Eric Scheid Feature for Wild.com

If there's a list of unofficial hockey holidays, Hockey Day Minnesota is one of the ones on there.

This year Hockey Day Minnesota, a celebration of the sport in the state put on by Fox Sports North and Minnesota Wild, turned 10 February 6th by featuring three outdoor high school games out in Bayfront Park in Duluth. The celebration continued with a college game between the University of Minnesota and Penn State from Mariucci Arena. Pro hockey concluded the festivities that night from St. Louis as the Wild and Blues faced off with one another.

HDM is about the players and stories throughout the "State of Hockey." I was fortunate enough to be able to tell one of them for Wild.com.

Penn State forward Eric Scheid is a Blaine native whose hockey travels have taken him from Minnesota to Nebraska (twice) to Alaska to Pennsylvania. He's a fifth year senior who has played college hockey longer than the Nittany Lions program.

Throughout his time away from Minnesota Scheid has found himself as a hockey player. He also has found his second family, which has been important this season on (where he was tied for second in scoring at the time) and off the ice. Family being very important to him, Scheid's father Jim passed in August.

You can read the feature here.

http://wild.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=848485

Midseason Mea Culpa

It's been a while since I've updated here, which is not my intention. So much has happened over the past 4-6 weeks between coverage and travel and everything to the point where getting into a regular schedule reposting, let alone anything new, has slipped my mind.

Since the last time I've posted I've written articles for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Minnesota Wild and of course my regular places at SB Nation College Hockey and Wild Xtra.

I'll try to get up some of the work up here in the near future.