PeeWee A District Playoff Scores

[USAhorrorstory]

I agree, however, the biggest joke was the D6 playoff bracket and how three teams qualify for regions on one win. They definitely made it difficult, if not impossible for any team seeded 5th or below to make it. Chaska/Chan went 4-2 and did not make it after losing its sixth game to Edina (which went 1-1).

Let's see:
11 team league
Edina 12-4, 3rd place, 3 seed
Chaska 4-11-1, 9th place, 9 seed

Please explain why the seeding should have been different or why the brackets should be set to provide such different records with identical paths to regions.

It appears Edina earned the right to advance with 1 win and Chaska still needed to prove themselves. They had a nice playoff run. Congrats to them.

Well said Spin. You earn your region birth with a nice regular season and a nice win or two in the district playoffs.

I absolutely agree with what is said. To think that D8 headquarters is at Wakota Arena and these two teams that played emotional tight games have to come back 3 hours later is not what district playoffs is all about. These are 12 year old kids we are talking about. In playoffs you need to plan for overtime. Absolutely unaccceptable to these players, parents, and coaches that have worked for 4 months to get to this point. Another tid note is that #1 seed and #4 seed played their semi final game on tuesday and seed #2 and #3 played theirs on friday. In my opinion if the semi-final games are not played the same day wouldn't it be more appropriate to allow the #2 seed that earned their spot during the season to play tuesday and rest up? or am i being contradictory?

Most Poorly ran district playoffs in the state. This does not fall on the So. St. Paul association. This falls directly to the incompetence of district 8. They should step in and take an active role instead of the passive route they normally do. Not trying to offend anyone here just stating an opinion.

By the way congratulations to the teams that advanced and to the teams that played their hearts out. In the end that is all you can ask for.

[snyper12]

Let's see:
11 team league
Edina 12-4, 3rd place, 3 seed
Chaska 4-11-1, 9th place, 9 seed

Please explain why the seeding should have been different or why the brackets should be set to provide such different records with identical paths to regions.


It appears Edina earned the right to advance with 1 win and Chaska still needed to prove themselves. They had a nice playoff run. Congrats to them.

Well said Spin. You earn your region birth with a nice regular season and a nice win or two in the district playoffs.

I absolutely agree with what is said. To think that D8 headquarters is at Wakota Arena and these two teams that played emotional tight games have to come back 3 hours later is not what district playoffs is all about. These are 12 year old kids we are talking about. In playoffs you need to plan for overtime. Absolutely unaccceptable to these players, parents, and coaches that have worked for 4 months to get to this point. Another tid note is that #1 seed and #4 seed played their semi final game on tuesday and seed #2 and #3 played theirs on friday. In my opinion if the semi-final games are not played the same day wouldn't it be more appropriate to allow the #2 seed that earned their spot during the season to play tuesday and rest up? or am i being contradictory?

Most Poorly ran district playoffs in the state. This does not fall on the So. St. Paul association. This falls directly to the incompetence of district 8. They should step in and take an active role instead of the passive route they normally do. Not trying to offend anyone here just stating an opinion.

By the way congratulations to the teams that advanced and to the teams that played their hearts out. In the end that is all you can ask for.

Get used to it, part of hockey. Sometimes teams have to travel and play twice in a day to when others have just one game w/o much travel. Some have to play at night and come back early the next morning, while others don't. Look at the WILD schedule - happens there to, back to back games and travel while others get a day off. Kids can bounce back. Could it have been done differently - probably - but get over it. If your Hastings, use some other players than 6 (i think that is the number that rarely leaves the ice) maybe he would have some legs left.

[Mnhockeys]

Well said Spin. You earn your region birth with a nice regular season and a nice win or two in the district playoffs.

