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- Fri Mar 02, 2018 9:30 am
- Forum: Minnesota High School Hockey (Latest Topics)
- Topic: Section 4AA Final: Hill-Murray vs. White Bear Lake
- Replies: 84
- Views: 24955
I remember it happening to the Vancouver Canucks a few years ago. I heard, probably not to anybodies surprise, that they sold out of the 1,400 tickets at Aldrich today. Who is excited? Anybody have some all-time stats to post? Remember when they used to do this at the Hippodrome? 1400??? Why are th...
- Thu Sep 28, 2017 3:25 pm
- Forum: Minnesota High School Hockey (Latest Topics)
- Topic: Breck vs Alaska Oilers U16 Tier 1 9/25 in Eden Prairie
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9735
- Thu Sep 28, 2017 2:37 pm
- Forum: Minnesota High School Hockey (Latest Topics)
- Topic: Breck vs Alaska Oilers U16 Tier 1 9/25 in Eden Prairie
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9735
- Thu Sep 28, 2017 2:31 pm
- Forum: Minnesota High School Hockey (Latest Topics)
- Topic: Breck vs Alaska Oilers U16 Tier 1 9/25 in Eden Prairie
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9735
The Minnesota model works well if you happen to be in an association with a minimum of 3 teams per level, but unfortunately does not serve a high end player that lives in the footprint of an association with 2 or even 1 team at a level with no other options allowed. To say they can play a higher le...
- Thu Sep 28, 2017 9:39 am
- Forum: Minnesota High School Hockey (Latest Topics)
- Topic: Breck vs Alaska Oilers U16 Tier 1 9/25 in Eden Prairie
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9735
I have to say I do enjoy seeing people reason away any success a Tier 1 team may have against a Minnesota team. The fact is that Tier 1 is a very good model for the top end player, whether Minnesota chooses to acknowledge that or not. Speculative reasoning as to why a given result occurred is nothi...
- Thu Sep 28, 2017 8:39 am
- Forum: Minnesota High School Hockey (Latest Topics)
- Topic: Breck vs Alaska Oilers U16 Tier 1 9/25 in Eden Prairie
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9735
The old tear down this wall debates on here.... :-({|= I still can't believe there was a time when talented - small association kids -were not allowed to try out for HP.. Minnesota Hockey has had a big time awakening in recent years.!. Some things are much improved! I never knew that about small as...
- Thu Feb 16, 2017 3:00 pm
- Forum: Minnesota High School Hockey (Latest Topics)
- Topic: 4AA play-offs
- Replies: 58
- Views: 19231
- Wed Dec 21, 2016 1:33 pm
- Forum: Minnesota High School Hockey (Latest Topics)
- Topic: White Bear Lake vs Hill Murray 12/22
- Replies: 29
- Views: 11889
presale. ok assume plenty of tickets remain for WEd presale? anyone confirm? You should be fine on Wednesday Bought pre sale tickets last night during the WB girls HS game. This was several hours after pre sale tickets went on sale. There was never really a line. Plenty of tickets still available. ...
- Wed Nov 30, 2016 4:00 pm
- Forum: Minnesota Youth Hockey
- Topic: Bauer Invite Chicago
- Replies: 49
- Views: 29422
Even at 35 games its only adding a game every other week. Looking at it that way I think it seems pretty easy to be honest. We are in agreement here. To be honest I'm not sure what the rub is with the MSHSL in adding more games. It might be a work-life balance thing for players. Remember it's a sch...
- Wed Nov 30, 2016 2:57 pm
- Forum: Minnesota Youth Hockey
- Topic: Bauer Invite Chicago
- Replies: 49
- Views: 29422
Kids SHOULD NOT be allowed to leave Bantam hockey to play JV. Period. Kids should develop with other kids their age. From a development perspective I have no problem with this but bantams can often times be 3x - 4x the cost of JV hockey. A lot of people who jump from bantams to JV do it for financi...
- Wed Nov 30, 2016 2:25 pm
- Forum: Minnesota Youth Hockey
- Topic: Bauer Invite Chicago
- Replies: 49
- Views: 29422
You could add all of those (hand full) of kids going straight d1 and it would still be a 5-1 ratio of kids from midget hockey. Also I did not say every the rest of the country I said Midget AAA. Pretty sure there are other avenues high end players play in other parts of the country example prep sch...
