Elite 2 Tryouts Section 1

Marty McSorely · Post by **Marty McSorely** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 11:06 pm

When are they?

seek & destroy · Post by **seek & destroy** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 11:12 pm

From their website:

1A/1AA
8-16-08 Saturday 10:00-12:00 PM 4 Seasons Arena - Kasson, MN
8-16-08 Saturday 3:00-5:00 PM 4 Seasons Arena - Kasson, MN
8-17-08 Sunday 10:00-12:00 PM 4 Seasons Arena - Kasson, MN
8-17-08 Sunday 3:00-5:00 PM 4 Seasons Arena - Kasson, MN

2A/2AA
8-16-08 Saturday 9:30-11:45 AM Eagan Arena
8-16-08 Saturday 5:15-7:30 PM Eagan Arena

3A/3AA
8-16-08 Saturday 10:00-12:00 PM Bielenberg Arena - Woodbury
8-16-08 Saturday 4:30-6:30 PM Bielenberg Arena - Woodbury
8-17-08 Sunday 10:45-12:45 PM Bielenberg Arena - Woodbury

4A/4AA
8-16-08 Saturday 12:15-2:15 PM Bielenberg Arena - Woodbury
8-16-08 Saturday 6:45-8:45 PM Bielenberg Arena - Woodbury
8-17-08 Sunday 1:00-3:00 PM Bielenberg Arena - Woodbury

5A/5AA
8-15-08 Friday 6:30-8:45 PM Fogarty Arena - Blaine
8-16-08 Saturday 6:30-8:45 PM Fogarty Arena - Blaine
8-17-08 Sunday 4:15-6:30 PM Fogarty Arena - Blaine

6A/6AA
8-19-08 Tuesday 6:30-8:45 PM Thaler Arena - Mound
8-21-08 Thursday 6:30-8:45 PM Thaler Arena - Mound

7A/7AA
8-16-08 Saturday 12:00-1:30 PM The Heritage Center, Duluth (New Rink)
8-16-08 Saturday 5:30-7:00 PM The Heritage Center, Duluth (New Rink)
8-17-08 Sunday 10:30-12:00 PM The Heritage Center, Duluth (New Rink)

8A/8AA
8-16-08 Saturday 12:00-2:00 PM Moorhead Arena
8-16-08 Saturday 6:00-8:00 PM Moorhead Arena
8-17-08 Sunday 10:00-12:00 AM Moorhead Arena

West Metro
8-16-08 Saturday 12:00-2:00 PM St. Michael-Albertville
8-16-08 Saturday 6:00-8:00 PM St. Michael-Albertville
8-17-08 Sunday 11:00-1:00 PM St. Michael-Albertville

Pucknutz69 · Post by **Pucknutz69** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:29 am

website not working

www.elite2hockey.com

demongoed · Post by **demongoed** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 8:21 am

Do you have to register, or can you just show up? Can you get the info off the website?

seek & destroy · Post by **seek & destroy** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 8:34 am

Website moved to a new location:

www.eliteIIhockey.com

You can't just show up. According to the website you must register with USA hockey and with Elite II to tryout. Interesting to note that a large percentage of last years players from Elite II made Elite I this year. That shows how good of a league this has become especially for Sophomores and Juniors wanting competitive hockey that weren't able to get into Elite I. My son played in it last year and it was well run and the games were very competitive.

Pucknutz69 · Post by **Pucknutz69** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 1:53 pm

Noticed there is a different director. what if you sent your registration to the old address? sent awhile ago. Have Tryout letters been sent yet?

GR3343 · Post by **GR3343** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 2:13 pm

Pucknutz69 wrote:Noticed there is a different director. what if you sent your registration to the old address? sent awhile ago. Have Tryout letters been sent yet?

Received a phone call from Bill Moore regarding tryouts. He was in the process a week ago of getting letters in the mail. Those invited should receive letters soon, or already know that they're invited. I know he was waiting for all the Elite I stuff to get solidified before sending out letters.

seek & destroy · Post by **seek & destroy** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 3:13 pm

Pucknutz69 wrote:Noticed there is a different director. what if you sent your registration to the old address? sent awhile ago. Have Tryout letters been sent yet?

Charlie Graves has been involved for several years and I'm pretty sure that Bill Moore is still running it...just spreading the workload some. I'm sure anything sent in before has been forwarded properly. I know that my registration was received and I sent it back in April.

Tony Soprano · Post by **Tony Soprano** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 3:18 pm

Bill Moore has been named the men's hockey head coach at St. Mary's college for this season. That is the reason for change.

GR3343 · Post by **GR3343** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 3:47 pm

Tony Soprano wrote:Bill Moore has been named the men's hockey head coach at St. Mary's college for this season. That is the reason for change.

This happen yesterday? Spoke with him about a week ago and he was still processing tryout applications. Just curious. He's also still listed as commisioner on their updated website. Either way, the league will be fine. Bill did a pretty nice job from what I've experienced so far.

Tony Soprano · Post by **Tony Soprano** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 3:53 pm

This was in the Press last week and if you go to the St. Mary's site, you can read the release. Yes, Bill did a great job over the last 4 years with the league getting better each year. Hopefully that trend will continue.

GR3343 · Post by **GR3343** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 3:56 pm

Tony Soprano wrote:This was in the Press last week and if you go to the St. Mary's site, you can read the release. Yes, Bill did a great job over the last 4 years with the league getting better each year. Hopefully that trend will continue.

Well congratulations to Bill. Hopefully whoever takes his place takes the job as seriously as Bill did and does an equally outstanding job.

