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- Thu Sep 28, 2017 11:34 am
- Forum: Minnesota High School Hockey (Latest Topics)
- Topic: Breck vs Alaska Oilers U16 Tier 1 9/25 in Eden Prairie
- Replies: 23
- Views: 10463
The old tear down this wall debates on here.... :-({|= I still can't believe there was a time when talented - small association kids -were not allowed to try out for HP.. Minnesota Hockey has had a big time awakening in recent years.!. Some things are much improved! I never knew that about small as...
- Wed Sep 27, 2017 11:08 am
- Forum: Minnesota High School Hockey (Latest Topics)
- Topic: Breck vs Alaska Oilers U16 Tier 1 9/25 in Eden Prairie
- Replies: 23
- Views: 10463
I have to say I do enjoy seeing people reason away any success a Tier 1 team may have against a Minnesota team. The fact is that Tier 1 is a very good model for the top end player, whether Minnesota chooses to acknowledge that or not. Speculative reasoning as to why a given result occurred is nothin...
- Fri Apr 07, 2017 2:08 pm
- Forum: Minnesota High School Hockey (Latest Topics)
- Topic: Section assignments are up on the MSHSL website
- Replies: 58
- Views: 27177
David La Va Voque of the Star Tribune reporting MAML only dropped Annandale, will keep Maple lake and have been approved (yesterday) to play in class A. Also reporting Ward is able to stay with team if desired. So are there no players in the youth program from Annandale? I realize youth and High Sc...
- Fri Mar 10, 2017 2:29 pm
- Forum: Minnesota High School Hockey (Latest Topics)
- Topic: MAML Enrollment
- Replies: 103
- Views: 38665
Let's just do this: 2017- Move Hermantown up to AA due to being too good. Move MAML up because as the 14th ranked team in Class A they are too good. Class 5A should never have someone ranked in the top 20 in their section. 2018- State finalists Cathedral and Breck get moved up. Private schools, and...
- Thu Mar 09, 2017 8:18 pm
- Forum: Minnesota High School Hockey (Latest Topics)
- Topic: MAML Enrollment
- Replies: 103
- Views: 38665
If the logic of playing down is that they can't compete with AA programs, then why did they remain in a primarily AA conference? Not difficult for a team to leave their conference for a lesser one. The group of juniors and seniors has been very successful through youth, including the youth state tou...
- Wed Mar 08, 2017 2:14 pm
- Forum: Minnesota High School Hockey (Latest Topics)
- Topic: Class A QF: MAML vs. #2 Delano
- Replies: 50
- Views: 19892
- Fri Mar 03, 2017 12:06 pm
- Forum: Minnesota High School Hockey (Latest Topics)
- Topic: The "Blind Placement" Section 5A Title Game
- Replies: 145
- Views: 41834
Am I the only one confused by the outrage over alleged recruiting of a team that may or may not make the tournament, that has never made the tournament before, from a weak section? This team is 66-90-5 from 2010-2016, so if they are recruiting players for a run to state, they've done a horrible job...
- Fri Mar 03, 2017 11:43 am
- Forum: Minnesota High School Hockey (Latest Topics)
- Topic: Petition for Hermantown to move to the Class they belong in
- Replies: 21
- Views: 8337
3 million people can sign it. It does not mean anything. The petition would not be legally binding in any way. Bottom line is that they are playing where the rules state they belong. Just saying. I just hope the program already knows where they belong and that rumors are true and they move up. Yes,...
- Thu Oct 27, 2016 12:29 pm
- Forum: Minnesota Youth Hockey
- Topic: Mr. Elliott
- Replies: 35
- Views: 19935
I'd like to see associations come up with a policy that says if you leave our association for one year and come back we will welcome you with open arms. But for that first year that you come back, you will play down one level. I think this could help eliminate parents moving back and forth. This is...
- Thu Apr 07, 2016 8:56 am
- Forum: Minnesota Youth Hockey
- Topic: Gentry Galaxy
- Replies: 88
- Views: 75026
It appears that the kid got noticed just fine while playing for Moose Lake. March 24, 2016 | Volume 129, Number 12 Moose Lake Area Hockey Moose Lake Area Rebel hockey player Bryceton Butkiewicz was selected to participated in the CCM High Performance 18 Spring Festival March 18-20 to be held at the...
- Wed Apr 06, 2016 5:58 am
- Forum: Minnesota Youth Hockey
- Topic: Gentry Galaxy
- Replies: 88
- Views: 75026
- Fri Apr 01, 2016 9:49 am
- Forum: Minnesota Youth Hockey
- Topic: Gentry Galaxy
- Replies: 88
- Views: 75026
- Thu Feb 04, 2016 6:02 am
- Forum: Minnesota Youth Hockey
- Topic: Mandatory Level Declarations
- Replies: 76
- Views: 32740
There is one flaw in all of this: The premise that talent is evenly distributed among a group of players. In my years of hockey, I have observed it to more accurately follow a bell curve, with the concentration of talent in the center with the top and bottom ends being outliers. With that it shows m...
