Hayden Hennen is a 20-year-old who played his high school hockey and golf for Kittson Central High School in Hallock, Minn. He nearly quit hockey after his senior season to pursue college golf.
The New Jersey Titans looked anything but tired on Tuesday, holding off the Anchorage Wolverines and playing a perfect defensive game to claim their first NAHL title.
Anchorage Wolverines coach Mike Aikens will take an expansion team into the Robertson Cup title game on Tuesday after his team beat the St. Cloud Norsemen Saturday to win their NAHL semifinal series.
The Rochester, Minn., native discusses his path from John Marshall High School to the USHL, college hockey and ultimately into coaching. The Wolverines will face the St. Cloud Norseman in a best-of-three series for a spot in the NAHL national championship.
Rochester native Mike Aikens has guided the Anchorage Wolverines to the North American Hockey League's Robertson Cup, the league's final four tournament, in the franchise's first year of existence. He's done it with some names familiar to southeastern Minnesota hockey fans: Albert Lea's Campbell Cichosz, a Minnesota State commit, and former Rochester Grizzlies Collin Pederson (an Owatonna native) and Shane Soderwall.
The New Mexico Ice Wolves, Anchorage Wolverines, New Jersey Titans and St. Cloud Norsemen will all face off at Fogerty Arena in an effort to earn the prestigious Robertson Cup.
