Penalty Box Post
Friday, August 19th
PPC Locker Sponsorship registration reminder...
Locker sponsorships are now available for the 2022-2023 season! Each sponsorship requires a minimum tax-deductible donation of $600.00 (per locker), with all funds going to the Gopher Women’s Hockey Enhancement Fund to support the team.
Member benefits include the Power Play Club membership, a photo with your player, and meal with your player and the team on a game day (tentatively set for January 7, 2023).
GWH fans who are interested in sponsoring a player’s or coach's locker should contact Rennie McPherson at susanmcp@drsusanmcp.com. Please provide FIVE names of players and/or coaches you are interested in sponsoring; we try to make sure that each player is sponsored before doubling and tripling up. The current team roster – including the incoming players – can be found at gophersports.com/sports/womens-ice-hockey/roster.
Save the Dates!! In-person Chalk Talks for '22-'23 planned
As the 2022-2023 Gopher Women's Hockey season approaches, the Power Play Club Board of Directors is scheduling the club's events with a return to in-person activities!!
Three of those events are the popular Chalk Talks, in which a member of the Gopher coaching staff joins club members to discuss team strategy, review game film from the previous night's contest, and have a brief question & answer session. They are tentatively scheduled for October 8 (Bemidji State series), November 5 (Minnesota Duluth), and February 4 (Ohio State), starting 90 minutes prior to each day's game time. The location for each date is still being finalized.
The Chalk Talks are member-exclusive events. Locker Sponsor registration is now open for the upcoming season (as noted above), and registration for our standard membership tier is expected to begin soon.
S. Potomak joins Gopher representatives at World Championship
Minnesota Women's Hockey alumna Sarah Potomak increased the number of Gopher representatives attending the upcoming IIHF Women's World Championship to nine (9) when she was named to the Canada National Women's Hockey Team roster on Monday afternoon (August 15). Potomak's selection will mark her second World Championship and second overall appearance with Canada's senior squad; she scored 2 goals and an assist at the 2017 WWC.
Potomak joins current Gophers Josefin Bouveng (SWE), Taylor Heise (USA), Nelli Laitinen (FIN) & Grace Zumwinkle (USA) and alumnae Hannah Brandt (USA), Amanda Kessel (USA), Kelly Pannek (USA) & Lee Stecklein (USA) as a 2022 tournament participant.
The tournament is being held in Herning and Frederikshavn, Denmark, starting Thursday, August 25 and running through Sunday, September 4. The four national teams with Gopher representation all open their schedules on the 25th; Team USA begins the tournament against Japan at 8:00 a.m. U.S. Central Time, Canada and Finland will face each other at Noon CT, and Sweden will square off against tournament host Denmark at 12:30 p.m. CT.
Collegiate/Development Series: Canada & U.S. split first two games – Canada National Women's Development Team needed a shootout to defeat the U.S. Collegiate Select Team, 4-3 (2-0 in the SO), in their first meeting on Wednesday night, but the Americans came back with a 4-1 victory last night to knot the series at one game apiece going into tomorrow's final meeting. Gopher Abbey Murphy has two goals, one in each game, and Madeline Wethington dished out an assist for Team USA. Tessa Janecke (Penn State) leads the Americans with 3 goals and Maureen Murphy (Northeastern) has 3 assists; Danielle Serdachny (Colgate) leads Team Canada with 2 goals and an assist (plus one of the shootout tallies).
Whitecaps announce retirement of charter team member, GWH alumna Winny Brodt-Brown after 18 seasons
The Minnesota Whitecaps announced Tuesday (Aug. 16) on Facebook and Twitter that charter team member and GWH alumna Winny Brodt-Brown is retiring after 18 seasons with the club. (Photo courtesy of the Whitecaps)
Brodt-Brown played three seasons with the Gophers, where she remains second in program history for points by a defender (134), third in blueliner goals (41) and assists (93), and sixth across all positions in assists-per-game (0.97). A member of the Gophers' 2000 National Championship squad, Winny was inducted into the university's M Club Hall of Fame in 2021.
Brodt-Brown was renowned in her high school days, winning the inaugural Minnesota Ms. Hockey Award in the 1995-1996 season while competing for Roseville. Her collegiate career began at the University of New Hampshire, where she recorded 11 goals and 34 assists as a freshman for the Wildcats. Following her first two seasons with the Gophers, Winny was a member of the U.S. Women's National Team, earning silver medals at the 2000 and 2001 IIHF Women's World Championships and recording a combined 5 assists in 10 games.
While her complete career stats with the Whitecaps are unavailable, Brodt-Brown's scoring line in the Premier Hockey Federation (formerly the National Women's Hockey League) includes a goal and 5 assists in 49 regular-season games and an additional two assists in 7 postseason contests over last four seasons. Winny and the Whitecaps competed in the Western Women's Hockey League from 2004 through 2011, then played multiple years as an independent club before joining the NWHL/PHF in 2018.
We send Winny our congratulations, thanks, and best wishes in retirement!!
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