- Thu Jan 28, 2016 8:22 am
- Forum: Minnesota Youth Hockey
- Topic: Father of a girl playing boys
- Replies: 68
- Views: 38673
I hate to write this but You need to have a little documentation on the incident from the Bantam A scrimmage from last night. 1/24/2016. My daughter is the goalie for the Bantam A team. She was subject to some pretty horrible comments from a couple players on your team. She was called transgender, ...
- Mon Jun 29, 2015 12:18 pm
- Forum: Minnesota Youth Hockey
- Topic: HP
- Replies: 34
- Views: 22838
- Wed Jun 24, 2015 11:54 am
- Forum: Minnesota Youth Hockey
- Topic: HP
- Replies: 34
- Views: 22838
St. Cloud camp is quite a week for players fortunate enough to make it. Interesting to see some of the talent out there, and disappointing to see some of the big names not delivering. Embarrassing in some situations. A little surprised that some still advanced to national camp. They must look at th...
- Mon Mar 02, 2015 12:33 pm
- Forum: Minnesota Youth Hockey
- Topic: Mounds View and Irondale Co-op
- Replies: 44
- Views: 23851
Yes, there was a little success this season, but I don't think that you can chalk that up to roster loading or improper declarations. The co-op only had enough bantams to fill four rosters and they have an A team, a B1 team, a B2 team, and a C team. Within District 2 , they finished 4th, 4th, 4th, ...
- Mon Feb 02, 2015 1:21 pm
- Forum: Minnesota Youth Hockey
- Topic: Tournament Hosts trying to fix brackets!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8932
Re: Tournament Hosts trying to fix brackets!
Why do teams try and set up brackets and screw up a tourney? Nowin the Bantam AA division in Moose Goheen you have the 1&2 teams playing in the semis because the tournament host had 1 bracket that was a lot easier to walk through and get the 1 seed. I'm not trying to take anything away from Jef...
- Thu Jan 23, 2014 10:58 am
- Forum: Minnesota Youth Hockey
- Topic: Refs
- Replies: 144
- Views: 68101
The only way it slows the game down is if players continue to do it. Then it is on them, not the referee. In any games I have been at that it is called that way, they figure it out pretty quickly because they don't like being shorthanded. No different than any other call, but nobody is making the ar...
- Wed Jan 22, 2014 2:08 pm
- Forum: Minnesota Youth Hockey
- Topic: Squirtacular
- Replies: 39
- Views: 14281
- Mon Jun 03, 2013 11:11 am
- Forum: Minnesota Youth Hockey
- Topic: The Future of Minnesota Youth AA Hockey?
- Replies: 64
- Views: 23057
I can tell you this much Irondale lost zero players due to the AA, A split and they are one of the smallest associations in district 10. I believe coon rapids and St Francis lost a few but none of those kids ended up on the top teams at the pee wee or bantam levels. CR lost zero Bantams in 2012 Los...
- Wed May 29, 2013 11:32 am
- Forum: Minnesota Youth Hockey
- Topic: AA Seeding
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5567
No offense, Tony, but I'm dead serious. You don't jump into something without thinking about it. :P Unfortunately, they did think about it - for THREE YEARS! They obviously ran out of brain cells when they got to the region seeding discussion. If the objective is to get the best 32 teams at the AA ...
- Mon Apr 29, 2013 11:21 am
- Forum: Minnesota Youth Hockey
- Topic: Why AAA Needs to Change
- Replies: 54
- Views: 20366
Keep in mind it's a Minnesota Youth Hockey forum. Completely different discussion in Wisconsin cause of the quality and quantity of teams. And keep in mind that it is a Minnesota Youth Hockey forum, and not a Twin Cities Youth Hockey forum. The issues of travel that JSR talks about exist in the are...
- Tue Apr 23, 2013 12:58 pm
- Forum: Minnesota Youth Hockey
- Topic: Stars and Stripes
- Replies: 57
- Views: 28833
Re: Stars and Stripes
Schedules are online. Looks like the same malarkey as other years... create as weak of a schedule as possible for the Orange teams to give them every opportunity to advance to the medal round. At 03 level, they are in the same bracket as MG, however they don't play MG. In addition, MG plays one gam...
- Thu Apr 18, 2013 12:47 pm
- Forum: Minnesota Youth Hockey
- Topic: MN Made Choice League 2013
- Replies: 32
- Views: 16872
I agree with everything you said, especially the last point. Those parents can buy in at whatever level they wish. I paid $50 for my daughter to play 2nd year Mites / U8 in the 2011-12 season and $165 for her to play up at C Squirts last year (guess the association?), while these jokermanz will pay...