Top Pee Wee A and Bantam A Teams for 2009-2010

[southernhockey1]

Who will be the Top Pee Wee A and Bantam A Teams for 2009-2010?[/b]

[dogeatdog1]

I'm going out on a limb and saying Edina should be close to the top

[drhook]

Why is this post here? way too early to tell, season hasn't even started. Wait until next fall.

[Bronc]

Who will be the Top Pee Wee A and Bantam A Teams for 2009-2010?[/b]

Always fun to discuss especially with down time. A lot of the top ones are obvious, but I would like to hear who some of the sleepers are after not being there last year(?)

[hockeystud9]

i say some of the sleepers would be grand rapids cloquet and east grand

[Ron Hextall]

Below are my lists of teams to watch, some new, some as always. But it is early and their will be some interesting things to be seen from teams in the upcoming season.

Ten Bantam A Teams to Watch:

Apple Valley - could be a contender, depends on who goes to the high school team
Burnsville - top notch goaltending solid group of peewees moving up and good coaching.
Cloquet - All key players return from last years team that went to state as peewees
Eden Prairie - Top team from D6, went to state as peewees, shouldn't lose anybody to high school, who is going to coach them?????
River Heights - Could they make a run? Bantam B and Peewee A team's went to regions last year, adding to solid returning group.
Lakeville South - Solid goaltending. Very good group of players, should contend in D8 and beyond.
Wayzata - Very good group, if all stay
East Grand Forks - Surprise state tournament team as peewees, with solid group of peewees coming up.
Roseau - Super team moves up to bantams, where the great equalizer will determine their success: SIZE.
North St Paul - the twins are bantams, team went to regions as peewees.

Ten Peewee A Teams to watch:

Changing of the guard in D8?
Rochester - Top player from last year returns, should be a contender in D8.
Rosemount - Super team moves on to peewees, although squirt success doesn't always indicate peewee success, first year players will add to one of the best forwards in D8 and one of its top goalies.
Farmington - Same as Rosemount, although not as much returning as it will be the players coming up that carry the load.
Hastings - some good returners from a competitive peewee team last year, could surprise a few people.
Prior Lake - Could crop coming up, growing program in D6.
Edina - How dominant will they be? The reasoning for two squirt teams will be evaluated on how this team does or will they have two?
STMA - Squirt super group, how will they handle the jump to peewee hockey? Can they back-up the hype or just another D5 mirage.
Forest Lake - Should be able to build on last years success with a solid squirt group coming in.
Osseo-Maple Grove - Second year of merger, should be better than the first right?
Jefferson - Is their reorganization going to start paying dividends, their coach should be coming back as well.

[hockeystud9]

ron are these teams the sleepers or just the teams contending

[Ron Hextall]

A mixture of both.

You always have the usual suspects:
Edina
Eden Prairie
Woodbury
Wayzata
Duluth East
White Bear Lake

Mostly they are teams to watch based on some knowledge I have of the teams, since it's almost June and the puck doesn't drop for a while, contenders tend to emerge in January.

Adder for Bantam A:
Coon Rapids - Solid group when they were peewees, won lots of one goal games early when this group was peewees, lost it at the end of the season. Should be a top 10-15 team this season.

[hockeystud9]

duluth should have a very solid team this year the coon rapids team is good but they seem to choke at the end of the seasons grand rapids should be another solid team

[Fire and Ice]

Once again the same old will run the level

Wayzata
Edina
White Bear
Centennial
Eden Prairie
Rochester
Roseau
Moorhead
Duluth E

no particular order

see how much peewees counts when they are Bantams most of the "could be squads" stay also rans save this one for March 2010


Coon Rapids will lose too many of there players and no coaching

[hockeystud9]

i agree on most of those teams exept for cenntenial i dont think they will have as strong of group of kids as other years all coon rapids has is 2 good players and a very good goalie your forgetting some teams though like clouquet they will have a very solid team alot returning and grand rapids i heard they got a few knew players and they have alot of second years and they played in the state champ game so they have experiance and east grand.

[in2hockey]

St. Cloud Bantam A will be strong. It looks like most of the 2nd year Bantams will not be moving up to high school - including six returning Bantam A players.

They won the District 10 championship 2 years ago as Pee Wees.

[hockeystud9]

If this team is the pee wee team of two years ago they should be ok not bad but not real goo

[bleedingblue]

Below are my lists of teams to watch, some new, some as always. But it is early and their will be some interesting things to be seen from teams in the upcoming season.

