2015 Class AA Sections - Your Predictions!

[MNHockeyFan]

Scores from tonight...with one major upset that everyone missed:

1AA
Upper Bracket
#1 Lakeville South 11
#8 Rochester Mayo 0

#4 Dodge County 6
#5 Farmington 0

Lower Bracket
#3 Rochester John Marshall 3
#6 Rochester Century 4 (OT)

#2 Lakeville North 3
#7 Owatonna 0

3AA
Upper Bracket
#1 Eagan 6
#8 Woodbury 1

#4 East Ridge 4
#5 Park 2

Lower Bracket
#3 Eastview 4
#6 Apple Valley 2

#2 Hastings 2
#7 Burnsville 0

[sinbin]

The AA games have begun, with 19 contestants. PLEASE double-check your scores, since we have a few missing scores, tie games, no winner picked, etc.

Here is a quick recap of last night and any other games played:

1AA
Upper Bracket
#1 Lakeville South 11
#8 Rochester Mayo 0

#4 Dodge County 6
#5 Farmington 0

Lower Bracket
#3 Rochester John Marshall 3
#6 Rochester Century 4 (OT)

#2 Lakeville North 3
#7 Owatonna 0

Semis
Lakeville South vs. Dodge County
Rochester Century vs. Lakeville North

All 19 of us picked up 3 out of a possible 4 points, missing the Rochester Century upset.

2AA
No games played

3AA
Upper Bracket
#1 Eagan 6
#8 Woodbury 1

#4 East Ridge 4
#5 Park 2

Lower Bracket
#3 Eastview 4
#6 Apple Valley 2

#2 Hastings 2
#7 Burnsville 0

Semis
Eagan vs. East Ridge
Eastview vs. Hastings

16 out of 19 of us scored a perfect 4 points while the other three missed a single game.

5AA
Anoka 1 Rogers 0

No games yet played in Sections 4AA, 6AA, 7AA, or 8AA.

Many games on tap the next three nights. No leaderboard yet since it's early. 16 out of the 19 contestants have 7 points while the other three have 6 points. Good luck to all players and contestants going forward.

[massalsa]

CLASS AA


7AA - Thursday 2/5/15 @7:00PM

Upper Bracket
#1 Elk River/Zimmerman
#8 Cambridge-Isanti

#4 Forest Lake
#5 Duluth

Lower Bracket
#3 Grand Rapids/Greenway
#6 St. Francis/North Branch

#2 Andover
#7 Cloquet-Esko-Carlton

Elk River beats Forest Lake
Andover beats GR
Elk River beats GR to go to state

EDIT: Andover still beating GR and Elk River beat Andover to go to state.


Every score is going to be 3-2 for the winner to advance.

[Jiblet]

I don't think anyone picked Holy Family to beat Jefferson! Congrats on the upset!
Jefferson now has two straight seasons of losing a playoff game on home ice to a lower seed. Any thoughts? Coaching?

[sinbin]

NOTE: This is a day behind due to the Forum being offline. Perhaps that was fortuitous, though, since it was my wedding anniversary and I lived to post another day. I already had a write-up ready to go, so this is a quick copy/paste. I'll update yesterday's scores later today.

Just a few games last evening with everything going as expected. Last night’s results were:

Class AA Scores 2/5/15

7AA
Upper Bracket
#1 Elk River/Zimmerman 9
#8 Cambridge-Isanti 0

#4 Forest Lake 4
#5 Duluth 1

Lower Bracket
#3 Grand Rapids/Greenway 10
#6 St. Francis/North Branch 1

#2 Andover 2
#7 Cloquet-Esko-Carlton 0

Semis
ERZ vs. Flake
GRG vs. Andi

8AA
Upper Bracket (pigtail game)
#8 Bemidji 2
#9 Brainerd 0

The leaderboard is quite bunched and looks like this:

11 – 14 others
10 – rascalbrock, massalsa, nu2hockey
9 – sparlimb, mnhockey3535

The contest is very young and we’re all bunched together, so everyone is very much alive. The semi-final games will begin to produce separation in a hurry. Good luck to all.

