{"id":229399,"date":"2025-10-07T17:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T17:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/229399\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T17:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T17:01:10","slug":"nine-former-bulldogs-start-2025-26-season-in-nhl-duluth-news-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/229399\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine former Bulldogs start 2025-26 season in NHL &#8211; Duluth News Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DULUTH \u2014 Nine former Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs are set to start the 2025-26 season in the National Hockey League when the regular season gets underway Tuesday, and 44.4 percent of them will be playing for the Winnipeg Jets.<\/p>\n<p>Defensemen Neal Pionk and Dylan Samberg of Hermantown and former All-American winger Alex Iafallo are now joined by winger Cole Koepke, also of Hermantown. <\/p>\n<p>      <a class=\"Link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/dylan-samberg-to-miss-start-of-2025-2026-season-with-injury\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Samberg will miss the start of the season with a broken wrist.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Justin Faulk, who helped UMD win its first NCAA title in 2010-11 from the Bulldogs\u2019 blue line, begins his 15th season in the NHL and seventh with the St. Louis Blues this week.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the full list of Bulldogs who will start the 2025-26 season in the NHL:<\/p>\n<p>Justin Faulk \u2014 St. Louis Blues<br \/><a class=\"Link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/sports\/bulldogs-hockey\/koepke-continues-bulldog-pipeline-to-winnipeg\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cole Koepke<\/a><\/p>\n<p>       \u2014 Winnipeg Jets<br \/><a class=\"Link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/sports\/bulldogs-hockey\/hermantowns-samberg-agrees-to-new-deal-with-winnipeg-jets\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dylan Samberg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>       \u2014 Winnipeg Jets<br \/><a class=\"Link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/sports\/bulldogs-hockey\/hermantowns-pionk-invited-to-2026-u-s-olympic-hockey-camp\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Neal Pionk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>       \u2014 Winnipeg Jets<br \/>Alex Iafallo \u2014 Winnipeg Jets<br \/>Wyatt Kaiser \u2014 Chicago Blackhawks<br \/>Noah Cates \u2014 Philadelphia Flyers<br \/>Mikey Anderson \u2014 Los Angeles Kings<br \/>Carson Soucy \u2014 New York Rangers<\/p>\n<p>      <a class=\"Link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/blackhawks\/news\/release-greene-recalled-from-rockford\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Chicago Blackhawks placed Joey Anderson on the injured, non-roster list<\/a><\/p>\n<p>       prior to the start of the season. He\u2019s likely to be sent down to the AHL\u2019s Rockford IceHogs once he is cleared.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Anderson, these former Bulldogs are tentatively slated to start the 2025-26 season in the American Hockey League, which gets officially begins its regular season on Oct. 10:<\/p>\n<p>      <a class=\"Link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/sports\/bulldogs-hockey\/former-umd-captain-james-says-he-is-signing-with-tampa-bay\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dominic James<\/a><\/p>\n<p>       \u2014 Syracuse Crunch*<br \/>Ryan Fanti \u2014 Syracuse Crunch*<br \/>Will Francis \u2014 San Diego Gulls<br \/>Jackson Cates \u2014 Rockford IceHogs<br \/>Dominic Toninato \u2014 Rockford IceHogs*<br \/>Scott Perunovich \u2014 Tucson Roadrunners*<br \/>Riley Tufte \u2014 Providence Bruins*<br \/>Derek Daschke \u2014 Abbotsford Canucks<br \/>Ben Steeves \u2014 Charlotte Checkers*<br \/>Connor Kelley \u2014 Colorado Eagles<br \/>Blake Biondi \u2014 Chicago Wolves<br \/>Isaac Howard \u2014 Bakersfield Condors*<br \/>Hunter Shepard \u2014 Belleville Senators*<\/p>\n<p>* \u2014 denotes player on two-way AHL\/NHL contract<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/matt-wellens\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"Matt Wellens\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.forumcomm.com\/dims4\/default\/fd288f9\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/3392x3392+1696+0\/resize\/100x100!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforum-communications-production-web.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fda%2F3a%2F263c84fa4e329be5787da34763de%2F091624-s-dmg-s-wellens-c0004.jpg\" data-lazy-load=\"true\" bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxMDBweCIgd2lkdGg9IjEwMHB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=\"\/><\/p>\n<p>            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                Co-host of the <a class=\"Link \" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/bulldog-insider-podcast\/id1437569175\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bulldog Insider Podcast<\/a> and college hockey reporter for the Duluth News Tribune covering the Minnesota Duluth men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s hockey programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DULUTH \u2014 Nine former Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs are set to start the 2025-26 season in the National Hockey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[4679,1655,37303,895,26,5294,4260,3652,896,4681,5,37304,18725,2001,4,1662],"class_list":{"0":"post-229399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary-flames","8":"tag-alex-iafallo","9":"tag-bulldogs-hockey","10":"tag-bulldogs-in-the-nhl","11":"tag-calgary","12":"tag-calgary-flames","13":"tag-calgaryflames","14":"tag-cole-koepke","15":"tag-dylan-samberg","16":"tag-flames","17":"tag-hermantown-hockey","18":"tag-hockey","19":"tag-how-many-bulldogs-are-in-the-nhl","20":"tag-joey-anderson","21":"tag-neal-pionk","22":"tag-nhl","23":"tag-umd-bulldogs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115333961256172838","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}