Top Players to watch.... freshman and sophomore....

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northshore guy
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Top Players to watch.... freshman and sophomore....

Post by northshore guy »

Who are some players we need to be watching this season? Let's look at underclassmen.
Any names out there....
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Post by northshore guy »

Marvin and Gardener from Warroad, Cameranesi from Blake and Hespenheide and Menke from Shakopee are a few I can think of....Schipper from Breck; Donovan from Irondale (8th next year); EP's goalie Johnson;

SO: McMillen- Breck; Cullen- Totino; Stangl- Eagan; Kukowski- Eastview;
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Post by Melvin44 »

I'll have to add our sophomore's Sam Hanson fast awesome D and Hayley Hill smart high scoring sniper F.
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Post by hockeywild7 »

I would have to go with Steiklein from Roseville at D and Eder-Zedlik a forward from Stillwater as two outstanding sophomores.
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Post by Sharkman »

Top Forwards:

Illikainen - Grand Rapids, Curtiss - Elk River, Brandt - Hill Murray

Top Defense:

Stecklein - Roseville, Armstrong - Edina, Mc Millen - Breck
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Post by rinkrat90 »

Sam LaShomb (not sure of spelling); defender at SSP is a good one.
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Post by hemiman »

Some girls I saw over the summer at several Tourneys:

Milan, stillwater, defense
Volk or vokl from Burnsville, forward?
Halverson, played 14uA last year at Highland, defense
Woodward, goalie white bear or Hill?
Progreba, N. St. Paul, Forward
Strasborg, N. St. Paul, forward
Gavick, from hudson, @ Hill I believe

Milan, progreba, strasborg and gavick, woodward won the super series last spring.
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Post by rinkrat555 »

volk, bville is jv this year......
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Post by hockey77coach »

Roseville - Stecklein, Brodt, Allen
White Bear - Hanson, Hill, Longendyk
Mounds View - Walters, Peake
Hill Murray - Brandt
Stillwater - Eder-Zedlik
Park - Morse
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Post by Night Train »

I'll add Flug from Roseville as a top 95 9th grader.
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Post by OntheEdge »

hemiman wrote:Some girls I saw over the summer at several Tourneys:

Milan, stillwater, defense
Volk or vokl from Burnsville, forward?
Halverson, played 14uA last year at Highland, defense
Woodward, goalie white bear or Hill?
Progreba, N. St. Paul, Forward
Strasborg, N. St. Paul, forward
Gavick, from hudson, @ Hill I believe

Milan, progreba, strasborg and gavick, woodward won the super series last spring.
Halverson played for Highland but went to school at Edina. She would have been a nice addition to Edina's D core but she transferred to NSA.
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Post by hemiman »

edge,
I cant figure out what NSA is, Little help w/ my brain lapse? :roll:
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Post by Northland »

hemiman wrote:edge,
I cant figure out what NSA is, Little help w/ my brain lapse? :roll:

Looks like it should be NSP.
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Post by OntheEdge »

hemiman wrote:edge,
I cant figure out what NSA is, Little help w/ my brain lapse? :roll:
National Sports Academy in Lake Placid, NY. Its a prep school much like Shattuck.
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Post by observer »

Halvorson left Edina schools and is attending the National Sports Academy. Tier 1 AAA U19. She's the only Freshman on the team. They play in the Eastern Division of the JWHL the same League the Thoroughbreds are in. Would have been a nice addition on the Edina squad.

http://www.nationalsportsacademy.com/

http://www.jwhl.org/
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Post by Homer »

Good for her, she is an outstanding player. The only flaw i see in her is she takes or took alot of penalties. (highland finished last in district last year because they lost so many HEP points, but had more wins than 2-3 teams ahead of them).
NSA looks like a place for the extremely dedicated families. Looks to be around 40k per year. I wonder if it is worth it?
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Post by hockeya1a »

Homer wrote:Good for her, she is an outstanding player. The only flaw i see in her is she takes or took alot of penalties. (highland finished last in district last year because they lost so many HEP points, but had more wins than 2-3 teams ahead of them).
NSA looks like a place for the extremely dedicated families. Looks to be around 40k per year. I wonder if it is worth it?