- Wed Nov 30, 2016 12:44 pm
- Forum: Minnesota Youth Hockey
- Topic: Bauer Invite Chicago
- Replies: 49
- Views: 29422
- Wed Nov 30, 2016 12:37 pm
- Forum: Minnesota Youth Hockey
- Topic: Bauer Invite Chicago
- Replies: 49
- Views: 29422
I believe you will find more MN HS players go straight to D1 College than do Tier 1 Midgets. Which will skew your numbers. Besides numbers wise we are talking about one state vs the rest of the country. Certainly not the best path in MN. You could add all of those (hand full) of kids going straight...
- Thu Nov 10, 2016 3:33 pm
- Forum: Minnesota Youth Hockey
- Topic: Bauer Invite Chicago
- Replies: 49
- Views: 29422
Tier 1 has been, at least in recent years, a solution looking for a problem in MN. Guys...we have the best of both worlds here in MN. High level affordable, community based hockey in the winter and Tier 1 - like AAA super teams in the summer (Machine, Blades, etc...). I think it's great. From my per...
- Tue Oct 25, 2016 4:47 pm
- Forum: Minnesota High School Hockey (Latest Topics)
- Topic: Nick Swaney
- Replies: 61
- Views: 28119
Sorry for the long post...but this is a topic I have been thinking about and reading about for some time now. Thought I would share my thoughts. This speaks to why a player would commit at a young age...and yes, I know it's off the Swaney topic a bit...but I think still relevant to some earlier comm...
- Wed Apr 27, 2016 10:12 pm
- Forum: Minnesota High School Hockey (Latest Topics)
- Topic: Simply sad..
- Replies: 137
- Views: 62025
I wonder if this is what it's like in the parent ranks of C programs around the state when final winter team rosters are posted across all of our associations? Do you think the conversations are much different? I doubt it. The accusations of collusion, politics and of course favoritism due to relati...
- Sun Mar 06, 2016 3:58 pm
- Forum: Minnesota High School Hockey (Latest Topics)
- Topic: Stillwater
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9789
- Wed Jan 20, 2016 10:42 am
- Forum: Minnesota High School Hockey (Latest Topics)
- Topic: NHL Central Scouting Mid-season Rankings
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7613
In case you're wondering how this might translate to the actual NHL draft, here's a look back to last year's final Central Scouting list for Minnesota High School Hockey players vs. Actual NHL Draft: Jack Sadek CS Final Rank: 79th / Drafted 204th overall Jake Jaremko CS Final Rank: 110th / Not draft...
- Tue Dec 15, 2015 3:19 pm
- Forum: Minnesota Youth Hockey
- Topic: referees
- Replies: 30
- Views: 15330
So having watched youth / HS hockey for the past 15 years it's just a fact that refs will get it wrong once in a while. And that includes the 2 referee one linesman system at HS. With that said I have used bad calls as a development opportunity for the players that live in my home. Overcoming advers...
- Tue Oct 27, 2015 2:05 pm
- Forum: Minnesota Youth Hockey
- Topic: PeeWee checking
- Replies: 112
- Views: 46902
I was always against checking below HS, I have seen the light now-checking must come back to PW. It does not need to be in squirts though. I agree. To me only part of it is learning to deliver or take body contact. The other part, which in my book is more important, is wiring your brain to avoid bo...
- Thu Oct 01, 2015 12:11 pm
- Forum: Minnesota High School Hockey (Latest Topics)
- Topic: Relocating to Minneapolis Area
- Replies: 79
- Views: 31942
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Good points, and thanks. We have a lot of flexibility in terms of location. The "academic" topic, when it comes down to it, is really the most important factor. So far our investigation has been pushing us west and southwest of Minneapolis. But also we had been reading MN has many awesome...
- Wed Apr 29, 2015 3:37 pm
- Forum: Minnesota High School Hockey (Latest Topics)
- Topic: New Goalie Program Coming to Town????
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7855
- Mon Apr 20, 2015 1:38 pm
- Forum: Minnesota Youth Hockey
- Topic: 2015 Selects/Super Series
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10715
- Fri Apr 17, 2015 12:26 pm
- Forum: Minnesota High School Hockey (Latest Topics)
- Topic: Cool Pics of First MSHSL State Hockey Tournament (1945)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7068
- Wed Apr 08, 2015 2:50 pm
- Forum: The Cafe
- Topic: Oh, wait...
- Replies: 28
- Views: 23629