The golf tournament will begin with registration and a silent auction at 11 a.m. on September 23. There will be a noon shotgun start followed by a dinner at 5 p.m. The day will conclude with a brief program and ceremony featuring past recipients of MHM’s hockey camp scholarship.

The tournament ambassador is former Minnesota North Star Carl Wetzel – the team’s very first goalie and first to sign a contract with Minnesota’s first and former NHL Team.

MHM is also offering a variety of sponsorship opportunities for individuals, organizers and advertisers, to include:

• Diamond Level Sponsorship | $750 includes 2 months of advertising on MinnesotaHockeyMagazine.com, tournament advertising & hole or contest sponsorship and 4 golfers with carts and dinner
• Gold Level Sponsorship | $500 includes 2 months of advertising on MinnesotaHockeyMagazine.com, tournament advertising & hole or contest sponsorship and 2 golfers with carts and dinner
• Silver Level Sponsorship | $300 Includes 2 months of advertising on MinnesotaHockeyMagazine.com, tournament advertising & hole or contest sponsorship and 1 golfer with cart and dinner
• Bronze Level Sponsorship | $150 includes 2 months of advertising on MinnesotaHockeyMagazine.com, advertising at the tournament & hole sponsorship 
• Hole and Contest Sponsorship | $100

Individual tickets are $75 per golfer, which includes 18 holes, boxed lunch, dinner and a silent auction.

Hope to see all of our Minnesota hockey fans out on the course — should be a fun day for an even better cause!

Tara

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University of Minnesota Golden Gophers

Forwards

Kyle Rau (#7) – Nick Bjugstad (#27) – Christian Isackson (#26)

Sam Warning (#11) – Nate Condon (#16) – Zach Budish (#24)

Tom Serratore (#14) – Travis Boyd (#22) – Seth Ambroz (#17)

A.J Michaelson (#15) – Justin Holl (#12) 

Defense

Seth Helgeson (#4) – Mark Alt (#20)

Mike Reilly (#5) – Nate Schmidt (#29)

Brady Skjei (#2) – Ben Marshall (#10)

Jake Parenteau (#6)

Goaltenders

Adam Wilcox (#32)

Michael Shibrowski (#1)

Ryan Coyne (#31)

University of Alaska-Anchorage Seawolves

Forwards

Kory Roy (#23) – Matt Bailey (#21) – Jordan Kwas (#17)

Scott Allen (#29) – Blake Tatchell (#9) – Alex Gellert (#12)

Hayden Trupp (#20) – Daniel Naslund (#40) – Bobby Murphy (#19)

Quinn Sproule (#13) – Tyler Currier (#26) – Chris Crowell (#18)

Defense

Scott Warner (#8) – Chris Williams (#37)

Derek Docken (#3) – Austin Coldwell (#7)

Austin Sevalrud (#5) – Clake Leask (#22)

Goaltenders

Rob Gunderson (#33)

Chris Kamal (#35)

Tonight’s game starts at 7:00 p.m. CT. For the latest updates, follow us @MNHockeyMag or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/minnesota.hockey.magazine.

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Paul Roff is Associate Publisher for MHM’s Youth Edition. Born and raised in Minnesota, Paul grew up in south Minneapolis until the age of nine when his family moved to Edina. There he discovered the game of hockey and in his second year on skates, he made the traveling squirt “A” team.  He never looked back. Culminating the 1981-1982 season, while playing as a right-winger for the legendary Willard Ikola, on a newly combined Edina varsity team, he and his teammates won the Minnesota State High School Hockey Tournament.  At the end of his senior year (1983), the Minnesota North Stars had drafted him. Paul went on to play college hockey for the Ohio State Buckeyes and for the Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs, but never quite made it to the professional ranks. 

Paul holds a degree in Business Administration with Marketing and Finance concentrations from the University of Minnesota-Duluth, and in addition, recently added a Degree in Digital Design and Animation from Rasmussen College.  Paul’s newly formed Company, “Roff-in-Motion”, will be used extensively throughout the Minnesota Hockey Magazine website for the production of motion graphics and animation.  Paul also plans to use his talents as an animator for a cartoon series that will entertain and inform kids for MHM’s Youth Edition. Check out the first of the “Rink Brats” series here >>

To this day, Paul still plays hockey … and still loves the rush brought on from making a perfect pass or beating the goalie with a great shot!

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Veteran Radio Broadcaster Dan Terhaar will cover the Pro Edition for MHM.

Dan Terhaar has been a radio and television broadcaster for the past 28 years, and has recently joined the MHM team to cover our Professional Edition. Since graduating from Brown College in 1981, the New Hope native has worked at small radio stations in Anoka and Red Wing, as well as in Jamestown and Grand Forks in North Dakota. In recent years, you’ve probably heard him on both KSTP and WCCO in the Twin Cities. His passion for hockey started as a child and continues today. Terhaar’s play-by-play resume covers high school hockey in Minnesota and North Dakota, and as the radio voice of the University of North Dakota and the University of Minnesota hockey teams. His television play-by-play experience has put him behind the mic for Minnesota State High School Tournaments, St. Cloud State University Hockey and the Minnesota Wild of the National Hockey League.