Ten Bantam A Teams to Watch:

Apple Valley - could be a contender, depends on who goes to the high school team
Burnsville - top notch goaltending solid group of peewees moving up and good coaching.
Cloquet - All key players return from last years team that went to state as peewees
Eden Prairie - Top team from D6, went to state as peewees, shouldn't lose anybody to high school, who is going to coach them?????
River Heights - Could they make a run? Bantam B and Peewee A team's went to regions last year, adding to solid returning group.
Lakeville South - Solid goaltending. Very good group of players, should contend in D8 and beyond.
Wayzata - Very good group, if all stay
East Grand Forks - Surprise state tournament team as peewees, with solid group of peewees coming up.
Roseau - Super team moves up to bantams, where the great equalizer will determine their success: SIZE.
North St Paul - the twins are bantams, team went to regions as peewees.

Ten Peewee A Teams to watch:

Changing of the guard in D8?
Rochester - Top player from last year returns, should be a contender in D8.
Rosemount - Super team moves on to peewees, although squirt success doesn't always indicate peewee success, first year players will add to one of the best forwards in D8 and one of its top goalies.
Farmington - Same as Rosemount, although not as much returning as it will be the players coming up that carry the load.
Hastings - some good returners from a competitive peewee team last year, could surprise a few people.
Prior Lake - Could crop coming up, growing program in D6.
Edina - How dominant will they be? The reasoning for two squirt teams will be evaluated on how this team does or will they have two?
STMA - Squirt super group, how will they handle the jump to peewee hockey? Can they back-up the hype or just another D5 mirage.
Forest Lake - Should be able to build on last years success with a solid squirt group coming in.
Osseo-Maple Grove - Second year of merger, should be better than the first right?
Jefferson - Is their reorganization going to start paying dividends, their coach should be coming back as well.

Ron,

You're putting way too much emphasis on how they did at the squirt level last year... You don't win with 1st year peewee A's, a lot of these teams you posted had good squirt A teams but what's more important is the class above them, did they win on their B1 team and how many returners do they have coming back? Ediina, Wayzata, EP and OMG will be the teams to beat in the cities. If the WI fire kids come back to LN, they'll be tough as well......

[iwearmysunglassesatnight]

their not coming back, at the squirt level or peewee level.

[Jerry]

River Heights? I think the high school takes all the top 2nd year players every year don't they?

[pitbull]

I heard a rumor 4-5 Chaska PWA players are going to EP next year. Is that fact or fiction? If so should make EP a stronger Bantam A team.

[Shoot Higher]

I heard a rumor 4-5 Chaska PWA players are going to EP next year. Is that fact or fiction? If so should make EP a stronger Bantam A team.

Are you from Chaska? Why leave? I thought Chaska's program/coaching was on par or superior to most D6 programs. And summer Breakaway is great!

[hockeystud9]

who cares about who there gonna get those cake eaters are gonna get killed by the northern teams of mn thats where all the real hockey is played we dont have people by everything we need

[FrooTyeagledad2b]

Once again the same old will run the level

Wayzata
Edina
White Bear
Centennial
Eden Prairie
Rochester
Roseau
Moorhead
Duluth E

no particular order

see how much peewees counts when they are Bantams most of the "could be squads" stay also rans save this one for March 2010


Coon Rapids will lose too many of there players and no coaching

Lose players at the Bantam level? Don't think so, no coaching you are right

[FrooTyeagledad2b]

Once again the same old will run the level

Wayzata
Edina
White Bear
Centennial
Eden Prairie
Rochester
Roseau
Moorhead
Duluth E

no particular order

see how much peewees counts when they are Bantams most of the "could be squads" stay also rans save this one for March 2010


Coon Rapids will lose too many of there players and no coaching

Lose players at the Bantam level? Don't think so, no coaching you are right

[pitbull]

heard chaska players leaving due to addition of chanhassen high school opening next year.

[Fire and Ice]

Roo staying....TG. Best player.

[old goalie85]

forest lake to have non parent paid coaching at peewee and bant levels this year. Both went to regions last year. high school coach involved with youth very good. should spell improvment for the old grappling town. plus two new sheets of ice.

[FrooTyeagledad2b]

Roo staying....TG. Best player.

Not a returning Bantam