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Howie: Class A boys hockey returns, and so do the usual suspects
Hermantown is playing a schedule that looks like it handed the AD a crayon and told him to circle every team that makes teenagers cry.
Prep Sports, Friday
Top-ranked Hibbing/Chisholm opens at Cretin-Derham Hall in boys hockey tonight.