The Golden Walleye Classic

helightsthelamp · Post by **helightsthelamp** » Mon Aug 08, 2011 4:42 pm

MrBoDangles wrote:
we're all crazy wrote:
helightsthelamp wrote:Ok, i was clearly not on the same page....yes if looking at all the programs on this post and including both '02's and '03's then yes there are quite a few. I stand corrected! The most amazing part is that the majority, if not all of these kids will still have mite eligibility. NB will have a very strong A mite team this year with a few very high end kids!
For what it is worth, there are 4 03's from the Harris/NB/Stacy area that have been skating with the Elite teams this summer. 2 will skate the Walleye for the Blades, 2 will skate for Team MN. The 2 on the Blades were the two that skated Steffen's Legacy team earlier this summer.

I watched the 03 Team MN boys scrimmage the 02 United team last night. Very one-sided in favor of the 03's. Good looking team.
Were the two on Team Minnesota also offered to play with the Blades? I was
told there were one or two more on both the Legacy, Gold and the
Blades(?)..... Might be 02's, but I believe they're all in the same grade.

No the two '03's on gold Offered to play on blades were not from NB. I don't think either of them tried out. There is also an '02 kid from NB on the gold '02 team that is still a mite this year.

Should be quite the group this Winter.

c'monstripes · Post by **c'monstripes** » Mon Aug 08, 2011 7:29 pm

03's
Hoping to see two good games between two young mn teams that will be the start of a long rivalry one on sat and one sun about 1 o'clock.

good luck to all the kids

Pylon · Post by **Pylon** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 9:31 am

Some scores from the 02 division. Toronto vipers 10 Midwest selects 1. Minnesota blades 4 team minnesota 1

HockeyDad19 · Post by **HockeyDad19** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 12:41 pm

HockeyDad41 wrote:
we're all crazy wrote:
helightsthelamp wrote:4-0 was the final but united goalie was amazing in the net coming up with some huge saves. Can not confirm or deny if coachmom's kid is on team minnesota as I don't know who her son is....
Score doesn't reflect the play. As stated, goalie made some great (fortunate) saves in addtion to a fair share of pipes and missed open nets. Play was indicative of an 8-0 type of game.

03 team looks fairly balanced top-to-bottom. Move the puck well, back check well. Not typical of an Elite team this young....missing the typical "coast-to-coast" individual style of play that you usually see. I was shocked to see the level of positional play and team work shown.

As a north-metro guy, it is fun to see what they are building at NSC with the Miracle Gold program. Concept is a little different from Blades and MM, so it will be interesting to see things play out.
I wonder if they'll be able to hang on to that talent or if the lure of the Brick tournament or 450 hours of training a summer will see some of them off to the Blades or Machine.

The 03 gold should have a good showing at the Walleye. Deep team with solid kids and solid coaching.
There are 4 kids off the 02 Miracle Team on the 03 Gold team that is playing this weekend in the Walleye. The 02 Miracle/03 Gold Scrimmage would have been closer but the four of Miracle 03 kids were playing for the 03 Gold team and two other solid players from the 02 Miracle team were missing as well. The 02 goalie is very solid and makes a lot of hard saves look easy.

To clarify, that is the 02 Miracle United team that scrimmaged the 03 Gold Team

old goalie85 · Post by **old goalie85** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 1:38 pm

Why didn't the 02 gold just go as the 02 gold instead of this "team Mn" deal. Seems like they had the same results vs the Blades......

C-dad · Post by **C-dad** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 4:01 pm

Any scores from today so far?

Pylon · Post by **Pylon** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 4:47 pm

C-dad wrote:Any scores from today so far?

Toronto vipers 10 Midwest selects 1
min blades 4 team min 1
Toronto hitmen 7 Midwest selects 2
Toronto vipers 11 team min 2
Those are hot the 02 division

Shinbone_News · Post by **Shinbone_News** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 7:54 pm

01 Blades are pretty much dominating. Beat Chicago Hitmen 5-3, could easily have been a 3-3 tie because of two weak goals, but they dominated play. Shots were probably 35-10 or something like that. Then they beat the Midwest Select Cougars 7-2. Should be #1 seed for tomorrow's games without any doubt.

Very tight team. Best AAA 01's I've seen this year, hands down. Small and fast and physical.

Pylon · Post by **Pylon** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 8:58 pm

Shinbone_News wrote:01 Blades are pretty much dominating. Beat Chicago Hitmen 5-3, could easily have been a 3-3 tie because of two weak goals, but they dominated play. Shots were probably 35-10 or something like that. Then they beat the Midwest Select Cougars 7-2. Should be #1 seed for tomorrow's games without any doubt.

Very tight team. Best AAA 01's I've seen this year, hands down. Small and fast and physical.

LOL, golly gee, I wonder if you are Blades parent. Lots of 01 teams are stronger but yes, they are a pretty good team.

