NATE "THE KID" KORHONEN #63

Center · Hartford Beauties · 1983-1987

Nate Korhonen showed up to his first Beauties
practice in October 1983 looking like he should've
been at homecoming, not a hockey rink. He was 19,
baby-faced, 5'11", 170 lbs soaking wet, and had
the worst attempt at a mustache the locker room
had ever seen. The team tried to make him grow one.
It was pathetic. Knuckles took a photo. It's still
on the locker room wall.

He got lost driving to The Icebox three times in
his first week. Splinters had to pick him up twice.
The vets hazed him for exactly one practice, watched
him skate and stopped. The kid was special.

Finnish American from Eveleth, Minnesota, with hands
that didn't make sense for his age. He deked like
the puck was glued to his blade. By Christmas he was
on the first line with Callahan and Laser. By
February, he had the third-most points on the team.
By the playoffs he was playing 20 minutes a night
and Murdoch was calling him "the future."

He was the last Beauty to make it out. Called up to
the AHL in '87, played two seasons there, got a
cup of coffee in the show. But he always said his
best years were in Hartford.

GP G A PTS PIM
247 89 156 245 54

ACHL Rookie of the Year: 1984
ACHL All-Star: 1985, 1986
Youngest hat trick in ACHL history: 19 years, 47 days
Only Beauty to play in the AHL and NHL
Currently coaches high school hockey in Duluth, MN.
His kids have no idea how good he was.

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