“Seeing the Stanley Cup is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and to see it in a place you grew up — as a 4-year-old on skates — it’s a cool thing to see,” said Jackson Henderson, 22, a former Cathedral hockey player who was among the hundreds of people at Monday’s event.
St. Cloud State University student Collin Hess, another Cathedral hockey alum, said he and his teammates grew up idolizing Schmidt.
“It’s cool to see someone from your high school win such a prestigious trophy,” he said. “The amount of people who are here, it speaks for itself. It shows how people care about him in this area.”