Order classic Kelly Lake Lakers tees and hoodies. Kelly Lake was a northern Minnesota mining town of about 900 people near Hibbing, and its Lakers youth teams battled other Range towns, with Greenway of Coleraine as a fierce rival. Celebrate small-town Iron Range hockey by browsing all of our Lakers gear, then read the team history below. We're a small business bringing the logos and stories of long-lost hockey teams back.
History of the Lakers, as told by former Laker Johnny M: Kelly Lake is a mining town in northern Minnesota. We associate with Hibbing, Minnesota. We are a small town of 900 people but had our own school and post offiçe back then. Our hockey team was a youth league of kids from squirts to Bantams and then we played for Hibbing High School after that. We had Saturday house leagues playing against each other from the locations of where we lived. Some small towns like Kelly Lake, Kitzville, Jefferson, Greenhaven, Cobb Cook, Brooklyn, Wells Woodland and we would play against each other but then group our teams and play against other range teams. We didn't play against the Taconite Hornets but Greenway of Coleraine was a huge rival along with Grand Rapids, Eveleth, Virginia, International Falls, Gilbert, Babbitt, Chisholm, and others.
