Class AA predictions...

[Northsider]

The only way Hill and White Bear won't play each other in the section final is if they meet each other again in the semis... I don't care if Tartan or Stillwater have more talent, these two teams (WB and HM) dont lose to anyone but each other come section time. Being a student at Hill, I have to say that I fully expect to return to state this year and anything less is not going to go over too well on Larpenteur Avenue.

[got some]

The only way Hill and White Bear won't play each other in the section final is if they meet each other again in the semis... I don't care if Tartan or Stillwater have more talent, these two teams (WB and HM) dont lose to anyone but each other come section time. Being a student at Hill, I have to say that I fully expect to return to state this year and anything less is not going to go over too well on Larpenteur Avenue.

Agreed.

But being a WBL student, I'm hoping it's our year!

[wbmd]

The only way Hill and White Bear won't play each other in the section final is if they meet each other again in the semis... I don't care if Tartan or Stillwater have more talent, these two teams (WB and HM) dont lose to anyone but each other come section time. Being a student at Hill, I have to say that I fully expect to return to state this year and anything less is not going to go over too well on Larpenteur Avenue.

Or when North St. Paul defeats Hill in the quarterfinals - such as what happened in 2005.

Or even when Park (Cottage Grove) beat Hill in the semifinals in 1990.

[heresaymatters]

You HM, Stillwater & WBL fans should start a separate thread for your rivalry chatter. Its going to be either Tonka, EP or Blaine this year. My vote is Tonka takes it all.

[nikebauer05]

You HM, Stillwater & WBL fans should start a separate thread for your rivalry chatter. Its going to be either Tonka, EP or Blaine this year. My vote is Tonka takes it all.

Totally agreed, and Tonka plays both EP and Blaine once in the regular season. Not sure if EP and Blaine play each other though.

[youngblood08]

Great, Thanks for your Prediction! Tonka will be tough.

[Northsider]

Loaded or not, Hill is still gonna win.

And for the White Bear fans: how's it feel to have yet another HM Reject starting in net for you?

[DustyBender]

How can you not put BSM in there. They got Meyers in net, who is probably the best goalie in the state, and three of their top four scorers coming back from last year. They also have Horn who spent his summer playing for the US select 17 team.

[HShockeyz]

Hill will be there again - it is basically the same team as last year. Actually, Stillwater scored 4 goals on 29 shots in the section final. The Pioneers had 5 on 41 shots.

Ok, but 29 shots if you count some of their icing attempts that hit the net. 4 goals by stillwtr on just a few quality shots. This was a bunch of 8, 9, 10 graders for hill, not bad but not very good they looked like jv compared to edina in the tourney. Still gave them everything they had, and it wasn't much. They reached finals on shear luck. If not for a couple very weak goals it never would have went ot.

Stillwtr really doesn't have any talent, most of it is at Hill. So it will probably be WBL and Hill again. The only chance Stillwtr has is a hot goalie. Not sure who that will be but they are better than the one that left for hill so they do have that going for them. Hill's youth does have one more year of experience.

WBL has two juniors that made some all star tourney team off elite I. with a couple other talented players they could carry this team a bit further than the State Fair.

Here are the holes in your thinking.

Hill was 8-2 before the loss of players, not including the playoffs, they were 3-5-1 with losses to Mahto, Tartan, RICHFIELD and Moorhead.

The players that were lost in the first 10 games did 90% of the scoring after crunching some numbers and including the seniors that finished out the season that would have totaled around 195 pts. I took the top 8 seniors from the roster.

I took the returning top 8 and came up with 127 pts with 4 of those being defensemen.

Your fill in players were mostly Jrs and a couple of sophmores not 8th graders, you had 1 get a couple of games thrown at him. Overall you are looking pretty average over at Hill this season and Stillwater and Tartan will be ready.

As for WBL sure they had a couple of players skate around in the Elite league but it doesn't look like they did very much based on the stat sheet...except for the 10 minute GMC for facewashing, they lived off the seniors and feasted on teams second and third lines last year this year they will have to go against teams top lines which will not bode well.

Stillwater returns 2 3rd year Goalies and has 2 JV goalies that will be very good. They also return 10 Seniors with 5 being the top scorers from last season.

Tartan returns almost the same team from last year minus 2-3 seniors they will be very tough.

The only thing Hill has going is that besides STA the rest of the conference is weak as usual so you can build up your stats before the real games start.[/quote]

I heard the jrs for wbl made some bauer invite tourney based on elite games??? not sure what that means, but how many schools had two jrs play elite 1?

Hill had double digit losses for first time probably ever. I think they outshot and outplayed most of them, except tourny games. They are weak in net there but definitely have some young guys with experience from last year that played well in most games despite losing some.

[nikebauer05]

How can you not put BSM in there. They got Meyers in net, who is probably the best goalie in the state, and three of their top four scorers coming back from last year. They also have Horn who spent his summer playing for the US select 17 team.

Because both Tonka and EP are better than them, there is no argument. But I guess we'll see once the season starts.

[T-Train24]

1AA - Lakeville South vs Rochester Century

2AA - Bloomington Jefferson vs Edina

3AA - Woodbury vs Eagan

4AA - Stillwater vs Tartan

5AA - Centennial vs Maple Grove

6AA - Benilde St. Margarets:Dvs Eden Prairie

7AA - Duluth East vs Elk River

8AA - Moorhead vs Roseau