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A joke it was........unorganized, no feed back to the kids....believe it was just a showcase for the Warroad players....they were the ones on the ice show boating... What feed back were you looking for? My son got his first call from a Jr. A team after the all-star game. And yes, the Warroad player...

Congrats from upstream. You are not only a great hockey player but a class competitor.

I always thought that Tyler was one of the most underrated players in the state. I'd have him on any team of mine. The man has guts and works his butt off on top of being a great athlete. Congrats.

River, I believe people should get an education with or without sports. Unlike you, I even think it's worth paying for one. Thanks O-town, I'll tell my daughter, who is a junior at a top private school and at the top of her class. She is into this thing called neuro-biology. No Title IX $ either. Y...

Go work with the NCAA to raise the number from 18 to 30 and then figure out how member institutions can fund those and I'm sure you'll find WCHA and CCHA coaches that are more than happy to scholarship kids, park them in the classroom for a redshirt year, and keep them under a watchful eye rather t...

[ D1 football teams don't have redshirted players because of a desire to better prepare them for adulthood, they have them because they don't have anywhere else to put them. I'm guessing you will find redshirting less common at D2 schools. You don't call "getting an education" preparing fo...

Developing players for college . Junior Hockey does a WAY better job of developing players for college than anything else. Hockey-wise. I don't know about academically. The USHL's propaganda says that kids actually benefit. Hard to believe. Compared to the University of Minnesota's old Varsity Rese...

O-townClown wrote:Oh, and River, it would help me if I understood what you are trying to develop these players for. Colleges regularly play kids 6 years past HS age and you seem to imply that 5 years out is more 'development'. Not sure what you mean.

Developing players for college .

1-Title IX makes any additional spots for male athletes nearly impossible, money wouldn't be an obstacle at most places if it wasn't for Title IX. 3- Making and losing money isn't the importnat part in hockey, if you make money great but if you lose money you can write off the losses. Most teams ar...

Does anyone out there think we could or should have a better system? What would it look like in your dream? River: What are you trying to change? A better system? For who? I guess I'd start by looking at whose needs aren't being met and figure out what needs to be done to address those needs. Then ...

Options for kids is a good thing. 1. But I think it could be a win-win for minnesota hockey if we could give the option to red-shirt, playing a similar schedule (competion wise and number of games) of juniors and having your education payed for. I did hear that there is just not enough money in hoc...

O-town, you sound like a guy who likes to talk but not listen. You asked for one positive of Juniors not existing. I gave you one. I did not say that Juniors should be banned nor did I propose such a thing. In addition,I did not say that Juniors is bad for hockey. All I said is that there is at lea...

O-town, I think you are a little out of touch on this issue. Just scroll down/up a few topics and read the "Who's not coming back to high school next year" thread. Minnesot HS hockey has been losing a number of top players for quite a few years now and they leave in their senior year to g...

Options for kids is a good thing. But I think it could be a win-win for minnesota hockey if we could give the option to red-shirt, playing a similar schedule (competion wise and number of games) of juniors and having your education payed for. I did hear that there is just not enough money in hockey ...

I think the bulk of the reason that you believe Junior is a waste is lack of knowledge. 214 players from Minnesota played Division I hockey according to a report put out in Dec. of 06'. The link to the article is below. If you divide that by four years of school you get a little over 50 players/ gr...

RIVERMAN You are Wrong. Players will not go to schools that are going to redshirt them . Many players that transfer do so to a school that has a junior team close enough to play for while they sit out. Is your hockey background so limited you do not remember when the U had a JV team?..... They didn...

That is a good point, jancze5. What if we kept the current system but tweaked it to have D-1 schools pay for five years of a redshirt scholarshiped player. The benifit to the school is that they would have a year to learn the system and it could help with the pressure when a player leaves for the p...

Shattuck is actually 40K a year, but they have "financial aid" for needy families, so does Culver, so does Taft, so does Avon Old Farms, etc. Good point on this discussion may be to simply identify that without JR's, a large portion of the rest of the country would be without a place to p...

It has been my experience that D-1 schools have expressed interest (scholy) in a student and then sent them to juniors to develop. Thats why, before this discussion, I never considered development a by product of juniors. A teammate of my son was told by one school to go to juniors for a year but an...

Thank you for the link. Go get 'em, Mike!

It is cheap compared to the road to the hockey develpment road to that point but compare it with D-1a football. What if there were only full ride scholarships offered at D-1 hockey schools? What if the schools could have a red-shirt team for development? What if we offered a D-2 that could offer par...

Comparing the way recruiting and develpment happens between hockey and other mainline sports leaves me scratching my head. We send kids to juniors to develop...they have to "pay to play" and in most cases, pay for the chance to play. They don't have thier education, room or board payed for...

Roseauverrated wrote:

Dickie wrote: Don't get too cocky? Last I checked the Rams were undefeated since they won the championship last year...

Last I checked the Rams didn't play anyone good the whole year.

They won't at state either.

YO Roseau fans your no longer playing Crap teams you have no chance of not letting in a goal in the tournment yes you are a great team but don't get to cocky anything can happen First of all, Roseau has not been playing Crap teams. I think people in the metro have looked down their noses at a lot o...

Has there ever been a team that did not allow any goals for the entire state tourney? Can it happen?