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by gopherpuck516
Mon Apr 30, 2018 9:39 pm
Forum: Minnesota High School Hockey (Latest Topics)
Topic: Early Departures 2018-19
Replies: 161
Views: 92222

A couple of other points: • Most MN youth hockey players will not play varsity HS hockey • Most MN varsity hockey players will not play juniors or NCAA college hockey In short, my opinion is that kids should be playing for the love of the game first. They can never go wrong in that regard. They cer...
by gopherpuck516
Sun Apr 29, 2018 2:38 pm
Forum: Minnesota High School Hockey (Latest Topics)
Topic: Early Departures 2018-19
Replies: 161
Views: 92222

Nobody, except the kid and his parents, knows what his plans for the future are. Perhaps he wants to give hockey more attention the next few years and sees the WHL as his best opportunity to make it to higher levels. If it doesn’t work out maybe he wants to be an electrician or plumber or another re...
by gopherpuck516
Sun Apr 29, 2018 1:23 pm
Forum: Minnesota High School Hockey (Latest Topics)
Topic: Early Departures 2018-19
Replies: 161
Views: 92222

Nobody, except the kid and his parents, knows what his plans for the future are. Perhaps he wants to give hockey more attention the next few years and sees the WHL as his best opportunity to make it to higher levels. If it doesn’t work out maybe he wants to be an electrician or plumber or another re...
by gopherpuck516
Sat Apr 07, 2018 9:38 pm
Forum: College Hockey Forum
Topic: BULLDOGS!
Replies: 37
Views: 21187

Congrats to the Bulldogs! They played a great 200’ game tonight. Never took their foot off the gas, and played with a ton of heart. What an amazing story, making the tournament by the slimmest margin imaginable and absolutely making the most of it. It’s great as a HS hockey fan to see so many former...
by gopherpuck516
Tue Apr 03, 2018 12:32 pm
Forum: College Hockey Forum
Topic: Gopher new coach
Replies: 51
Views: 25677

You could draw many parallels to HS hockey as well, as in most cases you’re getting at best 4 years from individual players for their programs and if they show great potential for the next level there’s a growing chance they’ll move on before those 4 years are up. If nothing else this helps create p...
by gopherpuck516
Tue Apr 03, 2018 9:07 am
Forum: College Hockey Forum
Topic: Gopher new coach
Replies: 51
Views: 25677

if you look at their recruits in the pipeline it looks like they could be regular Frozen 4 entrants over the next handful of years. How can you tell? I've been looking at Heisenberg for 10 years and still haven't figured out how to predict future college success for teams. Fair point - my rationale...
by gopherpuck516
Mon Apr 02, 2018 6:37 pm
Forum: College Hockey Forum
Topic: Gopher new coach
Replies: 51
Views: 25677

It should be a fun 3 games this weekend! As for A tie-in to this forum, there’s pretty good representation of former MN high school players on 3 of the 4 teams in the Frozen 4 this year - Michigan the obvious exception. Notre Dame leaned heavily on Gross and Malmquist in their regional. Rohlik has b...
by gopherpuck516
Sat Mar 31, 2018 11:36 am
Forum: College Hockey Forum
Topic: Gopher new coach
Replies: 51
Views: 25677

I heard they're going to get Little Sisters of the Poor for badminton next year. Quite a coup. Are you comparing the University of Notre Dame to the little sisters of the poor? The team who is in their second consecutive Frozen 4 and is two wins away from a national championship? The old WCHA was t...
by gopherpuck516
Sat Mar 31, 2018 8:07 am
Forum: College Hockey Forum
Topic: Gopher new coach
Replies: 51
Views: 25677

Nobody thought the B1G hockey conference would take off like wildfire, and it certainly hasn’t. PSU starting a D1 program put the wheels in motion for the league, which is unfortunate because the WCHA was amazing. But that’s the way it worked out and some people decide to move on and some play the v...
by gopherpuck516
Thu Mar 22, 2018 10:06 am
Forum: College Hockey Forum
Topic: Don Lucia
Replies: 89
Views: 37014

Whoever said “Just win and bring back a raucous crowd” is 100% correct! Mariucci has been a morgue on game nights the last few years and that’s due in large part to tickets being harder to come by for students and the average blue collar fan. B1G Conference has sucked some life out of the arena as w...
by gopherpuck516
Wed Mar 21, 2018 10:13 am
Forum: College Hockey Forum
Topic: Don Lucia
Replies: 89
Views: 37014

LOL to anybody taking pot shots at Don Lucia from behind a keyboard. He represented the U of M with class for 19 years, has the most career victories at the U, and won 2 titles. Just as important, his players graduated (or turned pro early) and stayed out of serious trouble. As a Gophers fan it’s be...
by gopherpuck516
Sat Sep 02, 2017 10:37 am
Forum: Minnesota Youth Hockey
Topic: Advice on PW vs Bantams
Replies: 10
Views: 7790

This is a very good article that sums up much of what others have posted in this thread. I love O'Leary's statement that every season should be a battle, and whether you're on PWB2 or Bantam AA, as long as you're playing at the right level for you and working your butt off you can and will improve. ...
by gopherpuck516
Wed Jul 19, 2017 9:15 pm
Forum: Minnesota Youth Hockey
Topic: Advice on PW vs Bantams
Replies: 10
Views: 7790

