Zimmermann had 15.
Captain Emma Gentry graduates ninth in program history in career points with 90 after growing the total by 20 in her graduate season. Unless they return for graduate years, SCSU is also losing two senior captains on the defense. Dayle Ross and Grace Wolfe are 41st and tied for 42nd all-time with 40 and 37 points, respectively. Ross had the second most assists on the team this winter with 13.
Two athletes received postseason conference honors. Fifth-year goaltender Sanni Ahola was named to the all-conference third team after making the first team in 2024. She leaves the team in the hands of Emilia Kyrkkö, who was named to the WCHA all-rookie team.
So far three sophomores have transferred from St. Cloud State: forwards Grace Delmonico and Greta Henderson and defender Carmen Bray. Henderson and Bray both played more than 30 games and contributed nine and eight points, respectively. Delmonico played in seven games.
Contact reporter Reid Glenn at [email protected].
This article originally appeared on St. Cloud Times: St. Cloud State 2025 hockey seasons end in conference quarterfinals
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