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Article: Southern migration; Youth hockey is growing in nontraditional places.(SPORTS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- March 3, 2009
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Byline: Ben Goessling, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
During the winter months, the social calendar in Fergus Falls, Minn., has a blissful singularity to it. The late-model race track is closed. So are the parks, the golf course and the batting cages.
The tiny, snow-swept outpost on Interstate 94, about 50 miles from the North Dakota border, has a five-screen movie theater, a bowling alley and a hockey rink.
If you're in Fergus Falls on a Saturday night, you've got one option - go to the high school hockey game, Jeff Nygaard said.
After playing all the way through high school, Nygaard moved away from the seat of Otter Tail County once: to attend ...