> TheCrow wrote: > What do you mean about "almost no money"?
A school like Warroad would play with 15 year old hand me down equipment and have to practice on outdoor ice. Edina would have the latest equip like cooperalls and CF sticks and practice year-round in arenas. It was/is a tax base thing as well as a population thing; if your class has 50 boys in it, that's not a big pool for a team compared to classes with 600 people. Nevertheless, these little schools have always remained competitive. How these towns put out such huge hockey stars, I dunno. Here's Roseau: ----------------------- Roseau is a city in Roseau County, Minnesota, USA. The population was 2,756 at the 2000 census. Roseau has a strong high school hockey tradition and has competed in and won the state tournament more than any other team in the state (most recently in 2007), a manufacturing and plastic molding injection facility of snowmobile and ATV manufacturer Polaris and the home of retired NHL and Olympic hockey players Neal Broten, Aaron Broten, Paul Broten, Blane Comstock, Rube Bjorkman, Don Ross, and Bryan "Butsy" Erickson. Roseau is also the hometown of John Harris who currently competes on the PGA Seniors Tour. Although they're losing right now to Hill Murray. Warroad, btw, was known as "hockeytown, USA" for 4 decades until Detroit stole the name via a trademark filing in the mid-nineties. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:255935 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
