Spirit Of Duluth scores - Bantam A

[Hockey North]

Blue Division
Duluth East
Keneenaw
Minnetonka
Blaine

Minnetonka 5 Blaine 4
Duluth East 12 Keneenaw 2
Keneenaw 2 Blaine 4
Duluth East 4 Minnetonka 2
Duluth East 12 Blaine 0

Red Division
Cloquet
Marquette
Anoka
Prior Lake

Anoka 6 Prior Lake 3
Cloquet 2 Marquette 2
Cloquet 1 Anoka 5
Marquette 2 Prior Lake 2

White Division
Hermantown
Green Bay
Chaska
St Cloud

Hermantown 7 Green Bay 8
Chaska 2 St Cloud 3
Hermantown 2 Chaska 3
Green Bay 3 St Cloud 2

Green Division
Superior
Grafton
Coon Rapids
Stillwater

Superior 5 Grafton 3
Coon Rapids 1 Stillwater 5
Superior 7 Coon Rapids 2
Stillwater 4 Grafton 1

[rabbitt_sr]

Green Bay-4
Chaska-4

Hermantown-6
St Cloud-3

Chaska vs Hermantown game was 3-3 yesterday.

[wannagototherink]

What are the Semi-final games?

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Duluth East 9
Green Bay 0

Stlillwater 6
Anoka 1

Stillwater vs. Duluth East in the Championship

[Hockey North]

Championship

Duluth East 7
Stillwater 0

[puckster15]

Duluth East easily won over Stillwater in Championship. Was not even close. Stillwater goalie faced about 50 shots, Dulute East goalie about 8. Only scoring chance for Stillwater was a penalty shot and they still could not even hit the net.

Game turned ugly in third period. Stillwater had 20 penalties, both sides yacking on the ice and embarassing themselves.

Duluth East is solid, top to bottom.

[Tenoverpar]

With 20 Stillwater penalties, it's no wonder you won easily, you have HOMER refs. When you come on the board and gloat like this, you sound like you're from New Ulm and you're never going to get any respect.

Duluth East is one of the top 5 Bantam teams in the state. #1 maybe. Act like it and have respect for your opponents. Stillwater made the championship game, for them I'm sure their coaches are focusing on what they did right in the first few games and how can do a better job on the penalty kill if they ever play in D-6 or Duluth again.

[puckster15]

Not from Duluth, was watching before another game. Refs were fair, called it both ways. Duluth East had a big lead, Stillwater was frustrated and tried banging kids around.

I do agree that the Stillwater kids never gave up, fought to the end which was great to see.

[Duluth East Hockey Fan]

With 20 Stillwater penalties, it's no wonder you won easily, you have HOMER refs. When you come on the board and gloat like this, you sound like you're from New Ulm and you're never going to get any respect.

Duluth East is one of the top 5 Bantam teams in the state. #1 maybe. Act like it and have respect for your opponents. Stillwater made the championship game, for them I'm sure their coaches are focusing on what they did right in the first few games and how can do a better job on the penalty kill if they ever play in D-6 or Duluth again.

I was at the game and like 12 of Stillwaters 20 penalties came in the third period after they had been out shot 45 - 4 and were down 5 goals after the first two periods. That is not gloating, that is fact. Clearly, by the screen name I am a fan of the Hounds, but with that being said, the ref's didn't have the impact the previous poster has eluded to. Trips and hooks are pretty clear to see, I wouldn't say they got homered. In fact, if the Stillwater coaches could have kept their composure on their bench (which I was standing directly behind) maybe the penalties wouldn't have been so bad. The way those coaches were acting I don't think you can blame the stillwater kids for the lack of discipline, that came from the top. Including one of their coaches yelling things at number 9 from DE. I don't think there is anything more classless than a grown man trying to egg on a 14 year old kid. I personally thought the DE kids did a pretty good job of not retaliating to the after the whistle altercations which is clear by the fact that they didn't have the same parade to the box in the 3rd that stillwater had. I don't know if DE is #1 either, I haven't seen enough of the other top teams in the state, but they are a good team and they were better than stillwater yesterday, and that is not to say that stillwater won't be better than DE at the end of the year. With that being said, if some discipline doesn't start to trickle down from the top of that team no one will ever know.

[Tenoverpar]

Good points, especially about the trickle down of discipline.
Good luck the rest of the way.

[demongoed]

Duluth East is an excellent team, no doubt about it. Their power play is outstanding, and the kids are fast, strong, smart skaters. I stayed and watched the Blaine/DE match up, and East dominated in every facet of the game.

It wouldn't surprise me, though, if Stillwater had some legitimate complaints about the sportsmanship of their opponents. Duluth destroyed Blaine by 12 or 13 goals, but after every goal had to have a bench celebration, followed by the line on the ice skating over to their goalie in a very show-off style. This happened after every goal. They'd have served their reputation as a quality team better by simply lining up for the face off. Since this occured over and over again, I can only assume that the DE coach condones his team rubbing this kind of victory in their opponents' faces.

[wannagototherink]

Duluth East is an excellent team, no doubt about it. Their power play is outstanding, and the kids are fast, strong, smart skaters. I stayed and watched the Blaine/DE match up, and East dominated in every facet of the game.

It wouldn't surprise me, though, if Stillwater had some legitimate complaints about the sportsmanship of their opponents. Duluth destroyed Blaine by 12 or 13 goals, but after every goal had to have a bench celebration, followed by the line on the ice skating over to their goalie in a very show-off style. This happened after every goal. They'd have served their reputation as a quality team better by simply lining up for the face off. Since this occured over and over again, I can only assume that the DE coach condones his team rubbing this kind of victory in their opponents' faces.

I'm assuming by your previous posts that you are a Minnetonka dad? We were in Duluth back in November but didn't see DE play. I know you guys have played them twice, was their any poor sportsmanship when you played them? The only reason I ask is, poor sports especially when they lose show their true colors. I know you guys beat them, did they show any signs of poor sportsmanship when that happened? I'm asking because, I'm wondering if they were just excited about scoring goals or are they truly lacking sportsmanship? Were they taunting the Blaine after they scored or celebrating amongst themselves? I'm curious to hear your answer because I have watched DE play quite a bit over the last 4 years and I have never really seen that from them, so it surprises me that people are talking about it. Thanks

[demongoed]

I can only speak to what the Stillwater fan had to say about their game this weekend. From what I saw in the Blaine game, DE seemed pretty arrogant. I don't in any way mean for this to be a judgment about the team all the time, but at least this weekend, they probably wouldn't have won the sportsmanship award.

[northwoods oldtimer]

demongoed, I would agree with your comment regarding the East Bantam Fans. One helluva hockey club but the fan base can ratchet up to jerk level fairly quick and in situations where it is not warranted in the least.

[PoniesDad45]

demongoed, I would agree with your comment regarding the East Bantam Fans. One helluva hockey club but the fan base can ratchet up to jerk level fairly quick and in situations where it is not warranted in the least.

Well, unfortunately (or fortunately?) we didn't give them enough of a game to cause them to ratchet up anything.

From my seat, I thought it was a pretty clean game and pretty well refed, but my son was upset about many issues from the game. I think they were upset to make it as far as they did and then have such a poor showing.