[sinbin]

Great thanks to MNHockeyFan for keeping hockey scores and contest scores up to date, making my job here quite easy. Here are highlights from yesterday:

Class AA Scores 2/6/15

2AA – Quarterfinals
Upper Bracket
#4 Bloomington Jefferson 3
#5 Holy Family/Waconia 4 (OT)

Only five of you (u12dad, panpan111, The Bone, hugo_lucas, and puckdreams) had the faith to pick HF/W and were justly rewarded.

Lower Bracket
#3 Chaska/Chanhassen 3
#6 Shakopee 0

#2 Edina 3
#7 Prior Lake 1

4AA – Quarterfinals
Lower Bracket
#3 Roseville 5
#6 Tartan 0

#7 North 1
#2 Cretin-Derham Hall 6

No other upsets in the games above and most of you followed the company line most of the time.

17 hugo_lucas, panpan111, puckdreams, The Bone
16 36Guy, clutterbucket, Fisheye, Knight7, MNHockeyFan, Nordic, sinbin, spars46, u12dad, wolfman
15 massalsa, nu2hockey, rascalbrock
14 2 others

Good luck the rest of the way.

[sinbin]

A few upsets, and quite a few games closer than expected (a sobering reminder that all teams are just a bad bounce or dinged crossbar from elimination), but most final outcomes going according to the scripts. Surprisingly, it looks like there were no correct scores by our panel.

Class AA Scores 2/7/15

1AA – Semifinals
Upper Bracket
#1 Lakeville South 7
#4 Dodge County 2

Lower Bracket
#6 Rochester Century 3
#2 Lakeville North 4

13 out of 19 of us predicted a battle of North vs. South to advance to State.

3AA – Semifinals
Upper Bracket
#1 Eagan 6
#4 East Ridge 1

Lower Bracket
#3 Eastview 7
#2 Hastings 1

Scoreless after the first, Eastview quickly pulled away in the 2nd, although about 2/3 of our panel predicted this minor upset.

4AA – Quarterfinals
Upper Bracket
#4 Stillwater 6
#5 White Bear Lake 2

5AA – Quarterfinals
Upper Bracket
#1 Centennial 1
#8 Anoka 0

#4 Champlin Park 3
#5 Irondale 2 (OT)

Lower Bracket
#3 Mounds View 2
#6 Coon Rapids 1

#2 Blaine 4
#7 Spring Lake Park 3

All 5AA games so far are 1-goal games, even #1 vs. #8, but the higher seed has survived each time.

6AA – Quarterfinals
Upper Bracket
#4 Hopkins 2
#5 Benilde-St. Margaret's 1

Lower Bracket
#3 Wayzata 5
#6 Armstrong/Cooper 1

#2 Maple Grove 8
#7 North Metro 1

All contestants correctly picked the four 6AA semi-finalists.

7AA – Semifinals
Upper Bracket
#1 Elk River/Zimmerman 7
#4 Forest Lake 1

Lower Bracket
#3 Grand Rapids/Greenway 2
#2 Andover 6

Only 6 contestants picked Andover to win this game.

8AA – Quarterfinals

Upper Bracket
#1 Roseau 3
#8 Bemidji 1

#4 River Lakes 3
#5 North Wright County 0

About 2/3 of our panel of 19 correctly predicted River Lakes.

Lower Bracket
#3 Sartell-Sauk Rapids 0
#6 Moorhead 2

No one from our panel predicted the Spuds upset.

#2 Buffalo 5
#7 St. Cloud 0

As we hit the home stretch, with 3 championship games and 5 semi-final series on tap next, the leaderboard is still very tight, so almost everyone has a legitimate chance at victory. The wolfman currently leads the pack. Will he continue to defend his predictive territory or will someone else ultimately emerge as the alpha? Good luck to all.

