The Argy Bargy 3A Thread 2018-2019

[elliott70]

I don't think Marshall losing to MNRiver drops them out of 1

[Corn Cobb]

Corn Cobb's 3A Rankings -- Week of 1/6

1 - Marshall
2 - Litchfield/DC
3 - Hutchinson
4 - New Ulm
5 - Luverne
6 - Willmar
7 - Windom
8 - Redwood Valley
9 - Worthington
10 - Fairmont

[Corn Cobb]

Finals from 1/8

Delano 4 Hutchinson 2
Holy Family 6 Litchfield/DC 2
Luverne 12 Fairmont 2
Marshall 6 Worthington 2
New Ulm 7 Redwood Valley 0
Willmar 4 Sauk Rapids-Rice 4

[Corn Cobb]

Finals from 1/10

Marshall 4 New Ulm 2
Prairie Center 2 Litchfield/DC 1
Windom 5 Redwood Valley 1
Alexandria 11 Willmar 1
Fairmont 1 Worthington 0

[Stang5280]

Finals from 1/10

Marshall 4 New Ulm 2
Prairie Center 2 Litchfield/DC 1
Windom 5 Redwood Valley 1
Alexandria 11 Willmar 1
Fairmont 1 Worthington 0

Big win for Marshall and a pretty bad loss for LDC, though at least outside of the section.

[Corn Cobb]

Final from 1/11

Orono 9 Hutchinson 0

[hawkeyguy2]

Not sure that is a big win. 49 shots for ldc to 19 in their loss .. LDC had an impressive game with Holy Family just 2 days before with their back up tender and one of their best D man out with injury. . LDC had many more scoring opportunities as well. ... while Marshall got walloped to a lowly MN River.

[elliott70]

Not sure that is a big win. 49 shots for ldc to 19 in their loss .. LDC had an impressive game with Holy Family just 2 days before with their back up tender and one of their best D man out with injury. . LDC had many more scoring opportunities as well. ... while Marshall got walloped to a lowly MN River.

No. 18 Minnesota River (53.3) 3-1-0 12-3-0 5.4 2.2 Won 3

Perhaps that comment is tongue in cheek.
MN River perhaps not contending for top 10 ranking but by all accounts a decent hockey squad.

[Corn Cobb]

Finals from 1/12

Hutchinson 7 Fergus Falls 6 OT
Delano 3 Litchfield/DC 2 OT
Luverne 8 Willmar 4
Morris/Benson 7 Fairmont 5
Waseca 5 Worthington 3

[observations]

Not sure that is a big win. 49 shots for ldc to 19 in their loss .. LDC had an impressive game with Holy Family just 2 days before with their back up tender and one of their best D man out with injury. . LDC had many more scoring opportunities as well. ... while Marshall got walloped to a lowly MN River.

No. 18 Minnesota River (53.3) 3-1-0 12-3-0 5.4 2.2 Won 3

Perhaps that comment is tongue in cheek.
MN River perhaps not contending for top 10 ranking but by all accounts a decent hockey squad.

Maybe the whole post was toungue in cheek?... Or just disorganized sensitivity... I don’t think anyone is writing LDC off.

I don’t think big was used to mean the win was a big margin or a big surprise, but it had pretty big implications, season sweep likely locks in a top couple seed with no chance of falling behind New Ulm in seeding, whereas a New Ulm win could have opened up any number of possibilities depending on a couple more ‘big’ results, biggest being LDC in a couple weeks.

[Corn Cobb]

Corn Cobb's 3A Rankings -- Week of 1/13

1 - Marshall
2 - Litchfield/DC
3 - New Ulm
4 - Hutchinson
5 - Luverne
6 - Windom
7 - Willmar
8 - Redwood Valley
9 - Worthington
10 - Fairmont

[elliott70]

Corn Cobb's 3A Rankings -- Week of 1/13

1 - Marshall
2 - Litchfield/DC
3 - New Ulm
4 - Hutchinson
5 - Luverne
6 - Windom
7 - Willmar
8 - Redwood Valley
9 - Worthington
10 - Fairmont

If it ends up this way litch and new ulm should be a good semi match up.
Other than possibly
Luverne over Hutch I can't see any other upsets.

[Corn Cobb]

Final from 1/14

Marshall 4 Windom 1

[Corn Cobb]

Finals from 1/15

Minnesota River 9 Fairmont 0
Hutchinson 6 Waconia 1
Litchfield/DC 1 New Prague 0
New Ulm 6 Worthington 0
Redwood Valley 2 Willmar 1

[Corn Cobb]

Finals from 1/17

Marshall 14 Fairmont 3
Luverne 6 Redwood Valley 4
St. Cloud 13 Willmar 0

[Corn Cobb]

Finals from 1/19

Litchfield/DC 4 Hutchinson 3
Waseca 5 Luverne 1
Windom 5 Morris-Benson 2

[Corn Cobb]

Corn Cobb's 3A Rankings -- Week of 1/20

1 - Marshall
2 - Litchfield/DC
3 - New Ulm
4 - Hutchinson
5 - Luverne
6 - Windom
7 - Redwood Valley
8 - Willmar
9 - Worthington
10 - Fairmont

[elliott70]

Marshall was in the X five or six years ago but Litch has been there 4 or 5 maybe 6 times so I am hoping to see Marshall there.
Of course New Ulm could change all that (and perhaps Hutch.

[Corn Cobb]

Since the restructuring of Section 3A back in 2007-2008, the number of section championships:

4- New Ulm (2010, 2011, 2012, 2015)
3- Litchfield/DC (2008, 2016, 2018)
2- Luverne (2014, 2017)
1- Hutchinson (2009)
1- Marshall (2013)

[Corn Cobb]

Finals from 1/22

Minnesota River 6 New Ulm 4
Marshall 4 Redwood Valley 1
Waconia 3 Litchfield/DC 2
Windom 6 Fairmont 1

[elliott70]

Tomorrow night's game (Thurs 1-24) with Hutch and New Ulm will provide some insight and probably decide 3&4 seeding.

[Corn Cobb]

Final from 1/24

New Ulm 4 Hutchinson 3

[Corn Cobb]

Finals from 1/25

Windom 3 Dodge County 2 OT
Luverne 5 Litchfield/DC 1
Minnesota River 8 Redwood Valley 2
New Prague 8 Hutchinson 0
Fergus Falls 6 Willmar 2
Winona 6 Worthington 2

[goldy313]

A fairly bad New Prague team putting Hutch in running time plus luverne handily beating LDC makes this section more wide open than I thought.

[hawkeyguy2]

Although Luverne's talent in terms of skating is down, they make up for it with great coaching as you can see it in their team play, sharp passes and shoot to score mentality. Litchfield was down 1 or 2 men most of the 3rd period after an end of 2nd period major penalty and 10 minute misconduct (pretty bad call by the officials - wasn't even a penalty... 2 min at the most) and multiple 3rd period penalties allowed Luverne to skate by with an easy win although outshot 52 - 38. Luverne probably would have won this even without the penalties. LDC looks horribly disorganized 5 - 5, no passing, dump & chase hockey with meaningless shots. Only bright spot for LDC is that their Power play was pretty solid with nothing to show.