Created: February 19, 2021 05:58 PM
The Eveleth Golden Bears won the 1945 Minnesota State High School Hockey Tournament to go down in history as the winners of the inaugural championship of a now legendary event.
All 11 players from that time have since died, but the legend continues to grow in unexpected ways. That brings us to the case of the mysterious missing gold medal that once belonged to the team s goaltender, Ron Drobnick, who died in 2007. When my grandma passed away in 2013, we looked all over for his gold medal and we couldn t find it, said his grandson Phill Drobnick. I found the third-place medal from 1946.
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