"Texas has its high school football, a la Friday Night Lights.

Indiana has its basketball, Hoosiers.

Aaron Marvin has lived the high school hockey version of that world.

Marvin, the Calgary Flames third-round draft choice from 2006, hails from Warroad, Minn., about 200 kilometres southeast of Winnipeg. Warroad was called Hockeytown, U.S.A. long before the Detroit Red Wings came up with that phrase as a marketing slogan.

He was a big part of Warroad high school's last Division A state championship team in 2005.

Hockey in his hometown -- 10 km south of the Canadian border on Lake of the Woods, where Ontario, Manitoba and Minnesota converge -- goes beyond fun and games.

It's an event, as is the case for all northern Minnesota.

"If we're playing Roseau, the whole town shuts down," said Marvin, 20. "And if we're in Roseau, nobody is in Warroad."

Warroad, with a population of around 1,700, is where former NHLer Henry Boucha -- regarded as one of the state's great high school players of all time -- hails from.

It's where the Christian family began making their names.

Marvin, who heads into his sophomore season at St. Cloud State, is part of that history.

And now, is trying to make a name for himself at the next level.

Attending the Flames prospect camp this week, Marvin is something of an unknown among the team's prospects. "