What is happening with Duluth East?
Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2012 7:13 pm
After the loss to Breck, the greyhounds are now 4-3. Very dissapointing losses to Wayzata, Centennial, and now Class A Breck. What is going wrong with this team?
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Haven't you seen them play this year, Dan?allstatebenders wrote:After the loss to Breck, the greyhounds are now 4-3. Very dissapointing losses to Wayzata, Centennial, and now Class A Breck. What is going wrong with this team?
First year in college, no time to get to the games from Minneapolis! Its just disappointing to see Easts dominance come to an end, hopefully they can step it up these coming weeks.east hockey wrote:Haven't you seen them play this year, Dan?allstatebenders wrote:After the loss to Breck, the greyhounds are now 4-3. Very dissapointing losses to Wayzata, Centennial, and now Class A Breck. What is going wrong with this team?
Lee
Also, slow starts to games. In 2 of the three losses and even the Andover and Anoka wins, they dug themselves into a hole in the first few minutes. It's very hard to win that way, especially when you're a team built around puck possession and wearing the other team down. The other team gets an immediate jolt of energy, while the Hounds start to press. Sometimes they get it going, but sometimes they don't. It's hard to play from behind night in and night out, no matter how talented a team may be.karl(east) wrote:If only shots on goal decided who won games...
At this point, the formula for beating East has become easy to follow. Stay out of the box, grab an early goal if you can, and otherwise just pack it in and watch as the Hounds pass it around a lot as they struggle to generate quality chances, and misfire on the few that they do get. Watch as your goalie's confidence increases, then spring a few breakaways when the East defensemen pinch in too far. That's how Breck got both of theirs tonight.
It's very, very frustrating hockey to watch, and the Hounds will deserve to get whacked in the various polls for their inability to finish. But at the same time, if they could just figure out how to get a &*#@$ goal early on in the game, you get the feeling the results could be very different.
Wishing him a quick recovery.allstatebenders wrote:Hogan Davidson got a ruptured spleen today.
Also wishing him a speedy recovery. As for the Hounds, I just don't understand what is going on with them.MrBoDangles wrote:Wishing him a quick recovery.allstatebenders wrote:Hogan Davidson got a ruptured spleen today.
The youth programs that are feeding their high school are fading away. The number of kids who are in the programs is declining and more and more of the kids who used to go to east are now leaving for Duluth Marshall. The top end of Duluth East's Bantam A team who were/are a very good group of kids are playing at Marshall now. With the exception of the program over at Hermantown all of the northern programs are losing numbers and those few good players in those small town programs (thinking about Silver Bay and Proctor here) are moving on to greener (blacker and golder) pastures. The North will never fade away entirely but will not rule the hockey world like in the days of old again either.starmvp wrote:Also wishing him a speedy recovery. As for the Hounds, I just don't understand what is going on with them.MrBoDangles wrote:Wishing him a quick recovery.allstatebenders wrote:Hogan Davidson got a ruptured spleen today.
Cloquet/Esko/Carlton is well below the enrollment threshold for the A/AA cutoff (which is currently 1275). They opt up to AA by choice, not by enrollment. A Hermantown/Proctor merger (which I doubt will happen) would result in their combined enrollment still being well under 1275 and they could still play in A. The schools up north are just too small for even mergers to force teams into AA. Eveleth for instance is taking in players from Eveleth, Gilbert, Aurora, Hoyt Lakes, Biwabik, and Cherry and is still no where near AA.The Enlightened One wrote:Have to believe that given what is happening with some of the other small school programs that Proctor won't have a hard time holding on and will have to merge with somebody just to keep going, Hermantown is a good candidate for them which should put them over the AA line. Cloquet is already merged with Esko and Carlton so that is a pretty convenient template if you will for the mergers to take place....
....It will come from mergers pushing teams over the numbers. How soon is anybody's guess.
East is on a "bad track?" The Bantams aren't phenomenal, but they're holding steady in the top 20 with a group that was ranked somewhat lower as PeeWees; the PeeWees are in the top ten. I've heard generally decent things about the lower levels too, and there are some kids with some rather familiar East hockey last names coming up.The Enlightened One wrote: Denfeld should be based on numbers but they are on the same track as East is which is not a good one.
I appreciate your sympathy.allstatebenders wrote:East beats Minnetonka 4-1. Looks like they have gotten it together now. I feel terrible for anyone attempting to write new rankings this week
OOPS....rockcrusher wrote:The youth programs that are feeding their high school are fading away. The number of kids who are in the programs is declining and more and more of the kids who used to go to east are now leaving for Duluth Marshall. The top end of Duluth East's Bantam A team who were/are a very good group of kids are playing at Marshall now. With the exception of the program over at Hermantown all of the northern programs are losing numbers and those few good players in those small town programs (thinking about Silver Bay and Proctor here) are moving on to greener (blacker and golder) pastures. The North will never fade away entirely but will not rule the hockey world like in the days of old again either.
Those DE bantams you talk about have been going to school at Marshall since 5th grade. So don't make it sound like they are recent transfers to Marshall. For everyone's information, H-Town has 2 players on their team that transferred in during their final bantam year, Marshall has 3 players on the roster that did NOT play youth hockey in Duluth. How many on the hounds played all their youth hockey in Duluth? But everybody picks on Marshall. Denfeld has a few southern transfers this year too, but one is having a hard time staying eligible. One Hound blue liner moved to the east end before the school district reworked the school boundaries under the infamous 'red plan', otherwise he would have been a Denfeld hunter his final few seasons.
Got off track there, sorry.