Hockey Day Minnesota

Hockey Day Minnesota is a day in Minnesota run in cooperation with the Minnesota Wild and Fox Sports North that features at least two Minnesota High School boys hockey games, a Minnesota College Hockey game, and a Minnesota Wild NHL game.

The games, normally played outdoors, had to be moved indoors due to warm weather causing poor ice conditions.

The 2013 HDM broadcast included the Season/Home Opener for the Minnesota Wild for the 2013 NHL season after the 2012-2013 NHL Lockout was resolved. This year also included the last WCHA (regular season) meeting between Minnesota and North Dakota before Minnesota heads to the Big Ten Hockey Conference, and North Dakota goes to the National Collegiate Hockey Conference in 2013-2014.

2014 Hockey Day Minnesota was hosted at Handke Pit.

Elk River native Nate Prosser scored the game winning goal in the Minnesota Wild game against the Dallas Stars in a 3-2 overtime victory.

The official name for Hockey Day Minnesota 2015 is "St. Paul to Kuwait" to celebrate Minnesota troops' service in Iraq and Kuwait. Fox Sports North personalities and crew broadcast the Wild game in Kuwait around 5 AM local time for the stationed troops to watch.

Hockey Day Minnesota 2016 was the 10th of the series and was played outside in Bayfront Park.

Hockey Day Minnesota 2017 was the 11th of the series and was played outside in Lowell Park.

Hockey Day Minnesota 2018 is the 12th of the series and will be played outside at Lake George.

Hockey Day Minnesota 2019 is the 13th of the series.

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