Do the math, if you are only looking for a free ride to college you just paid for it in the 4 years 160k Wow! not to mention what is the worth of seeing your kid day and day out. I wonder what percent of the kids from that school go on.
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Post by OntheEdge »

hockeya1a wrote:
Homer wrote:Good for her, she is an outstanding player. The only flaw i see in her is she takes or took alot of penalties. (highland finished last in district last year because they lost so many HEP points, but had more wins than 2-3 teams ahead of them).
NSA looks like a place for the extremely dedicated families. Looks to be around 40k per year. I wonder if it is worth it?

Do the math, if you are only looking for a free ride to college you just paid for it in the 4 years 160k Wow! not to mention what is the worth of seeing your kid day and day out. I wonder what percent of the kids from that school go on.
I think everyone has the right to do what they think is right for their own kid as long as it is legal. This is America right? I personally wouldn't send my kid to a prep school. My wife and I would miss having her around and watching her grow up. She will be out of the nest soon enough so we intend to enjoy having her around for a little while longer. I think the money aspect is a good point and spending so much on high school would certainly bother me (I would have a problem spending it on local privates too) but maybe money isn't an issue for this particular family.
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Post by hockeya1a »

OntheEdge wrote:
hockeya1a wrote:
Homer wrote:Good for her, she is an outstanding player. The only flaw i see in her is she takes or took alot of penalties. (highland finished last in district last year because they lost so many HEP points, but had more wins than 2-3 teams ahead of them).
NSA looks like a place for the extremely dedicated families. Looks to be around 40k per year. I wonder if it is worth it?

Do the math, if you are only looking for a free ride to college you just paid for it in the 4 years 160k Wow! not to mention what is the worth of seeing your kid day and day out. I wonder what percent of the kids from that school go on.
I think everyone has the right to do what they think is right for their own kid as long as it is legal. This is America right? I personally wouldn't send my kid to a prep school. My wife and I would miss having her around and watching her grow up. She will be out of the nest soon enough so we intend to enjoy having her around for a little while longer. I think the money aspect is a good point and spending so much on high school would certainly bother me (I would have a problem spending it on local privates too) but maybe money isn't an issue for this particular family.
could not agree more, I will miss my kids soon enough when they move on.
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Post by MNhockeylover »

why not play with the thoroughbreds though?
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Post by Night Train »

A couple of things,

Just guessing but can you say scholarship?

The Thoroughbreds don't take freshman, only have a few sophomores, and have a birthdate cutoff they stick with wanting to have older girls including post graduate eligible players. Also NSA is a school and the Throroughbreds are not. I'd have to add the NSA experience looks pretty cool. Shattuck is in a corn field. NSA the mountains of Lake Placid.

http://www.mnthoroughbreds.com/index.htm
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Post by hockeya1a »

Night Train wrote:A couple of things,

Just guessing but can you say scholarship?

The Thoroughbreds don't take freshman, only have a few sophomores, and have a birthdate cutoff they stick with wanting to have older girls including post graduate eligible players. Also NSA is a school and the Throroughbreds are not. I'd have to add the NSA experience looks pretty cool. Shattuck is in a corn field. NSA the mountains of Lake Placid.

http://www.mnthoroughbreds.com/index.htm
Oh Come on! a cornfield! it changes colors with the season
:wink: plus you can visit your parents on weekends.
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Post by OntheEdge »

Night Train wrote:A couple of things,

Just guessing but can you say scholarship?

The Thoroughbreds don't take freshman, only have a few sophomores, and have a birthdate cutoff they stick with wanting to have older girls including post graduate eligible players. Also NSA is a school and the Throroughbreds are not. I'd have to add the NSA experience looks pretty cool. Shattuck is in a corn field. NSA the mountains of Lake Placid.

http://www.mnthoroughbreds.com/index.htm
To each his own but even with a scholarship it would be expensive. Scholarships don't cover all costs. Also, I would think that your 14 year old living in New York would be tough for the kid and the parents but maybe not. I know it would be tough on me and my wife (maybe not my kid since she is pretty independent).

Another good sophomore player is Ali Austin. It is my understanding that she is in Europe taking a year off and that she will leave Blake and return to her home school, Edina, next year.
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Post by brookyone »

Anyone know of anyplace one can actually view 2009-2010 rosters yet?
mnhkylvr
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Post by mnhkylvr »

www.mshsl.org has the most rosters so far - but not all are up yet. You need to look by school.
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