The year of the MISSED OPPORTUNITY?

LASERBLUE135 · Post by **LASERBLUE135** » Sun Mar 11, 2018 11:59 am

Every year has its “theme” or underlying story. This year is certainly one of missed opportunities. Never before have I seen so many whiffs. I think there must have been 20 plus grade A scoring opportunities in the tournament and the puck seemed to freeze to the ice as the shooter simply missed everything. This happened in A and AA almost once every period of the tournament it seems.

Holy Family couldn’t finish off Tonka in the section final with 3 seconds to go and a chance to make a play to clear the zone at the end. Then they had a golden opportunity for a breakaway early in OT, but again, kid whiffed.

Edina’s goalie surely will spend a lot of his life looking back and asking what if? One small lapse cost so much.

And in the final. Duluth had...ten? golden opportunities to put a puck in the net. So many power plays. Lots of “just missed”.

It was a great tournament, but I think there were more, a LOT more, small errors, yips, whiffs, and misses than I ever remember.

BodyShots · Post by **BodyShots** » Sun Mar 11, 2018 1:44 pm

NO. It was the year of running the goalie and see if the refs had the balls to call a penalty.

WarmUpTheBus · Post by **WarmUpTheBus** » Sun Mar 11, 2018 1:57 pm

It was the year of Minnetonka having another great team and not missing their opportunity this time.

50in15 · Post by **50in15** » Sun Mar 11, 2018 2:18 pm

I thought the same game watching the game last night. East had so many point blank chances but couldn’t get that third goal. Have to be kicking themselves this morning .

Edina had to have the same feeling after Friday game.

WestMetro · Post by **WestMetro** » Sun Mar 11, 2018 3:57 pm

WarmUp right on this one!

blueblood · Post by **blueblood** » Sun Mar 11, 2018 6:06 pm

No missed opportunity for the Skippers.

They rattled off 13 wins following the loss to Edina at Braemar, outscoring their opponents 83-28 in that stretch.

They took over the #1 ranking in the state after beating Edina in February and didn't relinquish it.

Congrats to the boys in blue and white on their 1st state title.

Section 8 guy · Post by **Section 8 guy** » Sun Mar 11, 2018 10:21 pm

Congrats to the Skippers on a great year and a great tourney! The title is much deserved!

Looked like the year of the big first line having a difficult time generating any offense in the big games. Tonkas best players were able to score all tourney and that’s a big part if how they came out on top.

blueblood · Post by **blueblood** » Mon Mar 12, 2018 7:47 am

Section 8 Guy nailed it:

Big time players, make big time plays, in big time games:

Loheit line - 6 goals in tourney
Brink line - 5 goals in tourney
Tonka D Corp - 5 goals in tourney

Skipper depth showed up big time