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If the game is postponed on Friday night, it will be played at noon on Saturday at Gustavus. <br><br>I think even with all the conflicts with others associated with Albert Lea Hockey, there will still be a good crowd for them......hope everything works out with the goalie situation. <br><br>upucker, good luck with the squirts this weekend.<br><br>Good luck to A.L. <p></p><i></i>

Thanks puckmaster<br>And u too with Orono. <p></p><i></i>

Just wanted to varify that Clay Casanova is fine and nothing has happend to his collar bone. I dont know where that rumor came from but its not true, Clay will be in net and ready to go come Friday. <p></p><i></i>

way to go AS1108... you blew the element of surprise <p></p><i></i>

ya know i dont think anyone really cared if their goalie was out or not anyways <p></p><i></i>

East had already smelled it out before your posting. It<br>doesn't matter to them who's in goal, they're going to<br>GAC ready to play hockey. Should be a great game. <p></p><i></i>

Josh (SLP Coach)<br>Thank you. It was a tough loss and it sucks that I'll never get to put on the purple and white jersey again, but Albert Lea deserved to win that game, they came out ready to play and it took us a period to get anything going. Heh, my goal.. woulda been nice if I wouldnt have screwed up my breakaway. Would have been a 4-2 game then instead AL went right back down and scored. <p></p><i></i>

AL has the advantage in coaching with Nystrom. Too bad<br>for East none of their players have played on any other<br>teams outside of Mankato or for and against any other<br>coaching styles to get exposure to all the different traps,<br>defenses and forchecks AL's going to throw at them. But<br>I know they've been working on a secret play they call<br>the 'flying V'. See they form this 'V' with the tall Drysdale<br>kid at the pt. of the V and then hide the shorter Wenzel<br>kid in behind ---oops I gave it away! It doesn't matter<br>it's an unstoppable play. They've also been working extra hard on their triple diekes in practice, you know 1 deike, 2 ---<br><br> <p></p><i></i>

How to counter the FLYING V. Tony Dugstad hits them in the center like a bowling ball a little to the right and knocks em all down, we in A.L. call it the STRIKE. <p></p><i></i>

but what is the counter to the triple deke? <p></p><i></i>

ELBOW TO THE FACE AND IF YOU MISS TRIP EM <p></p><i></i>

if anyone can do it dugstad can hes a big boy i hope he lays some people out this game and bring them to the win hes a real team player all around. <p></p><i></i>

has the game been rescheduled or not? <p></p><i></i>

the game is still on for tonight!! <p></p><i></i>

How can the game still be on if Mankato was closed today? I thought that was a Minnesota State High School League rule. <p></p><i></i>

idk, maybe it doesnt matter if the game isnt being played in mankato. wasn't albert lea schools closed too?? <p></p><i></i>

I dont think that albert lea is closed today but i know mankato is. I know that st. peters were closed too. i dont know if that matters at all eather. <p></p><i></i>

Game tonight is STILL ON!!!!! 7:30 @ Gustavus Don Roberts Rink, St. Peter <p></p><i></i>

Just an FYI: Albert Lea schools were closed, not due to roads (they would have just been late), but 2 schools lost power due to wet snow. <br><br>So both teams have been sitting around all day........advantage to either team?????? I guess we'll see.<br><br>Should be a good one......My prediction is:<br><br>Albert Lea 6<br>Mankato East 5<br><br> <p></p><i></i>

East 3 Albert Lea 3 mid way through 2nd <p></p><i></i>

Albert Lea 5 Mankato East 4 OT....AL scores with 1 second left in overtime.<br>Congratulations AL players and coaches!!!!! <p></p><i></i>

awesome game! Clay Casanova does his thing! Way to go Roy's Boy's! <p></p><i></i>

In the 1st minute of the Windom playoff game Wenzel was driven against the boards at an awkward angle by<br>a Windom player. Wenzel could hardly crawl over the<br>boards to get into the bench. I got that sick feeling that<br>East's chances for state may have just have taken a big<br>hit (no pun intended). It turned out to be a severe groin<br>muscle pull. He played at about 60% for the West game<br>and about 75% for the AL game. You noticed he didn't<br>have that extra gear to go around and by people like he<br>did in the 1st AL game. I realize AL's defensemen played<br>a better game Friday night than in the 1st East game. That<br>was partly due to the effort to protect their goalie. Hat's <br>off to them. A healthy Wenzel would have still have been<br>able to exploit AL's young goalie more.<br> The way the refs stepped in to affect the outcome of a<br>great game like this is pathetic. Thanks MW. Baseline ref<br>calls a goal for East. The other 2 refs by the blueline make <br>no call. They slowly skate up to the net and discover it's off. A 1 minute conference takes place by the scorers<br>table, NO GOAL! As a ref in a game like this you can't let<br>the players or coaches make the calls for you. If they<br>didn't clearly see the net come off before the goal they<br>can't make that call. The way they made the call shows <br>they thought the net 'might' have been off. That was a<br>very poorly handled decision. Also 1 penalty in the whole<br>game for AL! They ain't 'that' well coached or 'that' clean a team. Just ask Lourdes.<br> AL fought hard and won the game, but they got some <br>help. I hope they do a good job against that manufactured<br>bunch from Breck, but I think it's going to be a long after-<br>noon for 1a. East was the better team this year and had<br>a better chance for a respectable showing. Especially with<br>5 more days for Wenzel to heal. Fate stepped in to help<br>with AL's bad luck and give them at least a shot to go. The<br>stripes stepped in with enough poor decisions to seal the<br>deal. <p></p><i></i>

Thor<br>Don't go away mad, just go away. <p></p><i></i>

Saw the game and the ref's blew MANY calls on both sides, especially the taller referee. He probably couldn't pull the whistle out of his ... How in the world did that guy end up in a section championship game? You do have to call cross-checks to the head. How about Mankato players, after falling on the ice, covering the puck with their hands? BTW, I didn't care who won the game.<br><br>Didn't matter anyway because AL didn't score a pp goal. In fact, they played worse on the pp than at even strength.<br><br>Mankato had numerous chances in the OT to win the game but couldn't put it away. Albert Lea did, with 1.2 seconds to spare.<br><br>Fun game to watch and good luck to section 1a at state. <p></p><i></i>