What Hobey Baker jinx?
Congrats to Neal Broten on becoming the first player to win all three
major hockey championships followed in the US:  the NCAA (in 1979 with
Minnesota), the Olympics (1980, USA), and the Stanley Cup (1995, New
Jersey).**
 
Broten had 7 goals and 12 assists in the playoffs (I think that makes
him the second or 3rd leading scorer), 4 game winning goals (tied
with Detroit's Kozlov for playoff leader), including game winners in the
final two Stanley Cup games.
 
A little more Broten bio for any who are interested:
Usually more a play-maker than a goal-scorer, the Roseau, MN native
also scored the championship-winning goal for the 1979 Minnesota Gophers.
After winning the gold medal in 1980, he returned to Minnesota, where
he won the inaugural Hobey Baker Award in 1981.  After the college season
he joined the North Stars for their 1981 run to the Stanley Cup finals.
The following year he had a 98-point rookie season and was runner-up
for the NHL Rookie of the Year.  He appeared in 4 straight All-Star
games and in 1985-86 was the first US-born player to score 100
points in an NHL regular season.
 
Count me as one fan who's glad the Broten name is finally going to be
on the Stanley Cup.
-Pam
 
PS  Erik Biever and I were wondering:  are any other Hobey winners'
names on the Cup?