Coach Roy Nystrom (Albert Lea) gets 600th career win

Courtesy of the Albert Lea Tribune

By Nick Gerhardt

Albert Lea boys’ hockey coach Roy Nystrom became part of an elite group of coaches Tuesday when his Tigers defeated John Marshall 6-2 in Rochester.

Casey Marka scored three goals and the Tigers fired 39 shots on goal as Nystrom became just the fourth coach in boys’ high school hockey history to record 600 wins. His career record now stands at 600-389-22, with 506 of those wins coming at Albert Lea in his 36 years as head coach. Only Bill Belisle, of Woonsocket Mt. St. Charles Academy in Rhode Island with 806 career wins, Edward Burns, of Arlington, Mass. with 695 career wins, and Willard Ikola, of Edina High School with 616, have more wins than Nystrom, according to the National Federation of State High School Associations record book.

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