MOORHEAD — “Work hard, show up at the rink every day, have fun and put a smile on your face.”
That’s the recipe for hockey success for Moorhead Bantam AA hockey player Sam Laurila, who earlier this month was selected to play for USA Hockey’s National Team Development Program Under-17 team next season.
Laurila, a 15-year-old defenseman, is one of seven Minnesota-born players to make the roster. He’s in pretty rare air for another reason: bantam-level players are not often named to the development team due to the youth hockey structure in Minnesota, which has different age requirements than other states.
So when Laurila got the call to join the team for the 2022-23 season, it took some time for him to fully process the accomplishment.
“I didn’t think a whole lot of it right away,” he said. “I just kind of had to let it sink in for a bit. It just kind of went by day-by-day and then it was kind of, ‘Oh, wow, this is going to be pretty cool.’ It just…
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