44 wolfman
43 clutterbucket, Fisheye, sinbin, u12dad
42 massalsa, rascalbrock, spars46
41 hugo_lucas, Nordic, panpan111, The Bone
40 36Guy, mnhockey3535, MNHockeyFan, nu2hockey
39 1 other
38 1 other
37 1 other

[sinbin]

Thanks to MNHockeyFan for doing the heavy lifting. Here are some games on tap early this week.

2-10-15

2AA – Semifinals
Upper Bracket
#1 Eden Prairie
#5 Holy Family/Waconia

Lower Bracket
#3 Chaska/Chanhassen
#2 Edina

4AA – Semifinals
Upper Bracket
#1 Hill-Murray
#4 Stillwater

Lower Bracket
#3 Roseville
#2 Cretin-Derham Hall

5AA – Semifinals
Upper Bracket
#1 Centennial
#4 Champlin Park

Lower Bracket
#3 Mounds View
#2 Blaine

8AA – Semifinals
Upper Bracket
#1 Roseau
#4 River Lakes

Lower Bracket
#6 Moorhead
#2 Buffalo

2-11-15

3AA – Final
#1 Eagan
#3 Eastview

6AA – Semifinals
Upper Bracket
#1 Minnetonka
#4 Hopkins

Lower Bracket
#3 Wayzata
#2 Maple Grove

[sinbin]

A full slate of games last night, looks like all of them going according to seeds. Let's see what happened.

Class AA

2AA – Semifinals
Upper Bracket
#1 Eden Prairie 7
#5 Holy Family/Waconia 1

We had the Eagles advancing unanimously with no correct scores.

Lower Bracket
#3 Chaska/Chanhassen 2
#2 Edina 3

We had the Hornets advancing unanimously, but rascalbrock, clutterbucket, and massalsa hitting the correct score.

4AA – Semifinals
Upper Bracket
#1 Hill-Murray 3
#4 Stillwater 1

We had Hill-Murray advancing unanimously while sparlimb, mnhockey3535, and rascalbrock nailed the correct score.

Lower Bracket
#3 Roseville 2
#2 Cretin-Derham Hall 4

All but one of us picked a CDH victory and Nordic, mnhockey3535, rascalbrock, and panpan111 got the right score. while some of us, for the 8th time in a single night and counting, got one score correct and missed the other by one goal, with nothing to show for it.

5AA – Semifinals
Upper Bracket
#1 Centennial 3
#4 Champlin Park 1

All of us have Centennial advancing, but no correct scores.

Lower Bracket
#3 Mounds View 2
#2 Blaine 5

12 out of 19 of us had Blaine advancing, but everyone thought that the score would be much closer than it was.

8AA – Semifinals
Upper Bracket
#1 Roseau 3
#4 River Lakes 1

We were unanimous in having the Rams advance, but no correct scores.

Lower Bracket
#6 Moorhead 0
#2 Buffalo 5

All but one of us have the Bison making it through to the finals, but no correct scores, due to the Spuds' earlier upset.

As we approach the Section championships, the leaderboard looks like this:

72 rascalbrock
68 massalsa, mnhockey3535, wolfman
67 panpan111, sinbin
66 clutterbucket
65 The Bone
64 Fisheye, MNHockeyFan, Nordic, u12dad
63 Sparlimb, spars46
62 hugo_lucas, puckdreams
61 2 others
60 1 other

Wolfman was ousted as alpha by virtue of rascalbrock's cunning picks. Will rascalbrock hold off the remainder of the pack, or will wolfman reassert his dominance? Will new challengers emerge to take home the spoils of the predictive hunt? Plenty of games to be played with significant disagreement in at least 5 of the sections, so the contest is wide open. Good luck to all.

