Go Team Minnesota!

HockeyDad41 · Post by **HockeyDad41** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 6:36 pm

Anyone else going to watch the game tonight?

JoltDelivered · Post by **JoltDelivered** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 7:16 pm

Yes sir!

Irish · Post by **Irish** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 7:34 pm

I love it! Team Minnesota. Good for the Blades. Now let me ask. Are all the players from Minnesota? Is the team loaded with Blades players?

O-townClown · Post by **O-townClown** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 8:44 pm

I will watch. I've watched several of the games so far. Pierre McGuire's kid had two goals.

Interesting for me because this is my son's birthyear. He's played with 3 kids on various teams and against at least 10 that we know of. Very good hockey for this age, even if there isn't a ton of slick passing. The speed is impressive so there isn't a lot of time or space to make plays.

Chandler23 · Post by **Chandler23** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 9:01 pm

Here's the link if people don't have it.

http://client.stretchinternet.com/client/bsn.portal#

old goalie85 · Post by **old goalie85** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 9:01 pm

The speed is very fast for this age. I ve seen alot of toe drags when kids could have moved the puck. I thought McGuire's kid look very complete for a kid that age. Be fun to watch our kids play. Good luck to all the kids.

old goalie85 · Post by **old goalie85** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 9:04 pm

Montreal just scored 3 in a row to pull ahead.

HockeyDad41 · Post by **HockeyDad41** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 9:05 pm

The video quality has been pretty good and the commentators are not too bad. I would like to see this kind of video coverage at all the tournaments.

O-townClown · Post by **O-townClown** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 9:15 pm

The Montreal team is huge. #26 on California is a real big kid that I've seen in person and he's pretty much average for about 10 of the Montreal kids.

O-townClown · Post by **O-townClown** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 10:01 pm

Early goal for the ass't coach's kid! Go Blades!

O-townClown · Post by **O-townClown** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 10:13 pm

Nothing I hate more than watching a youth team dump it in for a line change. They've got three forward lines and they'll be fresh for sure since the kids keep coming off after 40 seconds.

skipperj · Post by **skipperj** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 10:30 pm

Nothing I hate more than watching a missouri goalie play for a Team Minnesota.

O-townClown · Post by **O-townClown** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 10:33 pm

Why would that bother you? Teams are encouraged to add imports as a way to attract the strongest field. Many kids live in areas that don't field a team. That's why two kids from Colorado have joined Chicago and Winnipeg. A Floridian is on Boston. Two years ago the leading scorer played for Toronto, even though he was from Orlando and Jacksonville.

The kid in goal is doing very well so far.

skipperj · Post by **skipperj** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 10:35 pm

than don't call it team minnesota. Keep it blades. And if your telling me with all the goalies in Minnesota, not one is better than this kid at the 2002 level, I will call you a liar.

O-townClown · Post by **O-townClown** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 10:37 pm

Okay, so what are we going to call Toronto, Winnipeg, Chicago, and Boston?

skipperj · Post by **skipperj** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 10:43 pm

U can call them whatever you want. Just don't call them Team Minnesota, that one is taken

skipperj · Post by **skipperj** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 10:46 pm

You can say whatever you want, My opinion will not change. We are the state of hockey, we should find talent from within. If it is not there, than we aren't doing a good job of developing talent, and we should not call ourselves the state of hockey. Just my opinion and you can have yours.

O-townClown · Post by **O-townClown** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 10:50 pm

Minnesota has plenty of players. So do Southern California, British Columbia, Manitoba, Massachusetts, Illinois, Michigan, and all the other areas that feed a team.

You seem to have some issue with Team Minnesota even though your gripe is with the way the tournament asks people to field teams.

Canada is the country of hockey, yet their Brick teams use imports. Hmmmmmm.

I take it you live in an area that fields a team. If nobody takes imports, then the good kids from Colorado or wherever else stay home and watch on the internet like me. That's okay, but that hardly supports the Super Elite Novice concept.

skipperj · Post by **skipperj** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 10:54 pm

Then call it Team Central United States and kids in that region try out for one team, and so on. Makes more sense to me.

O-townClown · Post by **O-townClown** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 10:58 pm

skipperj wrote:Then call it Team Central United States and kids in that region try out for one team, and so on. Makes more sense to me.

Imports can come from anywhere. How about you run your own tournament and do it the way you want. The Brick thing seems to be working pretty well even though they haven't sought your input.

The kid in goal has done fine. Good job. I'm pretty impressed with the speed of the green team.

Sorry you don't enjoy watching. Pretty good game. Minnesota stopped the dumping in for the most part. Maybe it worked and they wore out the Atlantics.

skipperj · Post by **skipperj** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 11:02 pm

Little sensitive tonight? running low and the captain? Didn't say the kid in goal isn't doing fine. Didn't say I wasn't enjoying watching the super stars of the hockey world. I won't share my opinion with you anymore because you are right and I am wrong. you are smart, i am dumb, you are good looking, and I'm not so good looking.

HockeyDad41 · Post by **HockeyDad41** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 11:12 pm

Nice win! The uniforms are terrific too.

O-townClown · Post by **O-townClown** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 11:14 pm

Eh, you said you hated watching the game. Whatever. I enjoyed it once they stopped the dumping in stuff they did during the first.

Great showing for the kids from Minnesota. Nice shutout win. I suspect that was the easy out for their games.

3 stars: #3 is Atlantic goalie, #2 is the kid from Minnesota that had the early goal and logged plenty of time going every other on D, and #1 is the shutout netminder.

WTG guys. Keep it up.

MNM JMH · Post by **MNM JMH** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 11:18 pm

skipperj wrote:Little sensitive tonight? running low and the captain? Didn't say the kid in goal isn't doing fine. Didn't say I wasn't enjoying watching the super stars of the hockey world. I won't share my opinion with you anymore because you are right and I am wrong. you are smart, i am dumb, you are good looking, and I'm not so good looking.

Team MN LOOKED GOOD. No one really seams to care that we have a import but you. Dumping the puck can be a pain to watch but it works or worked.

sourgrapes · Post by **sourgrapes** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 11:19 pm

Congrats on a nice win. Solid D, good forechecking and some clutch saves.....keep it up!!