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Re: Official Section Seedings

Post by Stang5280 » Mon Mar 15, 2021 1:28 pm

Per Karl (and a few others) on Twitter, here are teams whose seasons are done due to Covid:

Duluth East
Simley
Waconia
Apple Valley
Rochester Mayo
River Lakes
Shakopee
Farmington
North Branch

Hopefully that list does not continue to grow.

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Re: Official Section Seedings

Post by elliott70 » Mon Mar 15, 2021 1:51 pm

USA218 wrote:
Mon Mar 15, 2021 12:46 pm
Does anyone know whrn Section 8A does the seeding?
Wednesday

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Re: Official Section Seedings

Post by goldy313 » Mon Mar 15, 2021 2:37 pm

Maybe someone can clear this up.....

Why does Karl(East) say Farmington’s season is over? Their playoff game with Owatonna is on Farmington’s South Suburban Conference calendar, meaning someone at the school took the time to update it today.

Owatonna seems to think the game is on, so does 1AA, and Farmington by all I can find. In nearly all the other cases the schools listed have dropped out and are noted as such on the MSHSL website or the game is listed as a forfeit. That doesn’t seem to be the case with Farmington though.

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Re: Official Section Seedings

Post by Stang5280 » Mon Mar 15, 2021 3:19 pm

goldy313 wrote:
Mon Mar 15, 2021 2:37 pm
Maybe someone can clear this up.....

Why does Karl(East) say Farmington’s season is over? Their playoff game with Owatonna is on Farmington’s South Suburban Conference calendar, meaning someone at the school took the time to update it today.

Owatonna seems to think the game is on, so does 1AA, and Farmington by all I can find. In nearly all the other cases the schools listed have dropped out and are noted as such on the MSHSL website or the game is listed as a forfeit. That doesn’t seem to be the case with Farmington though.
It looks like you are correct. I just copied the list from Karl’s tweet, but perhaps it was just an assumption that Farmington would have to quarantine following the Shakopee positive test. That is typically the protocol, but who knows exactly what the timing and conditions were surrounding Shakopee’s situation.

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Re: Official Section Seedings

Post by InThePipes » Mon Mar 15, 2021 3:29 pm

Stang5280 wrote:
Mon Mar 15, 2021 3:19 pm
goldy313 wrote:
Mon Mar 15, 2021 2:37 pm
Maybe someone can clear this up.....

Why does Karl(East) say Farmington’s season is over? Their playoff game with Owatonna is on Farmington’s South Suburban Conference calendar, meaning someone at the school took the time to update it today.

Owatonna seems to think the game is on, so does 1AA, and Farmington by all I can find. In nearly all the other cases the schools listed have dropped out and are noted as such on the MSHSL website or the game is listed as a forfeit. That doesn’t seem to be the case with Farmington though.
It looks like you are correct. I just copied the list from Karl’s tweet, but perhaps it was just an assumption that Farmington would have to quarantine following the Shakopee positive test. That is typically the protocol, but who knows exactly what the timing and conditions were surrounding Shakopee’s situation.
Also, can each school district can choose to handle this how they want?

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Re: Official Section Seedings

Post by goldy313 » Mon Mar 15, 2021 4:25 pm

Mankato East played Mayo on Thursday, Mayo had a positive Covid test Friday. That shutdown Mayo but obviously not East. So, I wondered, why is Farmington done but not East? It just didn’t seem right to me.

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Re: Official Section Seedings

Post by InThePipes » Mon Mar 15, 2021 4:38 pm

goldy313 wrote:
Mon Mar 15, 2021 4:25 pm
Mankato East played Mayo on Thursday, Mayo had a positive Covid test Friday. That shutdown Mayo but obviously not East. So, I wondered, why is Farmington done but not East? It just didn’t seem right to me.
Each school district can handle it how they choose, so some may be allowed to play on while others would be shut down in those same circumstances, at least that's what I've been told, please correct me if someone has better information.

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Re: Official Section Seedings

Post by northstars » Mon Mar 15, 2021 6:43 pm

Add Wadena and Detroit Lakes to the season coming to an end because of Covid.

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Re: Official Section Seedings

Post by InThePipes » Mon Mar 15, 2021 8:56 pm

northstars wrote:
Mon Mar 15, 2021 6:43 pm
Add Wadena and Detroit Lakes to the season coming to an end because of Covid.
:cry:

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Re: Official Section Seedings

Post by goldy313 » Mon Mar 15, 2021 9:22 pm

David La Vaque of the Star Tribune confirmed Farmington is playing Thursday at Owatonna.

