Brock Faber and Mike Koster, two high-end freshman defensemen for the Gophers men’s hockey team, showed last week during the season-opening sweep of Penn State that the jump to college hockey wasn’t too big a hurdle for them to clear. Coach Bob Motzko even called them “thoroughbreds.’’ “We knew pretty early after seeing them practice a couple weeks that they were going to help us a lot this year,’’ sophomore center Ben Meyers added. Faber and Koster did just that Monday night. In the opener of the first Monday-Tuesday series for the Gophers in 45 years, Faber scored his first career goal and Koster appeared to notch his first, too – until a scoring change an hour after the game gave him an assist – in a 4-1 victory over Ohio State at 3M Arena at Mariucci. Sammy Walker and Bryce Brodzinski also scored, Meyers had an empty-net goal, and…
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