Section 3A

h20 · Post by **h20** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 9:40 pm

behindthemask, well said but you left out the schools that go and recruit and still play A,, thats even a bigger joke in this picture, dont blame the players, for this section, it was not their fault, it is what it is ,and somebody will get the thrill of thier life, and probably blown out at the sametime, but 20 years from now they can tell thier kids that they made it to state.

hero12 · Post by **hero12** » Sun Nov 25, 2007 10:01 pm

behindthemask, RLStars gave this site, http://www.geocities.com/dent0110/2007willmar.html earlier, and you can substitute in other towns for that. you also mentioned conference even though the topic is sections, but i think worthington and luverne both had players close to where krogen was. i think one was a sophmore from worthington and a sophmore from luverne. im sure he will be a very good player this year though. also, i agree about the competetive section assignments, but there are some big problems in this area that make it very hard for these teams to be competetive state wide. instead of hiding from that problem i think it should be taken head on. easier said than done i know..

Bhindthemask · Post by **Bhindthemask** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 11:48 am

Thanks hero12. I know Luverne had a soph. that was pretty good. Phil Paquette, not sure if thats how you spell it. Last year I think he had like 25-30 goals in Luverne's 23 games. I'm sure that had to lead the SWC. He is also the tailback for the football team. I think Worthingtons best soph. from last year was probably their goalie. I think his last name is Swanson, maybe.

powerplay009 · Post by **powerplay009** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 7:08 pm

http://www.geocities.com/dent0110/teams2008.html

This could be more of a help. Just click on the team and shows there schedule for this year and also returning players with points. Looks like Krogen (Marshall) and Paquette (Luverne) were the two highest from just skimming through some of the section teams both at 35 points last season.

IbleedOrange_07 · Post by **IbleedOrange_07** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 1:44 pm

krogen had a huge game agaisnt redwood already this year. 5 pts off a hat-trick and 2 assists. A couple of the young boys stepped up and looks like one of them had a goal in his first varsity game. looking for info about the other games in the section

RLStars · Post by **RLStars** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 2:12 pm

IbleedOrange_07 wrote:krogen had a huge game agaisnt redwood already this year. 5 pts off a hat-trick and 2 assists. A couple of the young boys stepped up and looks like one of them had a goal in his first varsity game. looking for info about the other games in the section

Willmar put a whoopin on Morris/Benson 9-2. Shots were 59 to 9

Here is the stat sheet http://www.rinkwriter.com/willmar/willm ... _11_27.pdf

hero12 · Post by **hero12** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 9:54 pm

wow, morris-benson must be down this year? i remember them being a pretty tough team. also, congrats to krogen, but i've never really noticed him as a dominating players. plus, redwood isnt exactly a good test of how things will pan out. i can def. see some of the younger players from marshall being just as important to marshall's sucess

IbleedOrange_07 · Post by **IbleedOrange_07** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 6:22 pm

willmar has always been a pretty competitive team. the willmar marshall game should be a good contest when the time comes. sounds like both teams didn't really have a true test as they were both high scoring and one sided. even if sec 3a isn't "elite" which i beg to differ there will still be some good hockey being played.

Bhindthemask · Post by **Bhindthemask** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 12:44 pm

Lookin at the stats from that Willmar-MBA game, two things that I notice.
1. These two teams are polar opposites of last year
2. Don't let MBA get on the powerplay. 50% on pp thats pretty good

I would also have to assume that blowing out MBA would be alot tougher than Redwood. No disrespect to Redwood, but I think MBA had pretty good year last year if I'm not mistaken.

Anyone have any stats on the Marshall-Redwood game. How did Redwood look in this game? Sometimes they show signs of improvement and then sometimes they look like Redwood.

Windom beat Fairmont 8-1 on Thurs. night. Windom looked pretty quick. I think Windoms only question will be their goaltending. Neither of their goalies have High School experience, but being thrown into the fire I think they will come along in good time.

