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I hope the MSHSL goes back to a "play where you live" model. So if a kid open enrolls to another HS they can't play Varsity sports? Minnesota was at the forefront of open enrollment so I don't see that even being legal. Nope, just still "play where you live". If you want to open-enroll at George Ba...

Dear DOG, This is Dowd here. Please leave me out of your dumbass conversations. I could care less about the subject p.s. dont hide behind your stupid moniker snd cast stones,,, leave me and my family out of your B.S. The HT guy crabbing about how unfair it all is... classic! :roll: HT has loaded it...

Looking at this from a distant view, I do have sympathy for a kid who plays at an association all the way up in youth but was convinced to go to "greener pastures" for a year or part of a year but decides to come back. Looking at it honestly, the probable reason this thread has hit 5 pages is becaus...

And Pekyman, I used to root for HT at state (even when they played a team from another area where I knew a bunch of the players parents) because they're a northern team (all area type northern "A" HS playoff team now). My rooting died when the whining started and when I saw what charade they were pa...

Hermantown beat East about 15 years ago, East pulled out of the LSC and has not played HT sense. Nobody at that time would have demanded that HT should play AA Hockey. I understand EAST pulling out of the LSC, but not playing Hermantown again because HT beat them is BS. It is actually ridiculous th...

MY Rankings do not rank until a team has 5 games played. Where's 5-0-0 St. Paul Johnson? Shutting out the #6 team in their home barn isn't enough to get them in the top 20 ahead of sub .500 teams? I'm rooting for SP Johnson this year and will be on their bandwagon (unless they hopefully play Denfel...

raidergrad72 wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 12, 2019 9:38 pm

Denfeld 4-1 over Greenway. SOG favored Greenway 33-21. The McClure bros. figured in 3 out of the 4 goals for Denfeld.
Greenway has a lot of work to do for now.

Doesn't matter but shots were other way around.

Hermantown just outshot Duluth Marshall 48-4, winning 10-0. And no JV for Marshall. I’d say that program is officially dead. And they play AA???????? Hibbing is officially dead as well. Proctor and Denfeld are in great shape long term. Not dead forever, just dead in their current form. Something dr...

Like anything, it depends (area/city, association, # kids, etc). Winnepeg and Thunder Bay have very strong top end teams. Canada classifies everything with "A" so the are no B or C teams. Most times when Canadian teams come down to tourneys in MN, from what I've seen, they're overly fair in where th...

I was mainly wondering why Greenway, since they have to drive through Grand Rapids to get to there. The Vikings and Timberwolves will win a title in the same season before a Rapids-Greenway merger. Yeah my bad, sorry, I read your post wrong. Greenway makes more sense for Deer River as far as number...

TwinCitiesImport wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 21, 2019 9:56 am

So is there a reason they are combining with Greenway instead of Grand Rapids?

Raider could verify and I could be wrong but I think the day you see Greenway combine with GR for boys is the same day you'll see snow in Hades.

Where did he play last year? Eden Prairie Bantam from January on. If he "moved" (change of address), you are allowed one for your HS "career". My question is: how was he allowed to play on the bantam team if he came back in January? MN hockey states that you are required to be rostered by 12/31 (NO...

Scott Pionk has been a great mentor to kids in programs other than where his kids have been at for years now. He has done it quietly and without fanfare, helping some of these kids move on to the next level. He's straight forward and honest (even with the talent level of where his own kids have been...

Heard this weekend that Erickson is leaving early from East also? Does anybody know if this is true?

As of a today Galatz is off the "Northern" HSEL roster and I didn't see him on any other roster... Not sure what that means. (Juniors?)

The great plains coach is from EGF, thus he cannot coach his own kids, they have to play on the north team, he and clafton have a wink wink to take as many of each others kids as possible. Thats the benefit of being the coach. If organizations want their kids on tge team the coaches need to get inv...

Between the HSEL and Tier 1, it looks like most of Rapids roster . Good for that program, it's good to see.

muckandgrinder65 wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 23, 2019 11:23 am

That sounds like a bunch of Hooey
If it were true he would have skated with Denfeld

He did play with Marshall... to get some ice before the USHL.

He’ll now disappear into the large pool of junior hockey and just be another player trying to make it. Unless he plays with Hermantown, Denfeld, or Duluth Marshall this year and next 🤔 He will be just fine (but he is not coming back). He's big, strong, hard worker and more importantly: has great ch...

thefatcat wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 11, 2019 12:49 pm

When do we get to hear all of the seedy details of how STA's coaching position came to be filled?

There is one rumor that an administrator left over the coaching hire. The coaching hire had nothing to do with his departure.

You know it all's crack me up. Lets set the record straight. First off I hate to break the news to the haters. Fact Biondi and Pierce will be back next year. So quit talking about it or hoping they leave. Second, nobody at Hermantown wants the Virginia kid (who is going to Hermantown next year, loc...

Pekyman, there it is... Why would you assume his program is begging kids to come? (Because everyone else's programs suck?). I don't believe Jeffy has ever stated which program that he's from but I'm thinking it's East (?). East has hardly "begged" kids to come but they do have kids come in. The diff...

Apparently HT is going after a goalie from Cloquet and a leading scorer from Virginia. Hearing that the Virginia "homegrown" transplant bought a house in HT to be eligible for next year.

Agreed, I'd pump the brakes on Denfeld a bit. As good as their bantam team was this year, they only beat Hibbing 3-2 and 3-1, and Virginia 3-0, so it's not like they were light years ahead of other 7A teams. Plus, their Pee Wee team was 2-23, so it doesn't appear there will be a solid sophomore cro...