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It's a chicken and egg argument imho. Are players leaving Tonka because of transfers coming in, or are the coaches seeking out transfers because some of their homegrown talent has chosen to go private? Tonka has been losing kids to BSM, Blake, etc. for years upon years - before transfers were even a...

I do not like it.

Now get off my lawn.

stopthepuck wrote: ↑Thu Mar 03, 2022 9:32 pm Wawawa...I am no huge fan of hermantown. But they put in the work from a very young age. And have amazing training. Yes....they sprinkle in glory seeking parents (eh players).

I doubt anyone is pointing fingers at the players.

I find it extremely weird that Hermantown continues to celebrate with happiness and joy after winning 11-0 in a section final after outscoring opponents 30-0 in the three games. How can you actually be excited about that when you’ve beat all the top teams in the state and you’re one of the best ove...

I guess I've never heard a team losing the championship game by 1 goal and out shooting their opponent be considered "Massively underachieving." Your comments are so blatantly biased that it takes away from any good points you might make. And by saying that Tonka was lucky the game was ev...

What are you, the message board objectivity police? If so, you've got bigger issues in the world than this board. Of course it's not objective. But it's opinion rooted in seeing these teams and their peers play a lot of games. Which points I made do you disagree with? No just the b.s. police. :) To...

That totally reads objectively.

Pretty sure the back angle of the winning goal showed the puck over the line, but hey Andover earned a hard fought win that was a very close game the entire way.

Jungels got away with a couple trips the last few minutes of the game, but Tonka was the better team overall this game and persevered in the end.

Minnetonka leading Burnsville 4-0 after two. Looking like a Tonka/Edina semi in the upper bracket. Assuming the Skippers' lead holds and they advance we will have played a total of six games in the two classes with no upsets. There's not enough quality in HS girls hockey for these kind of State tou...

Are the games today being streamed?

Asking from SE Asia.

Section 5AA
1. Rogers

Wonder how many predicted this preseason.

I am not a genius, but I am guessing if you throw out the battle against each other, EP's record in the section of 2-0 with wins against 3 &4 was better than Tonka's record of a win against 3 and 8 a loss against 4 and a tie against 6 You can't toss out the H2H so if your numbers are correct th...

Tonka with the better overall record and I believe a higher PageStat rating, more GF, fewer GA, went 7-3 their last 10 vs. 5-5 and also had the more recent H2H win vs. EP, but EP ends up with the #1 seed. Not a huge deal overall in the end as both SHOULD make the section final game but imho not logi...

I doubt conference championships are factored into any of it outside any key wins that contributed to the overall W/L, etc.

You moved the goalposts from HF in sections to "the other 2" at state. Tonka will have their hands full plenty of times between now and whatever their final game is - no one has argued otherwise. But you seem intent on manufacturing a narrative and I'm not buying what you're selling. They ...

They haven't shown much discipline as a team so far, either in terms of defensive discipline or penalty discipline. They have a team GAA of 1.50, haven given up 4 goals once, 3 goals twice with the rest of their games giving up 2 goals or less, their PK is 88.7% while averaging 3.5 penalties per ga...

What? The 3, 4, 29, 34 and 36 are the presumptive top 5 seeds in 2AA (according to PageStat). 1AA has the 8 and 33 as the only teams in the same range. 3AA has the 18, 21, 22 and 28. 4AA has the 11, 12, 19 and 32. 5AA has 9, 13, 15, and 16. 6AA has the 1 (?), 5, 7, and 10. 7AA has the 2 (?), 20, 24...

While still early, I do think Tonka's road to winning the state is much tougher than Edina's. Should Andover, Tonka and Edina get to State, Tonka goes in at best the 3 seed... Very well possible, although the teams are currently 1-1 vs. each other with 1 game remaining. Should Tonka win that game a...

You’d think the MSHSL would make a bigger deal of the section finals. It would be great to go see a couple games per night at the same venue within a few days. Surprised they don’t even televise these games on regular tv. I would think a lot of people would watch to see who makes state plus they’re...

Slap shot...if you tell me a very good hockey player who's say a sophomore, moves from Edina to Minnetonka for "academic reasons" I will laugh myself off this chair. Yeah because a kid good enough to make Tonka isn't good enough to make Edina right? When I was in 1st grade my parents move...

High School hockey is no longer a community based sport Hogwash. While it's true a lot of teams are no longer 100% home grown, yet if a team has say 3 'transfers' that's still roughly 90% of the roster came from the community and if a family actually moves into a district that bothers me not at all...

It's a sad result but probably necessary given the dropoff in attendance. 3M can't be rented for free and if the building is at best half-full there is no financial sense to book that venue. I graduated in '86 and can recall double-header Saturdays for Sections 2 and 6 at Met Center. If the Met was ...

I noted that Tonka's scheduled didn't look all the impressive to me and as of now that's holding true at 44th overall. Not sure if that's a Goldsworthy thing or not but I don't like it.

Great work again. One small ask if it's not too much trouble but would understand if you don't find it necessary. It would be cool for each team mentioned to have their previous rank noted - either as one of the Top 15 if applicable or (NR) for +15? Either way thanks - always look forward to seeing ...