When do Willmar and Marshall play? That should be a fun game to see.

mnhockey09 · Post by **mnhockey09** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 11:02 pm

Just to throw it in New Ulm beat Hutch tonight 6-2.

RLStars · Post by **RLStars** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 11:10 pm

Sartell................1 - SOG=23
Willmar..............0 - SOG=25

only 6 penalties in the game

Edger · Post by **Edger** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 2:43 am

Re-caps from 12/4/07.

HUTCHINSON — Kyle Reinarts scored two goals as New Ulm defeated Hutchinson 6-2 in nonconference hockey action Tuesday.
Wade French, Zach Fischer, Tom Novak and Shawn Stewart each had goals for New Ulm.
Jordan Burkhart had 19 saves and the Eagles had 22 shots on goal.
The junior varsity lost 3-1.
New Ulm (2-0) is at Litchfield Thursday.

WILLMAR — Senior goalie Josh Gesch made an impressive showing in his varsity debut, but his Cardinal teammates shot blanks all night at the Sartell goalie resulting in a 1-0 loss Tuesday night.
It was the Central Lakes Conference opener for both teams.
The only goal came in the second period at the 7:15 mark. Andy Worzala dug the puck out of the corner to the left of Gesch.
He hustled a pass to Matt Nahan, breaking to the crease from the right wing. He one-timed it pass Gesch from point-blank range.
Willmar plays at Alexandria on Thursday.

MARSHALL — Defenseman Andy Ogdahl got in the scoring act to join the red-shot Tony Krogen to lead Marshall to an 8-2 hockey win over Worthington in Southwest Conference action Tuesday night.
Ogdahl got his first two goals of the 2007-08 season, while Krogen tallied five goals, giving him eight to date. John Doom had three assists.
The Tigers (2-0, 2-0 SWC) won their second conference game — by the same score as against Redwood Valley.
The Tigers broke the game open with four goals in the second period.
Windom Area is up next on the road Thursday. The Eagles have 8-1 and 7-4 wins over Fairmont and Redwood Valley, respectively.

Luverne 7, Fairmont 3
FAIRMONT — Phil Paquette tallied a hat trick to pace the visiting Cardinals past the host Cardinals Tuesday night.
Of Paquette’s three goals, two were short-handed, while one came with five skaters aside.
Tim Connell scored twice, while Brent Dinger and Zach Olson each scored once for the visiting Cardinals (1-0).
Luverne defenseman Chris Den Hoed assisted on three goals.
Luverne hosts Marshall Tuesday evening.

From Monday night 12/03/07

The Windom Area boys hockey team improved to 2-0 on the young season Monday with a 7-4 come-from-behind win over Redwood Valley at Redwood Falls.
The Eagles trailed 2-1 after one period, but bounced back with six goals over the next two periods.
Jason Cook scored a pair of power play goals for the Eagles, while Nick Eisenmenger added a pair of goals. Nick Johns, Drew Donahue and Brandon Fast had the other Eagle goals in the win.
Eagle goalie Ethan Villeneuve, in his first varsity start, stopped 19 shots in the win.
Next game:
Windom vs. Marshall, Dec. 6

Edger · Post by **Edger** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 10:42 am

12/5/07 results

WINDOM — The Marshall boys hockey team escaped a third-period comeback by the Windom Eagles on Thursday night to take a 7-5 win in the Southwest Conference matchup.
This was the third consecutive SWC win for Marshall giving them a pefect 3-0 record overall as well as in the conference.
Things started out well for Marshall, after John Doom opened the scoring up for Marshall, Windom responed with a goal of their own. The Tigers weren’t finished in the first period, though as Aaron Ogdahl, Tony Krogen and Ryne Hanson each reached the back of the net to help build a 4-1 lead.
The Eagles struck first in the second period with a goal, but then Dereck Deutz answered quickly again for Marshall to make it a 5-2 game going into the third period.
Things were looking good for Marshall early on as Krogen was able to capitalize on a power play right away at the start of the third period help Marshall climb to a 6-2 lead, but that was when things started to spiral down for the Tigers.
Windom retaliated with a quick goal after Marshall’s opening goal, and then followed that up with two consecutive power play goals to suddenly make the game 6-5 with 3:30 left on the clock. The Tiger defense held on, though, and Danny Hansen was able to knock in a goal on an open Windom net with 12 seconds left in the game to clinch it.

