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Just for reference on tourney quality: NAHA # of teams with (+, -) double digit goal differentials: 14s (2, 1) (OS +22) 16 (4, 5) (JWC +10) 19 (7, 6) (JWC Black +10 and JWC White +14) Pitt 14 (5, 2) (JWC +16) 17 (5, 2) (JWC +11 and NG +10) 19 (2, 2) (JWC Black at +16) From this stat (which I made up...

At NAHA (tier 1 only): U14 OS - 6-0 (champions) Notable performances: Bakker (Maple Grove), Manion (Procter) among event leaders in scoring. Weiland (LVN) with 2 GA, and Prosser (Rogers) with 0 GA for the weekend. U16 JWC White - 5-1 Notable performances: Horton (Edina), Mack (Tonka), Gray (BSM) amo...

Ahh! Thank you - they publish "standings" on the main website with links to stats, etc, but they're empty. Found it now - standby...

Not sure why, but the NAHA tournament site hasn't posted any data. On the Pittsburgh side, teams from Minnesota were: U14 JWC - 4-2 (runner up, gold) Northern Green - 1-3-1 Notable performances: JWC - Pohl (Hill-Murray), Chatleian (Centennial), Sander (?), Addie Wethington (Blake), Semling (?), Kimb...

The short roster for Tradition is puzzling, but I’m guessing avar, Leonard and Sandberg are the missing parties. Sandberg is hurt, not sure about the other two. Empowers us missing boerger and brown from the Andover line. Assuming I’m right about the eventual full rosters, I don’t think Tradition wi...

I feel your pain. Not inner circle, but know a few things and just trying to share a bit of information for fans of the girls game.

An annual rite of passage for girls high school hockey - the labor day tourneys. What used to just be NAHA has now splintered into two events over the last couple years, as Kathy Pippy took advantage of an ownership transition at NAHA and resulting turmoil to start a competing tournament in Pittsbur...

I think that's a great point. Some do have that experience - I think Keady coached Phillips Academy Andover early in her career, for example. But there's no doubt lots of joy (and therefore hockey performance) has been sucked out of hockey by coaches delivering a product designed for older athletes....

It's hard for me to place much blame on the coaching. Not sure Jared Bednar or Jon Cooper would have had much better luck given the talent gap. But yes, it doesn't seem like a hard-headed analysis of the best possible coaching staff focused on winning is USA Hockey's priority. I don't know what LaCh...

Not sure if this is a coming trend or coincidence. Pretty sure Covid pushed back the two Europeans. I believe in a normal world Bouveng would be entering her junior year at Princeton and Laitinen might be entering her sophomore year at Minnesota. Interesting to see if the Princeton girls you mentio...

I guess they're missing Joy Dunne, who is probably the best player in this group, but I'm not sure she'd stand out compared to the top Canadians. The US has a handful-plus kids who really don't belong on the ice against this Canadian team, and are missing a top line that can create offense consisten...

Is that really the best USA hockey has to offer across 05 06 and 07...? Yikes.

I'm very intrigued to see what Josephin Buoveng looks like for the Gophers this year. Even heavily discounting the rampant thirstiness of this article (https://thehockeywriters.com/minnesota-gophers-bouveng-headlines-ncaa-rookies/ - "Invisible ceiling"), she should be good. She's coming in...

It's an achievement to be selected to a US team so no slight intended to any of the Minnesota kids playing, but it's disheartening to see how bad this US team looks compared to Canada, and particularly given all of the Canadian kids lost a full year of hockey when they shut down for COVID. I think i...

I thought Lalonde, Kim and Scannell all made it, all of whom are at Shattuck, none of whom are Minnesotans.

Merging JV programs would be enormously sensible, which of course means the MSHSL forbids it unless the whole program merges.

For what it's worth, the top trio/quint from Apple Valley still looks pretty favorable overall - roughly tied for the third highest returning line overall, and scored at a similar level to the Gentry group that played a roughly similar schedule (according to myhockeyrankings). They also ranked secon...

"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 updated the spreadsheet to reflect the two different teams.

I'm not a lawyer, but there are obvious parallels with the Minnesota Made lawsuit from years ago which was rooted in anti-trust law, if I recall. Not sure the content of the agreement would be dispositive if that were the argument. It would like be an expensive and uphill battle. And since the payof...

The reason seems clear - to protect high school hockey.

Rosters and schedules for the Tradition Cup available on the os website:

https://oshockey.com/wp-content/uploads ... e-2022.pdf
https://oshockey.com/wp-content/uploads ... ollege.pdf

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 -...

Just an FYI for those interseted, there are two tournaments happening over the next two weekends at Braemar with some high level college and high school hockey. This weekend the Tradition Cup pits current pro (Whitecaps), various D1, and a small number of senior high school players competing on mixe...

There's no doubt those programs have consistently lost kids, but I think this moment in time is a slightly different phenomenon. Many families scrambled looking for new schools only after they realized there were four incoming transfers to Tonka last year. Several of those are future strong high sch...