"I think at this point it is probably to late to hold him back and have him do a grade over." Man I really hope that was sarcasm. Although he's one of the youngest kids in his class he's in many advanced classes. He's exactly where he should be in school. No regrets there. Just want to mak...
by gopherpuck516
Tue Jul 11, 2017 9:24 am
Forum: Minnesota Youth Hockey
Topic: Advice on PW vs Bantams
Replies: 10
Views: 7790

Advice on PW vs Bantams

My son just turned 13 in July and is heading into 8th grade as a second year peewee. His coach this past season told me several times "he needs to play Bantams next year so he will have 3 years of HS hockey." My response to this has been we'll worry about HS hockey when he gets there and I...
by gopherpuck516
Thu Mar 23, 2017 8:23 am
Forum: Minnesota High School Hockey (Latest Topics)
Topic: Coaching Changes - 2017-18
Replies: 264
Views: 152755

Holy Angels- does anyone see Cephis or Hillen taking the reigns or is there other names that may come about? No - I heard entire staff is done and have opened up the search outside of current staff. This program has fallen very far in the last decade. I'm certainly not blaming it on the coaches, in...
by gopherpuck516
Tue Mar 14, 2017 8:20 pm
Forum: Minnesota High School Hockey (Latest Topics)
Topic: Best defenseman in the state
Replies: 33
Views: 24466

A = Samberg
AA = Leivermann
by gopherpuck516
Tue Mar 14, 2017 3:22 pm
Forum: Minnesota High School Hockey (Latest Topics)
Topic: Players in Juniors after the season - Spring 2017
Replies: 30
Views: 17914

Players in Juniors after the season - Spring 2017

As is usually the case, a number of MN High School players will be (and already have been) playing juniors following their HS season. Please list the players, where they're playing, and stats if you'd like.
by gopherpuck516
Sun Mar 12, 2017 5:36 pm
Forum: Minnesota High School Hockey (Latest Topics)
Topic: Mr. Hockey 2017 winner
Replies: 4
Views: 4755

Congrats to a very well deserving recipient in Casey Mittelstadt! He represented MN High School hockey as well as anybody I can remember.
by gopherpuck516
Sat Mar 11, 2017 9:57 am
Forum: Minnesota High School Hockey (Latest Topics)
Topic: AA Championship Game: #5 Grand Rapids vs. #3 Moorhead
Replies: 36
Views: 13213

If Rapids goalie plays like last night they will win, no question. I'll be pulling for Moorhead tonight though.
by gopherpuck516
Sat Mar 11, 2017 9:45 am
Forum: Minnesota High School Hockey (Latest Topics)
Topic: Casey Mittelstadt crying after loss to Grand Rapids
Replies: 23
Views: 9649

Neal Broten won literally everything a MN hockey player could dream of winning - except a state title, but he credits his time playing with his buddies and brothers at Roseau as his favorite times playing hockey. Casey has as bright a future as anyone we've seen in a long time as HS hockey fans and ...
by gopherpuck516
Fri Mar 10, 2017 2:01 pm
Forum: Minnesota High School Hockey (Latest Topics)
Topic: Hermantown Offically Moving Up to AA
Replies: 34
Views: 16958

warriors41 wrote:So what team is everyone going to jump on to opt up next? We all better get on the same page. MAML?
Que the "Breck (and all privates) should be AA threads...
by gopherpuck516
Fri Mar 10, 2017 1:22 pm
Forum: Minnesota High School Hockey (Latest Topics)
Topic: Tournament Classic Videos
Replies: 27
Views: 11891

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wr25y24yfE

1987 Championship game between Bloomington Kennedy and Burnsville. It's split up into several parts, but the entire game is on YouTube.
by gopherpuck516
Fri Mar 10, 2017 1:16 pm
Forum: Minnesota High School Hockey (Latest Topics)
Topic: Tournament Classic Videos
Replies: 27
Views: 11891

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wr25y24yfE

1987 Championship game between Bloomington Kennedy and Burnsville. It's split up into several parts, but the entire game is on YouTube.
by gopherpuck516
Thu Mar 09, 2017 8:55 am
Forum: Minnesota High School Hockey (Latest Topics)
Topic: Question on Friday Night Tickets from Xcel Box Office
Replies: 1
Views: 1607

Question on Friday Night Tickets from Xcel Box Office

In the past I've purchased tickets through schools that were playing in the tourney, but this year I plan to buy from the box office at Xcel for the Friday evening session. Can someone tell me when the box office starts selling tickets and, more importantly, when I should arrive to wait in line for ...
by gopherpuck516
Tue Mar 07, 2017 10:00 pm
Forum: Minnesota High School Hockey (Latest Topics)
Topic: AA Tourney Picks
Replies: 10
Views: 5808

STA 4 - LS 2
MHD 3 - HM 1
EP 6 - WZTA 2
Rapids 5 - MG 3

STA 3 - MHD 2 OT
Rapids 5 - EP 4 OT

STA 4 - Rapids 3