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Re: Official Section Seedings

Post by karl(east) » Mon Mar 15, 2021 10:32 pm

Confirmed that Farmington is okay. That situation evolved quickly.

Sounds like Ely may be done also.

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Re: Official Section Seedings

Post by O-townClown » Mon Mar 15, 2021 11:47 pm

karl(east) wrote:
Mon Mar 15, 2021 10:32 pm
Sounds like Ely may be done also.
Really?

(Sorry. Couldn’t resist. One of my two favorite city slogans ever.)
Be kind. Rewind.

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Re: Official Section Seedings

Post by Joe2015 » Tue Mar 16, 2021 3:24 am

East Side Pioneer Guy wrote:
Sun Mar 14, 2021 12:19 pm
What might we expect as far as live streaming section games? I don't want a bunch of posts about Class A section play-in games, just games of interest to most of us. (No disrespect to that Podunk/Swensenville - Johnson County West United 8 vs.9 match-up, I'm sure it will be a great game.)
Section 7A and 7AA on WDIO and streaming here:

https://portal.stretchinternet.com/wdio/

$9.95 per game or $14.95 for both

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Re: Official Section Seedings

Post by Sparlimb » Tue Mar 16, 2021 8:58 am

karl(east) wrote:
Mon Mar 15, 2021 10:32 pm
Confirmed that Farmington is okay. That situation evolved quickly.

Sounds like Ely may be done also.
Ely listed as a forfeit already on the hub and mshsl website. So they are confirmed done.


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Re: Official Section Seedings

Post by Stang5280 » Tue Mar 16, 2021 6:27 pm

Northfield becomes the latest to bow out due to a positive Covid test, which gives Hastings a bye to the 1AA semifinals.
https://mobile.twitter.com/NHSBoysHocke ... 3062456321

Too bad, as they had a pretty nice season.

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Re: Official Section Seedings

Post by Brodziak Fan Club » Tue Mar 16, 2021 6:43 pm

Throwing this out for fun: Buffalo over Roseau isn't UNTHINKABLE as an 8 over 1 upset. Just sayin...

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Re: Official Section Seedings

Post by BlueLineSpecial » Tue Mar 16, 2021 6:52 pm

Brodziak Fan Club wrote:
Tue Mar 16, 2021 6:43 pm
Throwing this out for fun: Buffalo over Roseau isn't UNTHINKABLE as an 8 over 1 upset. Just sayin...
If there's a chance of an 1 v 8 upset, it's definitely this one. Buffalo played an incredibly difficult schedule, being the Lake conference. Edina, Tonka and EP twice to name a few. And they kept some of those games close-ish

Buffalo is as good an 8-seed as you're gonna find in any section
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Re: Official Section Seedings

Post by Brodziak Fan Club » Tue Mar 16, 2021 6:56 pm

BlueLineSpecial wrote:
Tue Mar 16, 2021 6:52 pm
Brodziak Fan Club wrote:
Tue Mar 16, 2021 6:43 pm
Throwing this out for fun: Buffalo over Roseau isn't UNTHINKABLE as an 8 over 1 upset. Just sayin...
If there's a chance of an 1 v 8 upset, it's definitely this one. Buffalo played an incredibly difficult schedule, being the Lake conference. Edina, Tonka and EP twice to name a few. And they kept some of those games close-ish

Buffalo is as good an 8-seed as you're gonna find in any section
Yep. They lost to Wayzata 2-1 10 days ago and Moorhead 3-1 on Saturday. I don't want it to happen though as I'd love to see the Rams back at state.

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Re: Official Section Seedings

Post by BlueLineSpecial » Tue Mar 16, 2021 7:01 pm

Brodziak Fan Club wrote:
Tue Mar 16, 2021 6:56 pm
BlueLineSpecial wrote:
Tue Mar 16, 2021 6:52 pm
Brodziak Fan Club wrote:
Tue Mar 16, 2021 6:43 pm
Throwing this out for fun: Buffalo over Roseau isn't UNTHINKABLE as an 8 over 1 upset. Just sayin...
If there's a chance of an 1 v 8 upset, it's definitely this one. Buffalo played an incredibly difficult schedule, being the Lake conference. Edina, Tonka and EP twice to name a few. And they kept some of those games close-ish

Buffalo is as good an 8-seed as you're gonna find in any section
Yep. They lost to Wayzata 2-1 10 days ago and Moorhead 3-1 on Saturday. I don't want it to happen though as I'd love to see the Rams back at state.
Agreed. I'd love to see them back at State too. I've always had a soft spot for the Rams. Still remember Hill playing Roseau in 2008 State semis. I believe Roseau came in undefeated, seeded #1. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but that team had Aaron Ness on it. Mr Hockey 2008?

