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Posted: **Fri Jun 19, 2009 11:09 am**

What teams will be good this upcoming season?

Posted: **Fri Jun 19, 2009 12:04 pm**

AA: No particular order

Edina
Roseville
Stillwater
Minnetonka
Hopkins
EP
BSM
Grand Rapids
Hill Murray
Elk River
Eagan
Centennial

A Class - I am not to familiar with, but..

Warroad
Breck
Blake

Posted: **Fri Jun 19, 2009 12:56 pm**

Is Holy Angels going to be any good this year?

Posted: **Fri Jun 19, 2009 1:00 pm**

Could be - after the lost of Romatowski, not sure too much about them..

Posted: **Fri Jun 19, 2009 1:01 pm**

I would definitely add White Bear Lake into the top teams.

Posted: **Fri Jun 19, 2009 1:02 pm**

Agreed. WBL will be tough. One of the Lakeville teams should be tough again too..

Posted: **Fri Jun 19, 2009 2:23 pm**

SuperStar wrote:Agreed. WBL will be tough. One of the Lakeville teams should be tough again too..

I'd add Roseau to the top AA teams.

Posted: **Fri Jun 19, 2009 2:59 pm**

What about Red Wing in class A?

Posted: **Fri Jun 19, 2009 8:12 pm**

leftysniper24 wrote:What about Red Wing in class A?

Should be an improved team. I don't believe that they lost anyone. Unfortunately most of the teams that finished ahead of them this past year will be strong as well. Definitely in the top 10 though.

Posted: **Sat Jun 20, 2009 11:14 am**

leftysniper24 wrote:Is Holy Angels going to be any good this year?

They graduated 7 seniors and 100 points. It will be tough to make up that loss in a short period of time.

Posted: **Mon Jun 22, 2009 10:08 am**

iceage wrote:
leftysniper24 wrote:Is Holy Angels going to be any good this year?
They graduated 7 seniors and 100 points. It will be tough to make up that loss in a short period of time.

In the future will they be good?

Posted: **Mon Jun 22, 2009 10:17 am**

leftysniper24 wrote:
iceage wrote:
leftysniper24 wrote:Is Holy Angels going to be any good this year?
They graduated 7 seniors and 100 points. It will be tough to make up that loss in a short period of time.
In the future will they be good?

I suppose it depends on how well their recruiting goes, Money is getting tighter and the Scholarships may be harder to get.

Posted: **Tue Jun 23, 2009 2:09 pm**

hockeya1a wrote:
leftysniper24 wrote:
iceage wrote: I think this recruiting thing is over rated. Let me tell you a funny story. I went to a private school in Pennsylvania. We had a wrestling team much like Apple Valley in both stature and record. We were accused of recruiting from time to time. The funny part is that the school was an orphanage sponsored by the Hershey Chocolate Corp. In order for the school to recruit they would have had to have found the wrestler they wanted and then shoot the parents to make the kid eligible to get into the school. Yet there were still cries of recruiting. They overlooked the fact that the 2000 boys that went to the school all lived and grew up on dairy farms and our grips, forearms, and upper body strength were second to none. Not to mention a wrestling coach that is in the Pennsylvania High School Hall of Fame.

Posted: **Tue Jun 23, 2009 2:43 pm**

Lefty, it is OK to start a Holy Angels thread.

Iceage, funny to even think about Holy Angels as a orphanage for poor farm kids. Not sure if you were poking fun at them but the few Stars I know don't need to clean there boots very often.

Posted: **Tue Jun 23, 2009 3:59 pm**

royals dad wrote:Lefty, it is OK to start a Holy Angels thread.

Iceage, funny to even think about Holy Angels as a orphanage for poor farm kids. Not sure if you were poking fun at them but the few Stars I know don't need to clean there boots very often.

Had nothing to do with Holy Angels..........just this "recruiting" thing I keep hearing about. But as long as we are on Holy Angels, they have a good core of 9th graders (sophomores to be) and a bright spot in goal (Clara). I believe she was the goalie for the Riley Ice Cats as well.

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2009 11:47 am**

From what your saying, I gather that they are about 2 season from being a Top team again. Superstar might be wrong, but probably not...

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2009 12:34 pm**

Superstar already lost some credibility when he picked the 6th place finisher in the Lake to be a "top team" next year.

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2009 12:39 pm**

Frank Thumb - Not you again....

