A visit to the US Hockey Hall of Fame

 In May, on our Epic adventure detailed in my previous post, my brother and I visited the US Hockey Hall of Fame in Eveleth, Minnesota. It was my first time visiting Minnesota and we went there specifically to go to the museum. 

When I visited the Basketball Hall of Fame, I broke that up into multiple posts and I never finished it (I still plan to when I have time) and I don't want to do that here. Instead of showing everything, which was about 1000 pictures, I'm going to share my favorites with a link to the rest. The museum is really worth visiting if you are a hockey fan of any degree, it was awesome!

The outside of the building

a small statue outside

The store

A chair set met out of hockey sticks and signed by gold medal winners

The 4th Zamboni ever built! One of my favorite artifacts in the museum. 

The scoreboard was the one used in the Mighty Ducks movie.

Quite a bit of the lower level is based on the 1980 Olympic team, aka the Miracle on Ice.

A took close up photos of each and every placque. 

A display of vintage skates, dating back to the 1880s.

Old time skate sharpener

I think these are old cards glued to the stick

My brother makes a guest appearence

This was cool but a little confusing

a building inside a building!

They have a thing set up with a radar where you can see how hard you can shoot a puck

Miracle on Ice themed Foosball, which you can play...

and Blades of Steel, which you can also play!

Along with the Zamboni, these red and blue WHA pucks were my other favorite artifacts. The WHA experimented with these pucks to see if they would show up better on TV, but it didn't pan out, and they are extremely rare. 

One large section on the top floor was on college hockey. I don't do any college sports stuff but I still photographed everything.

I opened two packs of cards in the parking lot

Then we drove to the other side of town and saw the world's largest freestanding hockey stick! 

and a 700 pound puck, too!

There's a wall of history,  but it was 30 degrees and windy so I kinda rushed through it.

There's a large representation of a Topps card on the wall

I was shivering so much I cut off the top of the word and the photo of Frank Brimsek. Ooops! 

Here's the link to my website where all the pictures are: US Hockey Hall of Fame

Thanks for reading!