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Ty Curtis Conklin (born March 30, 1976) is an American professional ice hockey goaltender with the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League.
Raised – although not born – in Anchorage, Alaska and an early recruit and graduate of the now-famed Minnesota hockey prep school Shattuck-St. Mary's, he later played in the United States Hockey League (USHL) for the Green Bay Gamblers, under Don Granato, and then in the NCAA for long-tenured coach Dick Umile as a member of the University of New Hampshire – or UNH – Wildcats.
A self-described "late-bloomer", and "shorter kid" at age 18, while spending his draft-eligible years (to age 20) remaining off the radar of professional scouts – first as a post-graduate at Shattuck, and then in his first year in Green Bay – Conklin went unclaimed by any team in the NHL's Entry Draft.