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Harder Took Novel Approach To Game

January 27, 2010

By Michael Russo
Minneapolis Star Tribune

MINNEAPOLIS - Shep Harder was a minor league journeyman -- a one-year minor league journeyman. There were cups of coffee that had longer stays in one city.

In 2000-01, Harder -- the Wild's now-33-year-old director of hockey administration -- bounced around the East Coast and International Hockey leagues, playing 15 games for five teams.

"It became pretty clear I was a marginal minor league goaltender at best and I was 25 years old by the end of it all, so I think the writing was on the wall that it wasn't going to happen for me," said Harder, who grew up in Wayzata and made a name for himself at Blake by being the goalie who snapped powerhouse Bloomington Jefferson's 60-game win streak in 1994.

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