Minny High School Hockey. It's Coming.

If you are not checking out the countdown of the top 100 high school boy's hockey players in the state of Minnesota, shame on you.

There's some great names here, although some of the photos do not do the player or the topic justice.

The countdown, on the Minnesota Hockey Hub site, is designed to lead us up to the opening day of the boys' hockey season. As of today, it's 23 days until the march to March in St. Paul begins.

Corey Millen of Cloquet is player No. 23, which put him ahead of such names as Herb Brooks (No. 100, St. Paul Johnson), Jack McCartan (No. 91, St. Paul Marshall), Eric Strobel (No. 72, Rochester Mayo), Mark Pavelich (No. 56, Eveleth), Joe Micheletti (No. 46, Hibbing), T.J. Oshie (No. 42, Warroad), Dave Langevin (No. 34, Hill-Murray), Matt Cullen (No. 28, Moorhead) and Reed Larson (No. 24, Minneapolis Roosevelt).

I know those fans of Texas 5-A high school football and Indiana boy's basketball will disagree, as is their right, but in the Lounge, there is no better high school program than Minnesota high school hockey and the state tournament.

Case closed.