INT'L FALLS COACH RETIRES

INDUS · Post by **INDUS** » Sat May 08, 2010 10:43 am

According to school reports, longtime coach John Prettyman has retired from coaching the boys high school team. Prettyman will also retire from his 5th grade teaching position, at this time it is not known if he will retire from coaching the JV softball team. WHO WILL BE IN THE RUNNING FOR THE BOYS HOCKEY JOB??

muskie17 · Post by **muskie17** » Sat May 08, 2010 6:20 pm

jon austin maybe

Ifalls hockey player · Mon May 31, 2010 7:26 pm

It wont be austin becuase he is in mankato coaching the girls

INDUS · Post by **INDUS** » Sun Jun 20, 2010 9:03 am

if past by the shcool board, Mike Bolstad will be the next coach for the boys hockey team. The Bolstad brothers will reign high school hockey in the falls, brother Jerry coaches the girls team.

pegwheel3221 · Post by **pegwheel3221** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 12:12 am

It's official. Congrats Mike Bolstad and good luck!

bronco2828 · Post by **bronco2828** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 11:39 pm

Finally Prettyman has stepped down. Great person and excellent assistant coach. Just didn't have it as a head coach. I was very tired of seeing a lot of teams with great potential have mediocore seasons under him. Good Luck Mike. Looking forward to this season.

wingmaster · Post by **wingmaster** » Sun Jul 18, 2010 8:15 pm

bronco2828 wrote:Finally Prettyman has stepped down. Great person and excellent assistant coach. Just didn't have it as a head coach. I was very tired of seeing a lot of teams with great potential have mediocore seasons under him. Good Luck Mike. Looking forward to this season.

You left out the part where he hasn't had much to work with. He did just fine with sub par players in a sub par conference.

bronco2828 · Post by **bronco2828** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 3:38 pm

Are you kidding me! Subpar players, Jake Youso, Matt Youso, Willie Corrin, Brady Hjelle, only to name a few. If these guys are subpar, what does it take in your book to be a good player. Be serious! Maybe great players with a subpar coach. What are you smokin?

BBB · Post by **BBB** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 4:39 pm

Gretzky was great. Yuoso was the 41st leading scorer in the NAHL during his 20 year old season. I guess he's great in Owatonna.
Just another example of a player who dominates nordern MN until they play with the big boys and then they find out they might just be avg. Sachetti, Ness, White, etc.
Falls won 3 league games this year and 2 were against eveleth/gilbert so don't blame everything on the coach.

northwoods oldtimer · Post by **northwoods oldtimer** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 9:49 pm

BBB wrote:Gretzky was great. Yuoso was the 41st leading scorer in the NAHL during his 20 year old season. I guess he's great in Owatonna.
Just another example of a player who dominates nordern MN until they play with the big boys and then they find out they might just be avg. Sachetti, Ness, White, etc.
Falls won 3 league games this year and 2 were against eveleth/gilbert so don't blame everything on the coach.

Kind of like Schroeder, Fisher, Barriball, Hoeffel who really lit it up down at the U.

Whats your point? The gophers are crappy? I would agree to that!

BBB · Post by **BBB** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 7:17 am

Barribal did rip it up when he got to the U leading a team with Okposo, wheeler, stoa and other good players in scoring. He had a little sophomore slump but is already over 100 points going into his sr year. Not bad. He had more points his Freshman yr than ness, sachetti, and white combined. Not sure if Yuoso will come to the U but he might have to have a decent Fr season to catch those guys up to Barribals total; combined.
Hoeffel could hit 100 if he has a good season this year. Not bad either.
Schroeder could be on power play unit with the Sedin twins for all we know in a few months and broke Roenicks record at the World Jrs as the leading US scorer ever at the under 20.

MNHockeyFan · Post by **MNHockeyFan** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 8:30 am

BBB wrote:Not sure if Yuoso will come to the U but he might have to have a decent Fr season to catch those guys up to Barribals total...

Saw yesterday that Youso will be playing for Waterloo this season - seems like the Gophers had lost interest.

http://www.startribune.com/sports/gophe ... 64417.html