ALEXANDRIA — Willmar did find some offense but not enough and fell 6-3 to Alexandria at the Runestone Center on Thursday night.The fast-paced Central Lakes Conference game saw the host team outshoot the visitors, 36-23.
Tyler Resch scored the first of his two goals on a powerplay for an early 1-0 Alexandria lead. But Matt Odom answered for Willmar with an assist going to Josh Mead, making it 1-1 at 12:05 of the first.
Justin Hochsprung swung the momentum back to Alexandria with another goal on the man-advantage for a 2-1 lead after one.
It was the first of four straight goals by Alexandria over three periods for a 5-1 lead.
Willmar made some noise in the sixth minute of the third period. Mead got a power-play goal, followed a half-minute later at 6:25 with a tally by Rory Schneider off a steal by Jordan Benson.
That made the score 5-3, but Willmar couldn’t beat goalie Matt Hemingway again.
Jon Mattison made 30 saves for Willmar, which plays at Litchfield on Saturday.

LITCHFIELD — The New Ulm boys hockey team won its third straight game last night, topping Litchfield 4-3.
Jordan Burkhart made 22 saves and New Ulm outshot Litchfield 37-22. New Ulm’s scorers were Luke Zollner and Kyle Reinarts, both with one goal and one assist each. Sean Stewart and Tom Novakalso each scored one goal.
New Ulm (3-0) plays it’s first home game Saturday when it hosts Albert Lea.

HUTCHINSON - The Tiger boys' hockey team got a first period goal from senior Jack Daggett, but two second period goals by St. Michael-Albertville (1-2) gave the Knights their first win of the season, 2-1.
Daggett scored his team-high second goal of the season in the opening 17 minutes to give the Tigers a 1-0 lead.
Hutchinson (1-2) appeared to take a 2-0 lead, but a goal was waved off due to the puck being played by a high stick.
The Knights score two goals in the second period on Tigers netminder Zak Swenson - his first start in three games to take the lead for good.
Hutchinson is at Le Sueur-Henderson/St. Peter at 7 p.m. next Tuesday.

eaglescout06 · Post by **eaglescout06** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 11:12 pm

So I know it's early but who is the team to beat?

eagle11 · Post by **eagle11** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 11:33 pm

New Ulm

HockeytownUSA · Post by **HockeytownUSA** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 1:35 pm

I think New Ulm is one of the teams to beat, I also think though at this point in the season, Marshall would need to be included with New Ulm, both teams seem to be showing they can compete so far, but before any decision on which team is better, more games need to be played.

h20 · Post by **h20** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 1:46 pm

yep New Ulm now , LDC plays Willmar today. that might shed more light, but Marshall, who have they played, NOBODY, look at who New Ulm has played , then Willmar LDC, HUTCH, much toughter competition. it will be one of those four in the end,,depends on injuries, and Goaltending

h20 · Post by **h20** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 10:46 pm

yep unless New Ulm has a ton of injuries might as well consider them the one to beat, LDC 4, Willmar 1,,, Willmar looks like the same old undisciplined team as the last years, take penalties away from the puck , get scored on, and their power play is awfull, think they had 6-8 power plays and couldnt even muster a good scoring chance,, so we will see in feb, where things stack up , but right now its New Ulm

HockeytownUSA · Post by **HockeytownUSA** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 9:35 am

Well i would agree that New Ulm has played much tougher competition...I think everyone can agree with that...but all i was saying is that just because marshall hasnt played hard teams doesnt mean there not good...just have to wait and see until they play some higher competition...and see what happens.

