Each year, sometime in the fall, the state of Minnesota begins a collective hum in anticipation. 

A hum of firing up the furnaces, a hum of parents badgering children to rake the leaves because nothing comes free, and a hum of chatter about the upcoming high school hockey season. 

An essential note of that hum includes a debate among the puck-worshipping masses about players. The best players. The best returning players, to be more specific. 

Who's got a Division I offer? Who's filling the skates a departed star? Who's grown six inches or put on twenty pounds? Who lit up the off-season circuit from April to October?

YHH has taken the bulk of the guesswork out of these queries and presents its list of the Top 50 Returning High School Players, representing every corner of the state.