David Parter writes:
 
> Someone mentioned Minnesota's lock on Minnesota recruits. While it is
> true that Minnesota (justly) pride's itself on only playing kids from
> Minnesota, UMD, Wisconsin and now St. Cloud (among others) also
> successfully recruit a number of top-notch players from Minnesota each
> year.  This is one of the things which makes the Wisconsin-Minnesota
> such a strong rivalry (from the Wisconsin team's point of view).
 
It also adds to the rivalry from our point of view as well.  Many fine
Minnesota high school hockey players have gone on to wear the red and
white across the river.  We know they can't ALL play for the Gophers, so
it's always interesting when they come back to Minnesota playing for our
biggest rival.
 
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