Please take a few minutes to review the Media Kit for the 2025-26 season and see what we are up to!

Thank you to all our sponsors who have made Minnesota Hockey Magazine an award-winning publication possible.  

We are now putting together our World Junior and Minnesota High School Hockey Preview issue and you still have time to advertise in this special magazine. 
This will be going out right after Thanksgiving.

 Please let me know if you have any questions, or suggestions, as we are here to serve you!

Scott Tiffany
President&Founder, MHM

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Date is set for Friday, July 25, 2025

Our 13th Annual Foundation Charity Golf Tournament will be held on Friday, July 25, at beautiful Pheasant Hills golf course in Hammond, WI.  Visit their web site =>> HERE.

We are back at it again this year and will continue our efforts to bring hockey to kids that may not be able to otherwise take part by expanding our support to other charitable organizations.   

We are making the price very affordable again this year at $95 for an individual ($85 early bird special).  It’s a great value for a great cause.  Dinner is included.  This year you can also pay on-line using our Golf Event Website =>> HERE.  The associated QR Code is also on the tournament flyer.

Check this link to the 2025 version of the tournament flyer =>> HERE.

With your help, we have sent Over 350 Kids in need to hockey camp over the last 11 years. 

Getting 60 kids ready to skate

Outfitted and ready to skate

We discontinued holding our own camp 2 years ago and are now making large donations to the widely recognized DinoMights hockey organization. 

This is a fantastic organization that works with city kids in Mpls and St. Paul starting with a learn to skate program targeted at 1st grade elementary schools.

Kids do well after only 1 hour

Learning to skate is just step one in their extensive mentoring program that supports and follows them all the way through high school.

Check them out ==> HERE.  We will continue that support this year and consider others as well.  

Please consider participating and talk to your golfing buddies and hockey friends.  There will be prizes and on-course events with a shotgun start. If you are interested in sponsoring a hole, there are several levels of corporate sponsorships available.  Just contact Scott at scott@mnhockeymag.com or call 715-222-6460. 

PUT IT ON YOUR CALENDAR!

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Date is set for Friday, July 26, 2024

Our 12th Annual Foundation Charity Golf Tournament will be held on Friday, July 26, at beautiful Pheasant Hills golf course in Hammond, WI.  Visit their web site =>> HERE.

We are back at it again this year and will continue our efforts to bring hockey to kids that may not be able to otherwise take part by expanding our support to other charitable organizations.   

We are making the price very affordable again this year at $90 for an individual ($80 early bird special).  It’s a great value for a great cause.  Dinner is included.

DinoMights Exec Director, Scott Harmon

Check this link to the 2024 .pdf version of the tournament flier =>> HERE.

With your help, we have sent Over 350 Kids in need to hockey camp over the last 10 years. 
We discontinued holding our own camp last year and are now making large donations to the widely recognized Minneapolis DinoMights hockey organization.  Check them out ==> HERE.  We will continue that support this year and consider others as well.

Please consider participating and talk to your golfing buddies and hockey friends.  There will be prizes and on-course events with a shotgun start. If you are interested in sponsoring a hole, there are several levels of corporate sponsorships available.  Just contact Scott at scott@mnhockeymag.com or call 715-222-6460. 

PUT IT ON YOUR CALENDAR!

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Date is set for Friday, August 13, 2021

Golfers line up for the start of the 2020 MHM Charity Golf event

Our 9th Annual Foundation Charity Golf Tournament will be held on Friday, August 13, at beautiful Pheasant Hills golf course in Hammond, WI.  Visit their web site =>> HERE.

We seriously considered cancelling the event last year due to the Covid pandemic, but we went ahead with it and it was a huge success!  In addition, we held our camp for kids and were able to get past the social distancing restrictions with a turnout of about 60 happy kids.

We are back at it this year and will continue our efforts to bring hockey to kids that may not be able to take part otherwise.  We are making the price very affordable again this year at $75 for an individual ($65 early bird special).  It will be a simplified event again with social distancing in mind.  Dinner is included.

Check this link to the 2021 .pdf version of the tournament flier =>> HERE.

Excited kids ready to take the ice for our 2020 camp

With your help, we have now sent over 300 kids in need to hockey camp over the last 8 years and we are working to continue that success!

Please consider participating and talk to your golfing buddies and hockey friends.  There will still be prizes and on-course events with a shotgun start.

If you are interested in sponsoring a hole, there are several levels of corporate sponsorships available.  Just contact Scott at scott@mnhockeymag.com or call 715-222-6460.

PUT IT ON YOUR CALENDAR!

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Minnesota Hockey Magazine will partner with Hockey Day Minnesota Minneapolis 2020 to produce the official event program.  This was just announced with an official press release today.

For press release details just click on the link =>> HERE.

Thanks.  MHM Staff

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From the classic hockey venues we visited,

In January, Elk River hosts Hockey Day Minnesota

 and saying good bye to the historic Coliseum,

Our story begins with coaching.

