PageStat 2025-26

[east hockey]

Based on last year's final PageStat ratings, here are the teams with the toughest schedules in 2025-26, with their opponents' average PageStat rating in parenthesis. [corrected to fix Hill-Murray's SOS)

Class AA

1. Edina (20.55)
2. Maple Grove (20.21)
3. Wayzata (20.16)
4. Minnetonka (19.96)
5. White Bear Lake (19.90)
6. Moorhead (19.90)
7. Stillwater (19.81)
8. Rogers (19.80)
9. Eden Prairie (19.77)
10. Andover (19.65)
11. Cretin-Derham Hall (19.55)
12. Grand Rapids (19.54)
13. St. Thomas Academy (19.50)
14. Shakopee (19.28)
15. Hill-Murray (19.27)
16. Rosemount (19.19)
17. Prior Lake (19.12)
18. St. Michael-Albertville (19.09)
19. Benilde-St. Margaret's (19.02)
20. Mounds View (19.00)

Class A

1. Hermantown (19.64)
2. Mahtomedi (18.54)
3. Hibbing (18.36)
4. Warroad (18.24)
5. East Grand Forks (18.11)
6. Cloquet (17.78)
7. St. Louis Park (17.21)
8. Sartell (17.06)
9. Orono (16.97)
10. Delano (16.90)
11. Blake (16.79)
12. St. Cloud Cathedral (16.70)
13. Northern Lakes (16.66)
14. Detroit Lakes (16.02)
15. Waconia (15.96)
16. Proctor (15.92)
17. Monticello (15.83)
18. Minneapolis (15.83)
19. Providence Academy (15.80)
20. Breck (15.80)

The first PageStat ratings for the new season will be posted December 21.

Lee

[Lino Lakes Hockey]

Interesting Hill Murray’s schedule is that easy.

[east hockey]

Interesting Hill Murray’s schedule is that easy.

Yeah, I screwed theirs up. I had some Hill-Murray entries and some Hill Murray. Excel only saw one name. I'm fixing this and will repost the original Top 20. Thanks for the catch.

Lee

[Sparlimb]

Interesting Hill Murray’s schedule is that easy.

They did schedule Duluth East this year.

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[east hockey]

Interesting Hill Murray’s schedule is that easy.

They did schedule Duluth East this year.

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That would be called a "bye week"

Lee

[east hockey]

First weekly ratings! Top 20

Overall

1. Minnetonka
2. Moorhead
3. Hermantown
4. Edina
5. St. Thomas Academy
6. Stillwater
7. Rogers
8. Shakopee
9. Hibbing
10. Rosemount
11. Hill-Murray
12. Holy Angels
13. Maple Grove
14. Wayzata
15. Duluth Marshall
16. Warroad
17. White Bear Lake
18. Blaine
19. Sartell
20. Centennial

Class A

1. Hermantown
2. Hibbing
3. Warroad
4. Sartell
5. Mahtomedi
6. Delano
7. Blake
8. International Falls
9. Monticello
10. Rochester Lourdes
11. Cloquet
12. Northfield
13. Northern Lakes
14. Detroit Lakes
15. Breck
16. St. Cloud Cathedral
17. Orono
18. Chisago Lakes
19. East Grand Forks
20. Mankato West

Seeing four Class A teams in the overall Top 20 surprised me a bit. I'd have to look back to see the last time this happened--the trend over the past several years was for the Top 20 to be more and more dominated by Class AA teams, for whatever reason you want to ascribe to this. It could be a byproduct of the haves/have nots becoming more pronounced in Class A (as they pretty much have been in Class AA). One of my off-season projects is going to take a deep dive into this along with the Class AA vs Class A disparities and how they've changed since I started doing PageStat in the 1997-98 season.

The fun time of the year is upon us!

Lee

[karl(east)]

I'm intrigued by International Falls and Rochester Lourdes appearing in the top 10 in A in PageStat while they are still a bit out of there in most human rankings. Curious to see if those ones hold up over time.

[ClassAGuy]

I'm intrigued by International Falls and Rochester Lourdes appearing in the top 10 in A in PageStat while they are still a bit out of there in most human rankings. Curious to see if those ones hold up over time.

Lourdes made sense in the fact that they just lost to Duluth Marshall 2-1 OT (15 in AA PageStat) & tied Blake (7 in A PageStat). I feel like the Eagles are so dangerous in 1A and they have not given up more than 2 goals in a game since the opening loss to Luverne.

International Falls at 8, though, shocks me. I love the Broncos, but they have not played anyone above .500 yet, except maybe Fort Frances in Canada, who they tied, so SOS has to be low. Just was really curious how they are at 8... I get the Unbeaten part, but for example, Luverne is also unbeaten and actually beat some lower-tier opponents by wide margins like 18-2, but also has some quality teams like #10 Lourdes, but they are not even in the Top 20.

As always, love PageStat, and what it offers just was really an eye opener seeing The Falls that high.