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No. 10/12 St. Cloud State Women’s Hockey Continues Homestand Against No. 1 Wisconsin After Bye Week
11/13/2025 4:09:00 PM | Women's Hockey
Huskies welcome defending national champions to St. Cloud, host annual “Fill the Herb” game on Saturday
ST. CLOUD, Minn. – No. 10/12 St. Cloud State Women's Hockey (4-8-0, 1-7-0 Western Collegiate Hockey Association) continues its homestand after its bye week with the defending national champions, No. 1 Wisconsin (11-1-0, 7-1-0 WCHA). Puck drops from the Herb Brooks National Hockey Center are scheduled for 6 p.m. (Friday) and 2 p.m. (Saturday).
SERIES NOTES
FOLLOW THE HUSKIES
Both games will be broadcast on Big Ten Plus (note – a paid subscription is required) with audio coverage on 97.5 FM RadioX (Friday) and the KVSC Sports Stream (Saturday). Nick Maxson will have the call on B1G+, while KVSC talent Brian Moos (play-by-play), Noah Grant (color – Friday) and Reece Powell (color – Saturday) will be on the audio broadcast. Live stats will be provided by St. Cloud State. Tickets for the games can be purchased at scsutickets.com.
Game 13 – vs. #1 Wisconsin (Herb Brooks National Hockey Center // St. Cloud) – Friday, Nov. 14 / 6 p.m. / Watch ($ - B1G+) / Live stats / Listen (97.5 FM RadioX)
Game 14 – vs. #1 Wisconsin (Herb Brooks National Hockey Center // St. Cloud) – Friday, Nov. 14 / 6 p.m. / Watch ($ - B1G+) / Live stats / Listen (KVSC Sports Stream)
Links to each coverage option are available on the SCSU Women's Hockey schedule page.
GAME DAY PROMOTIONS
Saturday, Nov. 15 vs. Wisconsin
Promotions: Fill the Herb ($1 tickets) / Walter Cup Day (autographs from Husky and PWHL champion Klára Hymlárová '24 and pictures with the Walter Cup / Hockey Hits Back game (Sophie's Squad) / Autographs from select men's hockey players during the second intermission / Post-game autographs from select women's players
SERIES HISTORY
SCSU trails the all-time series against the Badgers, 9-99-4, including an 0-4-1 mark in the last five games and an 1-8-1 mark in the last 10 meetings. The Huskies are 5-45-3 all time against UW in St. Cloud and last season, SCSU went 0-3-1 with a shootout loss against Wisconsin.
LET'S GO POLLING
The Huskies remained at No. 10 in the U.S. College Hockey Online (USCHO) Poll and dropped to No. 12 in the USA Hockey Poll. St. Cloud State is one of six WCHA programs featured in the rankings, with one additional club receiving votes. Wisconsin enters the series ranked No. 1 in both polls and is receiving 38 of the 39 total first place votes between the two polls.
LAST TIME OUT
Then-No. 10/11 SCSU was swept by No. 5 Minnesota on Oct. 31-Nov. 1 at the Herb Brooks National Hockey Center in St. Cloud. The Huskies fell 5-3 in game one and dropped the series finale 3-2.
Notes from the games
GAME 11 - 5-3 loss vs. #5 Minnesota Duluth (10-31-25)
- SCSU moves to 15-93-12 all-time against Minnesota Duluth and 10-37-7 all-time against the Bulldogs in St. Cloud. UMD has won the last six matchups of the teams.
- The Huskies moved to 2-7-0 this season against teams ranked/receiving votes and 3-3-0 in home games.
- SCSU went 3-for-4 on the penalty kill and 0-for-2 on the power play. For the season, SCSU is 27-for-37 (73.0%) on the penalty kill and 4-for-31 on the power play (12.9%).
- The Huskies outshot UMD, 34-26. The Bulldogs won 55.4% of the faceoffs and out blocked the Huskies, 13-11.
- SCSU blocked 11+ shots for the fifth time this season.
- Redshirt junior forward Laura Zimmermann (Ringgenberg, Switzerland) (Ringgenberg, Switzerland) scored the Huskies first goal and was named the game's second star. It was her third goal of the season, her fifth point of the season and the 30th point of her career.
- Graduate defender Grace Wolfe (Owatonna, Minn.) scored the second SCSU goal which was her 45th career point.
