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He...?... decided to write about how great community based Hockey is? :shock: I would bet the farm(pretty obvious) that someone with Minnesota Hockey asked him to. :-({|= So it's great to leave a crappy public program(old Central) for good training at a private school, but total taboo to leave the ...

SSM had three guys out:

Montgomery - Dislocated Shoulder
Stepan - Broken Rib
Petrella - Sick

Regardless, it was a fun game to watch. Back and forth the entire game. Both teams played hard and clean.

5 kids from Minnesota made the NDTP team and a different 5 made the Five nations team. If Minnesota doesn't dominate then who does? Sounds like possibly 6 now for NTDP? I've said it before, but I'll say it again... Minnesota SHOULD have more. We have five times the kids to choose from... Also...I g...

I always recommend people go if they can afford to go. Hockey is all about exposure. As soon as you get on "the list" things come easier. If you don't ever get on "the list", then it becomes harder and harder to break through the politics that follow as the years pass. Go to the ...

I don't get it... There are so many people on this board who rip on Shattuck or Tier One teams who have NEVER had a kid play for either. If you don't have a kid who has played in these leagues than you can't really have a valid argument, can you? There are many different reasons families choose wha...

[quote="O-townClown"][quote="itsmorefun"]Heres my last plug... with the amount of players that MN Youth hockey enrolls, MN should have a hell of a lot more kids who "make it", than they do. I agree that MN has a few who actually do, but percentage wise... it's actually ...

I don't get it... There are so many people on this board who rip on Shattuck or Tier One teams who have NEVER had a kid play for either. If you don't have a kid who has played in these leagues than you can't really have a valid argument, can you? There are many different reasons families choose what...

[quote="O-townClown"][quote="itsmorefun"]Kids who leave to play for Shattuck (and their parents) don't get the same grief as kids who leave to play Tier One youth. Just makes a person wonder...[/quote] The kids who leave for Shattuck are often entertaining the 50 or so other Prep...

I still haven't heard any compelling reasons why there is a difference in how the Minnesota hockey world views Shattuck vs. youth Tier One. If a person's philosophy is that "kids should play with their friends" or "Minnesota has the best hockey", or "Tier One steals all the ...

[quote="O-townClown"]If Shattuck-St. Mary's entered their teams at the MSHSL level you would not be feeling the positive aura. In attracting players from throughout North American and even beyond, S-SM isn't exactly tearing down the fabric of Minnesota's community-based hockey model. The F...

[quote="Danglesnipe&celly Tro"]They earn it they have so many alums who have made it big. Maybe the names Sidney Crosby, Jonathan toews, and zach parise ring a bell.[/quote] This is precisely my point. All three of those guys played Tier One hockey as a youth player and then went to Sh...

I've just finished reading a couple of threads that commented on some upcoming Shattuck games. It got me thinking... How is it that Shattuck, a tier one hockey program in Minnesota, can have so much respect and positive aura from the Minnesota hockey world, but Minnesota Made or Fire Hockey, which i...

Got a question: How is it that Shattuck, a tier one hockey program in Minnesota, can have so much respect and positive ora from the Minnesota hockey world, but Minnesota Made or Fire Hockey, which is also considered Tier One or AAA, continues to get so much grief from the Minnesota hockey world? Any...

I know that there are a lot of naysayers to Fire hockey, but it should be noted that 6 of the kids from the 1994 Fire Hockey club made the national team and will be heading to New York in July. They are: Anders Franke Andy Herlofsky Jake Horton Jordan Jancze Jonah Johnson Zach Stepan I bet if you as...

I found it on here...

http://www.network54.com/Index/91286

then click on the Youth Tier one Hockey (aaa) and then find "USAhockey plans"

muckandgrind...

Impressive Post! You read my mind! It's so interesting how Pro AAA people NEVER tell Pro Association people that the choices they make are wrong, but Pro Associationers are always trying to preach...


It's all about choice and families should have it. Period.

The only people who have a valid argument about this topic are those who have played Tier One and those who have played MN association hockey and have the knowledge to compare. Most people who comment, on this board, about their disgruntled idea of Tier One hockey, have never even experienced it. Yo...

Who's playing this weekend? Just looking for some games to go to...

Thanks for all the replies... Here's the problem...many people wrote that I should seek advice... but that's the problem - everyone has an invested interest - it's hard to find neutral people. If you ask someone who likes juniors, they'll tell you to play juniors; if you ask someone from Shattuck, t...

Let's say you had a kid who was good enough to move to the next level as a sophomore...If you could choose, and your kid was good enough, which one of these programs would you send your kid to...

Im confused when people comment that the Fire teams are "hand picked" and have the "best kids." I've had experience at most levels of the Fire and they "rarely" hand pick the best players from the respective associations... mostly the kids who show up to tryouts make th...

Good advice guys.

Thanks for taking the time!

Blue&Gold Ok... so this is good info. Thanks. Let's say that your kid was good enough to go straight to college from High School.... say he got a scholarship. Would you still attend Juniors for a year...then wait a year to go to college (bigger and stronger) OR... risk a year sitting on a colleg...

I wondered about Waterloo. I've heard so many great things about that coach and that program - probably more about the coach being so good to the kids (one of the few who care about them, I hear). Thanks for the info. It's nice to know that this is a tough topic - which just means that they're all p...

[quote="Blue&Gold"][quote="itsmorefun"]I was wondering about USHL - Junior A... wondering what team has the best program... in your opinion...[/quote] All that I menttioned is Junior A. USHL is Tier I, NAHL is Tier II and the MN Jr. League is Tier III. Best USHL program? Depe...