What is Gopher Puck Live?
Gopher Puck Live (GPL) is an online community for all things associated with the University of Minnesota Hockey program. The backbone of GPL is the Community. This is a message board where the fans can gather and discuss the Gophers and other interests that they have in common. In addition to the community, GPL also covers the teams very closely. You can find articles about the men's and women's teams on the home page. Full schedules and standings are also available.

Legal Stuff:
GopherPuckLive.com is not affiliated in any way with the University of Minnesota or the WCHA.

Who runs GPL?
My name is Craig Cotner. I grew up in Bloomington and now live in Cologne, MN. People know me as "Jupiter" on the message board. In fact, most people call me that instead of my real name.

Writers:
For the men's side, GPL has Ryan Cardinal (cardinal) and Jeff Oftos (go4hcky) writing articles for us. We also have Erik Vegoe (evegoe) who contributes during the WCHA Final Five and also fills in when Jeff or Ryan are not available. On the women's side we have Arlan Marttila (ARM) who has been writing for the women's booster club (powerplayclub.org) for some time. We are also given articles directly from the University of Minnesota to help with the women's coverage.

History:
GPL started back on April 9th, 2003. Back then the main Gopher fans site was PrideOnIce.com (POI). During the 2003 Frozen Four week, POI's site went down and the guys who ran the site were in Buffalo and could not fix it. So I used my family website to create a temporary message board so that the fans had some place to go until POI was fixed.

After that, GPL was mostly just an alternate place for POI people to talk Gopher Hockey. Back in those days I used to create highlight videos of all of the Gopher games. The video became very popular and was one of the main reasons that the site stayed alive for the first few years. Of course, once the Danny Irmen penalty shot goal video against Wisconsin was posted the game was up. A few people at FSN didn't like me posting videos so they forced me to shut them down.

For the next few years we grew up to a few hundred registered users. Then on February 11, 2005 Matt & Kyle Baron decided that they were tired of running POI and decided to shut it down. With that shut down they suggested that people come over to GPL if they wanted a place to go. As you can imagine, this place took off pretty fast. We had 78 new registrations on that day and have grown to over 2600 users since then.