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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...

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 nothin...

David La Va Voque of the Star Tribune reporting MAML only dropped Annandale, will keep Maple lake and have been approved (yesterday) to play in class A. Also reporting Ward is able to stay with team if desired. So are there no players in the youth program from Annandale? I realize youth and High Sc...

Let's just do this: 2017- Move Hermantown up to AA due to being too good. Move MAML up because as the 14th ranked team in Class A they are too good. Class 5A should never have someone ranked in the top 20 in their section. 2018- State finalists Cathedral and Breck get moved up. Private schools, and...

If the logic of playing down is that they can't compete with AA programs, then why did they remain in a primarily AA conference? Not difficult for a team to leave their conference for a lesser one. The group of juniors and seniors has been very successful through youth, including the youth state tou...

Jeffy95 wrote:

Hermhawkey wrote:

GoldyGopher wrote:

Jeffy...where is the outrage?

LOL, apparently you missed his sarcasm. Nobody is open enrolling to Monticello for hockey.

Well, that isn't quite true. I can think of several that are currently there that open enrolled...

Am I the only one confused by the outrage over alleged recruiting of a team that may or may not make the tournament, that has never made the tournament before, from a weak section? This team is 66-90-5 from 2010-2016, so if they are recruiting players for a run to state, they've done a horrible job...

3 million people can sign it. It does not mean anything. The petition would not be legally binding in any way. Bottom line is that they are playing where the rules state they belong. Just saying. I just hope the program already knows where they belong and that rumors are true and they move up. Yes,...

I'd like to see associations come up with a policy that says if you leave our association for one year and come back we will welcome you with open arms. But for that first year that you come back, you will play down one level. I think this could help eliminate parents moving back and forth. This is...

It appears that the kid got noticed just fine while playing for Moose Lake. March 24, 2016 | Volume 129, Number 12 Moose Lake Area Hockey Moose Lake Area Rebel hockey player Bryceton Butkiewicz was selected to participated in the CCM High Performance 18 Spring Festival March 18-20 to be held at the...

Jeff Parker was Drafted after Jr. Year from WBMariner., 1982. Buff. Sabs Scotty B. Bobby Orr town of 150. Boston stated watching "the Kid" when he was 12. Now the internet they will reach out to younger and younger players. Mommy and daddy can't buy the kids way into the NHL/MLB/NFL yada....

"KIDS....I MEAN PARENTS... Minnesota association based hockey works. Is it perfect, of course not.. but trust me, your kid will be fine. If he's half as good as you think he is, the scouts will find him" And we are back to this. Yes, the scouts will find him, if he is playing where they a...

There is one flaw in all of this: The premise that talent is evenly distributed among a group of players. In my years of hockey, I have observed it to more accurately follow a bell curve, with the concentration of talent in the center with the top and bottom ends being outliers. With that it shows m...

I hate to write this but You need to have a little documentation on the incident from the Bantam A scrimmage from last night. 1/24/2016. My daughter is the goalie for the Bantam A team. She was subject to some pretty horrible comments from a couple players on your team. She was called transgender, ...

I keep hearing about tons of head shaking from scouts other than the "pickers" this year.. As in, it wasn't a quality group of kids this year? As in, they agreed with the other three (never usually hear complaints about the 15's on here) poster's opinions, that some cruised through on the...

St. Cloud camp is quite a week for players fortunate enough to make it. Interesting to see some of the talent out there, and disappointing to see some of the big names not delivering. Embarrassing in some situations. A little surprised that some still advanced to national camp. They must look at th...

Yes, there was a little success this season, but I don't think that you can chalk that up to roster loading or improper declarations. The co-op only had enough bantams to fill four rosters and they have an A team, a B1 team, a B2 team, and a C team. Within District 2 , they finished 4th, 4th, 4th, ...

Why do teams try and set up brackets and screw up a tourney? Nowin the Bantam AA division in Moose Goheen you have the 1&2 teams playing in the semis because the tournament host had 1 bracket that was a lot easier to walk through and get the 1 seed. I'm not trying to take anything away from Jef...

The only way it slows the game down is if players continue to do it. Then it is on them, not the referee. In any games I have been at that it is called that way, they figure it out pretty quickly because they don't like being shorthanded. No different than any other call, but nobody is making the ar...

Anyone saying that this has the best competition and a big time feel unlike any other tournament has clearly never been to Fargo. I was not at the Squirtacular, but have been to Fargo. So feel free to correct me if it was better.

I can tell you this much Irondale lost zero players due to the AA, A split and they are one of the smallest associations in district 10. I believe coon rapids and St Francis lost a few but none of those kids ended up on the top teams at the pee wee or bantam levels. CR lost zero Bantams in 2012 Los...

No offense, Tony, but I'm dead serious. You don't jump into something without thinking about it. :P Unfortunately, they did think about it - for THREE YEARS! They obviously ran out of brain cells when they got to the region seeding discussion. If the objective is to get the best 32 teams at the AA ...

Keep in mind it's a Minnesota Youth Hockey forum. Completely different discussion in Wisconsin cause of the quality and quantity of teams. And keep in mind that it is a Minnesota Youth Hockey forum, and not a Twin Cities Youth Hockey forum. The issues of travel that JSR talks about exist in the are...

Schedules are online. Looks like the same malarkey as other years... create as weak of a schedule as possible for the Orange teams to give them every opportunity to advance to the medal round. At 03 level, they are in the same bracket as MG, however they don't play MG. In addition, MG plays one gam...

I agree with everything you said, especially the last point. Those parents can buy in at whatever level they wish. I paid $50 for my daughter to play 2nd year Mites / U8 in the 2011-12 season and $165 for her to play up at C Squirts last year (guess the association?), while these jokermanz will pay...