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I understand section 4 may go out end of the week.

I know that some of the letters for the 92's went out yesterday.

It came in the mail today.Section 4 is at the St Croix Rec Center.

Section 2AA/2A went out last week. The tryouts are in Shakopee on March 26, 28, 29 and practices are on April 4,5,7 in Shakopee as well.

Watched the Section 4 '92 and '91 tryouts tonight in Stillwater and was surprised at low turn out versus the 40-60 I had heard might be expected.

For the '92 there were 8 D, 5 G and 15 F - I think 20 make it 6 D, 2 G and 12 F so minimal cuts.

For the '91 it was an even lower number 17 skaters and 2 G so everyone makes Phase II?

The first night was run great all around by people there. Are others seeing lower than expected tryout numbers in their sections?

I to was surprised by the low turnout. I think they'll have a pretty good squad though.

The drills were good and I agree that all the coaches did a great job but I didn't like the way they switched lines during the scrimmage as there were 20 girls on the ice at one time as some left benches early and some were slow to get off the ice. Hopefully it will be different this weekend and have players get to the bench before being allowed to change.

I don't know all the names of players and schools but here was the Stillwater Section 4 players identified the other night and their schools - good diverse group - this is in no particular order and sorry for any errors or spelling:

Forwards
1 Bethaney Brausen Roseville
2 Kayla Capistrant Roseville
3 Kristi King Stillwater
4 Lisa Tuuri Stillwater
5 Cassandra Salomen Stillwater
6 Janessa Philipczyk Stillwater
7 Stephanie Anderson NSP
8 Mary O'Brien NSP
9 Caitlin Chartrand NSP
10 Melissa Doyle Hill Murray
11 Marissa Brandt Hill Murray
12 Bailey Strom NSP
13 Jennifer Schwartz Totino
14 ? Simley
15 ? ?


Defense
1 Maggie Pendleton Hill Murray
2 Maddie Marcotte White Bear
3 Nicole Schaab White Bear
4 Alie Duelman Roseville
5 Katie Burns NSP
6 Skoog Stillwater
7 Christine Pilot Simley
8 Tara Karf Tartan


Goal
1 Marah Sobczak Stillwater
2 Kaitlyn Rolando Tartan
3 Rachel Snell NSP
4 ? Tartan
5 ? White Bear

Simley forward is Kristen Coonrod

No Callie Dahl from Stillwater? Is she in a different section?

Sorry I only listed/knew the U16 '92 Group.

Dahl was in the U17 1991 group at Stillwater. Not sure of whole group but also saw Lauren Charpentier of Stillwater; Jess Harren, Hill Murray and Michelle Fisher, Cretin Derham Hall; and Christen Schendel, NSP.

Melvin44 wrote:I to was surprised by the low turnout. I think they'll have a pretty good squad though.

The drills were good and I agree that all the coaches did a great job but I didn't like the way they switched lines during the scrimmage as there were 20 girls on the ice at one time as some left benches early and some were slow to get off the ice. Hopefully it will be different this weekend and have players get to the bench before being allowed to change.

There was a small turnout in Section 2. I think part of the reason for fewer girls not participating is due to spring break plans that were booked months in advance and almost impossible to change on such short notice. I think MH would be wise to project tryout dates 4-5 months in advance so that parents can have plenty of time to plan their spring break vacations around the tryout dates. Most people book their vactions in October or November.

At the Adv 16 tryout, I counted 22 skaters (9 D and 13 F) and 5 goalies. Unless there are some position changes it looks like only 1F, 3D and 3G will be cut. IMO there are some very strong players but the depth of talent is suspect.

OntheEdge wrote:There was a small turnout in Section 2. I think part of the reason for fewer girls not participating is due to spring break plans that were booked months in advance and almost impossible to change on such short notice. I think MH would be wise to project tryout dates 4-5 months in advance so that parents can have plenty of time to plan their spring break vacations around the tryout dates. Most people book their vactions in October or November.

