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Sydney Wolf and Jordan McAlpine go over both days of the 2024 NHL Draft and discuss who some of the biggest risers and fallers were from the USHL. 

Sydney Wolf and Jordan McAlpine discuss the top skaters from the ranks of junior hockey who will hear their names called at the 2024 NHL Draft this weekend.

Long before he got to campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan rookie center Garrett Schifsky knew all about playing on a big stage, as a member of two Minnesota state tourney teams at Andover. His adjustment to the college game has included centering the Wolverines' top line between two of the bigger names in Big Ten hockey.

And Schifsky was able to make three trips back to his home state this year, where the team in maize and blue won once at St. Cloud State and twice at Minnesota, the second win earning them a spot in the Big Ten tournament title game versus archrival Michigan State this weekend.

Mick and Jess talked all things hockey with Schifsky, and broke down the rest of the league action, including a few now-former collegians who inked their first pro contracts.

Mikey Eyssimont is finally getting settled after a season that saw some massive moves. In 2022-23, Eyssimont played for the Manitoba Moose of the American Hockey League, then the Winnipeg Jets, the San Jose Sharks and the Tampa Bay Lightning of the NHL. So that's two countries and both coasts in America.

The good news for Eyssimont is that the former St. Cloud State player seems to have found a place in the NHL. He ended the season playing 15 regular season games and three playoff games with the Lightning. On Sunday, Eyssimont signed a two-year, one-way contract with the Lightning worth $800,000 per year.

In all his stops, he ended up playing a career-best 54 regular season games in the NHL after spending nearly all of his first five pro seasons playing in the AHL.

Eyssimont discusses his travels, his career and if he still follows the St. Cloud State men's hockey team. Eyssimont, 26, played for the Huskies from 2015-18 and discusses all this and more on the Huskies Hockey Insider podcast with The Rink Live's Mick Hatten.

The 24-year-old goalie from Mound, Minn., is back in Minnesota after playing overseas. A fun conversation with the former All-WCHA First Team pick on the Huskies Hockey Insider podcast.

The Rink Live's Jordan McAlpine joins Mick Hatten and Jess Myers to catch up on junior hockey before the USHL Draft this week. They talk about the playoffs in the USHL and NAHL and where the season's at so far.

Sydney Wolf and Jordan McAlpine discuss the USHL and the NAHL playoffs and some of the standout players of the postseason so far. They also recap recent college commits throughout the leagues and review some of the tenders signed in the USHL. 

Mike Hastings spent the last 11 seasons helping lead the Minnesota State University-Mankato men's hockey program to places it had never been before, including winning conference championships and reaching two Frozen Fours. But Hastings recently left the Mavericks to become the new men's head coach at the University of Wisconsin.

Hastings talks about making that decision, the process of getting his new job, trying to build new relationships and what the welcome has been like from people attached to the Badgers. All this and a lot more on The Rink Live podcast with Jess Myers and Mick Hatten.

Luke Strand wrote a school paper in the fifth grade on what he wanted to be when he grew up. He said a fireman or a coach.

It ended up being the latter and he has coached in hockey for the last 20-plus years. He has coached in junior hockey, NCAA Division III, Division I and pro hockey (AHL). He began as a player growing up in Eau Claire, Wis. He ended up playing junior hockey for the North Iowa Huskies (USHL) and at Wisconsin-Eau Claire. After playing some minor league hockey, he has been a head or assistant coach or a scout.

On April 10, he became the men's hockey head coach at Minnesota State University-Mankato. Strand talks about the stops in his career, trying to navigate the transfer portal and how he would like to see the Mavericks play.

Air Force Head Coach Frank Serratore recaps Minnesota's win over Boston University and Quinnipiac's victory over Michigan at the Frozen Four in Tampa with Jess Myers and Mick Hatten of The Rink Live.

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