COLUMBUS, Ohio – For college hockey fans, the excitement of a new series seems to build throughout the week and naturally peaks on Friday and Saturday when their team takes the ice for real. For the top-ranked Minnesota Gophers, there is an expectation that a gradual building of emotions will peak as well, as they open their conference season with a pair of Big Ten games at Ohio State this weekend. Meeting with the media this week, coach Bob Motzko admitted that with all of the hype and emotion expended in two toe-to-toe battles with longtime neighborhood rival North Dakota last weekend in Minneapolis, the Gophers were a notably physically and emotionally spent club when they gathered at Ridder Arena to begin prepping for the Buckeyes on Monday. “We’ve got to get our energy back. We had a whole lot of energy last week, and that’s the only thing you…
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