ST. PAUL --Darby Hendrickson has been a part of a lot of history inside Xcel Energy Center and got to be a small part of some more on Saturday night when he watched his son, Mason, win a state championship with Minnetonka High School.
The top-seeded Skippers secured their first-ever state title in boys hockey when it upended Duluth East 5-2 in the Class AA championship game.
Hendrickson didn't tell his wife, Dana, or his son, Mason, a junior forward on the team, that he was coming back following the Wild's victory in Vancouver on Friday night.
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