Hobey Baker Memorial Award Foundation

University of Minnesota Golden Gophers

Scored 71 points in 41 games as a freshman and 71 points in 36 games as a sophomore … scored game-winning goal in Minnesota’s 4-3 win over North Dakota in the 1979 NCAA Championship game … member of the 1980 gold medal-winning U.S. Olympic hockey team … selected by the Minnesota North Stars in the 1979 NHL Entry Draft … received the North Stars’ Bill Masterton Memorial Cup in ’84 and ’86 … spent 15 seasons with the Stars franchise (Minnesota and Dallas, 2 stints) before being traded to the New Jersey Devils in February of 1995 … won the Stanley Cup with the 1995 Devils, becoming the second Hobey winner to do so … his number was retired by the Dallas Stars after 17 years in the NHL … Neal currently resides in River Falls, Wisconsin.