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What do you think of the teams so far here are some rankings.
1. Lakeville South
2. Coon Rapids
3. Apple Valley
4.Minnetonka
5.Elk River
6Wayzata
7. Edina
8. Lakeville N
9.Jefferson
10. Woodbury

When Do the LPH Rankings come out. This Weekend there's a big tourny in Duluth featuring Lakeville N, Lakeville S, EP, CR, DE
I forgot to put Ep in the mix u tell me where they are. Havent seen any scores yet

Here are some scores so far.

Lakeville South- 6
Duluth East- 0

Apple Valley-2
Lakeville South-1

Wayzata-5
Minnetonka-1

Elk River-4
Edina-2

Coon Rapids-3
Jefferson-1

Here's what i think after seeing 7 of these teams play.

1. Wayzata
2. Coon Rapids
3. Apple Valley
4. Lakeville South
5. Elk River
6. Edina
7. Woodbury
8. Eagan
9. Eden Praire
10. Maple Grove
11. Minnetonka

Just my thoughts feel free to change anything

Eden Prairie 7 Elk River 2

Based on seeing some of the teams and past performances, this what I feel the top twenty looks like so far, but its early and some of the northern teams have not or are just getting started.

1. Coon Rapids
2. Lakeville South
3. Eden Prairie
4. Wayzata
5. Elk River
6. Edina
7. Woodbury
8. St Cloud
9. Apple Valley
10. Roseau
11. Eagan
12. Moorhead
13. Burnsville
14. Duluth East
15. Hermantown
16. Minnetonka
17. Maple Grove
18. Little Falls
19. Lakeville North
20. Brainerd

Watch: Hopkins, Mpls Park, Centennial, Jefferson, Armstrong

I can't really put Top 20 Rankings together just yet.
But from what I have seen and heard:
here are 20 metro area teams to watch.....
(In No Specific Order)........

D2 Teams = White Bear Lake, No. St. Paul, Stillwater
D3 Teams = WAYZATA, Maple Grove
D6 Teams = APPLE VALLEY, EDEN PRAIRIE, Edina, Burnsville, Bloomington Jefferson, Minnetonka, Prior Lake
D8 Teams = LAKEVILLE SOUTH, Woodbury, Lakeville North, Eagan
D10 Teams = COON RAPIDS, Elk River, Centennial, Andover

Top 5 Teams in CAPS

1. Coon Rapids
2. Edina
3. Wayzata
4. Eden Prairie
5. St. Cloud
6. Lakeville South
7. Woodbury
8. Little Falls
9. Apple Valley
10. Roseau
11. Minnetonka
12. Maple Grove
13. Burnsville
15. Bemidji
16. Grand Rapids
17. Lakeville North
18. Elk River
19. Brainerd
20. Eagan

Believe me on this one in2hockey.
Take Bemidji out of the top 50.
But put Grand Rapids in the top 10.

Wayzata 4
Edina 3

Watch out for Blaine PWA - They beat EP 4-3 last sunday. They should be somewhere in the Top 10.

i have no idea where all the teams stack up but i can also add that moorehead is not a top 20 team at the peewee level. roseaus been beating that team by 10 goals while putting their best forwards on defense after the first period since first year squirt age.

Wayzata should be #1 for now...Very strong

SuperStar wrote:Watch out for Blaine PWA - They beat EP 4-3 last sunday. They should be somewhere in the Top 10.

Blaine should be tough. They have 47 sheets of ice to use out there.

47 sheets of ice .. Doesn't mean alot.. Even though EP was missing 5 of there top players doesn't mean much, Blaine is still a force to be reckon with..Tough kids out there...

breakout wrote:

SuperStar wrote:Watch out for Blaine PWA - They beat EP 4-3 last sunday. They should be somewhere in the Top 10.

Blaine should be tough. They have 47 sheets of ice to use out there.

Oh geeez breakout.........Now you have to go back to Neutron's math class, he spelled it out quite well how much ice they have.l

Can't Never Tried wrote:

breakout wrote:

SuperStar wrote:Watch out for Blaine PWA - They beat EP 4-3 last sunday. They should be somewhere in the Top 10.

Blaine should be tough. They have 47 sheets of ice to use out there.

Oh geeez breakout.........Now you have to go back to Neutron's math class, he spelled it out quite well how much ice they have.l

I was unable to qualify for Neut's math class. The IQ grid is unbelievable in the city of Centennial

SuperStar wrote:47 sheets of ice .. Doesn't mean alot.. Even though EP was missing 5 of there top players doesn't mean much, Blaine is still a force to be reckon with..Tough kids out there...

Did Blaine ask EP to leave those kids behind?

Is it there or their???...........Neut, little help on this. Oops, forgot you are a numbers guy. CNT, Elliott, TA???

I would ask Boogie, but he would tell us about MM and little Sid's ice time and how much it costs per hour...........

Does anyone know when the Lets Play Hockey and MN Hockey Journal ratings come out?

It will be probably 2 weeks yet for LPH and close to a month for MHJ rankings.

After some of the scores this Weekend what does some of the rankings look like

I think that Edina has vaulted themselves to the top 2 of the Ranks to "start the season." That was a pretty impressive showing in Duluth.
Coon Rapids have solidified themselves among the top 4.
Duluth East Played well at home and get themselves a top 4 rank as well.
Wayzata still has to be talked about among the top 4 teams. Probably #1 or #2.

Then there are about 4-6 other teams that could go from 5-10.
Including Apple Valley, Lakeville South, Woodbury, Eden Prairie, and others......

EP 5 Coon Rapids 6
EP 3 Duluth East 4

EP 6 Lakeveille South 4
EP 2 Maple G 1


Chaska did well too from what I hear

actually - EP played Lakeville NORTH - not SOUTH...

max, you seen 8 teams play and you have the top 5 figured out? do you think its possible maybe that a team that wasnt at duluth might be as good or better than some of those teams? i know theirs a couple teams north of duluth that could be good and yes were still in the state of minnesota...

I've seen more than 8 teams play so far.....
But only about 18-20 at this point of the season.
But I do understand your point.

The great part about Rankings is they are opinions.
What I share are MY opinions.
I am sure that there are other good teams that I have not seen yet or have heard anything about (it is really early in the season).
I would even guess that there are teams in the "North" that are top 20 level teams as well. From what I have heard, Grand Rapids and Roseau have solid teams this year, I'm sure there are others too. Just haven't heard of them or seen them yet.

Top 20 Rankings in the first 6-8 weeks of the season are a complete crap shoot.

Maybe you could share some of your thoughts on the Northern Teams.
For a lot of us "Metro Folk," we don't have the privilege of seeing many of the northern teams on any sort of consistent basis.

After the weekend here's what changes.

1.Wayzata-until beat'n
2.Edina
3.Coon Rapids
4.Apple Valley
5.Duluth East
6.Lakeville South
7.Blaine
8.Jefferson
9.Eagan
10.Woodbury
11.Elk River
12.Maple Grove
13.Hermantown
14.Minnetonka
15.Grand Rapids


This is a good idea of the top 15 most of these teams will stay in the top 20 all year.