Vintage Minnesota Hockey - History

The Minneapolis Star Tribune Newspaper has selected an All-Metro first, second, and third players team of the year since the awards inception in 1985 with Tom Chorske winning the inaugural honors from Minneapolis Southwest. This award is not to be confused with the sponsored Minnesota Minute Men Mr. Hockey award that is a seperate award, but ironically - a lot of the All-Metro Star Tribune players of the year have gone onto capture the coveted Mr. Hockey award, that started the same year in 1985, with the same winner chosen in Tom Chorske. The All-Metro team and Metro Player of the year is chosen yearly before the State Tournament, whereas the Mr. Hockey banquet and award presentation is following the State Tournament.  The Star Tribune All-Metro award winner is based on nominations from metro-area coaches, Wisconsin and Minnesota Division I & II Coaches, and conversations with a panel of various coaches and Star Tribune high school writers obversations.  

Below is a listing of the boys all-metro players of the year award from 1985-present: