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by Thoen88
Tue Mar 01, 2022 10:38 am
Forum: Minnesota Girls High School Hockey
Topic: 2022 Class AA State Tournament
Replies: 87
Views: 15559

Re: 2022 Class AA State Tournament

Returning to the transfer discussion. I'm wondering what the downside of abolishing the transfer rule would be. Obviously this doesn't exist for academics (does it?). Imagine your kid is a talented actor, you transfer the child to a school with a highly renowned program before his/her junior year, ...
by Thoen88
Mon Feb 28, 2022 5:21 pm
Forum: Minnesota Girls High School Hockey
Topic: 2022 Class AA State Tournament
Replies: 87
Views: 15559

Re: 2022 Class AA State Tournament

MSHSL needs to crack down on all of these girls hopping from team to team. Full disclosure, I don't know what happened at Breck last year but how were all of those girls eligible to play this year for a new school? (In Messner's case, swapping teams mid-season?!?) I'm not positive, but I thought I ...
by Thoen88
Mon Feb 28, 2022 2:35 pm
Forum: Minnesota Girls High School Hockey
Topic: 2022 Class AA State Tournament
Replies: 87
Views: 15559

Re: 2022 Class AA State Tournament

In regard to the player movement, I agree with this 100% as well. My son went through the high school game a few years back and I thought the "gray area" and player movement was bad on the boys side. Then when Emma started playing at BSM, oy vey. Infinitely worse with the player movement on the girl...
by Thoen88
Mon Feb 28, 2022 1:25 pm
Forum: Minnesota Girls High School Hockey
Topic: 2022 Class AA State Tournament
Replies: 87
Views: 15559

Re: 2022 Class AA State Tournament

The MSHSL has all the ability and flexibility it needs. I laid out the path in an earlier post. Simply have a northern section and a southern, and you rank the remaining 48 AA teams and place them in 6 metro-area sections. MSHSL gets what it wants...a northern and southern team in the state tourname...
by Thoen88
Mon Feb 28, 2022 11:40 am
Forum: Minnesota Girls High School Hockey
Topic: 2022 Class AA State Tournament
Replies: 87
Views: 15559

Re: 2022 Class AA State Tournament

Maybe even 5 of them, if Blake were at full strength for the full season. Wins against Wayzata (and Sibley) likely, and possible against Gentry (game 3) and Holy Family. In the theoretical in which they are 3-1 in those games (rather than 0-4), 4-7 state rankings likely BSM, Holy Family, Blake, Way...
by Thoen88
Mon Feb 28, 2022 11:23 am
Forum: Minnesota Girls High School Hockey
Topic: 2022 Class AA State Tournament
Replies: 87
Views: 15559

Re: 2022 Class AA State Tournament

[/quote] In terms of other sections, you'll have to talk to the MSHSL about that - they've never cared about competitive parity. They see 9-0, 7-0, and 5-0 quarterfinal scores in AA hockey and think "yay! arbitrary geographic boundaries were all represented!" [/quote] 100% correct on this assessment...
by Thoen88
Thu Feb 17, 2022 12:27 pm
Forum: Minnesota Girls High School Hockey
Topic: 4AA Section Final Gentry vs Hill-Murray
Replies: 6
Views: 2180

Re: 4AA Section Final Gentry vs Hill-Murray

Hill Murray wins the game, 4-2 with an empty netter.
by Thoen88
Mon Feb 14, 2022 4:27 pm
Forum: Minnesota Girls High School Hockey
Topic: Scoring by top HS players - grades 12, 11, 10 and 9
Replies: 32
Views: 6024

Re: Scoring by top HS players - grades 12, 11, 10 and 9

No doubt - she's had a great season. And it's unclear when it will be over - may be 5 more. Huge part of one of the best teams in MN. Some would say they got off to a "slow" start, but their first 5 games were Andover, Warroad, Stillwater, Wayzata and Edina. Not many "stat padding" games in there. ...
by Thoen88
Mon Feb 14, 2022 4:02 pm
Forum: Minnesota Girls High School Hockey
Topic: Scoring by top HS players - grades 12, 11, 10 and 9
Replies: 32
Views: 6024

Re: Scoring by top HS players - grades 12, 11, 10 and 9

I'm big into numbers, and always have been. Love this spreadsheet. One thing--Emma was moved to defense after 5 games this year. In 2 games at D against top-10 teams, she's got 1-3---4 and in 5 games against teams ranked 11-20, she's at 5-7--12. A total of 16 points in 7 games playing defense agains...
by Thoen88
Mon Feb 14, 2022 3:51 pm
Forum: Minnesota Girls High School Hockey
Topic: Scoring by top seniors
Replies: 17
Views: 3776

Re: Scoring by top seniors

This is 100% accurate. After covering MN high school hockey as a writer for 12 years and then watching Dylan and now Emma go through it, my question has always remained the same when it comes to points....especially those kept on the Hub site....don't tell me how many points you have, tell me who yo...
by Thoen88
Tue Nov 02, 2021 5:49 pm
Forum: Minnesota Girls High School Hockey
Topic: Pre season scrimmages first weekend
Replies: 5
Views: 2216

Re: Pre season scrimmages first weekend

Wayzata Jamboree Saturday at P.I.C. BSM Edina Wayzata Blake Holy Family Farmington Varsity on Rink A 9:30 - Edina v HF 10:30 - Edina v BSM 11:30 - HF v BSM 12:30 - Edina v Farmington 2:00 - Wayzata v HF 3:00 - BSM v Blake 4:00 - Wayzata v Farmington 5:00 - Blake v Farmington 6:00 - Wayzata v Blake J...
by Thoen88
Mon Apr 19, 2021 1:28 pm
Forum: Minnesota Girls High School Hockey
Topic: MN Hockey Spring HP
Replies: 20
Views: 6460