I would agree completely with this. For any parents/kids who must plan way in advance to take advantage of Spring Break, having to book arrangements early, changing flight schedules at literally the last minute becomes very expensive or even impossible. For the super rich, it's probably not a big deal, but for most folks it forces them to make a very difficult decision: NDP or go on the vacation that's been arranged way ahead of time?

The dates for the start of the Advanced 15 (93's) has been published since the Mn Hockey handbook was printed last summer. States :
March 17-31 MH District Advanced 15 teams formed, to mean youth and girls as both are operating under the same format starting this year.
As for the 16 and 17, the High school coaches nominate the players even though it is under Mn Hockey and are a different format using High school sections rather than Mn Hockey Districts as in the Adv 15 program. If the parents tried to find out a date and no one could give an answer then complaints should be made to the Mn VP of Hockey Operations.

OntheEdge wrote: There was a small turnout in Section 2. I think part of the reason for fewer girls not participating is due to spring break plans that were booked months in advance and almost impossible to change on such short notice. I think MH would be wise to project tryout dates 4-5 months in advance so that parents can have plenty of time to plan their spring break vacations around the tryout dates. Most people book their vactions in October or November.

At the Adv 16 tryout, I counted 22 skaters (9 D and 13 F) and 5 goalies. Unless there are some position changes it looks like only 1F, 3D and 3G will be cut. IMO there are some very strong players but the depth of talent is suspect.

Who tried out in Section 2?

With these low turn-out numbers, does each section have to take everyone to fill out 4 lines and 6 d?

Who tried out in Section 2?[/quote]

I didn't know all of the girls. In no particular order, these are the ones I recognized and/or can remember.

Advanced 16s

Forwards (13)
Rachel Ramsey - Minnetonka
Corrine Buie - Edina
Alex Citrowske - Prior Lake
Talia Raiola - Minnetonka
Danielle Williams - Chaska
Julie Menke - Shakopee
???? Eden Prairie

Defense (9)
Caitie Ladner - Chaska
Brooke Bartelt - New Prague
Kelly Thotland - Edina
Greer Vogl - Edina
Brenna Flatley - Minnetonka
Alicia Kruse - Eden Prairie
??? New Prague

Goalies (5)
Caitie Morris - Edina


Maybe someone else can fill in some of the other names.

How have the other sections outside of 4 & 2 been attended?

Not a lot of players in Section 1 tryouts. About 23 skaters or so for both 91's and 92's, 3 goalies for the 91's, and I think 2 for the 92's. Some good players not attending due to vactions.

SEhockeyDAD wrote:Not a lot of players in Section 1 tryouts. About 23 skaters or so for both 91's and 92's, 3 goalies for the 91's, and I think 2 for the 92's. Some good players not attending due to vactions.

Who tried out for Section 1?

Forwards
Defense
Goalies

Even though it is very early in the process it will be interesting to see if they continue this year's format as they are not getting even close to the #'s they were wanting based on the information from the flyer and reports from sections coming in here.

The flyer says "State divided into eight high school sections and a minimum of 40 candidates from each section are invited to participate in the trials to determine the 20 players to represent the section at the Advanced 16 and Advanced 17 Spring Festivals. Each candidate will receive 4.5 hours of ice time and a participant jersey. Total of 320+ candidates in each age category.

I think it's a bad time, a lot of the good girls also play a spring sport. I think you see more one sport players in the boys.

Who's looking good in Kasson anyone know?

Agree spring sports and spring vacations are definitely factors.

Can anyone fill me in on this one. Besides a player being sick, how can you miss the first day of tryouts but come to the second day? Then still have a chance to make the team. If you were applying for a position in anything else it would be unacceptable. So how does that work? When you have dedicated players giving up whatever is needed to make it both days it seems a little unfair.

It does seem like girls are going and coming at the '92 and '91 - spring break trips/travel appear to be the issue. There is one top player out now with a medical injury (broken pinky finger from softball) not sure how it will play out - clearly top 5 first night - but will miss at least 2-4 tryouts of Phase I.