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[quote="vikes40for60"]Don't forget the SLP HS Coach will have a Squirt next year as well.[/quote]

Why is a high school coach embedded in a youth program to begin with? We have more problems in Minnesota youth hockey due to meddling high school coaches (e.g. Stillwater) and local high school coaches who think that their public school kids should be favored over all (e.g. Stillwater/HillMurray, Maple Grove/Blake, etc.).

If I understand what you are hinting at, this high school coach thinks he can do it on his own and he will bring back Saint Louis Park hockey.

The faster Minnesota hockey disassociates itself from the high school model, the better off the kids will be. This appears to be another example of why Minnesota Hockey needs to develop AAA hockey at the highest levels so that high school coaches can't screw up a kids youth hockey experience. Looks like someone will be keeping Bernie in business this winter.

What High School Team ?

SLP has something like 50 players total Pee Wee through Bantams

Might be a good time to open STORM High School

St louis park will still have 1 HS Team

Benilde - just up the street - or is that Golden Valley?

WreckCenter wrote: Benilde - just up the street - or is that Golden Valley?

That is correct Benilde is up the street in the St. Louis Park School District Boundaries.

With the new Attendance rule, there are several Benilde players (who don't live in SLP or Mpls) playing at upper levels with the CO-OP as well. So now, you can attend SLP, Southwest, Washburn, Richfield, or Benilde St. Margaret's and play for the Storm. (maybe even South and Roosevelt). I realize they can be a "winner" now much much easier than before, but how many kids will even go to SLP? I know many of their top players also will or are going to Breck.

I grew up in Park and played there along time ago (30 years) when SLP wasn't good and played in old District 5 with nothing but Mpls schools. We could compete but got killed in the old Lake South all the time. It's true that not many kids chose hockey (basketball with Jim Petersen was more successful) and we only had 150-200 total kids from Mites to Bantams at the most every year. This was back when Park was graduating 500-700 students in a grade. Now they are at 325.

At Armstrong Cooper, 9 of the 28 players on the Bantam A and B1 team are At Benilde. This is the correct number as my kids are in the association. My kids go to public school.

One real question to me is why BSM isn't allowed to have their own Bantam A team since they will have 90 kids going out for HS this year I hear. I never went to a private school but BSM being AA unlike Breck or Blake means that they have manned up to play up (as they should).

spin-o-rama wrote:

hockeyover40 wrote:
How would adding Washburn and Richfield reduce development for the SLP kids? Look at the Storm PWA team. The team wasn't made up of A players. They were carried all year by Iverson, Jablonski, and Hale. They had a number of B1 players on that team. Add a few Washburn A players to that team, which would move the B1 players down to B1 where they belong. And they develop by playing against kids of the same skill level. They can be successful at that level.

Another example. The squirt A team. Made up of A players and B1 players, which trickled down to the B1 team having a number of B2 players. They had a very very tough season. Adding Washburn, Richfield A players to the A team, the B1 players move to the B1 team, and the B1 team is more successful. And they also develop because they are playing against kids of the same skill level.

That, to me doesn't sound like reducing the development of SLP kids. That sounds like increasing their development.

That's what SLP would get out of adding Washburn - Richfield.

Wah, Wah, WAh.
How is 10-7-7 a "very very tough season"? Maybe Washburn and Richfield A players should be injected into the mpls-park opponent's teams. They had a rougher season of 7-10-7.

If you want examples of "very very tough seasons," there are plenty of teams that won less than 5 games on a 35 game schedule.

I don't buy the PWA sob story either. 30-15-4, made state. Most teams are carried by their first line. Balanced scoring through 3 lines is non-existent in mh.

If mpls-park continually double and triple shifted their top lines to achieve their records then they are guilty of overemphasis on winning over development.

If you want to see a real sad story look at the second years from SLP on last years Mpls-Park bantam A team. As first year squirts they finished with a record of 0-35. How does this make kids better, it dosn't but when you add the southwest kids and eliminate the B players from the A team you get a top 20 bantam A team and a team that could be competitive in every game. Tell me whats wrong with that.