Re: MN Hockey Spring HP

54s rosters are out. With the kids playing in the nationals not being allowed to compete in the 54s, it makes for some shakeups this weekend at Fogerty.
by Thoen88
Fri Apr 16, 2021 12:02 pm
Forum: Minnesota Girls High School Hockey
Topic: 2021-22 Section Realignment
Replies: 10
Views: 4650

Re: 2021-22 Section Realignment

Two biggest "winners" in AA, at least in the short term, have got to be Cretin and NWC.
by Thoen88
Mon Apr 12, 2021 10:07 am
Forum: Minnesota Girls High School Hockey
Topic: MN Hockey Spring HP
Replies: 20
Views: 6460

Re: MN Hockey Spring HP

Dinner is over.....rosters are posted.
by Thoen88
Sun Apr 11, 2021 3:21 pm
Forum: Minnesota Girls High School Hockey
Topic: MN Hockey Spring HP
Replies: 20
Views: 6460

Re: MN Hockey Spring HP

Rosters to be posted after dinner tonight. Will be interesting to see how many 03s took spots in the 17s.
by Thoen88
Sun Mar 14, 2021 11:45 am
Forum: Minnesota Girls High School Hockey
Topic: Section seedings
Replies: 16
Views: 4256

Re: Section seedings

6AA
1-Edina - Bye
2-BSM
3-Wayzata
4-Blake
5-CDH
6-Minnehaha
7-Hopkins

No real surprises although I thought Hopkins had an argument for the 6 spot.

Quarters on Tuesday; Semis on Thursday; Final on Saturday.
by Thoen88
Thu Mar 11, 2021 2:14 pm
Forum: Minnesota Girls High School Hockey
Topic: Section seedings
Replies: 16
Views: 4256

Re: Section seedings

Most are being done via email chains/zoom calls tomorrow, Saturday, and Sunday. All depends on when teams are done with regular season games.
by Thoen88
Thu Mar 11, 2021 1:38 pm
Forum: Minnesota Girls High School Hockey
Topic: Section seedings
Replies: 16
Views: 4256

Re: Section seedings

Regarding 6AA, Blake deserves 4 and CDH 5. Blake has 2 fewer wins against a much more difficult schedule. Doesn’t make a ton of difference aside from where Tuesday’s game will be played. Also, winner tonight at PIC will most likely get the 2 and get to host Thursday’s rematch in the semis. Also, Edi...
by Thoen88
Tue Mar 09, 2021 11:47 am
Forum: Minnesota Girls High School Hockey
Topic: MNHOCKEY Tweaks Girls HP
Replies: 2
Views: 1746

MNHOCKEY Tweaks Girls HP

A few weeks ago Mn Hockey made a quiet adjustment to the girls' HP 17 program for this spring, provided there will be one. This year, 2003 birth years currently juniors in high school, will be allowed to tryout and compete with the 2004s. The exact wording from MNHOCK: New this year, 2003 born playe...
by Thoen88
Fri Feb 19, 2021 11:29 am
Forum: Minnesota Girls High School Hockey
Topic: Dead period extended....again
Replies: 5
Views: 2449

Dead period extended....again

As many probably already have heard/read, the NCAA announced this week the recruiting dead period for all Division 1 sports has been extended until at least May 31. The NCAA stated it would provide an update no later than April 15.
by Thoen88
Wed Feb 17, 2021 6:42 pm
Forum: Minnesota Girls High School Hockey
Topic: BSM/Tonka
Replies: 10
Views: 2810

Re: BSM/Tonka

Edina/BSM was a pretty even game. Took BSM a handful of shifts to get up to speed, but once they did, they had as many if not more great scoring chances. Shots, for what it’s worth, favored BSM 28-27. Carly and Uma were both outstanding. The GWG came on somewhat of a busted play but credit to Z for ...
by Thoen88
Sat Feb 13, 2021 7:46 pm
Forum: Minnesota Girls High School Hockey
Topic: BSM/Tonka
Replies: 10
Views: 2810

Re: BSM/Tonka

Tremendous game all around. Officials let the athletes play and the intensity was pretty high from the opening faceoff. Through two periods BSM didn't allow a thing. Skippers had 11 shots on the scoreboard but that seemed pretty generous, not that it matters. Just an opinion but it seemed as though ...
by Thoen88
Thu Feb 11, 2021 10:48 am
Forum: Minnesota Girls High School Hockey
Topic: Running it Up...
Replies: 8
Views: 2875

Re: Running it Up...

Not knowing anything but the score/shots, here is my unvarnished opinion. The Orono coaches had to have known how the game would play out. If they didn't, they are not doing their jobs. Knowing that the game is gonna be lopsided, to type the least, I am dressing as many "float line" kids as possible...
by Thoen88
Mon Feb 01, 2021 8:46 am
Forum: Minnesota Girls High School Hockey
Topic: Week 3 game of the week
Replies: 33
Views: 6593

Re: Week 3 game of the week

Hill-Murray outlasts Benilde-St. Margaret's 3-1. BSM had slightly more of the play on their side, but both teams had chances. BSM's Haag missed on 3 different breakaways, which likely was the difference. Hill-Murray is playing a freshman goalie, Grace Zahn, and she was outstanding today... On to Ed...
by Thoen88
Mon Jan 25, 2021 11:02 am
Forum: Minnesota Girls High School Hockey
Topic: Week 3 game of the week
Replies: 33
Views: 6593

Re: Week 3 game of the week

Will be interesting to see how the HF/Edina plays out. After games against Orono, Gentry and New Prague, the Hornets should be a step up in competition for the Fire.