Minnesota - the state of disappointment??

[Super Hans]

You try growing up watching the Wild and see how that turns out.

 

[SupremeNachos]

It's also missing Oettinger, Lindgren and Lyon

Guentzel and Oshie

 

[ThatGuy22]

Guentzel and Oshie

Those 2 are Minnesota trained, not MN born. Nebraska and Washington respectively.

Guentzal is the cheapest one to not get MN creditm just happened to be born in like the only 2 years his dad wasn't working in Minnesota, and his dad was born in MN

 

[Dickie Dunn]

Worst kerrabria ever.

 

[NOTENOUGHRYJOTHINGS]

As a wise man once said They hate us cuz they anus. I think this saying applies perfectly to your post.

 

[eojsmada]

The all Hockey Hair team, alone, at the State High School Tournament turns that frown upside down. Nothing like a good salad bar.

 

[MoneyManny]

I don't think it's out of line to ask where the high-enders are. Would be nice to hit on at least a Cooley-type more often.

Guentzel might not have been born in Minnesota, but all of his development happened there; Faber doesn't make the arbitrary 25 year old cutoff. They make it a little bit better.

Parise was definitely high end in his prime.

 

[JKG33]

And to a lesser degree, there's a number of guys with bad press tied to their names.

Other than Blake Wheeler, who was a whiny bitch the entirety of his career, who else on this list has any kind of even remotely bad press?

 

[DigitalBoldy]

I think we have inadvertently stepped onto a conspiracy. Hudson Fasching is listed as born in Milwaukee WI or Apple Valley MN depending on where you look. What the f***.

 

[SimpleJack]

If you think about it all Minnesota pro sports are trash. The Wild have never won a Cup, the North Stars never won a Cup either. The Wolves have never won a NBA championship. The Vikings have never won a Super Bowl(did win the NFL championship in 1969, pre-SB era). Its been 34 years since the last Twins World Series. That's brutal.

 

[MessierII]

Does any other state have that many nhl players though? I doubt it.

 

[ItWasJustified]

Does any other state have that many nhl players though? I doubt it.

No.

 

[MuckOG]

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[Dingo]

Without looking into it, I would suspect this is better than; every other state, most provinces, and most European countries.

Probably just Ontario, Sweden, Russia and Finland that are CLEARLY ahead. And then maybe BC and/or Alberta, and Quebec (who is in a big decline)

 

[twostroke2023]

Yes- but not just because of hockey. Mostly because it’s a trash state.

 

[NYRfan85]

When I saw the thread title, I thought this was going to be one of those 'Norm Green sucks, bring back the North Stars, etc.' threads.

When you produce a majority of US-born NHLers, you're also going to have more duds, just because of volume.

 

[BagHead]

I think we have inadvertently stepped onto a conspiracy. Hudson Fasching is listed as born in Milwaukee WI or Apple Valley MN depending on where you look. What the f***.

To a lot of people who live on the coasts, these two cities are the same city.

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

Parise was definitely high end in his prime.

Yep. '03 and '22 are a bit too far apart though.

Yes- but not just because of hockey. Mostly because it’s a trash state.

Oof. Off the top rope.

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

To a lot of people who live on the coasts, these two cities are the same city.

To a lot of people on the coasts, the midwest is a state.

 

[rynryn]

Yes- but not just because of hockey. Mostly because it’s a trash state.

super awful living in a state with a high quality of life. :'(

 

[RedHawkDown]

Huh? If I saw this list I would be genuinely very impressed that Minnesota has this many active NHL players that are solid to very good. Is there any other US state that's even close...?

 

[Voight]

 

[Rodgerwilco]

If you think about it all Minnesota pro sports are trash. The Wild have never won a Cup, the North Stars never won a Cup either. The Wolves have never won a NBA championship. The Vikings have never won a Super Bowl(did win the NFL championship in 1969, pre-SB era). Its been 34 years since the last Twins World Series. That's brutal.

That's actually pretty freakin depressing man.

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

That's actually pretty freakin depressing man.

Yeah but the -4 degree winters make it worth it.

 

[WarriorofTime]

United States
81 Kyle Connor (1996)-9 Jack Eichel (1996)-19 Matthew Tkachuk (1997)
59 Jake Guentzel (1994)-34 Auston Matthews (1997)-86 Jack Hughes (2001)
12 Matt Boldy (2001)-10 J.T. Miller (1993)-7 Brady Tkachuk (1999)
29 Brock Nelson (1991)-16 Vincent Trocheck (1993)-21 Dylan Larkin (1996)
20 Chris Kreider (1991)

74 Jaccob Slavin (1994)-23 Adam Fox (1998)
8 Zach Werenski (1997)-25 Charlie McAvoy (1997)
15 Noah Hanifin (1997)-14 Brock Faber (2002)
85 Jake Sanderson (2002)


37 Connor Hellebuyck (1993)
30 Jake Oettinger (1998)
1 Jeremy Swayman (1998)

Based on what the USA Hockey website lists as each of their "hometown" (not always straightforward when players/families move around a lot)

Michigan: Connor, Hellebuyck, Hughes, Larkin, Werenski
Massachusetts: Boldy, Eichel, Hanifin, Kreider
Minnesota: Faber, Guentzel, Nelson, Oettinger
New York: Fox, McAvoy
Missouri: B. Tkachuck, M. Tkachuck
Arizona: Matthews
Ohio: Miller
Montana: Jake Sanderson
Colorado: Slavin
Alaska: Swayman
Pennsylvania: Trocheck

I'm sure Minnesota would have liked to be number 1, but producing 4 senior national team members is respectable all the same. Lots of year to year variance in something like that...

A guy like Guentzel was born in Omaha, NE but "grew up" in Minnesota and participated in the high school hockey system there.

A player like Hughes is tough to nail down, he was born in Florida, lived in Toronto when his dad worked for the Leafs from 2006-07 through 2014-15, then I think his parents relocated to Michigan during the time he was at the USNTDP which is in Michigan (as Luke Hughes has some minor hockey years with Michigan based teams).

Miller grew up right on the OH/PA border and at some point ended up playing for a Pittsburgh-based minor hockey team. There isn't much prominent minor hockey in Ohio especially at the time he grew up.

Sanderson was in Alberta for a good bit of time for much of his minor hockey days.