Games Friday 1-31-25

[elliott70]

Moose Lake Area vs Lake of the Woods - International Arena 5:00 PM CST
Greenway vs Crookston - Crookston High School 5:00 PM CST

Duluth Marshall vs Bagley/Fosston - Bagley Hockey Arena Cancelled
International Falls vs Red Lake Falls - RLF Cardin-Hunt Arena 6:00 PM CST

Cambridge-Isanti vs Pine City Area - Pine City Civic Center 7:00 PM CST
River Falls vs North Shore - Sonju Arena, Two Harbors 7:00 PM CST

St. Paul Johnson vs Spooner - Spooner Sports Center 7:00 PM CST
Northern Lakes vs Gentry Academy - TCO Sports Garden 7:00 PM CST

Becker/Big Lake vs Windom - Windom Arena 7:00 PM CST
Mora/Milaca vs Wadena-Deer Creek - Wadena Ice Arena 7:00 PM CST

Delano vs Southwest Christian/Richfield - Chaska Community Center 7:00 PM CST
Monticello vs Northern Edge - East Bethel Ice Arena 7:00 PM CST

St. Thomas Academy vs Mahtomedi - Mahtomedi - St. Croix Rec Center 7:00 PM CST
Mound Westonka vs Hutchinson - Hutchinson Burich Arena 7:00 PM CST

Edina vs Hill-Murray - Aldrich Arena 7:00 PM CST
Moorhead vs Hermantown - Hermantown Hockey Arena 7:00 PM CST

Lakeville North vs Farmington - Schmitz-Maki Ice Arena 7:00 PM CST
Redwood Valley vs Fairmont - Fairmont-Martin County Arena 7:00 PM CST

Sauk Rapids-Rice vs Chisago Lakes - Chisago Lakes Arena 7:00 PM CST
St. Paul Academy vs Bloomington Kennedy - Bloomington Ice Garden 7:00 PM CST

Winona vs Austin - Riverside Arena-Austin 7:00 PM CST
Hastings vs Apple Valley/Burnsville - United Heroes League Ice Rink 7:00 PM CST

Blake vs Holy Angels - Richfield Ice Arena 7:00 PM CST
New Ulm vs Minnesota River - Le Sueur Arena 7:15 PM CST

Luverne vs Little Falls - Exchange Arena-Little Falls 7:15 PM CST
Breckenridge/Wahpeton vs River Lakes - River Lakes Civic Arena 7:15 PM CST

Duluth Denfeld vs Sartell - Sartell - Scheels Athletic Complex 7:15 PM CST
St. Cloud Cathedral vs East Grand Forks - East Grand Forks Civic Arena 7:30 PM CST

[SEC Scotty]

I imagine the Edina/Hill tilt at “Netsoff” Arena is the game of the night.

[elliott70]

Games of the Day
International Falls vs Red Lake Falls - RLF Cardin-Hunt Arena 6:00 PM CST

St. Thomas Academy vs Mahtomedi - Mahtomedi - St. Croix Rec Center 7:00 PM CST

Edina vs Hill-Murray - Aldrich Arena 7:00 PM CST

Moorhead vs Hermantown - Hermantown Hockey Arena 7:00 PM CST

Luverne vs Little Falls - Exchange Arena-Little Falls 7:15 PM CST

St. Cloud Cathedral vs East Grand Forks - East Grand Forks Civic Arena 7:30 PM CST

[East Side Pioneer Guy]

I imagine the Edina/Hill tilt at “Netsoff” Arena is the game of the night.

Is that a pinot noir you've got there? I want to make sure I get the right type of cheese to go with the whine.

Or maybe just go to Surdyk's, they can advise you on both in one stop.

[Sparlimb]

I'm taking HM over Edina tonight 5-3.

But even more interested to see how Hermantown bounces back after the Cloquet game with Moorhead tonight. Could the Hawks play their best game of the season and take down #1 in AA?

[northstars]

Watch Luverne at Little Falls 7pm:https://www.youtube.com/live/YjngexDVRJ ... CaPo6_-yHH

[ryguyMN]

Game hasn’t started and Hill already up 10-0.

https://share.icloud.com/photos/056f5cv ... Zjz1cLPOzA

[ryguyMN]

And the MNHockey stream is down for Edina-Hill. I should have gone to InterNETSOFF Arena in person.

