chris gullickson <[log in to unmask]> writes:
>
> Did Neal also win the Minnesota High School Hockey Tournament when he was
> playing at Roseau?  This would add another top notch tournament to his
> impressive list of championships.
 
No.  In Neal's 3 HS tournament appearances (1975, 1977, 1978), Roseau
never finished higher than 3rd.  (This has come up in email, so I looked
that up at home in my old program last week to make sure.)  But Broten
did set a tourney record for 4 assists in one period in the first game
of the 1978 tournament.  (I was there!)  Those were the days of the
famous "Roseau Line" of Neal Broten, Aaron Broten, and Butsy Erickson
(neighbor two doors down the street-- would have been much more poetic
if it was next door) who all went on to play for the Gophers in 1980-81,
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and later all spent several years in the NHL. (Ironically, Aaron was one
of the original New Jersey Devils when the team moved from Colorado and
for several years thereafter. Butsy was with LA and Winnipeg.)  But I
don't think the Roseau Rams (enrollment about 300) had much depth beyond
that line, so they wore down awful quick in the Thursday-Friday-Saturday
tournament play against the Edinas and Grand Rapids and the like.
 
-Pam Sweeney
Go Gophers!!!
Nastier, Bigger, Faster!!!