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Iceburg wrote: ↑Mon Aug 15, 2022 11:15 am Maybe I’m misunderstanding the exact nature of your post, but there are two Shattuck girls on the U18 U.S. team that will play Canada.

The newest list Eagles93 posted shows no Shattuck players. The previous lists did show Shattuck players. I must be missing something....

Final U18 roster (Minnesotans): 2005 Birth Years D Elly Klepinger (Minnetonka) D Cailin Mumm (Andover) F Lindzi Avar (Minnetonka) F Ava Lindsay (Minnetonka) F Grace Sadura (Minnetonka) G Danielle Strom (Maple Grove) 2006 Birth Years G Layla Hemp (Minnetonka) F Josie St. Martin (Stillwater) 5 player...

JV is practically free for the participants, but I suspect it's a huge loss generator for most high schools that don't own their own rink. Something to watch for in the future - perhaps the merging of JV programs will become more commonplace. Hockey is definitely more expensive than most sports but...

U19 might allow for an extra night off (or two) during the week, and less expense to both the families JV is practically free. 19U can be thousands of dollars factoring travel, tourneys, etc. JV is practically free for the participants, but I suspect it's a huge loss generator for most high schools...

"Shouldn't be offered" is a bridge too far for me. JV is rec hockey - there is a place in the world for rec hockey, and many kids want to play with classmates. We should try to keep these casual players in the game, and offer an intro to kids that want to try it late. No high school coach...

I'm surprised Mira hasn't tried to jump into the Tier 1 program with her Winter 19U team. I suspect they may play in the NIT event in October in Blaine with the Elite teams and others from around the country. That team plays a Tier 1 schedule during the HS season, and the girls in the program come ...

j4241 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 08, 2022 11:37 am The reason seems clear - to protect high school hockey.

Bingo!
But would that argument be reasonable in a court case?

So MNHockey essentially denies any club or program that could compete with their product? As Phunnsie says there are limited options on the girls side. Why would MNHockey limit them even further? Yes, MNH holds the "golden ticket" for granting a club or any entity Tier 1 or Tier 2 status,...

Can someone explain why the boys side of fall hockey is so much different than the girls side? Why do the top boys skip HP in the fall and play for the Blades or a different U16 program (Lakers, Blue Army)? Why does that not happen on the girls side? The pool is much shallower on the girls side whi...

Thanks. One more question, I'm not sure how likely or if this ever happens, but if a 2008 birth year made a MN Hockey U14 Tier 1 team and was also selected for a spot in Premier Prep, what path would you suggest taking? Slightly different take - I think Tier 1 14s is better hockey than Tier 2 16s -...

Tier 1...no question. Premiere Prep isn't even supposed to allow them to try out so MN Hockey would step in anyway if she tried to jump. Correct (on both points). More so, since both teams are considered USA Tier 1 hockey, you can only be rostered on one team for the 2022-23 season (Aug thru April)...

It'll be at Polar Lakes Park in White Bear Township. I wasn't super familiar with this park, and had to look it up. It's not really very close the lake itself, and appears to be up around Tamarack Nature Center No idea why they picked this park. Downtown WBL businesses will be shutout from benefiti...

Where in WBL will they be playing next winter? It'll be at Polar Lakes Park in White Bear Township. I wasn't super familiar with this park, and had to look it up. It's not really very close the lake itself, and appears to be up around Tamarack Nature Center No idea why they picked this park. Downto...

Why don't some players nominated by their respective coaches get an opportunity to try out? I don't know what the magic formula is. I do know some coaches nominate every player on their roster that's eligible, and many of them just aren't realistic candidates. Only so many can tryout... There is al...

Why don't some players nominated by their respective coaches get an opportunity to try out? It's a good question. One might think they simply bypass players who don't make an HP team in the spring (640 players at 4 levels). Then again, I know players who don't make HP teams, but DO play elite leagu...

Centennial is well coached and talented, Maple Grove is the same....top contenders in 5 Both also benefit from good goaltending - but I think the talent returning at Maple Grove puts them among the better teams in AA - not sure that's the case for Centennial. Centennial has some youth that will sti...

There are occasionally some who are injured (like Maddie Kaiser last year) or who have a good hockey excuse (like the kids on Vegas last year who missed HP because of nattys) who are given an opportunity for evaluation in some other way, but I’m pretty sure the SSM kids you mentioned didn’t partici...

Nice work, thank you You're Welcome! I little bit of a disclaimer regarding the Final 54's. Last year, and probably due to covid, there were Twenty (20) 2004's (HP-17 in 2021) and Nine (9) 2005's (HP-16 in 2021) who made USA Hockey U16/17 or U18 camps, but did NOT do the MN spring festival or Final...

Here's the Final 54 data. Minnetonka is still ridiculous with 16 players. To think that a couple of them might not get much playing time at varsity is even more ridiculous. A couple of the Tonka players are listed as playing Elite League last fall, but came in from California? Can someone confirm if...

Curious where all the HP players are coming from this spring? See the table below. Per the rosters posted at MNH, I did a quick sort based upon the school or association each player listed for themselves on the roster. For the totals, in some cases I combined the two schools together where they co-o...

Looks like U16 Elite League Grey in Tier I and U16 Premier Prep Purple in Tier II were the Minnesota teams who came away with national titles today. Did anyone see the games and have feedback? From my count, it appeared that all 10 girls teams made it out of pool play, and into the final rounds (tw...

Looks like U16 Elite League Grey in Tier I and U16 Premier Prep Purple in Tier II were the Minnesota teams who came away with national titles today. Did anyone see the games and have feedback? From my count, it appeared that all 10 girls teams made it out of pool play, and into the final rounds (tw...

Gotothenetman wrote: ↑Thu Mar 24, 2022 11:19 pm I have heard Hastings may be open but not 100% on that.

True. And not shocking. Shocking it didn't happen after 2 season, but there's the covid exception, I guess.

It's not exactly that simple, the current proposal is it's either 12U/15U or 13U and then the 15U leagues are gone. The reality is like almost everything in the world today it's binary. If you're a mid/large metro district you want to keep 12U, because you already have a viable 15U program and why ...

Was at the Senior Classic this weekend several of the 22 are in contact with D1, wondering if anybody else has heard anything? Seems late for the 22's trying to find a D1 home, but if a school is losing a player to the portal, then I can see spots opening up. Seems like most colleges are trying to ...