pre-season predictions for section 3A

winvil · Post by **winvil** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 11:15 pm

1. New Ulm
2. Hutchinson
3. Windom
4. Redwood Valley
5. Litchfield
6. Marshall
7. Luverne
8. Worthington
9. Fairmont
10. Sleepy Eye

Bdangles14 · Post by **Bdangles14** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:41 pm

1. Hutchinson
2. New Ulm
3. Marshall
4. Redwood Valley
5. Litchfield
6. Windoml
7. Luverne
8. Worthington
9. Fairmont
10. Sleepy Eye

sregit34 · Post by **sregit34** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 10:33 pm

winvil is a homer... Windom-#3?? ok eisenmenger is decent. but no goaltending to speak of, short bench, they just arent that good. 6 is a good spot for them.
I agree with bodangles... its a toss up 1-5. hutch and new ulm definitely favorites. worthington in front of luverne this year. luverne is way down. lost everything. paquette dinger olson

winvil · Post by **winvil** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 11:45 pm

sregit34 wrote:winvil is a homer... Windom-#3?? ok eisenmenger is decent. but no goaltending to speak of, short bench, they just arent that good. 6 is a good spot for them.
I agree with bodangles... its a toss up 1-5. hutch and new ulm definitely favorites. worthington in front of luverne this year. luverne is way down. lost everything. paquette dinger olson

Well you can look at the 3a goaltending stats here http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gB9z7bAoSf8/S ... lass+A.PNG pretty much a tossup in the section for goaltenders... don't know who new ulms goalie is going to be this year. Windom is going to have a strong two lines this year. Windom lost to hutch last year the same score New Ulm lost to Hutch in the playoffs. I wouldn't doubt Windom, being they have a lot of returning talent and a few talented newcomers to the team. Be interesting to see New Ulm, Litchfield, Hutch, and Windom at the Scrimage at the end of the month.

Black Ice · Post by **Black Ice** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 7:56 pm

A quick check of the mshsl website shows some rosters posted. Good signs for both Sleepy Eye & Fairmont: SE with 19 skaters & 2 goalies and Fairmont with 23 skaters & 4 goalies with not one freshman on either squad. Much better situation for both schools than a couple of years ago.

letsgowild · Post by **letsgowild** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 9:22 pm

can someone help me out, does litch have most of there top scorers back from last year? and didn't hutch lose all there top scorers !

sregit34 · Post by **sregit34** » Thu Nov 19, 2009 10:24 pm

Well you can look at the 3a goaltending stats here http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gB9z7bAoSf8/S ... lass+A.PNG pretty much a tossup in the section for goaltenders... don't know who new ulms goalie is going to be this year. Windom is going to have a strong two lines this year. Windom lost to hutch last year the same score New Ulm lost to Hutch in the playoffs. I wouldn't doubt Windom, being they have a lot of returning talent and a few talented newcomers to the team. Be interesting to see New Ulm, Litchfield, Hutch, and Windom at the Scrimage at the end of the month.

New Ulms goalie is a stud. One of if not the best around, he could and most likely will play juniors just like his older brother. His name is Blake Burgau. Windom is returning twelve skaters to varsity i believe.. including two eisenmengers and johnson who will make up most of their scoring. Their stats are padded as they play one of the easiest schedules in the state in front of SE and fairmont. as to a close loss to hutch, kudos.. you still lost. also lost to worthington last year. so if you are going to compare your loss to hutch to new ulms why dont you put worthington in the same class as hutch too then? hmm.
Marshall is returning 16 varsity skaters and both varsity goalies, who are pretty good.
New Ulm is always gonna bring it.
Hutch returns their goalie and forwards hantge, grinna, and bahne along with the rest of what is a strong program.

Litch returns 13 varsity skaters, only three of which had double digits in goals last year, and their goalie.

Redwood will be solid.