- Freshman forward Raili Mustonen (Kalajoki, Finland) scored the third and final Husky goal, the second of her young career.
- Senior forward Avery Farrell (Rogers, Minn.) and junior forward Payton Holloway (Tomah, Wis.) each tallied their fifth assist of the season.
- Redshirt sophomore Paige Hoogendam (Ajax, Ontario) made a career-high 17 saves in two periods of relief.
GAME 12 – 3-2 loss vs. #5 Minnesota Duluth (11-1-25)
- SCSU moves to 15-94-12 all-time against Minnesota Duluth and 10-38-7 all-time against the Bulldogs in St. Cloud. UMD has won the last seven matchups of the teams.
- The Huskies moved to 2-8-0 this season against teams ranked/receiving votes and 3-4-0 in home games.
- SCSU went 4-for-4 on the penalty kill and 0-for-2 on the power play. For the season, SCSU is 31-for-41 (75.6%) on the penalty kill and 4-for-33 on the power play (12.1%).
- The Huskies won 55.2% of the faceoffs while the Bulldogs outshot SCSU, 35-34 and out blocked the Huskies 14-12.
- SCSU blocked 12+ shots for the fifth time this season.
- Freshman forward Payton Remick (Roseau, Minn.) scored her first career goal and was named the game's second star.
- Junior forward Sofianna Sundelin (Ulvila, Finland/Kuortane Urheiluopisto) (Ulvila, Finland) scored the Huskies first goal of the game. Her goal was the 15th of her career and she is now tied for the team lead in points this season with nine.
- Redshirt junior forward Laura Zimmermann (Ringgenberg, Switzerland) was 12-and-6 on the faceoff dot. Her 12 faceoff wins were a new season high mark.
- Graduate defender Grace Wolfe's (Owatonna, Minn.) provided the primary assist on Remick's goal and tied her career high in shots on goal, with five. Her assist was her seventh of the season, which leads the team and her ninth point which is tied for the team lead.
- Senior forward Svenja Voigt (Cologne, Germany) provided the secondary assist on Remick's goal, her first of the season. She also skated in her 100th career game for the Huskies.
- Freshman forward Raili Mustonen (Kalajoki, Finland) provided the primary assist on Sundelin's goal, while senior forward Avery Farrell (Rogers, Minn.) recorded the secondary assist. Farrell has six assists on the season which is tied for the second most on the team.
- Junior forward Payton Holloway (Tomah, Wis.) went 8-and-2 on the faceoff dot. Her eight wins on the draw tied her season high mark.
- Freshman defender Sydney Lamb (Lombard, Ill.) was the lone Husky to skate to a +1 mark.
- Graduate goaltender Jojo Chobak (Chicago, Ill.) made 32 saves on 35 shots (.914 save percentage).
HUSKIES REPRESENTING THEIR COUNTRIES
Senior forward Svenja Voigt (Cologne, Germany) and aluma Laura Kluge '21 competed for their native Germany at the 2025 Deuschland Cup at the VR-Bank Landshut Arena in Landshut, Germany from Nov. 5-8, while alumnae Klára Hymlárová '24 (Czechia) and Sanni Ahola '25 (Finland) each played in the 2025-26 Women's Euro Hockey Tour's Lidl Hockey Games in Ängelholm, Sweden, from Nov. 5–8.
NURSING STUDENT BY DAY, GOALTENDER BY NIGHT
Graduate goaltender Jojo Chobak's (Chicago, Ill.) journey as the first hockey player to make their way through St. Cloud State University's nursing program was recently featured on #OurSCSU.
WCHA COMMISSIONER'S CORNER
Redshirt junior forward Laura Zimmermann (Ringgenberg, Switzerland) was featured on the most recent installment of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) Commissioner's Corner podcast series on Nov. 5. In the series, WCHA Commissioner Michelle McAteer sits down one-on-one with extraordinary student-athletes from across the league to discuss real-life topics, hockey, and everything in between. You can watch the video on the WCHA Hockey YouTube page.
