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If you have a Bubble A player at the Squirt, Peewee, or Bantam level, there is a 3 on 3 game venue in the east metro that exclusively caters to bubble players starting in a few weeks that's looking for a few kids to fill existing teams. This is one of the few game venues that can actually develop sk...

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Burnsville 5 Green 3.
Playing Burnsville in the District playoffs could be hazardous to your health after they beat Elk River on Sunday and Green two days later...

Dog,
We're up to 19 breakaways now for the year and stuck on 3 goals. One was a deek and went forehand (good save) one to the backhand (an inch wide of net) so not just wristers anymore is a start. Getting closer to journeyman mason though...

Wayzata Gold 6 Woodbury White 5 in a shootout White juggled some lines after Crimson game realizing they need to find something more to help them take the next step. Scoreboard was the enemy for White. Referee reversed his own called goal for Woodbury at 1st periods end buzzer. Woodbury scored with ...

Semifinal scores from Woodbury Tourney: Maple Grove Crimson 5 Woodbury White 2 White is not yet ready to skate with teams like Crimson. Not sure if or when they will take the next step. Some skilled players, Top line had some chances, and played physical, but a couple of soft goals and no goals from...

One thing I haven't seen being talked about is motivation. Everyone talks about confidence, and how poor Timmy will lose confidence if he gets skipped over once a period or whatever, but what about the kids' motivation? I don't mean external motivation where the coach pumps a team up before the gam...

Hey Jancze, If anyone knows speed with the rockets attached to Jordan's skates it's you... Love your breakaway spoof. We have a couple of redheads on our team this year. Mine has 36% goals 64% assists so he's not one of them... Brainerd, I'm sure he can remember most of his breakaways this season if...

Hey 20, It's a small world. We played against you in the final of the Alex tourney. My son was #8 and he didn't have alot of opp's to open it up against your team but I noticed your son's speed right away as I am pretty dialed in to the skating component as this topic would indicate. The stride is w...

You're right blood. Making a reliable move work builds trust in it, then that leads to confidence, which makes it work even better, leading to more trust, more confidence and so on and so on.... Unfortunately, taking that first chance with a deek instead of the simple wrister will only happen when h...

Thanks for sharing that Dog. It's 16 and counting after 33 games/scrims and the goals count is 3. Penalties on a couple, one post after a glove deflection, and one layed on the goal line, but it's still just 3 goals. It's not 1/25 so maybe not a "brick layer" but a tradesman of some kind i...

Looking for your thoughts on how many breakaways "very fast" players at BB1 might realistically expect to have in a season or some totals from any parents who have fast skaters to see if a particular player is off the charts or not with the numbers he's posting. If the parents of # 20 for ...

Hawk, I coached him as a skater as well. He and Colton Anderson were my goalies in last summers Midwest Selects Tourney. They both did their jobs but we were short a few skaters. Only lost to the eventual champs by a goal with their good play though... Colton is very very good but Chris is special...

Chris Mallon from Burnsville is a top 5 kid or better. If he's at his best this winter he could stone D6 and carry BV to state. I've coached him in the off season for the past 3 years and he has a rare gift...

Ok, HS tryouts are wrapping up. Which teams lost kids to Bantam A when their clubs A kids got HS spots. Woodbury White lost their top D and top goalie to the A team. Anyone else care to share thier move ups? It will probably change some ranking positions down the road with those that took the bigges...

If you read puucks thread carefully you will see he is not an adult. A 15 year old punk I predict. The hormones at that age make many kids beligerent idiots so bear with him. If by chance he is an adult then it would be only by years of life, yet still a child emotionally it appears. Go pop your pim...

Hey Gang, ESP Select Hockey will be running three different 3 on 3 game leagues exclusively to help bubble players this spring for the second year at the Cottage Grove Studio Rink (It's a 125 x 65 sheet) The levels are Bubble A squirt (solid B squirts) Bubble B1 peewee (skilled B2 peewees) and Bubbl...

Hate to use this post for personal requests but my SE Metro independent Mid Tier AAA team is searching for a couple of skaters. Our squad tied 94 Team Christian Brothers last year so we can play. Looking for unselfish players with good work ethic and well behaved in the locker room. Primarily SE met...

My kids are in a smaller association and I agree that the problem is in getting teams placed at the proper level. We usually have 2 teams per level and sometimes 3. The varsity coaches, who are all on the board, are pushing A levels very hard regardless of how a team may fare. This creates a lot of...

Lou Nanne doesn't do the LPH rankings. There are several rankers across the state that submit thier choices to the editor. He views them and makes the final choices based on the collective intellegence. I agree Proctor should be ranked and have ranked them in my submissions previously as I am one of...

AF1, the 95 fire are a young peewee team that is not invincible playing against PWA teams with 94's. Besides, it's the consistent level of talent top to bottom and the solid developmental model used in practices thats most attractive to those that feel development is achieved in that manner. Jancze ...

Gump Said: The solution: create more even competition so that players can develop in a challenging environment with the opportunity for success, and give choices to participate Tier I programs if desired. Otherwise, maybe we should just turn the State of Hockey into one big in-house league and give ...

Elliot,
This has some similarities to my "developing skill sets" post currently on page 10 about 25 topics down. If you care to re-read that post it speaks for me well on this idea and will give you some additional points to re-hash per your request.

Again, since I am a Level 2 ref, and as much as I would like the officiating to not cost fair play points it occasionally does. (Sorry theref) Lets use it for intent to injur, fighting, misconducts related to fighting, profanity, bench penalties related to abuse to officials from players, coaches or...

Alex Wohl from Eastview will be a second year Bantam A. He will make them competitive again just like they were last year as Peewee A's unless some of them play on the HS team. As for first years, Chris Mallon from Burnsville. He has stopped all but 3 of his past 150 shots in D-6 peewee A. Both play...

The concept is good but the lack of consistency and over all level of quality of the officiating at some levels makes it too much a crap shoot. The other night in the first period we had an opposing PW B1 player turn his back on our D at the last minute. We got a 10 & 2 for checking from behind ...