Although they didn’t know it at the time, the seeds relating to the 2016-17 Hudson High School boys’ hockey team were planted back in 1992. The story is long, yet uniquely connected. 

The story probably begins when now-current Hudson head coach Brooks Lockwood moved to Hudson from Minnesota. Thrown into the Hudson hockey system as a Mite, Lockwood linked up with Mite teammates Ben Bosworth and Davis Drewiske. Lockwood can’t quite explain it, but the trio gelled immediately, especially Lockwood and Bosworth. 

The group of pucksters rose though the Hudson hockey ranks together, and with their Raider teammates, Hudson skated onto the high school hockey map in 2001 when they won their first state title in school history. During that 2001 state tournament, all three players contributed early and often as the Raiders rolled to easy wins, scoring 16 goals during the state tournament run. To date, the squad ranks among the best scoring teams in state tournament history. Soon after, the three players graduated (Lockwood and Bosworth in 2002, Drewiske in 2003), but that does not mean their skating success came to an end.