By: Brad Elliott Schlossman

The season started in rough fashion for Minnesota — a blowout loss against rival UND in Ralph Engelstad Arena.

If things don’t change in a hurry, it might end the same way.

UND handed the Gophers their worst opening-round Western Collegiate Hockey Association loss in program history Friday night, a 6-0 blowout that leaves the Sioux one win away from their eighth straight trip to the WCHA Final Five.

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