Duluth East at Hastings- 6pm Tuesday

Post by **east hockey** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 2:57 pm

sportsguy29 wrote:Still...I know there are alot of Raider (coaching staff) "haters" out there...But credit Hastings tonight....there is something there to work with. They never backed down, and played a decent game. Not GREAT, but decent enough to build some positives heading into Sections.

It wasn't the 7-1 game many thought would happen.

Thanks to all who listened...East has a Classy squad, good luck to the hounds!

-Thanks Lee!

Thanks for the props. Sorry we couldn't get down there for the game. Had it been a Saturday game, would have made a nice weekend down there.

Lee

RAIDER BLUES · Post by **RAIDER BLUES** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 3:51 pm

They do things a bit differently here in the Deep South. I get that part. What i don't get is how did the hockey fans of this once proud program let things slide so fast and so hard? And how can they just sit back and watch it all happen year after year?

GoolieMan · Post by **GoolieMan** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 7:12 pm

Wow sounds like Raiders Blues has some major beef with the coaches here in Hastings. You asked how once proud hockey fans of this program let it slide, well I got a question for you. If you're so angry about the way this program has gone in the past years, why haven't you tried to stop it from "sliding"? You say blame and fire the coach, but you can't honestly think that's the answer.
You are right though Hastings has had some fairly talented kids come up though. But one of the main problems is when the kids are coming up through the program, there are no expectations. The kids expect to lose those tough teams, when in reality if they compete like this varsity team did against East, they can play with the best of them.