The Frost have placed star forward Kendall Coyne Schofield on long-term injured reserve with an upper body injury she sustained during Team USA’s gold medal run at the Olympics this month. The move is retroactive to Feb. 19.

In a corresponding move, the Frost activated forward Élizabeth Giguère from the team’s Reserve Player list and signed her to a PWHL Standard Player Agreement. She will be available Sunday when the Frost resume their PWHL schedule with a noon CST puck drop in Montreal.

Coyne Schofield, one of six Frost players to win gold in Milan, leads the Frost in goals and points this season.

“We are fully committed to supporting Kendall throughout her recovery, and our medical team will be working diligently to help her prepare for her return to the ice,” Frost general manager Melissa Caruso said in a statement. “Fortunately, Élizabeth has been training with us since the start of the season, and her skill and experience will be a tremendous asset to our lineup in Kendall’s absence.”

Giguère, who played her last collegiate season at Minnesota Duluth, was a member of the New York Sirens for two seasons and tallied five goals and eight points in 53 games before joining the Frost as a free agent. She won the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award in 2020 and finished her five-year NCAA career sixth in all-time scoring with 295 points in 177 games.

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Minnesota United vs. FC Cincinnati

When: 3:30 p.m. Saturday
Where: Allianz Field
Stream: Apple TV
Radio: KSTP-AM, 1500
Weather: 18 degrees, overcast, 8 mph south wind
Betting line: MNUFC plus-105; draw plus-265; Cincinnati plus-210

Form: MNUFC (0-0-1, 1 point) earned a 2-2 draw with Austin FC in the season opener after Kelvin Yeboah scored in the 90th minute last Saturday. Cincinnati (1-0-0, 3 points) got two second-half goals for a 2-0 win over Atlanta United last week.

Big question: Will the stars play?

MNUFC midfielder James Rodriguez completed his first full week of training this week and head coach Cameron Knowles said the Colombian star will be available to make his MLS debut. Knowles said James’ first game for Minnesota is not inevitable this weekend and his possible role will be determined by how the game plays out and what it needs. A role off the bench seems likely.

Cincinnati midfielder Evander subbed out of the season opener with an apparent hamstring injury, but coach Pat Noonan didn’t rule out the one-named Brazilian for this weekend.

Context: It will be one of the coldest home games in Loons’ history, and Knowles knows his team needs to gives fans a reason to bundle up and endure the weather.

“One, to be very difficult to breakdown, and two, to entertain,” Knowles said. “… It’s going to be cold. We want to give them energy as much as they give it to us.”

Check-in: For late February, Allianz Field’s natural grass surface got positive reviews from Knowles and captain Michael Boxall.

“The pitch is in fantastic condition considering the time of year,” Knowles said.

Comment: Knowles expressed support for former Loons manager Eric Ramsay, who was fired by West Bromwich Albion earlier this week. Ramsay was winless in nine total games for the club in the English second-tier.

“He’s a fantastic person and obviously a fantastic coach and hopefully his next opportunity is a good one for him,” Knowles said.

Scouting report: The Loons conceded two goals last week — one on a corner kick and one on a back-post finish. They will need to clean up the defensive issues against striker Kevin Denkey. The former Cercle Brugge player had 15 goals in MLS last season and one already this campaign.

Prediction: Cincinnati finished second in the MLS’ overall standings last season and appears ready for another top-tier season. But what the heck, let’s predict pure cinema: Minnesota gets a winning-goal contribution from James’ left foot in crunch time. Loons win 2-1.

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Minnesota’s two D’Amico & Sons restaurants, the last remnants of a family of fine-dining and casual Italian restaurants that changed the Twin Cities dining scene, are closing next month.

The final day for the restaurants, in Edina and Golden Valley, will be March 28.

The closures come as brothers Richard and Larry D’Amico focus more on their restaurants in Florida, according to a statement from the company.

D’Amico Hospitality, the restaurants’ catering arm, will continue in Minnesota, though it will be led only by longtime partner Paul Smith, not the D’Amico brothers themselves.

D’Amico & Sons at one time had more than half a dozen locations in the Twin Cities, including one on Grand Avenue that closed in 2019.

The concept first opened in Minneapolis in 1994 as a fast-casual counterpart to the company’s more upscale restaurants, which included now-closed spots D’Amico Cucina and Café & Bar Lurcat in Minneapolis and Campiello in Eden Prairie.

Many prominent names in the Twin Cities restaurant scene got their starts at D’Amico restaurants, including Smack Shack founder Josh Thoma, who also co-owns Bay Street Burger Dive and reopened The Lexington about a decade ago, and former La Belle Vie chef Tim McKee, who in 2024 helped Forepaugh’s get back off the ground.

“We extend a heartfelt thank you to everyone who enjoyed our family’s Italian dishes,” company leaders said in a statement.

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DENVER — Renee Good loved sparkles and laughter and any excuse for a celebration. She loved pretty much everyone she met, and was late for pretty much everything.

“She had this way of making you feel special and loved that I didn’t even understand that until we lost her,” Donna Ganger said Friday of her daughter, who was shot and killed by an immigration officer during the federal crackdown in Minneapolis.

She was “slow to anger, quick to love, quick to care,” said her father, Tim Ganger. “That’s the essence of who she was.”

Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, was shot and killed Jan. 7 as immigration agents surged through the Minneapolis area, sparking waves of protests. Her death and that of another protester, Alex Pretti, just weeks later sparked outrage across the country and calls to rein in immigration enforcement. Good and Pretti were both U.S. citizens.

Good’s parents and two of her brothers, Brent and Luke Ganger, met AP journalists Friday in Denver for a long interview.

“It’s going to be hard in the future,” Donna Ganger said. “It’s going to be kind of a constant pain.”

Good, who graduated from college later in life, was volunteering in a local school district and working as a substitute teacher when she was killed, her parents said.

“She was working so hard to get her education, and then she was finally able to use it, and I could just tell how happy she was and how fulfilled,” Donna Ganger said.

Her family said they hoped her death, and how they spoke about her life, would help inspire change in a polarized country.

The family is “a very American blend,” Luke Ganger said in testimony to Congress. “We vote differently, and we rarely completely agree on the finer details of what it means to be a citizen of this country.”

Yet “we have always treated each other with love and respect,” he said.

Perhaps, they said Friday, they can inspire others to get along as they do.

“Our purpose through this whole tragic, difficult, unbelievable time, is to have something good come out of this,” Tim Ganger said. “Otherwise the senselessness of this is overwhelming.”

On the morning of the shooting, as immigration raids and protests were flaring across the city, Good’s partner, Becca Good, has said they had stopped their car in the street to support neighbors during an immigration operation.

Video shows Renee Good in a red SUV blocking part of the road and repeatedly honking her horn.

Two immigration officers get out of a truck and one orders Good to open her door. She reverses briefly, then turns the steering wheel as the officer says again, “get out of the car.” Almost simultaneously, Becca Good, standing in the street shouts, “drive, baby, drive!”

When Good begins pulling forward, an ICE officer standing in front of the vehicle pulls his weapon and fires at least two shots into the car, killing Good.

Good, her 6-year-old son and her partner — the women were not legally married, according to a family lawyer, but referred to one another as wives — had only recently relocated to Minneapolis from Kansas City, Missouri, settling a quiet residential street in a tight-knit neighborhood known for its activism.

In social media accounts, Good described herself as a “poet and writer and wife and mom.” A profile picture posted to Pinterest shows her smiling and holding a young child against her cheek, along with posts about tattoos, hairstyles and home decorating.