Roseau Times-Region - Serving Roseau County for over 100 Years - The Official Roseau County Newspaper

There's a generation of Roseau hockey players, now no longer young, who played on the peewees under Dick Johnson, who demanded excellence while teaching them how to play the game with discipline, character, and class.

These days, Dick is battling Alzheimer's disease and is mostly silent, His great hockey mind can no longer be sought out for advice.

Some of his athletes, who played under Dick and won the state peewee title before going on to win the state high school title in 1990 under Coach Dean Blais, visited Mr. Johnson last weekend.

"We had 15 guys out of the 19 from the 1990 team and Coac...