The Minnesota Owls are a Tier III Junior A

Junior ice hockey

Junior hockey is a catch-all term used to describe various levels of ice hockey competition for players generally between 16 and 20 years of age...

 ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 team and member of the Minnesota Junior Hockey League

Minnesota Junior Hockey League

The Minnesota Junior Hockey League is a USA Hockey Tier III sanctioned junior ice hockey league operated out of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul in Minnesota. The league currently has eight member teams in Minnesota and Wisconsin...

 (MnJHL). The team plays their games at the David C. Johnson Arena located in Isanti, Minnesota

Isanti, Minnesota

As of the census of 2000, there were 2,324 people, 816 households, and 576 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,095.3 people per square mile . There were 834 housing units at an average density of 393.1 per square mile...

. The team broke their franchise home attendance record in 08-09 with close to 1,400 people attending the home opener.

The Minnesota Owls were founded in 1993. They are a non-profit corporation and are sanctioned by USA Hockey

USA Hockey

USA Hockey is recognized by the International Olympic Committee and the United States Olympic Committee as the governing body for amateur ice hockey in the United States and is a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation. The organization is based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and has...

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The Owls won the MnJHL Play-Offs in 1994 and 1998, placed second in 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2007 and 2008 and placed third in 1997. The Owls went on to represent the MnJHL at the USA Hockey

USA Hockey

USA Hockey is recognized by the International Olympic Committee and the United States Olympic Committee as the governing body for amateur ice hockey in the United States and is a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation. The organization is based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and has...

 Tier III Junior A Ice Hockey National Tournament.

In addition to On-ice comittment, each player is required to participate in community service

Community service

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 while with the team. Past activities include: Jaycees Easter Egg Hunt

Easter egg

Easter eggs are special eggs that are often given to celebrate Easter or springtime.The oldest tradition is to use dyed or painted chicken eggs, but a modern custom is to substitute chocolate eggs, or plastic eggs filled with confectionery such as jelly beans...

, collecting Toys-for-Tots, refereeing youth floor hockey

Floorball

Floorball, a type of floor hockey, is an indoor team sport which was developed in the 1970s in Sweden. Floorball is most popular in areas where the sport has developed the longest, such as the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. The game is played...

, collecting food for Food Shelves, hosting a golf tournament

Golf

Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

, helping with youth hockey practices and participating in the 4th of July

Independence Day (United States)

Independence Day, commonly known as the Fourth of July, is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, declaring independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain...

parade.