Is Minnesota still the best state for hockey talent?

[Air Force 1]

http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/a ... id/193044/

[AlterEagle]

Yes.

...oh and I didn't need to read the article.

[defense]

http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/a ... id/193044/

no, no i'd say definitely not. MN does not poduce near the talent.........

[AlterEagle]

http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/a ... id/193044/

no, no i'd say definitely not. MN does not poduce near the talent.........

Compared to?

[defense]

http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/a ... id/193044/

no, no i'd say definitely not. MN does not poduce near the talent.........

Compared to?

sarcasm?????

[drop the puck]

http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/a ... id/193044/

no, no i'd say definitely not. MN does not poduce near the talent.........

It took a North Dakotan (Grant P) and a European (Thomas V) to put MN Gophers on their two most recent National Championship podiums.

[defense]

what about the most recent Team USA junior world Gold???
Or the rest of the Gophers???
THing is, a european and NoDak wanted to be Minnesotans... hmmm, makes you think...why???

[AlterEagle]

http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/a ... id/193044/

no, no i'd say definitely not. MN does not poduce near the talent.........

It took a North Dakotan (Grant P) and a European (Thomas V) to put MN Gophers on their two most recent National Championship podiums.

It used to be that all the best players in MN went to the Gophers. Now the best players split between all the MN schools. If the Gophs got the 5 best from each class each year, and none of them went pro before they graduated, then you'd have a Nat Champ in 4 years... and every year there after.

[O-townClown]

Interesting article. Not the content, but the way it was written. He asks the question, but doesn't begin to answer it. The article says that good players come from other places. Nothing new for anyone on this forum.

I'm sure some locals read it and said, "wow! We have a kid coming from California?"

Grimaldi being a Californian that left for Michigan Bantams and then the NTDP before going to North Dakota...if he wins a national title that will only be, well, 25 years or so after another Californian left Los Angeles for Minnesota before ultimately winning a national championship with the Badgers.

[EREmpireStrikesBack]

Best state, yes. If you go outside the US, different story.

[C-dad]

For DI college hockey, here are some number from another site:

Of the 1,549 rostered NCAA Division 1 players these are my findings...
USA (1,043)
Canada (475)
World (31)

USA
Minnesota- 179
Michigan- 128
Massachusetts- 112
New York- 97
Illinois- 62
Pennsylvania- 57
California- 50
Wisconsin- 43
Colorado- 36
Connecticut- 31
Ohio- 31
Missouri- 24
New Jersey- 22
Alaska- 17
Texas- 15
New Hampshire- 14
Arizona- 13
Florida- 13
Virginia- 11
North Dakota- 9
Vermont- 9
Rhode Island- 8
Washington- 7
Indiana- 6
Maine- 6
Georgia- 5
Iowa- 5
Maryland- 5
Nebraska- 5
Kansas- 4
Alabama- 3
Oklahoma- 3
Nevada- 2
South Dakota- 2
Tennessee- 2
Idaho- 1
Kentucky- 1
Montana- 1
North Carolina- 1
Oregon- 1
Washington D.C.- 1
Wyoming- 1

41 states (plus D.C.) represented.
Only states without representation are Arkansas, Delaware, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, South Carolina, Utah, West Virginia.

Canada
Ontario- 172
Alberta- 111
British Columbia- 76
Quebec- 43
Saskatchewan- 40
Manitoba- 24
New Brunswick- 3
Nova Scotia- 3
Yukon- 2
Nunavut- 1

World
Sweden- 11
Slovakia- 5
Finland- 4
Netherlands- 2
Austria- 1
Belarus- 1
Croatia- 1
Czech Republic- 1
Denmark- 1
France- 1
Holland- 1
Italy- 1
Norway- 1

Another way to view these numbers:

Just out of curiosity, and because another poster made a big deal about it a few years ago, I did a little running of these numbers compared to State populations. Here are some of the notable States with players produced per 100,000 population:

Minnesota 3.37
Michigan 1.29
Massachusetts 1.72
Alaska 2.39
North Dakota 1.34
Vermont 1.45
Wisconsin 0.57

Full disclosure - I was the one who related the raw numbers to population.

[Govie]

Is this clown serious? Here are the national rankings. It's actually quite comical how far it FALLS once you go out of the MN state border:

RANK TEAM W L T >4 GmPerf Sched Total Last5
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1,Eden Prairie,MN,____________________ 15 5 1, 1 1.7, 14.0, 15.73, 15.19
2,Hill-Murray,MN,_____________________ 16 3 1, 4 2.1, 13.4, 15.48, 15.74
3,Benilde-St Margarets,MN,____________ 18 2 0, 5 1.9, 13.3, 15.28, 16.18
4,Duluth East,MN,_____________________ 15 5 0, 2 1.8, 13.4, 15.20, 14.16
5,Wayzata,MN,_________________________ 15 4 2, 1 1.2, 13.8, 14.99, 14.54
6,Edina,MN,___________________________ 12 6 2, 2 0.7, 14.3, 14.97, 15.24
7,Minnetonka,MN,______________________ 15 4 1, 2 1.1, 13.9, 14.97, 16.10
8,St Thomas Academy,MN,_______________ 14 5 0, 3 1.3, 13.4, 14.73, 15.36
9,Eagan,MN,___________________________ 14 5 2, 2 1.8, 12.9, 14.73, 14.45
10,Burnsville,MN,______________________ 15 3 3, 3 1.6, 13.1, 14.62, 14.24
11,Maple Grove,MN,_____________________ 16 3 2, 2 1.6, 12.9, 14.46, 14.63
12,Grand Rapids,MN,____________________ 18 3 1, 2 1.6, 12.8, 14.36, 15.33
13,Blaine,MN,__________________________ 14 4 3, 1 1.4, 12.7, 14.13, 14.68
14,Apple Valley,MN,____________________ 14 6 1, 3 1.3, 12.8, 14.09, 13.51
15,De La Salle,MI,_____________________ 16 1 1, 2 2.4, 11.6, 14.08, 14.42
16,Bemidji,MN,_________________________ 18 2 1, 3 2.3, 11.8, 14.05, 14.51
17,Moorhead,MN,________________________ 14 6 1, 1 0.8, 13.2, 14.00, 13.63
18,Malden Catholic,MA,_________________ 12 2 2, 3 2.5, 11.5, 13.99, 14.15
19,White Bear Lake,MN,_________________ 14 5 1, 1 1.2, 12.6, 13.81, 13.38
20,LaSalle,PAEA,_______________________ 15 1 1, 3 2.6, 11.1, 13.73, 13.72

And, well...you get the picture. 1270 schools rated here:

http://www.ushsho.com/ushsrank.htm

[PuckU126]

no, no i'd say definitely not. MN does not poduce near the talent.........

Compared to?

sarcasm?????

Good to hear it was a sarcastic comment.

However, sarcasm is hard to recognize when reading sometimes (posts, texts, etc.)

And MN is still rich in talent compared to the rest of the nation. IMO