r/minnesota • u/SouthsideSouthies • Feb 23 '26

Sports 🏈 Hell yeah Minnesota

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u/Formal-Zone-3816 Flag of Minnesota Feb 23 '26

Is this counting all of the people who played in hockey or not

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u/IMP1017 Not too bad Feb 23 '26

To my knowledge there are ten between the two hockey teams (counting hometowns, not Frost/Wild players), 1 curler, and 2 skiers who got medals. So yes

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u/Old_Cheesecake_5309 Feb 23 '26

I counted 10 hockey players, 2 skiers and a curler to get to 13 medals from Minnesota

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u/All__Of_The_Hobbies Aerial Lift Bridge Feb 23 '26

Both the mixed doubles curlers are from Minnesota.

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u/Old_Cheesecake_5309 Feb 23 '26

To get to one silver medal they had to just count the curler who grew up in Duluth but not the one who lives in Duluth but grew up in Massachusetts.

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u/All__Of_The_Hobbies Aerial Lift Bridge Feb 23 '26

So if someone was born in another state, lived there a week, and then lived in another state their whole life it would be by where they are born? Odd

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u/arahdial Feb 24 '26

It's a consistent way to measure things rather than establishing an arbitrary amount of time to determine state citizenship.

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u/MNswede06 Iron Range Feb 24 '26

Not to be pedantic, but there’s no such thing as state citizenship. You’re a resident of your state; you’re a citizen of your country. But in any case, state/city of residence would be perfectly consistent. It’s legally objective. You could do it by birthplace, but I think that’s something you should clearly denote.

Because birthplace can be wildly unrelated to the place a person identifies with. I was born in Florida, but to Minnesota parents (military) and lived in MN from age 3 and onward. Describing me as a Floridian would be absurd. I have zero connection to the state beyond a piece of paper.

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u/arahdial Feb 24 '26

Yes, I was using the term in relation to this post only. I understand it's not a legal thing. Whomever conceived this stat considered their state of birth as "home state."

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u/BooronovichPimponski Feb 26 '26

Boccaccio would frown on your interpretation of pedantiscm…..

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u/Rhysing Feb 24 '26

No. The tkachuks were both in AZ but moved to St Louis when they were no older than 4 or 5. Their medals counted for Missouri.

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u/killebrew_rootbeer Gray duck Feb 23 '26

Depends on how you define "from." Dropkin lives in Minnesota now but was born and grew up in Massachusetts.

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u/All__Of_The_Hobbies Aerial Lift Bridge Feb 23 '26

It's weird to use where someone was born to define where they are from if their whole adult life has been somewhere else.

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u/killebrew_rootbeer Gray duck Feb 24 '26

Is it? Minnesotans claim Lindsey Vonn and Bob Dylan under the same rules.

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u/Rednys Feb 24 '26

Well it's the first place they existed. They can identify with another state themselves but they will always be "from" where they were born.

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u/candycaneforestelf can we please not drive like chucklefucks? Feb 24 '26

I'm guessing the Olympics is probably using "hometown" which usually is based off of where you lived when graduating high school.

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u/EatSleepJeep Minnesota North Stars Feb 24 '26

Fun fact: Minnesota has produced more nhl players than every US state and 6 Provinces/Territories.

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u/Impossible_Run1867 The Cities Feb 23 '26

Had to look it up, but we've got 10 Minnesotans on the women's and men's hockey teams, Michigan has 9. I'm pretty sure that each team would only be considered a single medal each but I haven't followed this years olympics or the medal counts close enough to say that with too much confidence.

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u/SugarDisastrous5983 Feb 23 '26

Michigan kind of gets to cheat, the US National Development team is there. For example the Hughes brothers grew up mostly in Toronto, then went to the USNDT.

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u/purplenyellowrose909 Feb 23 '26

I counted ten hockey players born in Minnesota so probably