Twelve Minnesota Kids at the Next Level hit the Ice in South Dakota
YHH took in it's first USHL game and likely not it's last. We traveled to Sioux Falls to watch the Stampede take on the Sioux City Musketeers at the brand new Denny Sanford Premier Center. The facility is a state of the art arena that has nearly 11,000 seats for its fans. Besides a fantastic venue, the talent pool of big, strong and fast players was second to none. Combined there were 12 players rostered on these two teams from Minnesota (8 Sioux Falls and 4 Sioux City). Prominent names included three Edina players who won a state championship last Winter for the Hornets, Kieffer Bellows (Sioux Falls), Tyler Nanne (Sioux Falls) and Ryan Zuhlsdorf. All three are committed to high end Division I schools - Zuhlsdorf/Minnesota, Nanne/Ohio State, and Bellows/Boston University. Others that stood out from the Land of 10,000 Great Hockey Players were UMD recruits Adam Johnson (Hibbing) and Neal Pionk (Hermantown), plus Goalie Collin Olson (Apple Valley, Carolina Draft Pick).