Breck played their 4th quality team of the year and....... Another loss. This is a good team but not great team like it was the past 2 to 3 years. As for winning the tourney the last two years I say... so what. This is almost a entirely different team. This squad is lacking steady goaltending, solid defense, leadership and coaching. I heard the coach kicked one of the top players off the Ice during the game. Sure they can beat up the weak teams in the class, but until they beat one good team with a winning record they should be in the bottom half of the top ten.HShockeywatcher wrote:Probably won't post on here for a few days, so thought I'd respond to this now.dangler99.1 wrote:Breck hasn't beat anyone good this year.
They are a little on the young side.
They are a 5 thru 10 team, but not a top 4.
If everyone sticks around, they should be very, very good next year.
The difference in my opinion is two things:
1. Breck is back-to-back state champs. If you were to compare this year's schedule to other schools with similar Class A winning percentages, you would see wins against Mahtomedi and Cathedral. If you don't like those, which I do, you would then see they have done this and won the past two state titles.
Two years ago, they same comments that are being made about New Ulm, Lourdes, etc, were made against Breck; soft schedule, margin of victory, etc. The difference; they went to state two years in a row and went 3-0 both years. Without knowing specifics about the roster, it's tough to put them down, imo.
2. Their schedule isn't like those other teams. How do you get in the Gold Division? You win the Silver. Why do teams like Mahtomedi, Cathedral, St Thomas, Lourdes, etc schedule you? You're good.
But you are right. It's not terribly impressive. The issues is balancing what they have done, not what is hard to compare.
Little Falls, Totino, Blake, Hermantown and STA all deserve to be higher than Breck at this stage of the year.
