Thief River Falls Favorite 08-09?

ovechkincrosby · Post by **ovechkincrosby** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 7:14 pm

Do you guys think TRf is the favorite for next year? They do have almost everyone coming back including Zane Gothberg and for another year after that. What do you think?

Jacketfan06 · Post by **Jacketfan06** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 7:21 pm

um no

Wild4hockey · Post by **Wild4hockey** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 7:27 pm

Yes, they will be a favorite. We should probably wait until the state tourney is over before we get too excited about next year. I am very optimistic however.

nipe'n · Post by **nipe'n** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 11:01 pm

well they will definatly be a force in 8A im sure of that

OGEE OGELTHORPE · Post by **OGEE OGELTHORPE** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 7:28 am

East Grand this year and next year, maybe even a three-peat.
Warroad has no chance.

moose jaw · Post by **moose jaw** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 8:55 am

Should be one of the contenders next year,but i wouldnt say a clear cut f avorite.After next year they lose aandahl and dillon,it will be gothberg by himself because whats left is very,very average and very,very slow.Hats off to tim for getting this squad to be .500 but he might still have some challenges ahead to get this thing turned around,poor numbers and very little skill at the youth levels.

Wild4hockey · Post by **Wild4hockey** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 9:03 am

moose jaw wrote:Should be one of the contenders next year,but i wouldnt say a clear cut f avorite.After next year they lose aandahl and dillon,it will be gothberg by himself because whats left is very,very average and very,very slow.Hats off to tim for getting this squad to be .500 but he might still have some challenges ahead to get this thing turned around,poor numbers and very little skill at the youth levels.

Your projecting out until the 2009-10 season already. C'mon! It is bad enough to be talking about next season already. I heard that TRF is really screwed in 8 years because their pee-wee's are having trouble moving the puck and appear to be one big blob as they move around the ice. TRF has a lot of work to do if they want to be comptetitive in 2016!

moose jaw · Post by **moose jaw** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 9:16 am

Stop already with the pressure on 2016 team,TRF faithfull are happy with one appearance every 40some years,thats alot of pressure on the 16 squad to do it in 20.

SB24 · Post by **SB24** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 11:59 am

OGEE OGELTHORPE wrote:East Grand this year and next year, maybe even a three-peat.
Warroad has no chance.

Haven't you people learned yet?

MNHockey75 · Post by **MNHockey75** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 5:09 pm

SB24 wrote:
OGEE OGELTHORPE wrote:East Grand this year and next year, maybe even a three-peat.
Warroad has no chance.
Haven't you people learned yet?

Apparently not.

I know it's a long ways away, but I'm going to give my preseason projection for next year. Why? Because I'm bored. A lot of this stuff depends on the 10th and some 9th graders coming in.

1. TRF - Only lose 2 players (Langan, S. Johnson). Still have Gothberg and a good senior class. 9th and 10th graders this year got a lot of experience.
2. Warroad - Lose Ravndalen, that will hurt more than some may realize. Lose others like Hahn, McDonald, Hellquist, Paquin. They will have a good senior class though. One question: Who's in net? Goldsmith? Yikes.
3. EGF - They better have a good goalie coming in. Lose A LOT of seniors this year.
4. Bemidji - Got Dudgeon back. Had a good soph. class this year.

Doesn't matter much past this point
5. Crookston - Grove back, not losing much.
6. Park Rapids - Lose LEHRKE, smith, hensel, tolle, knapp, winkler.
7. Lake of the Woods - Lose Usiski...ouch.
8. Kittson Central - No more Lindegard to keep them in games.
9. Red Lake Falls - Same old RLF.
10. Bagley - This would be the year for Bagley to get out of the cellar.
11. Walker - Were young this year.

Nothing new...It will come down to Warroad, TRF, and EGF.

SB24 · Post by **SB24** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 8:22 pm

MNHockey75 wrote:
SB24 wrote:
OGEE OGELTHORPE wrote:East Grand this year and next year, maybe even a three-peat.
Warroad has no chance.
Haven't you people learned yet?
Apparently not.

I know it's a long ways away, but I'm going to give my preseason projection for next year. Why? Because I'm bored. A lot of this stuff depends on the 10th and some 9th graders coming in.

1. TRF - Only lose 2 players (Langan, S. Johnson). Still have Gothberg and a good senior class. 9th and 10th graders this year got a lot of experience.
2. Warroad - Lose Ravndalen, that will hurt more than some may realize. Lose others like Hahn, McDonald, Hellquist, Paquin. They will have a good senior class though. One question: Who's in net? Goldsmith? Yikes.
3. EGF - They better have a good goalie coming in. Lose A LOT of seniors this year.
4. Bemidji - Got Dudgeon back. Had a good soph. class this year.

Doesn't matter much past this point
5. Crookston - Grove back, not losing much.
6. Park Rapids - Lose LEHRKE, smith, hensel, tolle, knapp, winkler.
7. Lake of the Woods - Lose Usiski...ouch.
8. Kittson Central - No more Lindegard to keep them in games.
9. Red Lake Falls - Same old RLF.
10. Bagley - This would be the year for Bagley to get out of the cellar.
11. Walker - Were young this year.

Nothing new...It will come down to Warroad, TRF, and EGF.

Once again, haven't you people learned yet?

OGEE OGELTHORPE · Post by **OGEE OGELTHORPE** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 8:22 am

One thing I've learned is, not everyone likes buffalo meat.

returnoftheflame · Post by **returnoftheflame** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:01 am

I don't know about next years team but it is looking good for the 2020-2021 team

darkdemon · Post by **darkdemon** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:58 am

SB24 wrote:
OGEE OGELTHORPE wrote:East Grand this year and next year, maybe even a three-peat.
Warroad has no chance.
Haven't you people learned yet?

Yeah haven't you learned they will import about 5-6 players, give their dad a job at Marvin Windows and give their mom hundreds of dollars worth of coupons for area businesses.

SiouxRecruit · Post by **SiouxRecruit** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:30 am

TRF will be pretty good next year...

Cornbread · Post by **Cornbread** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 7:53 pm

OGEE OGELTHORPE wrote:East Grand this year and next year, maybe even a three-peat.
Warroad has no chance.

Warroad sends out the "plane" and brings in recruits from east to west, north to south and pays Ogee's boy's to play for the black and gold, but it all comes up short and PR goes back-to-back!

SB24 · Post by **SB24** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 8:36 pm

Goes back to back what? home in the semi's? Don't think they'll be getting that far for quite some time.