Section 8A seeding prediction

[elliott70]

Per QRF
No. 16 East Grand Forks (70.2) 4-2-1 11-10-1 2.8 2.7 Lost 3
No. 24 Crookston (63.1) 7-4-0 11-10-0 3.2 2.8 Lost 1
No. 26 Thief River Falls (62.2) 6-3-0 12-9-2 3.2 1.9 Won 1
No. 29 Detroit Lakes (60.1) 5-3-0 10-11-1 3.3 3.1 Lost 1
No. 31 Warroad (59.3) 6-2-1 12-11-1 3.5 2.4 Lost 2
No. 35 Lake of the Woods (56.5) 9-2-0 14-3-3 5.6 1.7 Won 2
No. 64 Kittson Central (33.6) 3-6-1 8-11-2 3.6 3.5 Won 1
No. 66 Park Rapids Area (33.4) 4-9-1 7-14-2 3.0 3.1 Won 1
No. 79 Red Lake Falls (18.7) 2-8-0 3-18-1 1.7 7.1 Lost 6
No. 81 Bagley/Fosston (13.1) 0-7-0 1-16-0 2.2 8.3 Lost 8

Page Stat
43 WARROAD 8A 12 9 1 0.568 82 48 17.74
51 EAST GRAND FORKS 8A 11 10 1 0.523 62 59 17.16
55 THIEF RIVER FALLS 8A 11 8 2 0.571 58 38 16.85
78 CROOKSTON 8A 11 10 0 0.524 63 57 15.45
85 LAKE OF THE WOODS 8A 14 3 3 0.775 111 34 15.13
106 DETROIT LAKES 8A 10 11 1 0.477 73 67 13.87
124 PARK RAPIDS 8A 6 14 2 0.318 63 72 12.10
129 KITTSON CENTRAL 8A 7 11 2 0.400 69 72 11.20
149 RED LAKE FALLS 8A 3 16 1 0.175 38 135 5.63
150 BAGLEY 8A 1 15 0 0.063 37 134 5.00

My guess at coaches voting
1. Warroad based on recent drubbing despite other circumstances.
2. EGF
3. TRF
4. Crookston
5. LOW
6. Detroit Lakes
7. Kittson
8. Park Rapids
9. RLF
10. Bagley

Play in games (high seed)
Kittson over Bagley
Park Rapids over RLF

QF (high seed)
Warroad over Park Rapids
Crookston over LOW

EGF over Kittson
TRF over Detroit Lakes

SF (at Warroad)
Crookston over Warroad
TRF over EGF

Final (at Warroad)
Crookston over TRF

[Hockeylogger]

Elliott, when you say despite other circumstances what do you mean?

I think seeds 1-5 will all have a shot at the section, this is as wide open as it has been in many years.

Crookston's goalie will have to be very good for them to win it all, when he doesn't play well they are an average team.

EGF has struggled but you know they will be ready to go come play off time.

TRF has probably been the most consistent of the bunch.

Warroad has shown they can be both very good and very average at times.

LOW is the sleeper

[elliott70]

Elliott, when you say despite other circumstances what do you mean?

I think seeds 1-5 will all have a shot at the section, this is as wide open as it has been in many years.

Crookston's goalie will have to be very good for them to win it all, when he doesn't play well they are an average team.

EGF has struggled but you know they will be ready to go come play off time.

TRF has probably been the most consistent of the bunch.

Warroad has shown they can be both very good and very average at times.

LOW is the sleeper

But wouldn't it be fun to see someone other than the big 3 at state...

[elliott70]

In the history of Section 8 (not counting tier 2) only TRF, EGF and Warroad have won a state title (not including the now AA teams of Roseau Moorhead and Bemidji).

Since inception of Single A Warroad ahs 12 trips, EGF 8 trips and TRF 4 trips.

Crookston would give us a Cinderella story (or LOW).

Now Crookston has given us some very good teams in the old Private School tourney years and may have won a section title if they had participated or Cathedral and the Crookston public school team had played together, but that is a story better told by slapshooter and that bunch.

[zamboniexhaustinhaler]

Egf beats trf (again) on Tuesday. Egf takes the section. Not that it matters; any team that gets it will be trounced in St. Paul.

Very mediocre teams throughout the section.

[7TIMECHAMPS]

Egf beats trf (again) on Tuesday. Egf takes the section. Not that it matters; any team that gets it will be trounced in St. Paul.

Very mediocre teams throughout the section.

Trounced by who? Single A as a whole seems to be mediocre as a whole this year compared to other years. That isn’t just limited to section 8. If EGF, TRF, or Warroad makes it to state I don’t think they have to worry about getting put into running time or anything. At least not more than anyone else. I would
Pick the section 8 winner over a handful of other sections.

[zamboniexhaustinhaler]

Egf beats trf (again) on Tuesday. Egf takes the section. Not that it matters; any team that gets it will be trounced in St. Paul.

Very mediocre teams throughout the section.

Trounced by who? Single A as a whole seems to be mediocre as a whole this year compared to other years. That isn’t just limited to section 8. If EGF, TRF, or Warroad makes it to state I don’t think they have to worry about getting put into running time or anything. At least not more than anyone else. I would
Pick the section 8 winner over a handful of other sections.

<shrug> I don't expect anyone from 8 going anywhere at state regardless of who they play.
But myself, I'm rooting for Crookston; someone new from 8 for a change.

[Green and White Fan]

Not even looking at how the teams did in their sections games, just rating from how we played these teams also shooting from the hip on the bottom 5 because we didn't play them and won't play Crookston until Thursday.

1. EGF
2. Warroad (in my ranking they tied with TRF, but I gave our neighbors the nod)
3. TRF
4. Crookston
5. LOW
6. DL
7. KC
8. PR
9. RLF
10. Bagley

[Green and White Fan]

Seedings are out:

1. Warroad
2. EGF
3. Crookston
4. TRF
5. LOW
6. DL
7. KCC
8. Park Rapids
9. RLF
10. B/F

[Stang5280]

Seedings are out:

1. Warroad
2. EGF
3. Crookston
4. TRF
5. LOW
6. DL
7. KCC
8. Park Rapids
9. RLF
10. B/F

With Warroad hosting the semis and finals, EGF slipping to the two seed seems to be largely irrelevant. LOW gave Warroad a tussle last night and their goaltending keeps them in most games, so the 4/5 should be an interesting QF.