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Re: mask manifesto

100%. Thank you for guys for saying this and for the awesome ongoing content. Great to have hockey back - let's keep it that way.

My son will be a senior this year. We're okay with the MSHSL plan and the chance for him to play his final year for his school and with his teammates and at the same time minimizing risk to vulnerable family members. I cannot understand why people are insisting we act as though we are not in the mid...

1) Lots of politics in youth hockey so kind of respect people being open about their intentions. I'm guessing this is a proposal that one person or a small group in the association made to the board, so that doesn't mean it's being really seriously considered though. 2) My kid's former assoc. has ba...

To answer the original question in this thread:

Forest Lake from to D10
JCNSP to D2
Woodbury to D2
Becker/Big Lake to D5
Burnsville to D8
Northfield maybe to D8

And, yes a pipe dream, but build dead associations back up and recreate D1.

Angst towards Hermantown is misplaced in my eyes. Play the best AA during the regular season and then win a championship among school size peers at the end of the year. From a player point of view, that's a great experience and clearly is good enough to develop D1 talent. Yes a AA championship would...

What if we just gave everyone a trophy?[/quote] This is one of the stupidest and most repeated comments in youth sports. After mites players don't give a rip about trophies. They care about meaningful games. And surprise surprise, so do fans, which are most consistently parents and local supporters....

Three kids returning from BAA. [1forward,1D,1goalie] I think 8 to ten return from single A. maybe as many as 4/5/6 pee-wee AA that can hplay at that level. It only takes 5/6 kids from each grade soph,jr,sr. to put together a good varsity.The thing that killed me was the parents clapping at the boar...

One of Edina's 4 PWB2 teams just took 3rd in the 32 team Peewee B1 Maple Grove tourney that ended today. Congrats to them and the Edina B1 Green team that won it. This tourney had many of the most sucessful pwb1 teams this year so a "B2" team going that far really struck a nerve with me th...

Non-binding suggested team placement per number of kids in an age grouping at each association. aa, a, b1, b2, c = wow thats a lot of levels and really hard to place teams competitively. Lots of blowouts at peewees this year I've seen. Not fun, not good for development. Associations that have tried ...

Too high: East Grand, Luverne, Johnson, Apollo

Too Low: Delano, Thief River, Greenway, Hibbing

what happens to teams that have them scheduled? Any chance for them to make up these games?

"Shame more effort hasn't been put into recruiting minority kids..." shame? why... may be it is a shame more minority kids are not choosing to play.... may be it is a shame more effort isn't put into recruiting ANY kids.. but it would be a shame to put an emphasis on one group of kids to ...

"Shame more effort hasn't been put into recruiting minority kids..." shame? why... may be it is a shame more minority kids are not choosing to play.... may be it is a shame more effort isn't put into recruiting ANY kids.. but it would be a shame to put an emphasis on one group of kids to ...

Pioneer Press on refrigerant change over problem at Ramsey County Rinks:

http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_ ... ice-arenas

Looks like West Side will be the next to fall...

Shame more effort hasn't been put into recruiting minority kids...

Yes to both of the questions but having trouble this year finding enough coaches for the association before even get to the certification process. People are too busy at work and with other commitments to consider it. Associations need to do a better job of recruiting non parent coaches in the off s...

My son had a kid play down on his squirt team about 7 years back. The kid has a handicap. He 2 years older I believe and was bigger but it worked out just fine, no problems.

I would think new players at the peewee and bantam ages would be considered good candidates to play down.

Does Bauer Emerson have their own teams this year?

The elite league will already be at the NAHL Showcase in Blaine, from Sep 25-27; elite league teams play a regular weekend set of games as part of the overall event. The games are played at the same time as the NAHL has all 22 teams coming in from all over the country to play four games each. The e...

With the Elite league teams being Tier 1 now why didnt they integrate those teams into the regular 18u and 16u brackets for the NAHL tournament? Its rare to get teams from all over the country here and always more fun to play in a big tourney than against the same guys and teams. Last year I thought...

Heard over the weekend about a MN HS Jr going to play Tier III this year and also saw on the other thread about the Grand Rapids kid going to the SIJHL. Doesn't seem like those moves are tracked as well because they seem to be more under the radar talent level kids but does anyone know how common th...

Blaine Tournament July 24-26:

http://assets.ngin.com/attachments/docu ... ourney.pdf

Blaine, Andover, Spring Lake Park, Totino, SP Johnson, Tartan, Holy Angles, Anoka, St. Francis, S. St. Paul.

Alexandria HS tournament this weekend, June 19-21.

Teams: River Lakes, Alexandria, Capital City Comets, Prairie Centre, Sauk Rapids, Wadena, Detroit Lakes

http://www.alexhockeyfest.com/2015/HS%2 ... teams).pdf

Good move by MN hockey to add this opportunity this year. Anyone know why they were play in the high school category? Isn't JR Gold the equivalent to Midgets? I see they have an 18u tier II category. Why not there?

If JR Gold can play high school teams at nationals, why not here in MN?

Unbalanced B teams. Large associations bypassing A level hockey and then beating their chests while mopping up at B1. D6 Reffing Parents v Parents fights Parents v Coaches fights The Wild and Gophers sucking with tons of talent No particular order I think the problem is not unbalanced B teams, but ...

In four years we have yet to have a parent ask that their son or daughter's name be removed. In fact, the response is quite the opposite. The demand for us to broadcast games is beyond what we can fulfill. It is our policy to respect those wishes if it were to be an issue. If a parent or player doe...