The Eveleth test: the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame's inductees — and Indiana's one name

Roster read whole, 1973–2026 — the birthplace table searched line by line

The search: The United States Hockey Hall of Fame at Eveleth, Minnesota, has enshrined its members since 1973, individuals and five teams (the 1960, 1980 and 1998 Olympic teams, the 1996 World Cup team and the 2002 Paralympic sled team). Its published roster tabulates every individual inductee by place of birth, and that table was read whole for this test — some two hundred names, running through the Class of 2025 (Bruce Bennett, Scott Gomez, Tara Mounsey, Zach Parise, Joe Pavelski) and the announced Class of 2026 (Amanda Kessel, Phil Kessel, T. J. Oshie, Ryan Suter and Stan Wong, to be enshrined 30 November 2026).

The verdict for Mishawaka: Negative. No inductee's birthplace is Mishawaka, and no inductee biography in the Hall's records gives a Mishawaka tie — raised, schooled, coached or seated. The announced 2026 class runs to Wisconsin, Minnesota and Florida. If a Mishawaka name ever enters this hall, it will be the first.

Indiana's one name, printed at its strength: The whole roster contains exactly one Indiana birthplace: Mike Emrick, inducted 2011, the Hall's first media member — and his Indiana is La Fontaine, in Wabash County, where he was born and raised, not Mishawaka. His tie is printed at exactly its strength because he is the name a careless version of this test would have claimed: an Indiana voice in the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame, and not this city's. (His other Indiana hall line is of the same kind: the Fort Wayne Komets inducted him into their team hall's media category on 7 March 2020 — Fort Wayne's hall, a La Fontaine man's honour, boundary on both counts.) Beyond Emrick, the roster's geography is the sport's familiar map — Minnesota, Massachusetts, Michigan and New York supply the overwhelming share — and Indiana's single line is his.

Sources:

1. U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame — inductee roster and biographies (ushockeyhalloffame.com), and the roster's published birthplace table (the Hall's member list as tabulated), read whole November 2026; the Class of 2026 announcement (enshrinement 30 November 2026).
2. Bowling Green State University athletics, 1 August 2011 — Emrick's election, "the La Fontaine, Indiana native."
3. Fort Wayne Komets, Komet Hall of Fame page (komets.com) — Emrick, media category, inducted 7 March 2020; boundary item.