Hill just rolled everyone that year on their way to the title, including the Rams. Anyway, neither here nor there. Just reminiscing.
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Re: Official Section Seedings

Post by Brodziak Fan Club » Tue Mar 16, 2021 8:31 pm

https://rrr.hockey/tournament/2008

Roseau was indeed 29-0 heading into that semifinal game. This was the first year I followed high school hockey more than casually. I had never seen Roseau play and totally bought into the mystique from this "team up north". I thought they were going to dazzle with their pond hockey artistry and the Pioneers absolutely punished them physically.

The next night Joe Phillipi shut out the "Fab 5" Hornet group, who were juniors at the time. Ryan Furne scored an absolutely crushing goal from the center line with one second left in the 1st period to put Hill up 2-0. The Hornets were relentless in the 2nd period, out-shooting HIll 15-4, but Phillipi stood tall. I remember feeling like the game was over heading into the 3rd even though it was only 2-0.

That was a fun HIll team. I know we've been over this, but they didn't really have a ton of D-1 talent. That team cemented Lechner's legacy as a great coach whose best teams are always tight-checking and physical.

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Re: Official Section Seedings

Post by BlueLineSpecial » Tue Mar 16, 2021 8:55 pm

Brodziak Fan Club wrote:
Tue Mar 16, 2021 8:31 pm
https://rrr.hockey/tournament/2008

Roseau was indeed 29-0 heading into that semifinal game. This was the first year I followed high school hockey more than casually. I had never seen Roseau play and totally bought into the mystique from this "team up north". I thought they were going to dazzle with their pond hockey artistry and the Pioneers absolutely punished them physically.

The next night Joe Phillipi shut out the "Fab 5" Hornet group, who were juniors at the time. Ryan Furne scored an absolutely crushing goal from the center line with one second left in the 1st period to put Hill up 2-0. The Hornets were relentless in the 2nd period, out-shooting HIll 15-4, but Phillipi stood tall. I remember feeling like the game was over heading into the 3rd even though it was only 2-0.

That was a fun HIll team. I know we've been over this, but they didn't really have a ton of D-1 talent. That team cemented Lechner's legacy as a great coach whose best teams are always tight-checking and physical.
Two things that stood out to me in that final game were:

1) That bizarre goal to the end first period. Must have taken a funny bounce, but still.

2) I swear I remember this, but maybe I’m totally wrong and my memory has betrayed me. I’m sure if there’s game tape out there it could be verified: the camera crews at the time were doing live look-ins to the lockers rooms at intermissions. They panned into the Hill locker room during the second intermission, and the entire Hill team was dancing and singing together to some song. Totally loose, 100% confident they had that game and the title in the bag. I recall being stunned at that and thinking to myself that they’re awfully confident! Of course they won that game 3-0 and the rest is history. But talk about a confident group going into the 3rd period of the championship game.
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Re: Official Section Seedings

Post by karl(east) » Tue Mar 16, 2021 9:42 pm

Figured I'd drop this now 3-year-old link in here to feed off the 2008 nostalgia: https://apatientcycle.com/2018/03/18/a- ... back-2008/

...which makes me realize I need to get to work on the 2011 edition...

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Re: Official Section Seedings

Post by BlueLineSpecial » Tue Mar 16, 2021 11:19 pm

karl(east) wrote:
Tue Mar 16, 2021 9:42 pm
Figured I'd drop this now 3-year-old link in here to feed off the 2008 nostalgia: https://apatientcycle.com/2018/03/18/a- ... back-2008/

...which makes me realize I need to get to work on the 2011 edition...
Oh man, that’s good stuff. Brings back some good memories. Thanks for re-sharing. I watched a little 3 minute highlight video of that Championship game on YouTube just now, while searching for the full game to verify my claim about the dancing. Edina had several point blank chances on Phillipi and he absolutely robbed them on several occasions. And they showed the mishap goal at the end of the first - puck handcuffed him and it squeaked under his arm pit.

Good times
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Re: Official Section Seedings

Post by Sparlimb » Wed Mar 17, 2021 12:45 am

karl(east) wrote:
Tue Mar 16, 2021 9:42 pm
Figured I'd drop this now 3-year-old link in here to feed off the 2008 nostalgia: https://apatientcycle.com/2018/03/18/a- ... back-2008/

...which makes me realize I need to get to work on the 2011 edition...
Ryan Furne, my favorite transfer from Tartan ever. He wasn't the most talented or fastest skater I ever saw, but man was he a winner.

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