The following includes all non-adult national championships through 2022.
STATE | NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS | FIRST CHAMPIONSHIP | MOST RECENT |
---|---|---|---|
Michigan | 169 | 1940 | 2022 |
Massachusetts | 127 | 1940 | 2022 |
Minnesota | 66 | 1949 | 2022 |
New York | 58 | 1939 | 2022 |
Illinois | 45 | 1962 | 2022 |
Connecticut | 30 | 1949 | 2019 |
California | 29 | 1977 | 2019 |
Missouri | 22 | 2004 | 2022 |
Pennsylvania | 19 | 1938 | 2022 |
Colorado | 16 | 1982 | 2022 |
New Jersey | 15 | 1941 | 2022 |
Texas | 14 | 2004 | 2022 |
Iowa | 12 | 1951 | 2018 |
Alaska | 11 | 1983 | 2021 |
Georgia | 10 | 2009 | 2021 |
Maine | 11 | 1950 | 2022 |
Wisconsin | 8 | 1962 | 2021 |
Washington | 8 | 1945 | 2016 |
Rhode Island | 9 | 1948 | 2022 |
New Hampshire | 7 | 1954 | 2012 |
Ohio | 6 | 1948 | 2019 |
North Carolina | 6 | 2000 | 2019 |
Florida | 6 | 1989 | 2016 |
Virginia | 6 | 2011 | 2022 |
North Dakota | 5 | 1993 | 2011 |
Vermont | 5 | 2005 | 2022 |
South Dakota | 5 | 2012 | 2022 |
Delaware | 3 | 2010 | 2018 |
Oregon | 3 | 2015 | 2017 |
Montana | 3 | 1954 | 2014 |
Oklahoma | 4 | 2010 | 2022 |
Indiana | 3 | 2011 | 2011 |
Nebraska | 3 | 2001 | 2010 |
Nevada | 2 | 2010 | 2019 |
Wyoming | 2 | 2016 | 2016 |
Tennessee | 2 | 2012 | 2014 |
Arizona | 3 | 2001 | 2022 |
South Carolina | 1 | 2021 | 2021 |
Idaho | 1 | 2012 | 2016 |
The growth of hockey in the United States can be charted in a small way by the number of non-adult national champions hailing from new states as the years progress.
Between 1949 and 1972, all of the national champions hailed from either Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan or Minnesota. The 1970s saw Illinois, New York, California and Washington join the list (the 1977 Los Angeles Junior Kings won the AHAUS Junior B title, becoming the first team west of the Rocky Mountains to win a non-adult national championship) and then New Jersey, Ohio, Rhode Island and Wisconsin won their first titles in the 1980s.
From 1990 to 2008, ten new states joined the champions list. Alaska, California, New Hampshire, North Dakota and Pennsylvania had teams win titles in the '90s and then Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Missouri, Texas and Vermont won championships since 2000.
The 2010 tournament was a boom year for states winning their first titles. Delaware, Georgia, Indiana, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada and Oklahoma brought home championships that year to add their states to the list.
In 2011, Maine won its first and second ever national titles and was joined by Virginia as states breaking through on the national stage. In 2012, Idaho, Tennessee and South Dakota brought home the first national championship in state history. North Carolina burst on to the scene in 2013 with its first two national titles.
In 2015, the club of national champions added Oregon to the list. In 2016, Wyoming joined the club with a pair of national championships.
While the longtime hockey hotbeds continue to shine on the national stage, the surge of hockey's popularity in emerging markets is producing new champions.