This nearly life-size mural is on the wall at the city's Braemar Arena.Using a little bit of data and a lot of anecdotal evidence, ESPN's Greg Wyshynski set out to find the center of the American hockey universe. If his methods had yielded different results, I'm sure there would have been plenty of things to pick apart about his process. Alas, Wyshynski properly concluded that the Twin Cities metro area is, indeed, the locus from which all hockey radiates outward in the United States — the geographical center of all things puck-related (not to be confused with Rugby, N.D., the geographical center of North America, which us North Dakota natives cling to as a selling point for our state). After conceding that New York, Chicago, Detroit and Boston are in the mix, he quotes Pat Kelleher, executive director of USA Hockey with the knockout punch. "I'm a native Bostonian, so this is going to get me in trouble.