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What is the hardest high school team to make in Minnesota?

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Edina...with their enormous youth system, and all the transfers that are moving back now that the team is having success. Anyone know any numbers for how many kids are trying out?

Looks like Hill recruited way to many kids!

HShockey2180 wrote:Edina...with their enormous youth system, and all the transfers that are moving back now that the team is having success. Anyone know any numbers for how many kids are trying out?

About 5-6 years ago Edina had 150 kids at squirt tryouts, they squeezed the best 17 players out of that for their "A" team, the top 30 players from that A-B group could be now trying out for varsity as freshmen, then add grades 10,11, and 12, this has to be one of the toughest rosters to make.

DoubleDeuce wrote:Looks like Hill recruited way to many kids!

If you build it they will come.

Edina

davinci wrote:I heard Hill has 8 open spots('08 graduates) for both Varsity and JV and 90 trying out.

Thats a tough nut to crack!

H-M had nine Seniors graduate from the varsity last year.

Lino Lakes/Circle Pines

Burnsvilles got two varsity spots and no goalie spots

This is kind of a tough question to answer. You can think of it as being the hardest to make the team that you think is the best in the state like Edina or something like that. Or you can think of it as a team that graduated very few seniors and has a lot of kids returning. It kind of depends on who you're talking about too. A sophomore coming up from bantams or a senior who's played two years of JV?

By the way Koho, how do you figure that Burnsville only has two spots open? I know for a fact they graduated more seniors than that. Are you assuming some kids on the JV team are filling spots already?

that i am eagle4life. The varsity team is almost set and it is extremely unlikely that a sophomore or junior gold player will make varsity this year.. I can only see one sophmore with a legit chance and possibly a junior gold player otherwise varsity is set.

I'm going to say the team with the most talent is the hardest one to make...

hockeyjunkie2 wrote:I'm going to say the team with the most talent is the hardest one to make...

Insightful

State Champ 97 wrote:

hockeyjunkie2 wrote:I'm going to say the team with the most talent is the hardest one to make...

Insightful

Or you could go one better, the team with the most talent and the most depth is the hardest one to make.

Sometimes there is more room on a team with great talent, but just not enough of it, compared to a team with tons of returning kids trying out, most of whom are very solid players, that the coaches already know. Edina and Hill Murray seem to have the best of both worlds.

With the larger established programs...I would guess that most coaches go into tryouts with 80 to 90% of their roster already established in their minds...only using the tryout process to figure out their last 3-4 kids.
Agreed??

sideways wrote:With the larger established programs...I would guess that most coaches go into tryouts with 80 to 90% of their roster already established in their minds...only using the tryout process to figure out their last 3-4 kids.
Agreed??

obviously. i mean really, if your a junior, or sophmore, that played on varsity the year before you have a spot locked in. and you cant convince me or anyone else that coaches dont know who they are going to take. id say maybe 1 kid they have never heard of make the team. if that...

It's tough to make any decent team in MN.