I will go on a limb this year and predict my EP Eagles will finish in the TOP 5 of the Lake Conference...and We will have to go to state - Like the last 4 out of 5 years...

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2009 2:00 pm**

hockeya1a wrote: I suppose it depends on how well their recruiting goes, Money is getting tighter and the Scholarships may be harder to get.

Do we have to rehash the recruiting thing every year? It's funny how it's always thrown around with the privates, when in fact there will be more big name transfers to to two classic lake teams this year, then AHA has had in it's girls hockey existence. I know you are going to say they take kids as freshman, but if you take a closer look at any private school roster, I would bet good $ that more than 3/4 of the kids on any roster were at private grade schools, these are typically families who prefer their kids get a private school education.

As far as getting back to the original post. It my only comments are it seems that the bulk of the good teams (AA) will be in two sections. Should make for some exciting section play.

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2009 4:01 pm**

Will know pretty early how strong Hill Murray is - great first five games (YIKES

)

Stillwater 11/25 @ St. Croix
WBL 11/29 H - Aldrich 3 PM
Edina 12/1 H - Aldrich 8 PM (Last two years they have played late in January)
Warroad 12/4 @ Warroad 7:30 PM
Roseau 12/5 @ Roseau TBD
Then 2 confernce games
Duluth 12/12 - Aldrich 3 PM
Then 2 confernce games
GRG 12/19 H – Aldrich 3 PM
Edina Tourney 12/28 @ Braemar
Edina Tourney 12/29 @ Braemar
Edina Tourney 12/30 @ Braemar
Then 8 conference games
BSM 1/30 @ St Louis Park TBD
Then 2 conference games
Sections 2-12 or 13
Section 2/16
Section Final 2/20

Does anyone know who else is in the Edina Tourney - it has moved to Braemar for this year which is a big step up from MN Made.

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2009 5:48 pm**

joehockey wrote:Will know pretty early how strong Hill Murray is - great first five games (YIKES ).

I believe that the first five games will define their season. If they do well they will be ranked. If they do poorly it will be hard to climb based on their conference schedule.

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2009 9:41 pm**

Edina is hoping to be a strong contender again this year. Edina has again set up one of the toughest schedules in the State:

Nov 17 AHA
Nov 21 Chaska
Nov 24 Buffalo
Nov 27 BSM, Blake or Breck (Cake Eater Tourney)
Nov 28 BSM, Blake or Breck (Cake Eater Tourney)
Dec 1 at HM
Dec 4 at Roseau
Dec 5 at Warroad
Dec 8 Roseville
Dec 12 Stillwater
Dec 15 Wayzata
Dec 17 at Centennial
Dec 19 at Armstrong
Dec 22 at Burnsville
Dec 28 Edina Tourney (Hopkins, GRG, Duluth E, HM, Irondale, Maple Grove or Lakeville South)
Dec 29 Edina Tourney
Dec 30 Edina Tourney
Jan 9 Hopkins
Jan 12 at Minnetonka
Jan 14 Blaine
Jan 19 Armstrong
Jan 23 at GRG
Jan 26 at Hopkins
Jan 30 Minnetonka
Feb 4 at Wayzata

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2009 9:54 pm**

FrankThom wrote:Superstar already lost some credibility when he picked the 6th place finisher in the Lake to be a "top team" next year.

Are you referring to his EP prediction or his one of the Lakeville teams prediction?

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2009 10:17 pm**

SuperStar wrote:Frank Thumb - Not you again....

I will go on a limb this year and predict my EP Eagles will finish in the TOP 5 of the Lake Conference...and We will have to go to state - Like the last 4 out of 5 years...

I do not have to Be FrankThom but I will write like him>

How small of a limb are you walking on? EP will probably be in the top 5 of a weak Lake conference, but your stats on 4 out of the last 5 years going to state are a little off.

04-05 not in
05-06 in Pezon and company were great.
06-07 not in remember Wayazta? Morris does! How did they not get in?
07-08 in won the whole thing. 7 non EP players
08-09 not in
My math says 2 out of 5

Ep had a good run for a while. I was surprised that they did not go further with the Lacombe sisters last year.

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2009 10:26 pm**

defensedad wrote:Ep had a good run for a while. I was surprised that they did not go further with the Lacombe sisters last year.

I hate to nitpick but I thought I'd mention that the LaCombes are cousins not sisters.

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