Jared Gustafson, who hadn't been aware that he had already been honored as the 2020 Section 8AA Assistant Coach of the Year, was honored this week by the Minnesota Hockey Coaches Association as the 2020 State MHCA Co-Assistant Coach of the Year along with Blake's Jay Phillips.

Coach Gustafson, a 1995 RHS graduate and Ram hockey player who has been an assistant coach for the Roseau varsity the past four years, was humbled by the honor and learned about it from unofficial sources.

"Yesterday, I started getting text messages from my players," he said on Thursday morning.

"I thought it was a jo...