I put windom around with Litch and in front of W/RL/B, Luverne and so on..
5th or 6th

Tough years for luverne and worthington, i think they will be pretty down this year.

sregit34 · Post by **sregit34** » Thu Nov 19, 2009 10:32 pm

1-4. Hutch, New Ulm, Marshall, redwood... toss up.. anybody could take it.
5-6. Litch, Windom-close to top four.... not quite.
7.Worthington
8.Fairmont
9. Luverne
10. Sleepy Eye

i wouldnt be shocked to see sleepy eye and fairmont get 5 wins this year.. possibly surpass luverne????? not predicting it, just saying i wouldnt be surprised if it were to happen.

Coolice · Post by **Coolice** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 10:47 am

I will wait a few games before I predict the Sec. I do think Hutch, Litch, and New Ulm will be in the top three

Skill Stick · Post by **Skill Stick** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 11:16 am

There is a scrimmage next Saturday in Hutch between the three teams. We're going to have to see how things play out. I think NU will take it. They're junior class is full of studs. I also heard some sophmores in the mix?

sregit34 · Post by **sregit34** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 12:14 pm

brody peterson?

Skill Stick · Post by **Skill Stick** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 3:19 pm

Possibly? Its just ive heard that they have an impressive group of juniors and a couple sophmores.

letsgowild · Post by **letsgowild** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 7:38 pm

sregit34 are you on some kind of pills to say new ulms goalie is a stud he's good but he's no stud. the hutch goalie is a stud, he was a big reason how they got to state last year.

Skill Stick · Post by **Skill Stick** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 11:16 am

I think the Hutch goalie is pretty good, but i also that NU's goalie will put up some solid numbers this year

golfer5 · Post by **golfer5** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 1:42 pm

Thought the New Ulm Goalie Wiggins graduated?

sregit34 · Post by **sregit34** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 1:53 pm

Wiggins did graduate and he was not much to speak of in my opinion.. Many would agree that Burgau is much better and went a long way in selects this summer. Also a stud for elite 2s

sregit34 · Post by **sregit34** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 1:56 pm

letsgowild wrote:sregit34 are you on some kind of pills to say new ulms goalie is a stud he's good but he's no stud. the hutch goalie is a stud, he was a big reason how they got to state last year.

He is good. I would say cowger bengston were bigger factors..

Skill Stick · Post by **Skill Stick** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 2:21 pm

I did hear burgau had a nice elite 2 season. Were going to have to see how this scrimmage turns out this weekend. That will give some people an idea of whose going to be better

GopherPuck15 · Post by **GopherPuck15** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 2:37 pm

It'll be interesting to see if the weakest section in the state can perform well again this season in Saint Paul. Does anyone think New Ulm can actually win it for once without choking it away?

Skill Stick · Post by **Skill Stick** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 3:39 pm

Like they say every year. NU should win it but they choke every year. This is probably one of the better years for them to go.

sregit34 · Post by **sregit34** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 8:54 pm

NU will choke... Redwood is the obvious choice.

Skill Stick · Post by **Skill Stick** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 11:20 pm

I heard Redwood has a decent squad this year, but I cant see them doing anything special! Sleeper team?

letsgowild · Post by **letsgowild** » Mon Nov 30, 2009 9:01 pm

Redwood will be pretty good this year, not real flashy but they get the job done. I heard the scrimage at Hutch this weekend that Hutch looked better than New Ulm and Litch is this true?

sregit34 · Post by **sregit34** » Mon Nov 30, 2009 9:49 pm

yeah. does anyone have any information on the schrimmages this weekend. redwood beat sibley 4-3 and lost to St. paul academy 3-2. this weekend. marshall beat austin 5-2 on saturday.

winvil · Post by **winvil** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 2:01 pm

New Ulm looked the best then next is Litch. Hutch wasn't even close to the caliber of either of them. Hutch couldn't overpower Windom. Windom seamed to keep the puck on Hutch's side for the majority of their scrimmage.