Can't Never Tried · Post by **Can't Never Tried** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 4:33 pm

GR3343 wrote:
Tony Soprano wrote:This was in the Press last week and if you go to the St. Mary's site, you can read the release. Yes, Bill did a great job over the last 4 years with the league getting better each year. Hopefully that trend will continue.
Well congratulations to Bill. Hopefully whoever takes his place takes the job as seriously as Bill did and does an equally outstanding job.

That would be this guy!

Charlie Graves
Elite II League Director

breakout · Post by **breakout** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 4:43 pm

seek & destroy wrote:Website moved to a new location:

www.eliteIIhockey.com

You can't just show up. According to the website you must register with USA hockey and with Elite II to tryout. Interesting to note that a large percentage of last years players from Elite II made Elite I this year. That shows how good of a league this has become especially for Sophomores and Juniors wanting competitive hockey that weren't able to get into Elite I. My son played in it last year and it was well run and the games were very competitive.

Elite 2 is a good league and worth checking out if a player is not playing Elite 1

Tony Soprano · Post by **Tony Soprano** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 9:41 am

Sioux Fan - how is your group going to look this year? Do you think section 1 will be able to make it back to the final game again this year? It looks like section 1 had a nice number of players make the Upper Midwest Elite League which is great.

davey · Post by **davey** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 2:33 pm

Tony Soprano wrote:Sioux Fan - how is your group going to look this year? Do you think section 1 will be able to make it back to the final game again this year? It looks like section 1 had a nice number of players make the Upper Midwest Elite League which is great.

Sioux Fan gets all the credit for these kids making the Elite league as they were all on his Elite 2 team last year. He teaches the kids to play hard and that they have to put in the time to get better. Few other kids down here that probably should have got a shot also, but it is the S.Minnesota stigma that they don't have any good hockey players down here that hurts some of these kids. Seems to me the Section did pretty well in the Advanced 17 spring festival against the metro and northern sections...oh yeah, they won that without really getting challenged.

aflac · Post by **aflac** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 2:51 pm

WOW! You really think Sioux Fan did this on his own??

Get a CLUE!!!
Those kids work hard during High School and summer! I would have to say that the High School coaches from the past and present had alot to do with it!!

topshelve69 · Post by **topshelve69** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 3:01 pm

aflac wrote:WOW! You really think Sioux Fan did this on his own??

Get a CLUE!!!
Those kids work hard during High School and summer! I would have to say that the High School coaches from the past and present had alot to do with it!!

Davey and sioux fan have a brown nose relationship, guess who's nose is brown?

davey · Post by **davey** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 3:28 pm

aflac wrote:WOW! You really think Sioux Fan did this on his own??

Get a CLUE!!!
Those kids work hard during High School and summer! I would have to say that the High School coaches from the past and present had alot to do with it!!

I guess I should have said "some of the credit." He does know what it takes to get to the next level. As far as the brown nose comment, I just appreciate a guy who will go to bat for the S. minnesota kids.

topshelve69 · Post by **topshelve69** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 3:33 pm

davey wrote:
aflac wrote:WOW! You really think Sioux Fan did this on his own??

Get a CLUE!!!
Those kids work hard during High School and summer! I would have to say that the High School coaches from the past and present had alot to do with it!!
I guess I should have said "some of the credit." He does know what it takes to get to the next level. As far as the brown nose comment, I just appreciate a guy who will go to bat for the S. minnesota kids.

The S. Mn kids or your kids?

Can't Never Tried · Post by **Can't Never Tried** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 3:40 pm

You section 1 guys really like to hammer on each other..

So at least ya got that going for ya

davey · Post by **davey** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 3:47 pm

topshelve69 wrote:
davey wrote:
aflac wrote:WOW! You really think Sioux Fan did this on his own??

Get a CLUE!!!
Those kids work hard during High School and summer! I would have to say that the High School coaches from the past and present had alot to do with it!!
I guess I should have said "some of the credit." He does know what it takes to get to the next level. As far as the brown nose comment, I just appreciate a guy who will go to bat for the S. minnesota kids.
The S. Mn kids or your kids?

S.MN kids

davey · Post by **davey** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 3:50 pm

topshelve69 wrote:
davey wrote:
aflac wrote:WOW! You really think Sioux Fan did this on his own??

Get a CLUE!!!
Those kids work hard during High School and summer! I would have to say that the High School coaches from the past and present had alot to do with it!!
I guess I should have said "some of the credit." He does know what it takes to get to the next level. As far as the brown nose comment, I just appreciate a guy who will go to bat for the S. minnesota kids.
The S. Mn kids or your kids?

Pretty sure I have never asked Sioux Fan to go to bat for one of my kids, in fact he cut one last year from the Elite 2 team. Guess that taught the kid to work a little harder to achieve his goals. Seems to be working.

Sioux Fan · Post by **Sioux Fan** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 5:29 pm

I do support all the kids that really want to go on and do the work to get there. I will do anything I can to help them move on but you are correct in saying that their HS coaches and other coaches in Bantams etc have a great deal to do with them being able to participate in our program.

I enjoy it. This weekend I even went over and watched the ICE HAWKS camp and watched one of my favorite ex-players play and he did a nice job. His name was Jay Gorman he should be playing at a higher level in my opinion he works his tail off. Good to see him play and it brought a smile to my face.

Davey I sometimes make mistakes but I am glad that Tyler got determined and has done so well this spring and summer. Good luck in Fargo and if that doesn't work out have a great Elite I and High School season.

I look forward to having Andrew this season but if the Elite 1 people really pay attention maybe he will get a slot as players decide to do other things than Elite 1. Otherwise I hope he comes to our camp and is a great leader for our group this fall.

Sioux Fan · Post by **Sioux Fan** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 5:32 pm

Davey,

That is what I am trying to say. I like their determination and work ethic.

I also like that they are very good competitors.. If they keep it up they will both do well.

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