Minnesota State 2025-26 Season: Get To Know 'Em

Well... wasn’t too worried, but we dodged having another head coach poached (I’m even less worried about St. Cloud).

Great win over the Tommies—love that they’re leaving the conference without a trophy. Now onto the tourney. Brutal regional, but cautiously optimistic. Obviously, it starts with getting another great game out of Tracy

Disappointing to drop one to Western again, but the silver lining is that Denver looks like an absolute buzzsaw again, so a trip to Vegas probably wasn’t in the cards. Now we get to hate watch everyone else who was here or was supposed to come here go for a title.

Sad to see Tracy, Wheeler, and Cichosz leave. They didn’t have the NCAA success of some other groups, but they deserve a ton of credit for keeping the program together during a time of chaos.

This is the best class of freshmen coming in a long time—hopefully they all make it to campus. As of now, defense and goaltending will be the biggest question marks. Hopefully, they’re able to add an experienced defenseman or two from the portal. Raiden LeGall has posted great numbers in the WHL, so hopefully he’s able to carry that over, hit the ground running as a freshman, and become our next stellar goalie who somehow never wins the Richter Award.

We had a good stretch of luck going from Dryden McKay to Alex Tracy, with a brief stint of Keenan Rancier (who was terrible). I am interested to see if Beckford will get the start or if they will go with someone new.