[ClassAGuy]

BHS Hockey Class A Scoreboard
Friday (1/31/25)
Section 1A
Austin 3 Winona 2 OT

Section 2A
#9 Delano 3 Southwest Christian/Richfield 3 OT
Hutchinson 6 Mound Westonka 3

Section 3A
#15 Luverne 2 #11 Little Falls 4
New Ulm 5 Minnesota River 3
Windom 2 Becker/Big Lake 4
Redwood Valley 7 Fairmont 4

Section 4A
#12 Mahtomedi 0 St Thomas Academy 8
#20 Chisago Lakes 6 Sauk Rapids 4
Southwest Christian/Richfield 3 #9 Delano 3 OT
St. Paul Academy 9 Bloomington Kennedy 2

Section 5A
#4 Monticello 5 Northern Edge 0
#6 St Cloud Cathedral 11 #10 East Grand Forks 5
#11 Little Falls 4 #15 Luverne 2
#22 River Lakes 9 Breckenridge/Wahpeton 1
Sauk Rapids 4 #20 Chisago Lakes 6
Pine City 0 Cambridge-Isanti 3
Becker/Big Lake 4 Windom 2
Mora/Milaca 2 Wadena Deer Creek 4

Section 6A
#14 Northern Lakes 2 Gentry Academy 3
Breckenridge/Wahpeton 1 #22 River Lakes 9
Wadena Deer Creek 4 Mora/Milaca 2

Section 7A
#1 Hermantown 1 Moorhead 2
#19 Proctor 10 Ely 0
International Falls 4 #25 Red Lake Falls 6
Moose Lake 3 Lake of the Woods 6
Greenway 0 Crookston 10
North Shore 0 River Falls (Wis.) 6

Section 8A
#10 East Grand Forks 5 #6 St Cloud Cathedral 11
#25 Red Lake Falls 6 International Falls 4
Lake of the Woods 6 Moose Lake 3
Crookston 10 Greenway 0

[BlueLineSpecial]

With Hill’s OT loss, and assuming all the expected favorites make State, Hill’s only path to a #1 seed will almost assuredly require they win out. They have tight losses to Edina and STA, and play each of them again. They also play Rogers and Moorhead. Probably anything but a clean sweep would keep them from a top seed. Again, assuming they and the other favorites make it there.

[inthetwine]

With Hill’s OT loss, and assuming all the expected favorites make State, Hill’s only path to a #1 seed will almost assuredly require they win out. They have tight losses to Edina and STA, and play each of them again. They also play Rogers and Moorhead. Probably anything but a clean sweep would keep them from a top seed. Again, assuming they and the other favorites make it there.

Sounds like you already have Hill to have won section
They are the best team, however, Stillwater and white Bear Lake are capable of beating them. The last Stillwater Hill game was won by Hill, but other than the first 10 minutes of the game Stillwater clearly outs skated them. Stillwater also just beat St. Thomas. Watch out Pioneers.

[BlueLineSpecial]

With Hill’s OT loss, and assuming all the expected favorites make State, Hill’s only path to a #1 seed will almost assuredly require they win out. They have tight losses to Edina and STA, and play each of them again. They also play Rogers and Moorhead. Probably anything but a clean sweep would keep them from a top seed. Again, assuming they and the other favorites make it there.

Sounds like you already have Hill to have won section
They are the best team, however, Stillwater and white Bear Lake are capable of beating them. The last Stillwater Hill game was won by Hill, but other than the first 10 minutes of the game Stillwater clearly outs skated them. Stillwater also just beat St. Thomas. Watch out Pioneers.

Not sure how you got that from my comment where not once, but twice, I prefaced my observation by saying it's dependent on all favorites making State.

If all favorites make State

Hill's only realistic path to a #1 seed is likely to require sweeping their remaining games with Edina, STA, Moorhead, and Rogers.

[ryguyMN]

The top 3 seeds at state this year in AA you can pretty much pencil in to be playing Friday night.

Now to see if this comes back to bite me a month and a half from now.

[CrimsonCakeEater]

The top 3 seeds at state this year in AA you can pretty much pencil in to be playing Friday night.

Now to see if this comes back to bite me a month and a half from now.

I wouldn't be so sure of that, weird things can happen at the X. In 2019, Edina beat EP 6–1, 5–2, and 7–2 during the regular season but was losing in the third period to them in the state championship and needed overtime to beat them. With the 2AA winner likely being the 6 seed, I could see an upset happening there, though I certainly wouldn't bet on it.

[East Side Pioneer Guy]

Oof, who wants to be #1 seed at state?

[ryguyMN]

The top 3 seeds at state this year in AA you can pretty much pencil in to be playing Friday night.

Now to see if this comes back to bite me a month and a half from now.

I wouldn't be so sure of that, weird things can happen at the X. In 2019, Edina beat EP 6–1, 5–2, and 7–2 during the regular season but was losing in the third period to them in the state championship and needed overtime to beat them. With the 2AA winner likely being the 6 seed, I could see an upset happening there, though I certainly wouldn't bet on it.

True, but that 2019 EP team isn’t in the same league as this year’s EP squad. Bigger drop off with EP over Edina vs. 2019.

[BlueLineSpecial]

Oof, who wants to be #1 seed at state?

There's a contingent of the board that believe to be the best you have to beat the best (often true, not always) or that seeding doesn't matter, you just have to go out and beat whoever you play (coach-speak, usually). I am not a subscriber to that way of thinking.