[MNHockeyFan]

Similar to Class A, all of the top seeds in AA have done what they're supposed to do - that is WIN - so far. Going into this evening's semifinals in 6AA, all the other section finals - with just one exception - will have No. 1 going against No. 2:

1AA #1 Lakeville South vs. #2 Lakeville North
2AA #1 Eden Prairie vs. #2 Edina
3AA #1 Eagan vs. #3 Eastview
4AA #1 Hill-Murray vs. #2 Cretin-Derham Hall
5AA #1 Centennial vs. #2 Blaine
6AA TBD, but the Top 4 seeds have all advanced to the semi's
7AA #1 Elk River/Zimmerman vs. #2 Andover
8AA #1 Roseau vs. #2 Buffalo

So, other than possibly 3AA, and putting aside 6AA until later tonight, all the other sections will be sending either their No. 1 or 2 seeded team to State. As in Class A, leading up to the finals, the coaches could hardly have done a better job in seeding their section's teams.

One other note: If you consider Buffalo to be a "metro area" team - and if they were to pull the upset and beat top seeded Roseau in 8AA - the field in this year's Class AA state tournament would consist of all metro-area teams for the first time in over 10 years, and possibly all time. Then again, Roseau may have something to say about that.

[MN_Bowhunter]

If Snoddy plays like she did Saturday you will have a 3 seed at state. She was on fire.

[Sparlimb]

If Snoddy plays like she did Saturday you will have a 3 seed at state. She was on fire.

Appears to be quite the call. And I hate to say I told you so on MG. Next year is Maple Grove's year.

[sinbin]

Some surprises last night, whether in winning teams or number of goals scored.

Scores 2-11-15

Class AA

3AA – Final
#1 Eagan 4
#3 Eastview 6

Eastview used three 3rd-period goals to shock Eagan. This was an upset according to the seedings, but 7 out of 19 of you predicted the Lightning to advance to State. No correct scores.

6AA – Semifinals
Upper Bracket
#1 Minnetonka 7
#4 Hopkins 3

Minnetonka used a Norby hat trick and scoring from all 3 lines to rout the Royals. We were unanimous in predicting a Skipper win, but no correct scores.

Lower Bracket
#3 Wayzata 5
#2 Maple Grove 1

Wayzata enjoyed 2 goals each from Heising and Czech to pale the Crimson. Only Sparlimb went out on a limb far enough to predict a Trojan victory and did not have the correct score. (I apologize for the last pun and I admit it was much too easy, but I just couldn't resist.)

Thanks to the upsets, we have some re-shuffling in the leaderboard, but rascalbrock maintains his overall lead.

80 rascalbrock
76 mnhockey3535, wolfman
73 massalsa
72 u12dad
71 spars46
70 panpan111, sinbin
69 clutterbucket, nu2hockey, Sparlimb
68 The Bone
67 Fisheye, MNHockeyFan, Nordic
65 2 others
64 1 other
63 1 other

2 championship games tonight with 5 more tomorrow. There is still a lot of disagreement on most games, so the contest is wide open. rascalbrock has done a great job of predictive brocking and tackling, while wolfman yearns to retake his position as pack leader. Or might massalsa spice things up with a late rush to the top? Good luck to all.

[allhoc11]

[quote="Sparlimb"And I hate to say I told you so on MG. Next year is Maple Grove's year.[/quote]

When you look at the players Tonka returns I think the MG window is 2 years down the road, and that is a small window, as both the goalies will be Sr's then.

[sinbin]

Here are the games on tap the next two days. Lots of great matchups and much debate about the projected winners. Good luck to all.

Feb 12, 2015

1AA – Final
#1 Lakeville South
#2 Lakeville North

7AA – Final
#1 Elk River/Zimmerman
#2 Andover

Feb 13, 2015

2AA – Final
#1 Eden Prairie
#2 Edina

4AA – Final
#1 Hill-Murray
#2 Cretin-Derham Hall

5AA – Final
#1Centennial
#2 Blaine

6AA – Final
#1Minnetonka
#3 Wayzata

8AA – Final
#1 Roseau
#2 Buffalo

[Marty]

Here are the games on tap the next two days. Lots of great matchups and much debate about the projected winners. Good luck to all.

