Gophers commit Howie Johnson is having a dominant senior season at Forest Lake High School, and he just set the Minnesota high school record with 104 career sacks and tackles for loss on Friday.

Up next is a showdown with the Minnesota Golden Gophers in the battle for Floyd of Rosedale. The Hawkeyes emerged victorious in Minneapolis a season ago, but now look to avenge the loss in Iowa City two seasons ago. That loss, of course, came with controversy and gave the Gophers their first win in Kinnick since 1999.

That was a good old fashioned butt whuppin! Ain’t no two ways about that. I have always felt that a team will get it’s arse handed to it at least once a year. This felt like that game. I could see how folks would feel that it could happen again especially against the Lions.

Iowa Hawkeyes head coach Kirk Ferentz has been around since 1999, so he's no stranger to the Iowa vs. Minnesota rivalry. The all-time winningest coach in B1G hi

Minnesota leads the NHL with 10 power play goals. Kaprizov leads the team with four power play goals and Boldly is second with three. Jared Spurgeon, Joel Eriksson Ek and Zeev Buium each have one power play goal each (per Wild PR). The Wild’s power play is fifth in the NHL and has scored on 31.3% of the team’s man-advantage opportunities.