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Edina won the 2023 state Bantam championship, defeating Minnetonka, Grand Rapids & Moorhead at the state tournament. All are in this year's AA HS tourney. The old adage going back 40 years or more is that the state Bantams is a good predictor of HS success 2-3 years out. Also in the field were ...

I am mostly wondering if they have enough seats for this?

Welp. This is hard...
Go Detroit Lakes!!!

I always liked changing both class A and AA to a true STATE tournament, splitting it up regionally throughout the state similar to tier one and tier two accept using school size instead of season success as a divider. I know this goes against having the "best 8 teams" but it would be more ...

[quote=ClassAGuy post_id=768638 time=1698790079 user_id=25965] 2023-24 Section 8A Preseason Preview Section 8A, as it has been well noted, has routinely been dominated by the Big Three as since its beginning 30 years ago the Section 8A Champion has either been Warroad, East Grand Forks, or Thief Riv...

Well, maybe DL didn't want to move. It just makes sense to me that they play in D 15 for youth hockey and they fit very well. Of course I would like FF, DL, and Alex to go 8AA but that is another issue altogether. Trust me is DL could move they would DL to Warroad is over 3 hours . I know Coach Ben...

Just my opinion but Detroit Lakes should be in 6a. 8a has 10 teams, 6a has 8. 100 % agree also dont agree with moving Bloomington and Richfield to Metro East Section 4A but again they want to make as little changes as possible in a 2 year cycle. Looking at new Map.... **IF** Northfield drops Randol...

Just my opinion but Detroit Lakes should be in 6a. 8a has 10 teams, 6a has 8.

Shot in the Dark for Class A For 9 Equal Geographic base Sections 1A- (9) Albert Lea, Dodge County, La Crescent, Rochester Lourdes, Winona, Waseca, Austin, Faribault, MN River 2A- (9) Orono, Providence Academy, Delano, Southwest Christian, Breck, Mound Westonka, Bloomington Kennedy, Hutchinson, LDC...

North Dakota does have a tournament. Roughly a little less than half of the ND teams get into the state tournament they do a 1 west vs 4 east set up and it is entertaining. The top teams are most of the time very high level then it drops. They play at the REA most years and some years in Fargo. They...

That was a great goal.

I don't like ragging on this but I have to. Alexandria gets a player thrown in the box because he jumped into the wrong boards after scoring a goal. Mahtomedi manages to stay out of the box when their last goal scorer goes out of his way to taunt the ref after this last goal. I guess I would have c...

It appears to me that all the pre-tournament hype surrounding Warroad and consternation concerning Hermantown playing in Class A was completely misplaced. Warroad the best team in the state regardless of class?? Uh, no. From what I've seen from the AA teams, the Warriors would have some difficulty ...

6A Seeds and parings are locked now 1 Alex vs 8 BW 4 WDC vs 5 MBA 3 NL vs 6 Willmar 2 FF vs 7 PC You should identify this as your opinion not what has officially been released. I don’t see it any different but the coaches might. Bingo!!! 1000% agree with this . Some people think they are the smarte...

I looked at MSHSL this morning it is not Top 64 they list it as 1299 and above is AA and 1298 and below A So it will depend on where the cutoff line will be that solves that. I do think by DD and RR opting up it may drop the cut off line down instead of up though. Policy that I just read in mshsl.o...

This is the general policy. https://www.mshsl.org/sites/default/files/2021-01/csp_policy-for-classification-and-competitive-section-placement.pdf Yes exactly so like I was trying to say the number last time was 1299 they cut off at. With the two smaller schools added could that shift the Top 64 Num...

Not sure why they would muddle things up by putting a list of enrollment numbers out like that. Just more data I guess. Too much time on their hands. Or possibly they have no idea what they are going to do and decide to put as much info out as possible in order to answer as many questions as they ca...

This is the general policy.



https://www.mshsl.org/sites/default/fil ... cement.pdf

I looked at MSHSL this morning it is not Top 64 they list it as 1299 and above is AA and 1298 and below A So it will depend on where the cutoff line will be that solves that. I do think by DD and RR opting up it may drop the cut off line down instead of up though. Policy that I just read in mshsl.o...

So exactly how does the AA class work? Per MSHSL they top 64 schools are AA. The opt ups are added. So, if that number is greater than 64 can the lowest populations elect to drop back???? Right now, the number in AA exceeds 64 and there are 10(???) opt ups. But it is not 64 plus 10 more like 67 or ...

Lakeville South '21.

The Fergus Falls Otters travel to Red Lake Falls tonight and play at the Cardin-Hunt Arena. ClassAGuy says it’s one of the coldest rinks in MN. Would like to hear from other people on opinions of the coldest rinks in MN (past or present rinks). My coldest rinks- Former Simley Bubble (Inver Grove He...

Fergus Falls 4
Thief River Falls 2 final

Otters 5
Lakers 1
Last night. Man I miss Otters v Lakers in sections!

Sections should be aligned with some geography in mind and if the best 8 are in one section on a given year, then so be it. It's not "a given year" but rather every year. At one point the best hockey was in the north so they had a "back door" to let in another team that didn't w...