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Whatever TG is doing it hasn't seemed to help much the past several years.

I didn't realize Robb had a son committed to MSUM. Another lost legacy for the Gophers.

(No I'm not suggesting they should recruit all of them nor should they be entitled to them. Just an observation)

The model has not been ruined. Tarnished maybe, slightly different for sure, but far from ruined and even with that it's still the best system in the country.

Since the Big Ten was formed, they've only had two teams make it to the finals...Minnesota in 2014 and Notre Dame 2018..Both teams lost NCHC - 4 National Champions since the Big Ten was formed So right now it's pretty clear who's winning the race Money can buy a lot of things but apparently not col...

Programs such as Minn, Wisc and Mich have been near the top of college hockey for decades. Why would anyone logically expect their recent slide to continue much longer? Also with rise of PSU, ND and OSU on the national scene it looks to being a very competitive conference soon. 4 straight NC wins st...

I don't think the Gophers ignore recruiting northern players (at least until the end of Lucia's tenure) so much as I think they've had plenty of competition with UND, UMD and SCSU among others. And even metro kids have so many options these days that despite the "built in" advantages the Gophers sup...

He also lost to Holy Cross, and turned a premier college hockey program that drew 10,000 people to games at Mariucci to a team who draws 500 to a Big10 tournament game. Woog recruits kids and gets let go. They don’t leave and tDon gets all the credit. Crazy. Love Lucia all you want but he did nothi...

Are these competitions in which MN doesn't typically field its best talent?

You could do sections like they are but runner-ups make state as well. -The 8 section winners are seeded 1- 8 even though some of these teams would be rated lower on PageStat than some runner-ups -This is the benefit for being a section champion -Fill in the remaining 8 with section losers seeing th...

Denver was the 4th youngest team in the country by DOB and finished 8th in PWR and 4th in KRACH. Quinnipiac 11th youngest, 7th and 8th. UMD 16th, 2nd and 2nd. Cornell 17th, 11th and 11th UMASS 18th, 4th and 4th. MSUM was the only team in the country in the Top 21 for oldest age (3rd overall) that fi...

Please keep him away from the Wild until they demonstrate it's not a franchise high draft picks go to to either die or be traded away for nothing.

You're saying 40-50 2003 birth year kids from Minnesota will eventually play D-1? Wow I had no idea the numbers were that high. Impressive Anyone know the current number of 2001's verbally committed ? 2000's ? I can't comment on any specific birth year, but per the NCAA Div I media kit for 2018-19 ...

They don't typically have that many move ins. Last year was a bit of an anomaly with 2 (Motzko and I think Kittleson. One other that transferred from HF already lived in the district and previously played for Tonka youth teams), the 2018 team had only Brink I believe.

Edina will definitely take a dip on older talent next year Tonka Joe Brink still recovering from injury early last season , hopefully in good shape for next fall varsity Minnetonka will be fine, agreed. The 17s have like 6 or 7 kids on the team. Plus, end of the day, HP teams are a nice spring bara...

Interest in the NCAA BB tournament falls off for a lot of people after the first two rounds have been played, and suffice it to say a significant portion of the interest is generated by office pools, online pools, neighborhood pools, etc. Pool generated interest will never happen for this tournament...

No, it would be possible, but not "fair" (lack of a better term). Part of the reason there is AA and A is due to the number of kids a school has to pick from to put a team together. If you start allowing AA schools to field both AA and A teams, what is to say they don't stack their A team to make a...

Slapshot, which sections are you most interested in preserving and why? All of them as far as format. I am not saying they can't be tweaked as far as placement, but reaching the state tournament should be an accomplishment. Upsets happen and that is part of the magic. To me a 2 class hockey tournam...

No. Anything that gets rid of sections doesn't have my vote. The only way I would change the current system would be to combine the winners of each section (1AA - 8AA and 1A - 8A) into a 16 team tournament.

But my point in all this is that making a prediction that 4-6 teams will dominate and be in every state championship game is such an easy prediction because that has happened in every decade besides one. You're contradicting your own facts: The 2000's - 9 different champions The 2010's - 7 teams wo...

My crystal ball says this (and it's right 50% of the time...The other 50% of the time it's wrong) Over the next 3,5,10 years I think you will see the same 4-6 teams dominating the class AA tournament Yes we all know 8 teams get invited and yes a team like a Lakeville South or say Burnsville will oc...

Uh, the AA tournament is still revered as one of the premier HS events in the country so anyone saying otherwise is not paying attention. I too would prefer there be a one class (or even a 16 team tournament made up of 8A and 8AA teams) but it's never going back to the way it was.

ryguy and Slapshot; Regarding Ep and Tonka in 2AA next season: Ep JV team lost 2 games and Tonka JV lost 3. They split against each other this season This year's Sophomore class for both schools is good. Both made Bantam AA State tournament last season with Ep winning in the semi's with 2 goals lat...

Sadly I think 2AA will be EP's to lose. They had a number of seniors but they return a lot of key guys. Tonka does typically reload and they have some nice players returning as well, but their Bantam AA team wasn't that great (as compared with EP') and while they were highly rated I don't think play...

Well the world looks different in hindsight, does it not? But first, the seeding conspiracy theory. For many seasons the conspiracy was that MSHSL secretly seeding the tourney 1 - 8. Remember that? I never got that one. There is no reason to conspire unless there is a benefit to conspirators. And t...

Until the State Referee association ir whatever it is comes out and apologizes, the Tonka/DE game takes the cake last year. Still butt hurt Tonka was BETTER than DE huh? :roll: 😂 Tonka was the better team but t he referees association came out and said that was the worst officiated game. They apolo...