Jeff Shelstad, high school hockey coach with roots in Minneapolis Park and Rec League, dies at 81

Longtime high school hockey coach Jeff Shelstad died on March 6. Shelstad, of Merrifield, Minn., was 81. Shelstad began his coaching career in the Minneapolis Park and Rec League as a teenager. As a high school senior, Shelstad built a hockey rink for his three younger brothers in the backyard of his family's home in southwest Minneapolis. After high school, Shelstad played hockey for Augsburg. He started his teaching and high school coaching career in 1965 at Richfield High School, where his first coaching assignments were sophomore hockey and junior...