Shinbone_News · Post by **Shinbone_News** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 11:02 pm

Pylon wrote:
Shinbone_News wrote:01 Blades are pretty much dominating. Beat Chicago Hitmen 5-3, could easily have been a 3-3 tie because of two weak goals, but they dominated play. Shots were probably 35-10 or something like that. Then they beat the Midwest Select Cougars 7-2. Should be #1 seed for tomorrow's games without any doubt.

Very tight team. Best AAA 01's I've seen this year, hands down. Small and fast and physical.
LOL, golly gee, I wonder if you are Blades parent. Lots of 01 teams are stronger but yes, they are a pretty good team.

Nope, just calling them like I see 'em. Why does everyone assume the worst or most self-serving about every post???? I just like watching hockey whether my kid is playing or not (he's not in the walleye). I guess it's foolish or unwelcome to post comments about interesting games unless it's me plugging your kids team?

Maybe you'd be interested in posting other good teams that I should try to check out before the seasons over? I want to check out the Toronto Viper 02s tomorrow, they seem to be wiping everyone out. No, I have no kids in Toronto.

Pylon · Post by **Pylon** » Sat Aug 13, 2011 6:59 am

Maybe i am wrong, might have taken your post the wrong way. My bad!

Shinbone_News · Post by **Shinbone_News** » Sat Aug 13, 2011 7:36 am

I actually am interested in solid AAA teams OTHER than the Blades and the Machine, would love to see one of these forum topics go into some depth about, say, the top 10 organizations in MN and elsewhere.

Interested in the MN Miracle Gold organization, but it's hard to ferret anything out online. I guess I need to start talking to other parents at the rink, and I may see them play today in the Walleye.

As more than one person has said here, AAA is such a crap-shoot. Most teams don;t even post their home arenas, much less their win-loss records (not that that's a great metric or anything, but it can help separate the real development programs from the "checkbook summer hockey" teams, or rather the invite teams from the open teams.)

Shinbone_News · Post by **Shinbone_News** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 10:51 pm

Golden Walleye results

97s
1 Blades (Score 6)
2 Badgers (4)

3 ITR (3)
4 BASE (2)

98s
1 Blades (1)
2 MW Selects (0)

3 Icemen (5)
4 Badgers (1)

99s
1 Blades (5)
2 MW Selects (1)

3 Renegades (4)
4 North American (3)

00s
1 MW Selects (4)
2 Blades (3)

3 Cougar Selects (4)
4 Michigan Selects (1)

Pretty sure I got these right, but the results were kind of hard to read. Apologies if i messed up. I didn't make it to BIG to see about final placings for the 01s, 02s and 03s.

forreal · Post by **forreal** » Mon Aug 15, 2011 12:03 pm

Shinbone_News wrote:Golden Walleye results

97s
1 Blades (Score 6)
2 Badgers (4)

3 ITR (3)
4 BASE (2)

98s
1 Blades (1)
2 MW Selects (0)

3 Icemen (5)
4 Badgers (1)

99s
1 Blades (5)
2 MW Selects (1)

3 Renegades (4)
4 North American (3)

00s
1 MW Selects (4)
2 Blades (3)

3 Cougar Selects (4)
4 Michigan Selects (1)

Pretty sure I got these right, but the results were kind of hard to read. Apologies if i messed up. I didn't make it to BIG to see about final placings for the 01s, 02s and 03s.

Mostly right. I heard the 00' blades won 6 3

Sounds like blades teams faired well. They won at 97, 98, 99, 00 , and 01'. Does this mean they are good or was the tournament not as strong. I heard 2 levels were Loaded but not sure about the others. I'd be curious.

Shinbone_News · Post by **Shinbone_News** » Mon Aug 15, 2011 10:15 pm

Yeah, sorry -- I took pictures of the final standings with my phone and some of the pix were a little blurry.

did the Blades stock their tourney with teams they knew they could beat???!!!

I'm just stirring the pot, ha ha. Lots of good, close games. Fun to watch.

HockeyDad41 · Post by **HockeyDad41** » Tue Aug 16, 2011 11:10 am

Anyone have the scores from the 02-03 level?

JSR · Post by **JSR** » Tue Aug 16, 2011 2:51 pm

HockeyDad41 wrote:Anyone have the scores from the 02-03 level?

All scores, all levels available here, except for Sunday's results for some reason:

http://www.selectstournaments.com/index ... arent_id=0

Pylon · Post by **Pylon** » Tue Aug 16, 2011 3:16 pm

Toronto beat the Blades 6-5 in OT in the finals of the 02 division

C-dad · Post by **C-dad** » Tue Aug 16, 2011 3:45 pm

JSR wrote:
HockeyDad41 wrote:Anyone have the scores from the 02-03 level?
All scores, all levels available here, except for Sunday's results for some reason:

http://www.selectstournaments.com/index ... arent_id=0

Yeah, no one cares who won the finals after all.