Mowers and Minnesota: Whitesboro Native Finds NHL Comfort Zone
Mark Mowers enjoys scouting for the Minnesota Wild.
Eight years into retirement as a professional hockey player, Mowers is doing fine. Adjusting like millions of people affected by the COVID pandemic to a new normal when going about their work, Mowers, 46, is learning how to go about his work while at home. As an NHL professional scout, being in arenas to evaluate players, for Wild and opposing skaters, traditionally requires traveling to arenas and seeing up-close how players perform.
This, of course, went out the window last March.
Adjustments in his work habits as one of two pro scouts for the Western Conference club are continual. However, Mowers is energized about the Wild s future, and his own within the organization - something that has not always been the case.
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Dec 17, 2020 1:56 AM
OMAHA, Neb.–(UND Athletics) Senior captain Jordan Kawaguchi’s game-winning goal just eight seconds into overtime sent fourth-ranked North Dakota to a 4-3 win over the ninth-ranked St. Cloud State Huskies Wednesday evening at Baxter Arena.
“He’s a guy when the puck is on his tape, he loves the spotlight of trying to win the game,” UND head coach Brad Berry said of his clutch captain. “We had a couple looks near the end of regulation that missed or went off the post, but overall, I’m just proud of the way our group battled. I thought the five-minute major kill was huge in us not only getting us a point but coming out of here with two points.”
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Dec 11, 2020 8:24 AM
There are no secrets when UMD is playing North Dakota. The game will likely be fast, physical, intense, and emotional. Zero pretense.
The emotions really didn’t spill like we’ve so often seen in Thursday’s 2-2 tie at the NCHC Pod, which was followed up by a three-round shootout that UMD won 1-0 for an extra point in the league standings. In fact, the five combined penalties for just ten minutes are the fewest we’ve seen in a UMD-North Dakota game going back at least 20 years, to the point where collegehockeystats.net started publishing game box scores.
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Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, we ll never know who would ve won the 2020 NCAA men s hockey championship, though the four teams mostly likely to be No. 1 NCAA tournament seeds when the season was called off on March 12 could offer strong cases.
North Dakota was the top team in the PairWise Ratings, the computer formula the NCAA uses to pick its tournament field. The Fighting Hawks had rolled through the rugged NCHC and had a 26-5-4 record.
Minnesota State Mankato was No. 2 in the PairWise and boasted the most wins in the nation at 31-5-2. The Mavericks seemed poised for an NCAA breakthrough, owning a tie and a win over North Dakota and a sweep of Minnesota Duluth in the Twin Ports.