THIS WEEK IN THE WCHA
Friday, Nov. 14
Bemidji State at No. 2 Minnesota* - Noon
No. 5 Minnesota Duluth at No. 15 St. Thomas* - 5 PM
Minnesota State at No. 3 Ohio State* - 5 PM
No. 1 Wisconsin at No. 10/12 St. Cloud State* - 6 PM
Saturday, Nov. 15
No. 1 Wisconsin at No. 10/12 St. Cloud State* - 2 PM
No. 5 Minnesota Duluth at No. 15 St. Thomas* - 2 PM
Bemidji State at No. 2 Minnesota* - 2 PM
Minnesota State at No. 3 Ohio State* - 2 PM
*WCHA Game
** Rankings are USCHO/USA Hockey
***All times in CT
WCHA WEEKLY HONORS
Junior forward Alice Sauriol (Sherbrooke, Quebec) was the most recent Husky to earn Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) weekly honors after being tabbed as the league's Forward of the Week on Oct. 20. She is the third Husky to win WCHA weekly honors this season, following freshman forward Maria Mikaelyan (Moscow, Russia) who earned Rookie of the Week honors on Oct. 13 and sophomore defender Siiri Yrjölä (Vantaa, Finland), who was named Defender of the Week on Sept. 22.
2025-26 WCHA WEEKLY HONORS
Defender of the Week
- Siiri Yrjölä (Sept. 22)
Forward of the Week
- Alice Sauriol (Oct. 20)
Rookie of the Week
- Maria Mikaelyan (Oct. 13)
JOJO IS CHO-BA(C)K
Graduate student goaltender Jojo Chobak (Chicago, Ill.) is back for her final year of collegiate eligibility after a redshirt season in 2024-25. In her first start between the pipes in since March 2, 2024 (567 days) on Sept. 20, she earned her 10th career shutout as a Husky to tie former teammate Sanni Ahola (2020-25) for the most career shutouts in program history.
This summer, Chobak was invited to the USA Hockey National Goaltender Camp and National Festival and was a U.S. Collegiate Select Team selection. In 2023-24, she went 7-11-1 over 17 starts and established new program records for single season save percentage (.939) and goals against average (1.64) while recording four shutouts. Chobak currently owns seven season top 10 marks and four career top 10 spots in the record book. In her four-year career, she owns a 28-28-3 record with a 2.17 GAA, a .924 SV% and 13 shutouts over 58 starts/68 appearances.
NEW LEADER OF THE PACK
Former assistant coach, Mira Jalosuo (MEER-ah YAH-loh-SUE-oh) was named the seventh head coach of the St. Cloud State Women's Hockey team on June 27, 2025. She is just the second woman to lead the Huskies during the program's 27-year history, following in the footsteps of Kerry Brodt Wethington, who was the programs first head coach from 1998-99 to 2001-02.
Jalosuo picked up her first win as the Huskies bench boss in her first game, a 5-0 win over Lindenwood (Mo.) on September 19. She earned her first series sweep the next day after SCSU took down the Lions 5-0 for the second straight game. It was the first time in program history that a team posted back-to-back shutouts to open a season and the fourth season in a row that the Huskies opened their season with a series sweep.
A highly decorated member of Finland's National Team, the two-time Olympian and five-time World Championships Bronze medalist spent the last two seasons as an assistant coach with the Minnesota Frost (formerly PWHL Minnesota), helping the franchise win back-to-back PWHL Walter Cups in each of the first two seasons of the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL).
ALL-FEMALE COACHING STAFF
For the first time in program history, the Huskies have an all-female coaching staff. SCSU is one of two programs in the WCHA and one of six programs in all of NCAA DI Women's Hockey with an all-female staff.
WELCOME TO THE PACK
The Huskies welcomed 13 newcomers to the team in the fall (10 freshmen and three transfers). Of the 10 freshmen, six are forwards – Lily Erickson (Roseau, Minn. / Roseau HS), Payton Remick (Roseau, Minn. / Roseau HS), Raili Mustonen (Kalajoki, Finland / Team Kuortane (Auroraliiga)), Reese Strauts (Brandon, Wis. / Windy City Storm (19U AAA)), Julianne Labbé (Wendake, Quebec / Cégep Limoilou Titans (QCHL)) and Maria Mikaelyan (Moscow, Russia / North York Storm (OWHL U22 AA)) and four are defenders - Hannah Arnold (Winnipeg, Manitoba / St. Mary's Academy (CSSHL U18)), Sydney Lamb (Lombard, Ill. / Windy City Storm (19U AAA)), Aruba Skiston (Bensenville, Ill. / Chicago Mission (19U AAA)) and Maélie Pion (Sherbrooke, Quebec / Stanstead College (CAHS)).
