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grindiangrad-80 wrote:According to "Legends of Hockey" - GR has 8 former players who played in regular season action in the NHL.

Bill Baker
Jon Casey
Kelly Fairchild
Scott Kleinendorst
Chris Marinucci
Jeff Nielsen
Kirk Nielsen
John Rohloff

Todd Rohloff can be added to this list.
You are correct GR3343.

Just to let you know:

Eveleth High School -

1. Rudy Ahlin
2. Frank Brimsek
3. Pete Lopresti
4. Sam Lopresti
5. John Mariucci
6. Aldo Palazarri
7. Doug Palazarri
8. Joe Papike
9. Mark Pavelich
10. Al Suomi

And, if you know your Minnesota High School Hockey History

11. John Mayasich was offered, by all of the then 6 NHL teams to play for them, but he refused to continue to play Amateur hockey.

That is 10 or 11 from Eveleth that ALL PLAYED in the NHL!!!!!

TTpuckster wrote:Just to let you know:

Eveleth High School -

1. Rudy Ahlin
2. Frank Brimsek
3. Pete Lopresti
4. Sam Lopresti
5. John Mariucci
6. Aldo Palazarri
7. Doug Palazarri
8. Joe Papike
9. Mark Pavelich
10. Al Suomi

And, if you know your Minnesota High School Hockey History

11. John Mayasich was offered, by all of the then 6 NHL teams to play for them, but he refused to continue to play Amateur hockey.

That is 10 or 11 from Eveleth that ALL PLAYED in the NHL!!!!!

Sorry: 10 that did. 11 total that could have.

Great post TT....That's 10, which is the biggest verified number we've seen...and Grand Rapids with 9, Roseau with 9 and Jefferson and H-M not far behind....Anyone have a solid list for Edina? Or Warroad?

Hibbing appears to have seven: One database shows these players as having been born in Hibbing:

Bretto, Joe
Brink, Milton
Gambucci, Gary
Micheletti, Joe
Micheletti, Pat
Polich, John
Sandelin, Scott

Bretto, Brink and Polich are from way back...1920s and '30s. Is there anyone who wasn't born in Hibbing, but played high school there and went on to the NHL?

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Ankles Pierre, Jr. wrote:

tourneytickssince59 wrote:Ankles,

As an alum, you should know better. You'll never win the argument.

Hill Murray has had 6 people play in an NHL regular season game
Steve Janaszak
Craig Johnson (traded for Gretzky)
Matt Koalska
Chris Pryor
David Tanabe
Dave Langevin

Drafted is one thing. Making the team is another.

WRONG... CHECK OUT A HILL-MURRAY PROGRAM... OVER HALF THEIR 30+ DRAFTEES PLAYED IN THE NHL!

How come your tune changed from a previous post in this thread?

AP: Hill-Murray has produced over 30 players drafted
or who went on to play in the NHL without being drafted

Now we are down to 15. Please tell me the other nine because I have looked through the program also and can only come up with 6.

In 5 years it's going to be Faribault. So far...
Joe Corvo
Ryan Malone
Pat Eaves
Zach Parise
Sydney Crosby

Grand Rapids has had 16 PROFESSIONAL ALUMNI. That does not mean they played in the NHL.

Goldy -

What are you smoking anyway? The thread says 'What high school has produced the most NHL players', not 'what prep school that gets players from all over the US and Cananda'. You can hardly count those Shattuck kids as from Faribault high school.
What was Crosby there one year and then went to major juniors in Canada? How many were even born in Faribault or played Faribault youth hockey, or one minute for the Falcons?

Here's just a couple guys from Rosevelt but very note worthy.
Mike Ramsey
Reed Larson

Rochester JM -

Zmolek
Podein
Teal (minors only I think)
Bryce Lampman?
others?

Rochester Mayo -
Doug Wieck (or was that only the Islanders minors system?)
Andy Canzanello (AHL)
DeBus (minors)

I surprised that Strobel and the Johanssons didn't get some time.

Rochester Lourdes -
Mark Stuart
Colin and Mike Stuart - maybe a few games?
Jake Taylor (minors)

Hibbing you also have Mike Polich North Stars
Bobby Collaryd St. Louis Blues.
Rapids claims Farchild another sophomore transfer who was from Hibbing. Nice Job Blandin paper mill.
How about Dave Delich from Eveleth?
Baumgartner Roseau The KC Scouts in 67 were minor league. They didn't become a NHL franchise to 70's when they entered the same year as the caps.

goalieguy1 wrote:Great post TT....That's 10, which is the biggest verified number we've seen...and Grand Rapids with 9, Roseau with 9 and Jefferson and H-M not far behind....Anyone have a solid list for Edina? Or Warroad?

Eveleth 10
GR 9
Roseau 9
Hibbing 7
Total 35 NHL Players from a population of about 21,000.
Now that is an impressive ratio.

