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Extending the periods probably isn't quite as important as extending the number of games. Adding aything less than 10 games would have minimal if any effect on a kids decision to leave high school and play elsewhere Starting the season one month earlier (about the time association hockey starts) an...

Bloomington gave McGregor an ultimatum, either he stayed the whole season with them or played for Centennial. He made the right choice staying in Bloomington, didn't have to prove much more in the high school league. section 5AA is wide open. What was the ultimatum? They release him? Doubt it!! So ...

Nope, that was the roster for the 2015 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament back in August over in Europe. All but 2 players were 1997's. The under-18 National team that will be playing in Grand Forks are all 1998's, and the roster can be found: http://u18mensworlds.usahockey.com/team-usa-roster Unfortun...

IMO, Before and After is the way to go. Best of both worlds. Tufte and Mattson took this route and couldn't be happier with their decisions. No kid will ever regret staying but many will regret leaving. You only get one shot at being a kid. The before/after approach is only an option for a very sel...

Tripod wrote:Seems to me a much better time frame to ask for nominations would be at the end of the year.

Tough to scout players during the season if they aren't nominated until the end of the year.

Kids that went to NTDP Eval Camp aren't playing this weekend. . If this is true, why is Conner Mayer on the Section 6 roster? The kids who attended the NTDP evaluation camp but don't make the NTDP team will all receive invites to the USA national camp in July. They don't need to participate in thei...

MNH isn't perfect, of course, but I like the concept here. Keeping "elite" hockey under one quasi-public umbrella (as opposed to the messiness of private-monopoly Elite League + private-competitive summer + a MNH-run Advanced process, etc.) is a lot cleaner and more logical, and at the sa...

You can transfer out SSM and back to a HS, public or private, and be eligible. A graduating senior from Hill-Murray did it this year and played his junior and senior year with no penalty (after being at Shattuck as a 10th grader). No hardship, etc.. The HM kid had a change of residence (at least on...

MinnScout... I have to say I am a little disappointed in the review... I think Mikey Anderson is a solid defender but he is nowhere near the best defender in the state... Connor Mayer is a very skilled player but his decision making process is cause for major concern. I think he might be better sui...

13 forwards and only 7 D...... Why the emphasis on so many forwards? Looking for flash? Showing that it's a good choice not to play D? I'm guessing that USA Hockey dictates the number of forwards and D from each region based on the national camp roster make-up. Looking at rosters from the past few ...

This is what happens when all you do is play hockey for 12 months out of the year. http://msn.foxsports.com/nhl/story/nhl-s-top-prospect-can-t-do-one-stinking-pull-up-060214#livefyre Of course, he's still likely to be a top 5 pick in the NHL draft so I'm guessing he's not too broken up about the in...

DrGaf wrote:Academics or sports. PERIOD.

Enough of this student-athlete crap. Pick one already.

Are you suggesting that high schools shouldn't offer sports? That seems to be the only way to break what you described as the "student-athlete" crap.

Can someone answer this question - What happens if these players decide to complete their senior year and not go the USHL route? Many college coaches want players to spend at least a year in junior before joining the college program. So, staying in high school for a senior year may simply delay whe...

Cothunderbirds can't be that good because st louis beat them and Rosemount AA bantams beat st louis 10 to 0 this winter and thier not even top 10 in Minnesota The CO Thunderbirds are a very strong team, ranked 6th in the country according to MyHockeyRankings. Rosemount thumped a St. Louis team in t...

Looks like the following bantam teams lost eligible kids, Roseville - 2 (Hill Murray) Wayzata - 1 (Wayzata) Burnsville - 1 (Benilde) Rosemount -1 (Burnsville) Maple Grove - 1 (Benilde) Spring Lake Park - 2 (Breck and SLP) Rogers - 1 (Rogers) Minnetonka - 1 (Blake) Minneapolis Storm - 1 (Blake) Look...

High school tryouts start on Nov. 12 so it's still a bit premature to know who all will be moving to high school. However, several bantam eligible players apparently chose not to tryout for their local associations. Based on rumors, I've heard that the following associations have kids moving onto hi...

Is M Anderson the younger brother of J Anderson? If so it appears their dad played the same trump card as he did when they tried out for the WI Fire, You take them both or you don't get J!!! Amazing, I wonder how many other 98s would have loved the opportunity. J . Anderson's younger brother isn't ...

I help coach an A peewee team. All of our practices allow "full checking." We work on some specific aspect of angling, body position, body contact, etc... in every practice. The purpose of "separating the player from the puck" is constantly preached and we have not had big blow u...

The only thing declining in our association is the number of kids put on the A team. Kids trying out is going up (100 at squirt level) but only 14 kids rostered on the squirt A's including the goalies. Thought D6 had rules against that. And no my kid wasn't passed over, he's still a mite. Carrying ...

I think Highland is losing some bantam kids to Cretin and to the Sibley bantam team.

What is wrong with this idea??? This of course assumes that all associations want to develop their kids to the max and also want to win. If an association wants to have the fun people on the A team to travel or want to have the coaches and board member's kids on the team they can but they are going...

So instead of taking checking out of the game they will be: 1) allowing more body contact at younger ages 2) educating coaches on how to teach the skill of checking 3) cracking down on the head hunter type checks It's a very pro-checking program. It's a good thing so many people spoke up against th...

Someone on this bored mentioned that Minnesota Hockey caters to the middle of the road kids and not develop the elite players. What a bunch of crap. The climate has changed. We have the best high school hockey in the nation and the Elite League which develops top players and keeps the majority of t...

We should... we enroll something like 58,000 kids in youth hockey across the state. What I believe is that our top kids aren't being as developed as much as they could be. We produce a lot of VERY GOOD hockey players... just not enough GREAT hockey players. Many of those VERY GOOD hockey players mi...

Do you really think the kids will care weather its A or AA?? You are just letting 8 more teams get a shot that most associations will never get with the current system anyways . Those additional 8 teams won't really be getting the same shot (experience) that the current state tourney teams are gett...