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Rochester native Jim Johannson was inducted into the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame Wednesday night at the RiverCentre in St. Paul, nearly five years after he passed away at age 53. Johannson was a two-time Olympian and a USA Hockey executive for nearly 20 years.
Jim Johannson, a 1982 Rochester Mayo graduate, was a two-time Olympian, an NCAA national champion and was the assistant executive director of USA Hockey when he died in January of 2018. Johannson left a lasting impression through his work with more than a dozen USA national teams. Wednesday, he was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame during a ceremony at the RiverCentre in St. Paul.
The U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame announced its Class of 2022 on Thursday. Rochester native Jim Johannson, a Mayo High School graduate, is one of five members of this year's class. Johannson passed away at age 53 in 2018 after spending his whole life playing, coaching or working in executive-level positions in hockey.
Rochester native Jim Johannson -- who played in two Olympic Games for Team USA and went on to a two-decade career at USA Hockey -- received a high honor Thursday. Johannson, who passed away in 2018, has been elected to the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame's Class of 2022.

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When Mike Aikens accepted the assistant coaching job with the Rochester Grizzlies four years ago, he looked at it as the first step toward building back to a Division I coaching job. That dream was realized this week when Aikens, a 1988 Rochester John Marshall graduate, accepted an assistant coach position at Division I St. Lawrence University.
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