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MHM is proud to announce our newest member on the editorial team, former NHL Player David Tanabe. Check out his first feature on the NHL lockout coming in November. (photo: uwbadgers.com)

Having grown playing hockey in White Bear Lake, Minn., and then taking his skills across the U.S. to Ann Arbor, Madison, Boston, Phoenix, Raleigh, and even a stint overseas in Switzerland, Tanabe is finally back in the great state of hockey and excited to be part of the MHM Team.

“It’s a good opportunity to get back and be a part of something great,” says Tanabe.

The former defenseman’s first editorial piece will be an insider’s take on the NHL lockout.  He was heavily involved with the players union during the last lockout and brings great knowledge and expertise to this topic.

“I’ve spent a lot of time inside the NHLPA and have been very involved with the accounting committee,” says Tanabe. “That, combined with my background participating in the league, helps me provide a good picture of the dispute and its affect on both the players and the owners.”

Check out this exclusive video interview with MHM President & Founder Scott Tiffany and David Tanabe, and be sure to check out Tanabe’s feature when MHM launches in November at minnesotahockeymagazine.com.

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Minnesota native Ann Carroll joins MHM Team.

Ann graduated from St. Cloud State University before beginning her sports reporting career in Duluth, Minn. at the NBC affiliate, KBJR-TV. She continued to build her sports reporting resume working for numerous TV stations across the Midwest. Her first stint in the Twin Cities was at KSTP-TV /ALL News Channel as a sports anchor. Next, it was on to Kansas City and WDAF-TV-FOX 4 as a sports reporter/weekend sports anchor covering the Royals, Chiefs and the University of Kansas and Missouri athletics.

After Kansas City, she ventured across I-70 to St. Louis for a chance to cover the NHL and serve as a MLB sideline reporter joining the regional sports network ranks with Fox Sports Midwest. There she served as both anchor and reporter, including duties as sideline reporter for Cardinal baseball broadcasts and also covered the Blues, Rams, as well as college programs in Missouri and Illinois.

Staying in St. Louis, Ann moved on to CBS affiliate, KMOV-TV as a sports reporter/weekend sports anchor. She mixed in some radio work in St. Louis as well, you could hear Ann on the flagship station of Cardinals baseball, KMOX-AM.

But it was a call in 2006 that fulfilled Ann’s sports reporting dreams, getting a chance to work in her hometown! First, she served as sideline reporter on TV45/KSTC for the Minnesota State High School League Hockey & Basketball State Tournaments. Later that summer, she joined Fox Sports North launching the official show of the Minnesota Vikings, “Vikings Weekly” and has called the State of Hockey home again ever since.

Welcome, Ann!

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Bill Rossini is the Associate Publisher for the Adult/Senior Edition of Minnesota Hockey Magazine. He brings many years of hockey and business experience to our team, and you’ll oftentimes see him on skates! This past March, he won two Minnesota USA National Championships just one week apart on two different teams – both teams, of which, have won 60+ titles! And, earlier this month, he played on another over-60 team that went 4-0 in the World Championships that were held in Zell Am See Austria.  Bill is a humble guy and a great team player. He will be a great spokesman for the adult hockey section.

Bill attended St. Mary’s University of Minnesota, earned a degree in Math and played four years of varsity hockey.  He also played in the USHL for one season in Calumet, Mich., and continued to play competitive hockey for another 11 years with a Senior-A hockey club. Professionally, he’s accumulated 33+ years in various IT functional management positions and is currently employed as an independent IT contractor and also serves as a Business Advisor.

Welcome to the MHM team, Bill, we’re happy to have you on board!

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Here is a brief pictorial recap of our encounters up in Copper Country …

We made it! Not quite the Golden Gate, but the Houghton-Hancock Bridge connects, not surprisingly, the cities of Houghton and Hancock over Portage Lake. The monumental structure is signature to the town (That’s right, it’s on caps, coffee cups, coasters, you name it. Everywhere.) In the winter, they actually lower the bridge so it’s accessible to snowmobiles and skiers, while cars cross over the top!

This is the John J. MacInnes Student Ice Arena, where the Huskies play. Its name comes from one of the most successful coaches in the history of college hockey, with a record of 555-295-39. Saturday night’s attendance at the arena was 3,883 — to give some perspective, that’s more than half the town of Houghton!

MTU’s favorite pup, Blizzard T. Husky, joined Charlie and I for tailgating. The school hosted a party for all the game attendees before Saturday night’s game. We met a couple from Coon Rapids, Minn., Don and Kay, who travel with the Gophers to every away game – since 1996! “This is our summer vacation,” they told us. “Some people have cabins, we watch hockey.” Hats off to them for their dedication to our favorite sport.

Game time! And last, but not least, here is a view from our seats at MacInnes. It was a split for the teams this weekend with 5-3 Huskies, followed by 3-2 Gophers. Game two definitely kept us on our toes!

Tara’s Top-5 Take-Aways:

5. Don Lucia really likes to win…like, 600 times over…

4. Michigan’s Pietila family has rockstar hockey genes.

3. Gophers need to pump up on the power-play.

2. Michigan Tech knows MUSIC. Yes, folks, their pep band even has a bagpipe…a BAGPIPE! How cool is that?!

1. “Michigan Nice” may very well be a close competitor to “Minnesota Nice.” Seriously, fabulously courteous fans in the UP!

All in all, it was a perfect weekend for college hockey, and a special thanks to our new friends up in Houghton for their unwavering hospitality.

Tara

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