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1. 1. Grand Forks Herald | 03/27/2005 | PRAIRIE VOICES: A living legend

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   Published on: 3/27/2005   Last Visited: 3/27/2005

   Henry Boucha, Warroad, Minn., Realtor and member of the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame. Boucha is a an Ojibway Indian who belongs to Northwest Band 37, which is on the Canadian side of Lake of the Woods. He grew up and played hockey for the Warroad High School, played on the winning 1972 U.S. Olympic team and had a professional hockey cut short in 1975 after an attack by another player.
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   Henry Boucha, Realtor and member of the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame, Warroad,Minn.
   
   Boucha is an Ojibway Indian who belongs to Northwest Band 37, which is on the Canadian side of Lake of the Woods.
   
   He grew up in the Warroad and Lake of the Woods areas and played hockey for the Warroad High School hockey team. He also played for the silver-medal winning 1972 U.S. Olympic team. But his pro career was cut short in 1975, when he was attacked by another player on the ice and hit in the eye with a hockey stick.
   
   Today, he has recovered emotionally and physically and works as a Realtor in Warroad.
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   In the book about you, "Henry Boucha: Star of the North," the author say your style was unusual.

2. 2. Let's Go Blues :: View topic - The T.J. Oshie Thread

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   His cousins Henry Boucha and Gary Sargent played there and went on to careers in the NHL.
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   They stayed with Boucha, who played hockey for Warroad before going on to play with the U.S. National Team and the 1972 silver medal-winning U.S. Olympic team. Between 1971 and 1977, the teams he played for in the NHL included the Detroit Red Wings, the Minnesota North Stars and the Colorado Rockies. It didn't take long for young T.J. to see the advantages that a town like Warroad offered a budding hockey player. Boucha remembers Tim and Tina Oshie arriving with their three children late at night after a long train trip from Washington.
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   "Tim and the boys were up on my outdoor rink before sunrise," Boucha recalled.
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   Because of my family - my uncles, my father, my cousin Henry - it was very special being in that arena."
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   While in Washington to operate summer hockey camps, Boucha had the opportunity to watch T.J. play. He was impressed with what he saw. "With T.J.'s vision on the ice and his competitiveness - even playing against kids twice his size - you could tell right then and there that he had a gift," Boucha said.
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   Boucha arranged for a medicine man to conduct the traditional Ojibwe naming ceremony for Tim and his children, which is similar to the Christian practice of baptism.
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   To Boucha it was a sign. While living in Idaho in the late '70s, he said the Great Spirit used a golden eagle as a messenger to tell him to return home to Warroad. "Henry told me that it was also my calling to come back home," Tim said.
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   To Boucha it was a sign. While living in Idaho in the late '70s, he said the Great Spirit used a golden eagle as a messenger to tell him to return home to Warroad. "Henry told me that it was also my calling to come back home," Tim said.

3. 3. www.sportscelebs.com

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   Published on: 10/6/2005   Last Visited: 3/24/2008

   Henry Boucha
   
   Henry came out of the Minnesota hockey system with a flash! He was colourful in that he wore a headband over his long dark hair to accentuate his Ojibwa Nation heritage. Combined with his natural good looks and tremendous hockey skills, Henry was a star in the making.
   
   Henry was drafted in the 2nd round of the 1971 Entry Draft by the Detroit Red Wings. He debuted with the Wings at the tender age of 19 in the 1971/72 season when he played 7 games and scored 5 points. He then spent the rest of the season playing for the U.S. Olympic Team which won a silver medal in Sapporo, Japan.
   
   In his rookie season of 1972/72, Henry electrified the Detroit crowds with his exciting stickhandling and tall, powerful build. He scored 29 points that season followed by 31 points the next. For the 1974/75 season, Henry was traded "home" to the Minnesota North Stars. However, Henry's season came to a screeching halt on January 4, 1975. After a serving a 5 minute fighting major for a scrap with Dave Forbes of the Boston Bruins, Henry and Forbes came together on the ice whereupon Forbes hit Henry with a butt-end in the eye, fracturing Henry's eye socket.
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   In 1975/76, Henry spent time with the Minnesota Fighting Saints of World Hockey Association and then came back to play in the NHL briefly with the Kansas City Scouts and the Colorado Rockies. But he couldn't overcome his eye injury. In 1977, he retired from the NHL at the age of 24 with his tremendous promise unfulfilled. He is a member of the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame.
   
   Today, Henry is very active in affairs of the Ojibwa Nation and for all First Nations peoples across Canada and the United States. He is well versed and well spoken about Native issues. And he is a great motivational speaker with children and youth, encouraging them to pursue their dreams and to not let their circumstances limit their hopes. He came from poverty and oppression and now gives back in many forms to people who are in similar situations to what Henry has conquered personally.