The transfers are junior forward Payton Holloway (Tomah, Wis. / Shattuck St. Mary's) from Minnesota Duluth, junior forward Sidney Jackel (Ann Arbor, Mich. / Pioneer HS), from Lindenwood and senior goaltender Hali Lawrence (Calgary, Alberta / Calgary Fire U18AAA) from Post.
O CAPTAINS! OUR CAPTAINS!
St. Cloud State named four captains ahead of the 2025-26 season on Friday. Graduate student defender Grace Wolfe (Owatonna, Minn.) with be the fifth Husky to wear the C as captain for two seasons, while redshirt junior defender Regan Bulger (Yellowknife, Northwest Territories), graduate student goaltender Jojo Chobak (Chicago, Ill.) and redshirt junior forward Laura Zimmermann (Ringgenberg, Switzerland) will be alternate captains and wear a letter for the first time in their career.
Wolfe, who served as a co-captain in 2024-25 and an alternate captain in 2023-24, becomes just the second Husky to wear a letter in three seasons after Katy Battis (C – 1999-2000, A – 2001-02, 2002-03).
WCHA PRESEASON COACHES POLL
St. Cloud State Women's Hockey was selected to finish fifth in the 2025-26 Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) Preseason Coaches' Poll, as announced by the league office on Sept. 8. The Huskies are coming off their third fifth place conference finish in a row and tied for the second most conference points in program history a season ago.
SCSU received 24 points overall in the coaches' poll and were selected to finish behind Wisconsin (49 points, seven first-place votes), Minnesota (40 points, one first-place vote) Ohio State (40 points), and Minnesota Duluth (31 points). Rounding out the poll was St. Thomas (17 points), Minnesota State (16 points) and Bemidji State (seven points).
2025-26 WCHA Preseason Coaches' Poll
Pl. Team (1st Place Votes) Points
1. Wisconsin (7) 49
t2. Minnesota (1) 40
t2. Ohio State 40
4. Minnesota Duluth 31
5. St. Cloud State 24
6. St. Thomas 17
7. Minnesota State 16
8. Bemidji State 7
*First-place votes are in parentheses (Coaches could not vote for their own team)
JOJO REPRESENTS THE STARS AND STRIPES AT THE 2025 COLLEGIATE SELECT SERIES
Graduate student goaltender Jojo Chobak (Chicago, Ill.) helped lead the U.S. Collegiate Select Team to a 1-1-1-0 record in the three-game series against Canada in the 2025 Collegiate Select Series in August at the Lake Placid Olympic Center in Lake Placid, N.Y.
The graduate student goaltender was the third active SCSU player and first netminder to be named to the Collegiate Select Team (*formerly known as the U22 Team) twice in her career. Chobak and former co-captain Emma Gentry became the fourth and fifth Huskies to make the team back in 2023 before Gentry was a back-to-back pick in 2024. Prior to that, goaltender Emma Polusny was the last Husky to make the team in 2019 and before that, defender Brittni Kuyper made back-to-back U22 squads in 2006 and 2007 while forward Holly Roberts joined Kuyper at the 2007 U22 Series.
St. Cloud State Huskies at the U.S. Collegiate Select Series
Year Name Pos.
2025 JOJO CHOBAK G
2024 Emma Gentry F
2023 Emma Gentry F
2023 JOJO CHOBAK G
2019 Emma Polusny G
2007 Holly Roberts F
2007 Brittni Kuyper D
2006 Brittni Kuyper D
THANK YOU, BRIAN
Former head coach Brian Idalski was named the first-ever head coach of Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL) expansion team, PWHL Vancouver on June 23.
The 2022-23 U.S. College Hockey Online (USCHO) National Coach of the Year departed St. Cloud after three seasons in which he helped turn the program around, bringing the Huskies back into national prominence. Under Idalski, SCSU went 50-50-9 and recorded three of its eight highest single season win totals in program history and set numerous other individual and team records.
In 2024-25, Idalski became just the second coach in program history to amass 50 wins and was the first to do so in three seasons or less. He also became the first coach in program history to beat Minnesota on the road (0-60-2 prior) and was just the second coach to post three consecutive 15+ win seasons.
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