I absolutely agree with what is said. To think that D8 headquarters is at Wakota Arena and these two teams that played emotional tight games have to come back 3 hours later is not what district playoffs is all about. These are 12 year old kids we are talking about. In playoffs you need to plan for overtime. Absolutely unaccceptable to these players, parents, and coaches that have worked for 4 months to get to this point. Another tid note is that #1 seed and #4 seed played their semi final game on tuesday and seed #2 and #3 played theirs on friday. In my opinion if the semi-final games are not played the same day wouldn't it be more appropriate to allow the #2 seed that earned their spot during the season to play tuesday and rest up? or am i being contradictory?

Most Poorly ran district playoffs in the state. This does not fall on the So. St. Paul association. This falls directly to the incompetence of district 8. They should step in and take an active role instead of the passive route they normally do. Not trying to offend anyone here just stating an opinion.

By the way congratulations to the teams that advanced and to the teams that played their hearts out. In the end that is all you can ask for.

Get used to it, part of hockey. Sometimes teams have to travel and play twice in a day to when others have just one game w/o much travel. Some have to play at night and come back early the next morning, while others don't. Look at the WILD schedule - happens there to, back to back games and travel while others get a day off. Kids can bounce back. Could it have been done differently - probably - but get over it. If your Hastings, use some other players than 6 (i think that is the number that rarely leaves the ice) maybe he would have some legs left.

Hastings ran the PWA playoff last year, the bracket schedule was very similar.

[woodstickguy]

1 - STMA
2 - MAML
3 - St. Cloud

[TheJet]

Let's see:
11 team league
Edina 12-4, 3rd place, 3 seed
Chaska 4-11-1, 9th place, 9 seed

Please explain why the seeding should have been different or why the brackets should be set to provide such different records with identical paths to regions.

It appears Edina earned the right to advance with 1 win and Chaska still needed to prove themselves. They had a nice playoff run. Congrats to them.

Well said Spin. You earn your region birth with a nice regular season and a nice win or two in the district playoffs.

I absolutely agree with what is said. To think that D8 headquarters is at Wakota Arena and these two teams that played emotional tight games have to come back 3 hours later is not what district playoffs is all about. These are 12 year old kids we are talking about. In playoffs you need to plan for overtime. Absolutely unaccceptable to these players, parents, and coaches that have worked for 4 months to get to this point. Another tid note is that #1 seed and #4 seed played their semi final game on tuesday and seed #2 and #3 played theirs on friday. In my opinion if the semi-final games are not played the same day wouldn't it be more appropriate to allow the #2 seed that earned their spot during the season to play tuesday and rest up? or am i being contradictory?

Most Poorly ran district playoffs in the state. This does not fall on the So. St. Paul association. This falls directly to the incompetence of district 8. They should step in and take an active role instead of the passive route they normally do. Not trying to offend anyone here just stating an opinion.

By the way congratulations to the teams that advanced and to the teams that played their hearts out. In the end that is all you can ask for.

Did you voice the concerns b4 the tournament started, or just now after a loss? Do you also thank them on the other hand for allowing you the easiest regular season schedule to gift you the 5 seed? Your the Waconia of district 8. You can't disagree you played the easiest d8 schedule, south and north 1 time each (the top 2 teams) yet eagan, cg, ssp and rosemount (the bottom 4) twice each? Can't be easy scheduling all the games to make it fit each teams liking.

[USAhorrorstory]

Well said Spin. You earn your region birth with a nice regular season and a nice win or two in the district playoffs.

I absolutely agree with what is said. To think that D8 headquarters is at Wakota Arena and these two teams that played emotional tight games have to come back 3 hours later is not what district playoffs is all about. These are 12 year old kids we are talking about. In playoffs you need to plan for overtime. Absolutely unaccceptable to these players, parents, and coaches that have worked for 4 months to get to this point. Another tid note is that #1 seed and #4 seed played their semi final game on tuesday and seed #2 and #3 played theirs on friday. In my opinion if the semi-final games are not played the same day wouldn't it be more appropriate to allow the #2 seed that earned their spot during the season to play tuesday and rest up? or am i being contradictory?

Most Poorly ran district playoffs in the state. This does not fall on the So. St. Paul association. This falls directly to the incompetence of district 8. They should step in and take an active role instead of the passive route they normally do. Not trying to offend anyone here just stating an opinion.

