District 5 Hockey

[Air Force 1]

You should come up with a better smelling pile of horse crap than that.
1) gas isn't $4/gallon THIS year
2) it is 193 miles from Faribault to Luverne in D4
3) Mound PWA finished 8th in D5, what does that equal in D6

Luverne's Squirt A's (a true B team, no tryouts, older kids on A, younger on B) attended Faribaults Tournament last year, and the year before. All 193 miles BOTH ways. BTW, we ALSO, attended Tourney's in Sioux Falls, Fargo, Rochester, Marshall, Hutchinson, AND Districts in Owatonna... ALONG with games in IA, and the area to fill a 35 games season. So NO, traveling an hour to play doesn't seem like too much of a deal to me... but then again, we're on a different deal because of where we live. Not many A teams in the area, so we take our (B) team and travel if we want to get better. Sounds like these guys should look into forming a REC league somewhere REAL CLOSE.

East Grand Forks to Baudette - 178 miles
East Grand Forks to Bemidji - 113 miles

The nice thing about Baudette is when we schedule that one, we work out games with Warroad and Roseau that same weekend and play 3 district games that weekend. A lot of the time, those northern teams a lot of times schedule Crookston and EGF the same day.

We also play non-league games in Grand Rapids (183), Fargo/Moorhead (82), Devils Lake, ND (90) and tournaments in Duluth (266), Moorhead, Fargo, Roseau, TRF; districts in Roseau, Warroad, Bemidji, Baudette, Regions in Brainerd, Silver Bay, Grand Rapids, Willmar, and state tournamants in Willmar, St. Cloud, and New Hope. I actuallly look forward to non-district/league games in Grand Forks! Of of their arenas are closer to me than our own arenas.

[puckeyone]

So let me get this straight. Crow River do they not forget that it was only a few years ago that nobody wanted to travel to them even the close teams as they were terrible
Then MAML just got an arena a few years back , but before that everyone had to travel to St Cloud to play them or play outside, funny that traveling to Sartell is to far for them now .
Mounds former head high school coach was on the D5 board as supervisor of coaches untill he left a a year and half ago . Nothing was when he was around .Whos the head coach there now , is he behind this.
As for Buffalo that dance went on three or four years ago, and since they lost a prominent youth coach pushing this to alledged theft.
STMA ???new wkid on the block, cant say no??

somebody make some sense of this

[VicKevlar]

Vickie
Just what were the conditions that the D3 associations wanted Champlin Park to do before they were to be admitted. From what was told to me by a person close to the project D3 didn't exactly welcome them with open arms. Using the term bailing might not be the best term, maybe staying where they were welcomed would be better.

Came down to one and only one thing as a prerequisite:

Resolve the boundary issue with Brooklyn Park.

Once done, they were in. They had been sitting in on the D3 boards for a little while (just as Orono did before joining D3) and were moving forward.

Then things got ugly. Most would point to CPYHA leadership at the time, but from my firsthand thoughts on a few of the meetings I would point it right at TSquared the D10 Director.

I find it absolutely hilarious (sarcasm) that after Minnesota Hockey "resolved" the CPYHA/BPYHA border issue via "School Attendance" boundaries, one short year later MH changed the rules to let city of residence for participation.

[RLStars]

To RLstars, from what i heard its Mound/Westonka, Crow River, Buffalo, STMA and MAML,, dont know where Mn Hockey would put some of these if they want to move, and then what to do with the remaining five
Seems like the grass is always greener on someone elses lawn
Heck none of these could compete in their boardering distrcits of 3 , 10, and 6, and I wonder if those distrcits want to travel out to the Buffalos and MAMLs or will we then hear the same form those associations that have to travel to them if this were allowed
I find in amusing that those western associations arent complaing about traveling to them , maybe they should start hollering and demanding to get St Cloud and Sauk Rapids and other central MN assocaitions into 5,,, seems like that is logic, but when it comes to MN Hockey sometimes logic is furtherest thing from thier mind

Seems pretty simple to me as to how they go about handling the obscene amount of travel to Willmar. Schedule a morning game in Willmar, have a light lunch and then a late afternoon game with River Lakes (East or West, doesn't really matter) and you have a nice full day of hockey. Schedule the Bantam B's followed by the Bantam A's at each rink so the B's can watch the A teams play and get a little bleacher coaching time.

Do they think Willmar and River Lakes enjoy the drive to MAML, Buffalo, Crow River, Mound and STMA any more then they do????? Geez people get a grip.

[InigoMontoya]

I still have to wonder where the DD fits in this mess. Is he the real reason for the revolt, or just getting steamrolled? Either way, not effective (as if the pityfull amount of respect held by the district wasn't already proof of that). I don't see any clues that he is part of the solution, so I've got to go with 'part of the problem'.

[D5 PRES]

Heres some facts: In July DD called Presidents meeting, The Presidents came in with basically 3 requests
1.to have a year end Squirt and 10 U tournement.
2.to have a District double elimination tournement to move on to regionals
3. to look at a different league format
Items 1 & 2 were adopted by the District,
Item was to be brought back to the board in August for a vote. There were 3 proposals
1, to leave as is , playing Home/home series {18 games}
2, to go to east / west format playing each other home and home on their own side and playing the other side one time{ 13 games}
3, to play only one time { 9 games}
Vote was 9 to remain as same and 5 to go to east/ west format
About 2 weeks later the District gets letter from the five associations that they will not particpate untill their demands have been met. Most of the demands require rewriting of the By Laws which they wanted to be done immediatly but accordingly to the By Laws it takes time after the items are presented to the board in form of a motions
D-5 is presently involved in its District scheduling and as far as I know all are particiapting in it.
As far as the regional being moved ,It was requested by the DD at least two times to the association, At the last meeting in September no paper work had been turned in and at that point DD looked elswhere for a host.