Two years of hockey in Saskatchewan is leading to four more in North Dakota for a local blueliner.
Reece Forman, 20, a 6 foot 2, 200-plus pound defencemen, is suiting up for the Minot State University Beavers next season and studying criminal justice on a partial scholarship.
Forman played for the Nipawin Hawks of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League from 2013 to 2015. He tallied two goals and 20 assists from the point last season and six points in the playoffs.
Forman, who wants to join the RCMP one day, was offered partial scholarships by seven post secondary institutions and settled on Minot State in part because his former Nipawin Hawks captain is also playing hockey there, and his billet sister from Saskatchewan is heading there too, he explains.
“The school seemed really good. I’m pretty excited. A lot of it is schooling, but it’s exciting I still have four more years of hockey.”
Minot State won its first ever American Collegiate Hockey Association championship, a national title, in 2012-13.
