Scores and Updates: Sat 2-2-13

[inthetwine]

Hill-Murray 12, Richfield 0

Congratulations to Zach LaValle. On Thursday he broke a 42-year old record and is now HM's all time leading scorer. He broke Tom Conroy's record of 175 pts. After today he is at 181. He's also the man behind HM Hockey's fundraiser for breast cancer research. At last Saturday's game both Tartan & HM wore pink tape. The T-shirt sales and auction raised $13,000.

It also went by unnoticed but Bill Lechner passed Terry Skrypek's 325 wins as head coach. Coach Lechner passed it on Dec. 1st and is now at 342.

HM is proud of both of these great gentlemen.

Good thing Zach didn't have to play the teams Conroy had to play in his days because he would have never beat that record... Oh and Conroy did it in 3 years not 5.

LaValle did it in 4. He was listed on the Varsity in 8th grade but played very few varsity minutes and didn't score. Disagree about the Conroy era HM schedules. They had plenty of double digit wins over much weaker opponents. HM's modern schedule is much tougher. This year they have played every top 8 AA team except one - missing only Duluth East and have played the Class A #1 STA three times. That makes 9 of their 21 games against the best teams in the State.

Hill played a much tougher schedule before they moved to the classic sub. conf. They were in a conf. with WBL. Roseville, Elk river, Hastings, Blaine, and many more good teams from the east and north suburbs. One year 6 of the top 10 teams in the state were all in the same conf. (around the Brian Bonin Years, early 90"s.)

[Zamman]

Give it a rest, he beat the record. Records get broke all the time and in "different" times. Every sport.....Seems to me that Hill has been a top team since this kid started playing for them and they play a lot of the best teams in the state. Congrats to him for achieving this accomplishment.

[inthetwine]

Give it a rest, he beat the record. Records get broke all the time and in "different" times. Every sport.....Seems to me that Hill has been a top team since this kid started playing for them and they play a lot of the best teams in the state. Congrats to him for achieving this accomplishment.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not talking about the Kid's record, good for him, I'm just saying Hill played a much tougher schedule before they joined the Classic Suburban.