• The Pioneers won their first 16 games, finished the regular season 23-1-1, and were ranked #2 statewide for most of the year.  They played #1 Holy Angels to a tie before a packed house at Aldrich Arena on January 21.  The loss was to eventual Class A champion St. Thomas Academy.
• Hill-Murray took the top seed in Section 3 for the first time since 1999 and won it for the first time since 2002, but needed double overtime to do it.  Bryant Skarda tipped Derek McCallum's long shot into the upper corner to put Hill-Murray in its 20th MSHSL state tournament.
• Junior Nick Larson scored a hat trick in the state quarterfinal against Minnetonka, had five goals overall in the tournament, and was named to the All-tournament team.
  
• The team's top four defensemen - Bill Leier, Derek McCallum, Gabe Guentzel, and Mac Garceau - had already earned nine varsity letters among them prior to this season.
• The December 6 game against White Bear Lake was the first statewide telecast of a high school hockey game by Fox Sports Net.  Play-by-play was done by Anthony LaPanta, who had honed his skills broadcasting many Hill-Murray games on local cable television in the '90s.  Color commentator Kevin Gorg was the goalie for the Burnsville team that defeated Hill-Murray 4-3 in the 1985 state championship game.
  
• Junior Mike Hoeffel amassed 114 points in two seasons and played four seasons at the University of Minnesota.
• Sniper and shorthanded specialist Brian Arrigoni finished his three year career with 65 goals (including 14 shorthanded) and 112 points. He later became at All-American at Hamline where he finished among the school's all time scoring leaders.
• Defenseman and captain Derek McCallum finished a four year career with 91 points and went to the University of Minnesota on a baseball scholarship.
  

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