Will gladly eat crow on this one. Wow. Guess that means no Leopold or Prosser next year? Had a partner for Spurgeon?
Sign Leo as a 7th/depth/mentor in Minnesota and Iowa? Blum is out the door as far as I've heard.
You still have a lot of young guys on the end of the roster, and it would nice to be able to plug him in for some games.
This state produces more hockey players when there are local players making good on the home team. The Neal Broten effect of fans having a local legend to want to follow will be in full effect with Parsie here, and if Reilly succeeds! I credit the fanship of Broten to create fan frenzies that caused the super influx of players in the early 90's, that resulted in the dynasty Jefferson team etc... that team sent 9 players to the pros!
Yep, and hey...this state just produces players period, but that's the bit. One of my friends (non-Minnesotan) was making a comment to mine where I said the Minnesotan draw of "one of us" is a strong one, especially when we have a good team now.
Look at players trying to get moves to come back, or coming back, **** even non-Minnesotans. Why do you think Hunter landed back here? Whalen came back. Tyus is here now etc.
We love our own, and our own seemingly like playing for us.
To him this was somewhat of an abomination, but to me Minnesota at least sports wise has a Texas-like culture. Most would say (and all the Texans I know) that they are proud to be Texans more than say Americans (though they are obviously both), but Minnesota has that feel a bit too, it's not as prevalent perhaps, but I think it plays into it.
Hell, that's why I didn't play B1G ball when they asked me to walk on and had the coaches come talk to me since I was bigger than everyone on the team at the time. I said, I don't want to play the U, and (more importantly) I'd like to walk when I'm 50 without any issues unlike my Grandfather.