Nut,
Show me where the town of Hill-Murray is on a map. I've been around a long time and never seen a Hill-Murray youth hockey team. Show me one birth certificate that says place of birth: Hill-Murray. Shattuck is a "high school", if they weren't why are they in the MSHSL in every sport but hockey? Why can Holy Angels play them? Don't the kids leave there with a diploma? So when Kyle Okopso applied for admission at the U where did his transcripts come from?

BTW Prep school is short for College Prepatory Program, most every high schools offer that, they just also offer vocational programs where Shattuck does not. Blake is not a high school it is a "college prepatory day school" their words not mine. Same with Breck, Hill-Murray, and 14 others in Minnesota. Officially it's Hill-Murray School, not Hill-Murray High.

You also use 1 of the Stuart boys as an example of a Lourdes kid, he played 1 year at Lourdes before leaving, same as Crosby played at Shattuck

So, again, show me why Hill-Murray is different from Shattuck other than one chooses to play hockey in the MSHSL and one doesn't.

grindiangrad-80 wrote:

goalieguy1 wrote:Great post TT....That's 10, which is the biggest verified number we've seen...and Grand Rapids with 9, Roseau with 9 and Jefferson and H-M not far behind....Anyone have a solid list for Edina? Or Warroad?

Eveleth 10
GR 9
Roseau 9
Hibbing 7
Total 35 NHL Players from a population of about 21,000.
Now that is an impressive ratio.

I thought I had 11 for Rapids...?

You could be right, Boblee. I listed the ones I was sure of, but there could be others.

from Elk River
Joel Otto Calgary
Dan Hinote Colorado Av's
Paul Martin NJ

boblee wrote:

grindiangrad-80 wrote:

goalieguy1 wrote:Great post TT....That's 10, which is the biggest verified number we've seen...and Grand Rapids with 9, Roseau with 9 and Jefferson and H-M not far behind....Anyone have a solid list for Edina? Or Warroad?

Eveleth 10
GR 9
Roseau 9
Hibbing 7
Total 35 NHL Players from a population of about 21,000.
Now that is an impressive ratio.

I thought I had 11 for Rapids...?

Here's what we have for Grand Rapids:

Bill Baker
Jon Casey
Kelly Fairchild
Scott Kleinendorst
Chris Marinucci
Jeff Nielsen
Kirk Nielsen
John Rohloff
Todd Rohloff

These are the only nine that we can determine actually played in the NHL, which was the topic of the thread. If anyone has evidence that Malwitz or Kurt Kleinendorst ever played a regular-season NHL game, we can add them, but none of the databases I've seen list them.

Baumgartner Roseau The KC Scouts in 67 were minor league. They didn't become a NHL franchise to 70's when they entered the same year as the caps.

Mike Baumgartner '67 Kansas City Scouts

behonestbenice,

Mike played for the Kansas City Scouts in the 1974-1975 season. He graduated from Roseau in 1967.

Where is Edina on the list?

murraychadwick wrote:Where is Edina on the list?

I'm wondering the same thing...Any Edina historians out there that can enlighten us?

This is just off the top of my head for Edina.

Bill Nyrop
Brian Burke
Larry Thayer
Craig Norwich
Dave Maley
Wally Chapman
Paul Ranhiem
Ben Hankinson
Casey Hankinson

There are a few more, but it is too late to think and I need more beer.

Goldy -

First of all you said Faribault, not Shattuck. Who have the Falcons sent to the NHL?

Second of all, lumping Shattuck into this thread with teams like Roseau, Hibbing, Grand Rapids, Warroad, etc is not even the same.
Yes, Shattuck is a prep school, which is technically a high school, but saying that they 'produced' Sydney Crosby is the same as Hill Murray's Craig Johnson is a serious lack of logic.

Yes, Mark Stuart only played one year for Lourdes. I am sorry if I tried to pump up the town in which we both reside and defend on the message board, but I will give you that you made a good point.

But seriously, do you think Shattuck 'produced' Sydney Crosby or did he attend Shattuck one year and hone is already NHL-like game before moving onto greener pastures.

I mean a caribou and chicken are both animals I can eat, but one is wild and one is domesticated. However, the caribou makes a fine sandwich, but most people only have access to chickens.
Shattuck is a hockey factory NOT in the MSHSL as of now, so comparing them to Lourdes and Hill Murray is ludicrious since those two schools rarely have a non-Minnesota kid on them, which is quite different that Shattuck.

The Hockey News publishes the Hockey Almanac.
In it is a list of all players that have played in the NHL and WHL. To be listed, they would have had to play at least one shift for a NHL team.
The players bio states birth place and NHL/WHA teams.
If you think someone played but are not sure, this would be your place to go for confirmation.