The Wild's Faber and Maple Leafs' Knies, teammates last season on the University of Minnesota's NCAA runner-up, face off Saturday night.
For at least one weekend over the summer, and got to be college kids again. They were — well, they felt like — Gophers. Faber, the 21-year-old rookie defenseman, and Knies, the 20-year-old rookie winger, joined their former University of Minnesota teammates in early August for a golf outing in southern Minnesota. Just a few months earlier, they had fighting back tears after an overtime loss in the title game.
But the former captain would be the first to tell you that Knies “was the leader in fun.” Knies often would drop a mash-up video in the team’s group chat, intermixing cleverly cropped photos and inside joke moments that would have his teammates howling. “I’m going to miss those,” said Gopher senior defenseman Carl Fish, Faber’s former roommate. “That’s what we’re going to be missing, his comedic wizardry.
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