We start the games with the drop of the puck.

With more coaching,

                                      As the teams compete with  all the battles on the ice.

                The teams move the puck to get  the shot,

only to see some great saves,

with some shots that find the back of the net.

We follow that with the post goal celebration,

As we capture  the incredible joy  of celebrating a championship with the team.

Edina 2014 State 2A Champs

And see the agony of defeat,

As we end, hoisting the championship trophy,

and taking  the team photo capturing the championship season.  We had the best seat in the house, and were just glad to be there, as 2014 was a great year for Minnesota hockey.

State Champs!  .

We won the North Star Cup

Thanks to the over 100,000 individuals who visited our site in 2014.  Please visit us often and share with your friends.  

Check us out on Facebook, follow us on twitter and subscribe to our e-Edition.  It’s all free.

We are looking forward to 2015, capturing  more exciting hockey moments with our photos, our stories, our videos and more.

We wish you a prosperous and Happy New Year!!! 

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We are excited to announce that our Minnesota Hockey Magazine (MHM) Team on behalf of the MHM Foundation is hosting our second annual charity golf tournament!  Join us on Friday, August 8, for a day on the greens at Pheasant Hills Golf Course.  Pheasant Hills is about 40 minutes from downtown St. Paul near Hammond, Wisconsin, and is an easy drive.

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All proceeds will benefit Minnesota youth looking to attend hockey development camps to improve their skills, but may not have the means to do so.  Last year MHM sent kids to the FCA (Fellowship of Christian Athletes) hockey camp in Alexandria, MN.

Some of the happy golfers at the 2013 MHM Charity Event including Neal Broten

With YOUR HELP, we are looking to increase the number of kids we can assist this year.  We are working with the Wounded Warriors, Defending the Blue Line, Grant Potulny’s hockey camp, The Lumberyard training center and others to make this happen.

The cost is very reasonable at $75 per golfer on the day of the tournament or $60 per golfer ($240 per team) early registration by July 15.  Corporate sponsor packages, hole and contest sponsorships are also available.

Cost includes 18 holes of golf and cart, dinner and entry for prizes.  There will be prizes for longest drive, closest to the pin, longest putt (all included in cost), a skins game ($20 per team), mulligans for sale, a putting contest, a 50/50 raffle and more.

Examples of some of the prizes and auction items at this year’s event…thanks to the Vikings, sports memorabilia collector John Lindberg, Neal Broten, Dave Christian and others

The golf tournament will begin with registration and a silent auction at 11 a.m. on Friday, August 8.  There will be a noon shotgun start followed by a dinner at 5 p.m.  The day will conclude with an awards ceremony and comments from special guests.

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

Donations are always welcome.

To register for the event or donate to our silent auction contact Scott Tiffany at Scott.Tiffany@MinnesotaHockeyMagazine.com, 715-222-6460.

For details, review and print the Tournament Flyer.

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

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Henry Boucha as an Olympian
(Submitted Photo)

When Henry’s name was mentioned to his fellow 1972 Olympic Silver medalist team mate Ron Naslund, the first thing that came to mind was how tireless Henry was.  Naslund, a Minneapolis Roosevelt player was asked to try out for the Olympic team late in the tryout process, and as a 28 year old player, made the team. Playing against the world’s top players,  Naslund watched with amazement and recalled “Henry was just a tireless player.  I mean he never got tired.  He would kill penalties, work the power play and just keep going, just a terrific hockey player and a real good guy”.

Marv Jorde, a winner of USA Hockey’s Ironman award given to people that have tirelessly given to the game and is a story in himself that we will tell another day, was mesmerized the first time he saw Henry play.

Jorde coached the St. Paul Park Indian High School Hockey team in the 60’s and 70’s and recalled ” The first time I saw Henry Boucha play was his sophomore year.  we were playing on the Iron Range in the Holiday Classic and Boucha was playing defense.  The more I watched him, the more mesmerized I became, as not one time did he lose the puck in his defensive zone and he just controlled the game.  This was against one of my very good Park High teams (the team lost in the sectional final that year).  I watched him play the whole game as he never once came off the ice.  With the score tied 2-2 and now in overtime,

Henry Boucha with Warroad Warriors team mates
(Submitted Photo)

Henry decided it was time to end the game, and skated an end to end rush, and once in on his top two defenders, he did a spin move causing the two defenders to collide while he split them and went in to score the winning goal”.

Boucha is a treasure in Minnesota Hockey lore and is considered to be one of the best all-around athletes to come out of Minnesota.  He participated in football, hockey, baseball, and track and was offered full scholarships to compete in all four sports. Henry chose hockey and his story speaks for itself.  From his youth days of winning the Bantam state championship for Warroad, to the memorable “David vs Goliath” state final with Edina, his Minnesota legend started.