Edger · Post by **Edger** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 10:28 am

NEW ULM — In New Ulm High School’s first three hockey games, they have played relatively penalty free and posted a 3-0 mark.
But Saturday night, the Eagles were whistled for 10 penalties as they fell to Albert Lea 5-3 in nonconference boys hockey play.
Cody Kohn, Sean Stewart and Beau Burgau scored the goals for New Ulm.
“I will not say that I am not disappointed by the loss but we are going to have some bumps in the road.,” New Ulm coach Erik Setterholm said. “This is one of those games that we can build on. We had more penalties tonight then we had in all three previous games combined. I knew that we were going to have a lot of penalties tonight.”
And there were a lot of penalties called not only on the Eagles but also for the Tigers who were also called for 10 penalties.
After a scoreless first period, both teams got on the board in the second period scoring short-handed goals.
Albert Lea’s Tyler Prihoda gave the Tigers a 1-0 lead before Kohn beat Tiger goalie Tyler Distad to give the Eagles some momentum.
But any momentum that New Ulm may have had on Kohn’s tying goal was lost quickly as the Tigers scored twice in just over a minute and a half to take a 3-1 lead and never looked back.
“I don’t think that we ever had momentum even after we tied the game,” Setterholm said. “We were a little different team tonight — we did not come to play.”
The Eagles cut the lead to 3-2 when Stewart scored the second short-handed goal of the game at the 13:57 mark of the third period.
Both teams exchanged goals with the Tigers’ Jordan Preschler-Smerud giving Albert Lea a 4-2 lead.
New Ulm pulled to within 4-3 on a power play goal from by Burgau with 37 seconds left in the game.
After winning the face-off, the Eagles pulled goalie Jordan Burkhart but Albert Lea’s Casey Woodside salted the game away with an open net goal 16 seconds later.
“This was a one-goal game that we will have to rebound from,” Setterholm said. “This was our fourth game this week and now we need to rest and get ready for Robbinsdale Cooper next Friday.”

LDC 4-Willmar 1
Redwood-Worthington
Windom-Morris-Benson
re-caps on Monday.

IbleedOrange_07 · Post by **IbleedOrange_07** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 11:29 am

based on willmar in previous years and the marshall new ulm past...i those will be some good games and i think the outcome will be base solely on who stays outta the penalty box. all three teams have some hot heads fighting for the win almost literally....these will be ones to watch FOR SURE

goaler · Post by **goaler** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 11:14 am

Based on what I saw in the Mankato summer league, I can't believe that Marshall beat Windom.

Windom is a hard-hitting, strong team and Nick Eisenmenger is a great goal-scorer. He's one of the best players in southern Minnesota. What I saw from Marshall was a team that lost 12 seniors and was very much in a re-building mode. If they've come this far, I give them and thier coach credit.

What's going on out there Windom and Marshall fans?

goaler · Post by **goaler** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 11:15 am

Based on what I saw in the Mankato summer league, I can't believe that Marshall beat Windom.

Windom is a hard-hitting, strong team and Nick Eisenmenger is a great goal-scorer. He's one of the best players in southern Minnesota. What I saw from Marshall was a team that lost 12 seniors and was very much in a re-building mode. If they've come this far, I give them and thier coach credit.

What's going on out there Windom and Marshall fans?

gopherfan06 · Post by **gopherfan06** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 1:00 pm

You can't base anything off summer scrimmages. A lot of Marshall's top players aren't able to make the summer games with baseball and golf they were really short handed all summer playing with a lot of freshman and sophomores. I'm not sure who that Eisenmenger is and didn't notice him in the Marshall/Windom game but the Krogen-Ogdahl-Doom line is a tough one to stop for Marshall. Krogen has something like 18 points in 5 games and Ogdhal and Doom about 15 already

sick_dangles08 · Post by **sick_dangles08** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 1:59 pm

what happened with willmar and luverne?