By the way congratulations to the teams that advanced and to the teams that played their hearts out. In the end that is all you can ask for.

Did you voice the concerns b4 the tournament started, or just now after a loss? Do you also thank them on the other hand for allowing you the easiest regular season schedule to gift you the 5 seed? Your the Waconia of district 8. You can't disagree you played the easiest d8 schedule, south and north 1 time each (the top 2 teams) yet eagan, cg, ssp and rosemount (the bottom 4) twice each? Can't be easy scheduling all the games to make it fit each teams liking.

I can not disagree with you about the schedule. I wouldnt mind being called the chaska/ Chan of district 8. After all hastings did go through a tough Woodbury team and gave Lakeville South the biggest scare of their season. Maybe I am upset that this wasnt hosted in Hastings.

[Rank12]

Stillwater wins D2 Championship with win over Highland.

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Osseo/Maple Grove takes D3 Title over Crow River.

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[Mnhockeys]

I absolutely agree with what is said. To think that D8 headquarters is at Wakota Arena and these two teams that played emotional tight games have to come back 3 hours later is not what district playoffs is all about. These are 12 year old kids we are talking about. In playoffs you need to plan for overtime. Absolutely unaccceptable to these players, parents, and coaches that have worked for 4 months to get to this point. Another tid note is that #1 seed and #4 seed played their semi final game on tuesday and seed #2 and #3 played theirs on friday. In my opinion if the semi-final games are not played the same day wouldn't it be more appropriate to allow the #2 seed that earned their spot during the season to play tuesday and rest up? or am i being contradictory?

Most Poorly ran district playoffs in the state. This does not fall on the So. St. Paul association. This falls directly to the incompetence of district 8. They should step in and take an active role instead of the passive route they normally do. Not trying to offend anyone here just stating an opinion.

By the way congratulations to the teams that advanced and to the teams that played their hearts out. In the end that is all you can ask for.

Did you voice the concerns b4 the tournament started, or just now after a loss? Do you also thank them on the other hand for allowing you the easiest regular season schedule to gift you the 5 seed? Your the Waconia of district 8. You can't disagree you played the easiest d8 schedule, south and north 1 time each (the top 2 teams) yet eagan, cg, ssp and rosemount (the bottom 4) twice each? Can't be easy scheduling all the games to make it fit each teams liking.

I can not disagree with you about the schedule. I wouldnt mind being called the chaska/ Chan of district 8. After all hastings did go through a tough Woodbury team and gave Lakeville South the biggest scare of their season. Maybe I am upset that this wasnt hosted in Hastings.

Wait your next turn in 12 years!

[Monsterbuck1]

Did you voice the concerns b4 the tournament started, or just now after a loss? Do you also thank them on the other hand for allowing you the easiest regular season schedule to gift you the 5 seed? Your the Waconia of district 8. You can't disagree you played the easiest d8 schedule, south and north 1 time each (the top 2 teams) yet eagan, cg, ssp and rosemount (the bottom 4) twice each? Can't be easy scheduling all the games to make it fit each teams liking.

I can not disagree with you about the schedule. I wouldnt mind being called the chaska/ Chan of district 8. After all hastings did go through a tough Woodbury team and gave Lakeville South the biggest scare of their season. Maybe I am upset that this wasnt hosted in Hastings.

Wait your next turn in 12 years!

I wonder if Hastings (27th ranked) should have tried to schedule more than 32 games this year? Maybe they could have overcome an un-fair playoff situation. The cream will always rise to the top in the end. I would have loved to see the Raiders in Regions over those East side Cake-Eaters from Woodbury.

[Mnhockeys]

I agree, however, the biggest joke was the D6 playoff bracket and how three teams qualify for regions on one win. They definitely made it difficult, if not impossible for any team seeded 5th or below to make it. Chaska/Chan went 4-2 and did not make it after losing its sixth game to Edina (which went 1-1).

