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Spin: If there are teams that are winning 5 games all year, then they're not at the right level. Period. Youth hockey isn't about winning or losing, its about developing kids and having fun... but to think you can achieve both without taking into consideration wins and losses -- that's a naive state...

MN Gopher Guy: Sir, if you don't think that players develop best by being able to compete in the levels they play on then you sir are developmentally challenged. Mpls Park will never be a Wayzata or an Edina... the demographics won't allow it. What the Storm attempted to do was bring to ass'n's that...

Exactly MN Gopher guy... but you took my Edina point out of context.... I only meant that SLP views becoming as large as Edina (with Mpls) would be a bad thing as opposed to recognizing that if SLP wants to be a part of a program that has SLP kids playing hockey with SLP kids (instead of MN Made/Mac...

[quote="mngopherfan"][quote="hokeyhockeyguy"]MN Gopher guy... Mpls SW and Mpls Washburn have expressed their desire to be one ass'n for all practical purposes and have one Mpls Hockey Ass'n within a year or so. Richfield has 30 TOTAL kids in the Ass'n. The Storm would only change...

MN Gopher guy... Mpls SW and Mpls Washburn have expressed their desire to be one ass'n for all practical purposes and have one Mpls Hockey Ass'n within a year or so. Richfield has 30 TOTAL kids in the Ass'n. The Storm would only change in that the Washburn and Richfield kids would play in it. It wou...

I've heard that SLP is approaching Hopkins about Cooping at the Squirt level... why are they leaving Mpls to go to Hopkins? I know they have to do something since they have 6 second year squirts returning who played at the B2 - A level, at least that's what an email I've seen says. Perhaps a year fr...

Yikes... took an opportunity to promote gap control, which I think is tremendously undercoached at all levels. Of course I don't think your average 7 year old needs a lecture about gap control, but as soon as defenseman skate backwards in drills and games it should be taught. 7 year olds can't do th...

It sounds like the guy went overboard.

Lots of good stuff in here... hockey is too expensive, however, human nature is as human nature does... Econ 101 stuff... there's no going back from expensive summer hockey options and $$$ skates and sticks, not to mention the materialistic nature of society right now... why? Because right now TV's,...

[quote="Who else?"]hokey - So we agree that any co-op or average team can win district 1. Regionals you can look over again at all levels. So, understanding that it would not be very challenging for most average teams to get to state (taking the same path as Mpls Pk), an association can't ...

Who else... You said they are average at all levels... if you think what they did this year was "average" then there's no reason to expend any further energy thinking about your points. I'll cede your point that their road to State wasn't as challenging as the regionals... but to imply tha...

The Mpls Park Co-op has been a tremendous success from my knowledge. Their Bantam A team beat top 10 talent all year and lost a close game to Duluth East in the State Tourney (won't go into the cause of that... aka the penalty shot award)... Their PeeWee A team lost in OT to Woodbury in the State Se...

I'll stop "quoting" and posting... but I just couldn't help myself after having to read the know it alls who speak so definitively about 12 and 13 year olds playing on Pee Wee teams... People just need to be reminded that its one thing to make predictions, but its another thing to post thi...

[quote="MNWILD2009"][quote="hockeyfreak123"]FIRST ROUND Mpls Park will beat EGF Blaine will beat Woodbury Roseau will kill Owatonna Edina will beat Wayzata SECOND ROUND Mpls Park beats Blaine 3-1 (they had a close game this season, they could come on top this time) Roseau beats E...

[quote="thehockeyczar"][quote="dogeatdog1"][quote="Jerry"]Roseau or Mpls Park will win state. Everyone has over looked both teams.[/quote] Am I missing something? MPLS park? Here are the MN hockey recent rankings....Owhat a town is missing too.. they probalbly have the ...

[quote="RickO'Shea"][quote="O-townClown"]

Minneapolis gets to play a team that just lost 10-0 or something.[/quote]


??? Minneapolis won't win.[/quote]


Hmm...

He's 12 or 13 years old. Posting a topic about individual kids should get removed.

Is there a moderator paying attention?