Funny you say that. I was up in St Paul a couple weeks ago for my annual outdoor hockey trip (after skipping last year) and we hit up our regular spot, Groveland Tap. I got a Juicy Lucy, and my reaction was kinda the same.... this is not as good as I remember it. Kinda wish we had made it to Matt's, heh.
The hockey was good though. Our last skate of the last day we were there we got into a great pickup game at Groveland. There was a kid there with Minnesota State gloves on. Looked like he was 17. Buzzing all around, schooling everyone else. Chatted him up at one point. Turned out he was just baby-faced (and rail thin), but turns out he played at Minnesota State, went pro in the SPHL, and then blew out his back. Josh French. He was actually mid-20s and it was his first skate in 6 months. And at one point he walked the ever-loving shit out of me. I love it when guys better than me try to toe drag, because I'll take the puck off their stick almost every time in that case. No, this guy doesn't toe drag. He literally flips the puck up waist high, head-fakes like he's going right, slaps the puck out of the air on a 45 degree angle between my legs, bouncing past me, and then goes left around me and picked up the puck before I even figured out what was happening lol. Nothing I could do at that point except take off all my gear, hand it to him, and head to the bar.
I love hockey in Minnesota.