The Wisconsin Badgers have a history with the Minnesota Mr. Hockey Award. Two recent winners have gone on to have great success with the Badgers. In 2004, Centennial forward Tom Gorowsky would take home the award before moving on to a nice career at Wisconsin. In 2007 it was former Badger, and current New York Rangers defenseman Ryan McDonagh who was presented with the hardware.This year 2011 Badger recruit Patrick Daly of Benilde-St. Margarets has been named a top 10 finalist for the award.
According to the Minnesota Minutemen website: "The Mr. Hockey Award is given to the outstanding senior high school hockey player in the state of Minnesota and is selected by a panel of National Hockey League Scouts, Division One coaches and selected media members from around the state. Three other awards will be presented at the banquet: The Frank Brimsek Award, The John Mariucci Award, given to the Class A and Class AA high school coaches of the year and The Cliff Thompson Award, presented to the “Old Timer Coach” of the year."
Daly, who committed to the Badgers on January 10th is having an outstanding senior season for Benilde. Daly had 34 points in 21 games for the Red Knights including an incredible 31 assists.
Daly, who will join Jake McCabe from the NTDP as recruited 2011 defensemen has gotten rave reviews from people around the state. I was able to speak with Fargo Force beat writer Ryan Clark who managed to see him when Benilde was in Moorehead and gave a glowing review, "A-freaking-mazing. He's ungodly fast and his only weak spot, to this point, is he does not shoot. You guys got a good one. He's always checking, he's active with his stick, gets in the passing lane and can take a shot. Best HS d-man I've seen (this year)."
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