Feb 12, 2015

1AA – Final
#1 Lakeville South
#2 Lakeville North

7AA – Final
#1 Elk River/Zimmerman
#2 Andover

Feb 13, 2015

2AA – Final
#1 Eden Prairie
#2 Edina

4AA – Final
#1 Hill-Murray
#2 Cretin-Derham Hall

5AA – Final
#1Centennial
#2 Blaine

6AA – Final
#1Minnetonka
#3 Wayzata

8AA – Final
#1 Roseau
#2 Buffalo

Those seeding the Sections did well (so far).

[allhoc11]

Those seeding the Sections did well (so far).

I agree, and I imagine that all the new rankings available to coaches have to help (talking Krach and QRF).

[nahc]

1AA final Lakeville South 2 Lakeville North 1 in overtime..... on a shortie!!

[MNHockeyFan]

1AA final Lakeville South 2 Lakeville North 1 in overtime..... on a shortie!!

In their short write-up/recap of the game this morning the Strib (paper version) actually has North winning 2-1 in OT - big OOPS. Yet the box score correctly shows South as the 2-1 OT winner.

[nu2hockey]

1AA final Lakeville South 2 Lakeville North 1 in overtime..... on a shortie!!

In their short write-up/recap of the game this morning the Strib (paper version) actually has North winning 2-1 in OT - big OOPS. Yet the box score correctly shows South as the 2-1 OT winner.

The strib writer probably still has his panties-in-a-wad over his family's school getting beat by SSP

Sounds like a fun game...The Blake/Breck game was a blast!

[sinbin]

Well, AA at least matched A excitement last night with two exciting OT games.


Class AA

1AA – Final
#1 Lakeville South 2
#2 Lakeville North 1 (OT)

Lakeville North suffers another crushing OT loss, this time to arch-rival Lakeville South on a short-handed goal 1:29 into OT. Only 5 of our 19 competitors predicted that the South would overcome the North, but they gained some valuable ground on their peers. No correct scores here.

7AA – Final
#1 Elk River/Zimmerman 4 (OT)
#2 Andover 5

ERZ and Andover traded goals all evening, but Andover netted the last one, just 29 seconds into OT, to secure a spot at State. No one in our illustrious panel predicted a Husky victory.

The leaderboard currently looks like this:

80 rascalbrock
77 u12dad
76 mnhockey3535, wolfman
75 panpan111
74 nu2hockey
73 massalsa
72 MNHockeyFan
71 spars46
70 sinbin
69 clutterbucket, Sparlimb
68 Knight7, The Bone
67 Fisheye, Nordic
65 2 others
64 1 other

Here are games tonight (number of contestants picking each team to win in parentheses). It is wide open. Good luck to all.

Section 2AA
Edina (9) vs. Eden Prairie (10)

Section 4AA
Cretin-Derham Hall (3) vs. Hill Murray (16)

Section 5AA
Centennial (13) vs. Blaine (5)

Section 6AA
Minnetonka (12) vs. Wayzata (0)

Section 8AA
Roseau (17) vs. Buffalo (2)

[Nimrod]

I pick all the lower seeds except Edina. EP wins that one. Should be some great hockey!

[MNHockeyFan]

The leaderboard currently looks like this:

80 rascalbrock
77 u12dad
76 mnhockey3535, wolfman
75 panpan111
74 nu2hockey
73 massalsa
72 MNHockeyFan
71 spars46
70 sinbin
69 clutterbucket, Sparlimb
68 Knight7, The Bone
67 Fisheye, Nordic
65 2 others
64 1 other

Couldn't help but notice all the consecutive point totals, from 67 all the way to 77. That's some kind of straight if you're playing poker, and it also makes rascalbrock look pretty good!

[Silent But Deadly]

Bison scored four unanswered goals to defeat Roseau 4-2.

[Sparlimb]

I pick all the lower seeds except Edina. EP wins that one. Should be some great hockey!

oops.

I said it in my pick (picked Edina to upset EP) and will once again. Sorry EPDad.

Congrats to Edina on the big time upset. For a while tonight it looked like Tonka might go down too which would have left HM as the #1 seed at state. That would have been crazy.


EDIT: HM has one less loss thank Tonka and the teams didn't play. I expect Tonka to get the #1 seed, but you could make an argument.