Tufto Featured in Minnesota Hockey Journal
1/31/2019 10:22:00 AM | Men's Ice Hockey
Minnesota Native Spoke About His Career and Growing Up in Minnesota
HAMDEN, Conn. - Quinnipiac men's ice hockey sophomore forward Odeen Tufto (Chaska, Minnesota) was featured in the January edition of the Minnesota Hockey Journal.
Tufto sat down with editor Aaron Paitich to talk about life growing up in Minnesota and his choice to come play at Quinnipiac.
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Do you know the highest-scoring Minnesotan in men's college hockey?
He doesn't play for the Gophers, Huskies or Bulldogs. Not for North Dakota, Denver or Wisconsin.
His name is Odeen Tufto, a Chaska native and forward for the top-10 ranked Quinnipiac Bobcats of Hamden, Conn.
Of the 10 Mr. Hockey finalists in 2015, Tufto was the only player who had not committed to play college hockey, despite tallying an eye-popping 81 points in 31 games at St. Thomas Academy. In fact, he only had one offer upon finishing high school.
"And at that same time, there were ninth-graders committing to the University of Minnesota," Tufto said. "You just have to have a chip on your shoulder."
The Chaska Chanhassen Youth Hockey product spoke with MHJ about patience, skill development, goal-scoring and how size is no longer a factor at the highest levels of hockey.
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