Henry Boucha was instrumental in the USA medalling
(Submitted Photo)

Add onto the world scene, where he helps in leading his team to qualify for the Olympics after getting the US out of the B pool in the 1971 World tournament, to earning a silver medal in Sapporo Japan, and finally playing in the NHL and WHA, Boucha’s career is inspiring from his athletic accomplishments and even more of accepting his Native American culture and making a difference. For those old enough to recall Henry Boucha, they will know the impact he had on hockey at all levels in Minnesota and for those that are younger learning a piece of hockey history about this icon makes his book “Henry Boucha, Ojibwa Native American Olympian” a must read.

It ties together a story of a person that overcame a number of personal tragedies and heartache to achieve heights at the highest of levels in his profession. He holds the record for the fastest goal scored in the NHL while with the Detroit Red Wings.  A horrific eye injury ended his career after six seasons in the NHL.  He continued to play in the WHA with the Minnesota Fighting Saints and after many surgeries retired from hockey at the age of 25.

Henry Boucha scores his first NHL goal with Detroit
(Submitted Photo)

If you can’t make it to Dave’s in Fridley or Stillwater this weekend, purchase Boucha’s book online at HenryBoucha.com or at Amazon.com.  Be sure to check out this week’s Minnesota Hockey Magazine Radio Show as Henry discusses his life in and out of hockey with our host Pete Waggoner. Last year, Scott Tiffany and MinnesotaHockeyMagazine.com sat down to talk hockey in a multiple part series. Here are the first and last parts of those interviews. For the whole story, you really don’t want to miss out, we recommend buying his book this weekend at Dave’s Sports Shop.[vimeo id=”62318782″ width=”620″ height=”360″] [vimeo id=”64475284″ width=”620″ height=”360″]

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Niklas Backstrom, Clayton Stoner and the Wild are unbeaten in 2014.
(Photo by Bruce Kluckhohn/Getty Images)

Last night at the Xcel Energy Center I was on the losing end of a winning game. Early on in the first period my beloved iPhone, a tool that allows me to record post game interviews, check quick stats and of course keep contact with the world, decided it didn’t want to work anymore. On any day that wasn’t a game day I probably wouldn’t have been so bothered by it, but there I was in the press box without a key piece of my life.

As the Wild scored goals and chalked up their first win in seven I Googled how to get my touch screen to start responding again. First I had to try to hard restart it, no luck. Next I had to erase it and perform a factory reset. I went through this process a solid five or six times, occasionally contemplating the idea of deep-sixing the handset and letting it fly off the press box level to its demise, before finally conceding defeat and admitting I was powerless to help my phone.

As my iPhone saga unfolded a few members of the press noticed my obvious frustration and came to my rescue with recorded audios I could use as well as calming words meant to refocus and get me back on my game. These key words and phrases were running through my head: restart, refocus, back on my game, back to basics. I glanced behind me at the Minnesota Wild players who were watching their team from the press box and then looked back down towards the ice … and it was at that moment that I had a revelation.

As the Wild skidded six games before finally winning last night against the Buffalo Sabres we had observed them attempting to fix their broken game night after night by resetting, attempting to get back to basics and use the system and structure that is meant to be the backbone of the squad. Much like me with my iPhone, as they tried to reset back to their baseline operating system and found themselves still facing failure, they grew more and more frustrated and agitated until there was little semblance left of team cohesion.

They came under pressure from fans, themselves, the coaching staff and whoever else could throw out an opinion but no amount of talking, or not talking was going to get them out of the endless cycle of reset, fail. They had to accept they were powerless and start building up from the bottom, which is what appears to be happening now.

The dressing room became increasingly tense with players struggling to explain what was going on. How do you really answer a question with no real answers anyway? Coach Mike Yeo also found himself facing tough questions and the speculation that continued losses may result in his dismissal. If that isn’t a recipe for disaster I’m not really sure what is. With last night’s win came a few small laughs and even a joke out of Clayton Stoner that the team is now undefeated for the new year although a cloud of caution still hung over the press conferences and interviews deep in the belly of the ‘X’ following the contest.

I write this as a simple reminder that sometimes there aren’t any easy fixes or answers and that even when the solution seems simple, the answer is not always as straightforward as it first appears. I believed I could fix my iPhone by getting it back to basics, as I’m sure the Wild believed they could get their team back on track by prescribing to their system. The thing is though, with so many moving parts, like in my phone, a team is only able to control so much before they have to take a deep breath and wait for things to start clicking again.

My iPhone ultimately took some professional help to get back online and even as I type this I’m still not sure whether or not it’s going to come off of life support anytime soon. I’ll go so far as to say the Wild aren’t quite out of the woods just yet either but they are slowly showing signs of intermittent life, something that should make all Wild fans breathe a little easier for the time being.

As we move through the next few games beginning with the Capitals and Kings – two teams known for being ruthless when they want to be – remember that any frustration you’re feeling is probably being felt ten-fold on the bench and while their performance may not be without error or even pretty, it will be a genuine effort being put forth by a team that truly cares about its fans and the state of Wild hockey.

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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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