Mayo’s Grosso inducted into HOF tomorrow

Rochester Mayo High School boys hockey coach Lorne Grosso will be inducted tomorrow into

the Minnesota Hockey Coaches Association Hall of Fame.  The ceremony will take place while the state high school boys hockey tournament is in its second day.   Also being inducted this year is longtime Albert Lea coach Roy Nystrom.  He and Grosso were teammates at the University of Minnesota before beginning their long coaching careers.  Nystrom began in North Dakota and later became coach at Albert Lea high school.  Grosso has spent all his years behind the Mayo bench and has 677 wins in his career, more than any other boys hockey coach in Minnesota history.  Nystrom has 671 career wins,  577 of those at at Albert Lea.