Let's see:
11 team league
Edina 12-4, 3rd place, 3 seed
Chaska 4-11-1, 9th place, 9 seed

Please explain why the seeding should have been different or why the brackets should be set to provide such different records with identical paths to regions.

It appears Edina earned the right to advance with 1 win and Chaska still needed to prove themselves. They had a nice playoff run. Congrats to them.

Well said Spin. You earn your region birth with a nice regular season and a nice win or two in the district playoffs.

No ... you do not earn your region berth <) with a regular season record and a win or two in playoff. You earn your berth with a playoff of whatever formate the district uses. If you do not like it, voice your objection now to change for the next season. Maybe some other teams in your district can benefit from your fairness argument then.

[Gotothenetman]

[quote="Monsterbuck1"][quote="Mnhockeys"][quote="USAhorrorstory"][quote="TheJet"][quote="USAhorrorstory"][quote="GTTN"][quote="spin-o-rama"][quote="crazyhorse"]
I agree, however, the biggest joke was the D6 playoff bracket and how three teams qualify for regions on one win. They definitely made it difficult, if not impossible for any team seeded 5th or below to make it. Chaska/Chan went 4-2 and did not make it after losing its sixth game to Edina (which went 1-1).[/quote]
Let's see:
11 team league
Edina 12-4, 3rd place, 3 seed
Chaska 4-11-1, 9th place, 9 seed

Please explain why the seeding should have been different or why the brackets should be set to provide such different records with identical paths to regions.

It appears Edina earned the right to advance with 1 win and Chaska still needed to prove themselves. They had a nice playoff run. Congrats to them.[/quote]

Well said Spin. You earn your region birth with a nice regular season and a nice win or two in the district playoffs.[/quote]


I absolutely agree with what is said. To think that D8 headquarters is at Wakota Arena and these two teams that played emotional tight games have to come back 3 hours later is not what district playoffs is all about. These are 12 year old kids we are talking about. In playoffs you need to plan for overtime. Absolutely unaccceptable to these players, parents, and coaches that have worked for 4 months to get to this point. Another tid note is that #1 seed and #4 seed played their semi final game on tuesday and seed #2 and #3 played theirs on friday. In my opinion if the semi-final games are not played the same day wouldn't it be more appropriate to allow the #2 seed that earned their spot during the season to play tuesday and rest up? or am i being contradictory?

Most Poorly ran district playoffs in the state. This does not fall on the So. St. Paul association. This falls directly to the incompetence of district 8. They should step in and take an active role instead of the passive route they normally do. Not trying to offend anyone here just stating an opinion.

By the way congratulations to the teams that advanced and to the teams that played their hearts out. In the end that is all you can ask for.[/quote]


Did you voice the concerns b4 the tournament started, or just now after a loss? Do you also thank them on the other hand for allowing you the easiest regular season schedule to gift you the 5 seed? Your the Waconia of district 8. You can't disagree you played the easiest d8 schedule, south and north 1 time each (the top 2 teams) yet eagan, cg, ssp and rosemount (the bottom 4) twice each? Can't be easy scheduling all the games to make it fit each teams liking.[/quote]

I can not disagree with you about the schedule. I wouldnt mind being called the chaska/ Chan of district 8. After all hastings did go through a tough Woodbury team and gave Lakeville South the biggest scare of their season. Maybe I am upset that this wasnt hosted in Hastings.[/quote]

Wait your next turn in 12 years![/quote]

I wonder if Hastings (27th ranked) should have tried to schedule more than 32 games this year? Maybe they could have overcome an un-fair playoff situation. The cream will always rise to the top in the end. I would have loved to see the Raiders in Regions over those East side Cake-Eaters from Woodbury. [/quote]


I Am pretty sure they played 42. Why does the amount of games matter? There coach believes in practice time not a 82 game pro schedule like some of the other Pee Wee teams in the state. Player Development happens in practice. The Swedes who USA teams can not beat at any level maintain a 5-1 practice ratio until the age of 18. So I don't think the number of games is a issue. They played 3 great games with a good Woodbury team and 2 great games with LVS, tied Farmington So they did alright.