Before coaching, Ikola led the University of Michigan to two NCAA hockey titles in 1952 and 1953 and the U.S. Olympic team to ...

Legendary Edina HS hockey coach Willard Ikola died at the age of 92. Ikola is one of the most successful high school hockey coaches of all time, with 616 career wins and eight state titles. Ikola was ...

Ikola coached the team for a total of 33 years, leading the Hornets to 19 state tournament appearances from which they took home eight state titles.

Willard Ikola grew up on the Iron Range before becoming the head coach at Edina High School in 1958, beginning one of the ...

Willard Ikola was born in Eveleth in 1932, when the Great Depression was going full steam, several mining facilities were ...

When Minnetonka’s girls hockey team swept past Wayzata 9-0 Jan. 18 at Minnetonka’s Pagel Activity Center, Edina’s chance for ...

The Edina community is mourning the loss of a legend in Minnesota high school hockey. Former Edina High School boys hockey ...

Former Eveleth High School state champion, Olympic silver medalist and eight-time Minnesota state high school championship ...

Minnesota hockey legend, Willard Ikola has died. The Eveleth native won two NCAA national championships and was on the 1956 U ...

An all-time great goaltender who somehow went on to have an even more iconic coaching career, Willard Ikola — a titan of ...

Minnesota hockey legend Willard Ikola — who won three state high school titles as a player with Eveleth, then coached Edina ...