Being the one seed isn't that important I suppose. That said, I would much prefer to be one of the top 2-3 seeds at State this year. Assuming there are no upsets and the top seeds generally win their sections (color, bold, italicized and underlined so I don't have to respond to posters with reading comprehension issues), then it's better not to be in the 4-8 range this year. You'll play a much harder quarterfinal game. Someone is going to get to play a 1AA team that on paper should be an easy win. 7AA is interesting this year, but I would question whether or not that section is going to produce a team that won't be a 2-3 goal underdog at State. 2AA is odd and it's hard to say if an EP, Shakopee or anyone else would be favored against an STA, Edina, Hill, Moorhead, Rogers or even CDH and Stillwater.

Also, getting a two seed would help a team avoid playing whoever ends up as the #1 seed until a potential championship game (today, that's Moorhead and they are, you know, sort of good). So yeah, I would want a top 2-3 seed at State this year. I'd hate to come in at the 4 or 5 and end up playing an Edina-type team in the QF. I would want my team to have a path of least resistance to going as far as possible at State. That means, IMHO, avoiding a tough QF game so you can get to Friday night, and avoiding the #1 seed until as late as possible in the tourney. Just my opinion. There's clearly some posters that believe wholeheartedly in the opposite. Those folks may be the same ones that were posting all over twitter that it didn't matter who the Vikings played in the post season. Guess what, it mattered. A lot. You should want to avoid matchups that don't necessarily favor you. You should want to avoid teams that have momentum. Or you can believe you just gotta beat whoever's in front of you, which more often than not gets you bounced.

[CrimsonCakeEater]

The top 3 seeds at state this year in AA you can pretty much pencil in to be playing Friday night.

Now to see if this comes back to bite me a month and a half from now.

I wouldn't be so sure of that, weird things can happen at the X. In 2019, Edina beat EP 6–1, 5–2, and 7–2 during the regular season but was losing in the third period to them in the state championship and needed overtime to beat them. With the 2AA winner likely being the 6 seed, I could see an upset happening there, though I certainly wouldn't bet on it.

True, but that 2019 EP team isn’t in the same league as this year’s EP squad. Bigger drop off with EP over Edina vs. 2019.

Sure, but this year’s Shakopee team is probably about as good and they’ll likely be the 6 seed if they make it to St. Paul

[Sparlimb]

I wouldn't be so sure of that, weird things can happen at the X. In 2019, Edina beat EP 6–1, 5–2, and 7–2 during the regular season but was losing in the third period to them in the state championship and needed overtime to beat them. With the 2AA winner likely being the 6 seed, I could see an upset happening there, though I certainly wouldn't bet on it.

True, but that 2019 EP team isn’t in the same league as this year’s EP squad. Bigger drop off with EP over Edina vs. 2019.

Sure, but this year’s Shakopee team is probably about as good and they’ll likely be the 6 seed if they make it to St. Paul

Per usual, minus section 1, anyone else could beat anyone else.

[ryguyMN]

2AA is odd and it's hard to say if an EP, Shakopee or anyone else would be favored against an STA, Edina, Hill, Moorhead, Rogers or even CDH and Stillwater.

I can't see EP or Shako being favored over any of those teams. Stillwater I can't see getting to state without Conway. They're a top 5 team with Conway.

Stillwater - there's your bulletin board material. You're welcome.

[BlueLineSpecial]

2AA is odd and it's hard to say if an EP, Shakopee or anyone else would be favored against an STA, Edina, Hill, Moorhead, Rogers or even CDH and Stillwater.

I can't see EP or Shako being favored over any of those teams. Stillwater I can't see getting to state without Conway. They're a top 5 team with Conway.

Stillwater - there's your bulletin board material. You're welcome.

Stillwater is good enough as is, Ryguy. Don't be giving them bulletin board material! Dear Stillwater: you're good enough, you're smart enough and doggone it, people like you.

[ryguyMN]

2AA is odd and it's hard to say if an EP, Shakopee or anyone else would be favored against an STA, Edina, Hill, Moorhead, Rogers or even CDH and Stillwater.

I can't see EP or Shako being favored over any of those teams. Stillwater I can't see getting to state without Conway. They're a top 5 team with Conway.

Stillwater - there's your bulletin board material. You're welcome.

Stillwater is good enough as is, Ryguy. Don't be giving them bulletin board material! Dear Stillwater: you're good enough, you're smart enough and doggone it, people like you.

Ha! Well done.

[headsupsticksdown]

I wouldn't be so sure of that, weird things can happen at the X. In 2019, Edina beat EP 6–1, 5–2, and 7–2 during the regular season but was losing in the third period to them in the state championship and needed overtime to beat them. With the 2AA winner likely being the 6 seed, I could see an upset happening there, though I certainly wouldn't bet on it.

True, but that 2019 EP team isn’t in the same league as this year’s EP squad. Bigger drop off with EP over Edina vs. 2019.

Sure, but this year’s Shakopee team is probably about as good and they’ll likely be the 6 seed if they make it to St. Paul

I have never had the same fuzzies that everyone else seems to have for Shako. They’re just too inconsistent and never seem to win the big critical games. Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t see them getting out of sections for a while.