Friday morning skate (update)

Good morning. I'm at the MSP airport, waiting to head to snowy Denver (15 inches this week, according to the CNN report on the TVs here) for this weekend's series. I covered Mankato West girls soccer in the state tournament last night, so there's no full Friday-morning reading list right now. For more on that, check out Brad Schlossman's blog at the Grand Forks Herald (he linked to mine last week when that site was down, so it's the least I can do).

However, I will provide a few notes on this weekend's MSU-DU series. The Mavericks are 0-9-1 in their last 10 games at Magness Arena. Is it a small-rink thing? Perhaps, because, over that same stretch, they're 5-1-2 against the Pioneers in Manakto.

Meanwhile, Denver goaltender Marc Cheverie is riding a three-game shutout streak and needs to keep the Mavericks scoreless for 5:24 tonight to break the school record for consecutive shutout minutes.

A few notes on the Mavericks:

As of Wednesday, coach Troy Jutting hadn't decided on his starting goaltender. I assume he has by now. Both Austin Lee and Kevin Murdock are on the trip.

Forward lines will be: Louwerse-Galiardi-Stewart; Zuck-Harrison-Jokinen; Mouillierat-Sackrison-Hayes; Gaulrapp-Pitlick-Thompson. Defensive pairings will be: Boe-Davis; Youds-Elbrecht; Canzanello-Cooper.

Adam Mueller and Joe Schiller are also on the trip.

UPDATE: Apparently, the snowstorm shut down the DU campus, so they're selling student tickets for this weekend's games for just $5, according to the Pios website.

That's all for now. Next time you hear from me, I'll be in Colorado. Be sure to check out the live blog tonight.