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Inside College Hockey had the following info.<br><br>Rnk        State        No. Players        Pct. of U.S. D1        Pct. of All D1<br>1        Minnesota        208        21.27%        13.35%<br>2        Massachusetts        159        16.26%        10.21%<br>3        Michigan        130        13.29%        8.34%<br>4        New York        91        9.30%        5.84%<br>5        Pennsylvania        45        4.60%        2.89%<br>6        Illinois        43        4.40%        2.76%<br>7        Connecticut        31        3.17%        1.99%<br>8        New Hampshire        29        2.97%        1.86%<br>9        Wisconsin        25        2.56%        1.60%<br>10        Alaska        24        2.45%        1.54%<br>11        California        23        2.35%        1.48%<br>12        Colorado        21        2.15%        1.35%<br>13        North Dakota        20        2.04%        1.28%<br>14        New Jersey        19        1.94%        1.22%<br>15        Ohio        16        1.64%        1.03%<br>16        Rhode Island        13        1.33%        0.83%<br>17        Maine        11        1.12%        0.71%<br>18        Maryland        9        0.92%        0.58%<br>19        Washington        8        0.82%        0.51%<br>20        Vermont        7        0.72%        0.45%<br>21        Georgia        5        0.51%        0.32%<br>22        Indiana        5        0.51%        0.32%<br>23        Missouri        5        0.51%        0.32%<br>24        Texas        5        0.51%        0.32%<br>25        Arizona        4        0.41%        0.26%<br>26        Florida        4        0.41%        0.26%<br>27        Iowa        3        0.31%        0.19%<br>28        Virginia        3        0.31%        0.19%<br>29        Alabama        2        0.20%        0.13%<br>30        Montana        2        0.20%        0.13%<br>31        Utah        2        0.20%        0.13%<br>32        Idaho        1        0.10%        0.06%<br>33        Nebraska        1        0.10%        0.06%<br>34        Nevada        1        0.10%        0.06%<br>35        Oregon        1        0.10%        0.06%<br>36        Tennessee        1        0.10%        0.06%<br>37        West Virginia        1        0.10%        0.06%<br><br>Here is the link to the original info, they also break it down by league and also have Canadian province information.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.insidecollegehockey.com/7Arc ... <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>By this metric (and I can't think of a better stat to measure), Minnesota is still the top amateur hockey state.<br><br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub33.ezboard.com/bmnhs.showUser ... wker>Mitch Hawker</A> at: 3/23/04 1:35 pm<br></i>

Mitch,<br>I looked for it, but did not find a similar report for D3. Do you know if such a breakdown exists? <p></p><i></i>

We should be proud of that. I wonder what our numbers are compared to Mass. , NY,and MI. It would be interesting to know the how many kids each of the top states have playing at the high school age level. <p></p><i></i>

USA Hockey has a breakdown of team registrations by age level and state.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.usahockey.com/servlets/FileS ... <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Looks like Michigan and Mass both have more teams than Minnesota at the lower levels and Michigan maintains their greater numbers through the 17 year old age group.<br><br>The number of teams by age group looks reasonable but the listing of the number of high school/prep teams does not include them all.<br><br> <p></p><i></i>

Thanks Mitch. <br>It looks like we are doing pretty well. With all the talk about we need to do this and we arent doing that and other states are ahead of us.....we still have a pretty good lead over these other states and it isnt because we have more kids. <br><br>We can always do better but its OK to look at these numbers and be proud of our efforts. <p></p><i></i>

<br>ditto Packerboy <p></p><i></i>

They dont call us the sate of hockey for nothing right <p></p><i></i>

Solid stats for Minnesota!<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :D --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/im ... /happy.gif ALT=":D"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p></p><i></i>