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White Bear continued to show why they are the team to beat with a convincing 7-3 win over Forest Lake. They did not need their top line to win handily. The Rangers slide continues, they remain tied for fourth with four other teams. White Bear ramains undefeated in SEC play and sitting atop the conference with a game in hand over the others.

The battle of the Raiders went to Roseville with a 5-2 win over Cretin. Goaltending was the difference in this game as Roseville's netminder outplayed his counterpart. Shots were 35-34 in Cretin's favor. Roseville did a nice job of holding Cretin's top line down somewhat, they were involved in both goals.

Stillwater edged East Ridge 3-2 to remain in 2nd place two points behind WBL. East Ridge hung around despite being outshot badly, the Raptors continue to be in every game.

Mounds View kept Park Cottage Grove winless in conference play with a 4-3 OT victory. The Mustangs certainly play alot of OT!

Saturday's matchups-
Forest Lake at Cretin- Both teams tied for 4th.
East Ridge at Park Cottage Grove- Maybe a chance for the Wolfpack
Hastings at Stillwater- Stillwater trying to stay on WBL's heels will need a win against a dangerous team.
Mounds View at Woodbury- Two in a row for the Mustangs?
White Bear at Roseville- A Roseville win would tie them with the Bears for 1st place, although the Bear's would have a game in hand.

Stillwater scored off the draw with 2.7 seconds left. It was crazy. Why they were tied with East Ridge is a different story. Dominated play but just couldn't seem to get the puck in the net

I can't wait for Hastings @ Stillwater tomorrow night!!! Two evenly matched squads, and Big Blue needs another big road win, after the heartbreaking 6-5 loss to Cretin last Saturday, and getting stung by that awesome Eagan squad on Tuesday. The Ponies will be revved up after two wild one-goal wins over Park and East Ridge. Flip a coin? Home ice DOES help the Ponies though.

sportsguy29 wrote:I can't wait for Hastings @ Stillwater tomorrow night!!! Two evenly matched squads, and Big Blue needs another big road win, after the heartbreaking 6-5 loss to Cretin last Saturday, and getting stung by that awesome Eagan squad on Tuesday. The Ponies will be revved up after two wild one-goal wins over Park and East Ridge. Flip a coin? Home ice DOES help the Ponies though.

Have to favor the Ponies, defense and goaltending seem to be the winning formula in the SEC, which favors Stillwater in this matchup. Hastings will give them all they want though.

WHAFightingSaints wrote:

sportsguy29 wrote:I can't wait for Hastings @ Stillwater tomorrow night!!! Two evenly matched squads, and Big Blue needs another big road win, after the heartbreaking 6-5 loss to Cretin last Saturday, and getting stung by that awesome Eagan squad on Tuesday. The Ponies will be revved up after two wild one-goal wins over Park and East Ridge. Flip a coin? Home ice DOES help the Ponies though.

Have to favor the Ponies, defense and goaltending seem to be the winning formula in the SEC, which favors Stillwater in this matchup. Hastings will give them all they want though.

Stillwater 7 Hastings 1 Final

HMHockey943 wrote:

WHAFightingSaints wrote:

sportsguy29 wrote:I can't wait for Hastings @ Stillwater tomorrow night!!! Two evenly matched squads, and Big Blue needs another big road win, after the heartbreaking 6-5 loss to Cretin last Saturday, and getting stung by that awesome Eagan squad on Tuesday. The Ponies will be revved up after two wild one-goal wins over Park and East Ridge. Flip a coin? Home ice DOES help the Ponies though.

Have to favor the Ponies, defense and goaltending seem to be the winning formula in the SEC, which favors Stillwater in this matchup. Hastings will give them all they want though.

Stillwater 7 Hastings 1 Final

Pretty crazy considering Stillwater had ONLY ONE SHOT in the first period. Ponies were very impressive tonight....

gophs1616 wrote:Stillwater scored off the draw with 2.7 seconds left. It was crazy. Why they were tied with East Ridge is a different story. Dominated play but just couldn't seem to get the puck in the net

I heard this from the SW people last season when you were lucky to beat ER, in fact it was ER that was hammering your goalie at the end of the 3rd period last year. ER is a good team that has had some bad breaks and is still having growing pains. They are very young, you will be looking up at them in the standings very soon and for the future.

WB6162 wrote:

gophs1616 wrote:Stillwater scored off the draw with 2.7 seconds left. It was crazy. Why they were tied with East Ridge is a different story. Dominated play but just couldn't seem to get the puck in the net

I heard this from the SW people last season when you were lucky to beat ER, in fact it was ER that was hammering your goalie at the end of the 3rd period last year. ER is a good team that has had some bad breaks and is still having growing pains. They are very young, you will be looking up at them in the standings very soon and for the future.

Well that was last year. Both teams have developed into better teams this year. Stillwater will get another victory against them again this year.

This contest between ER and the ponies shouldnt even be a contest. East Ridge, like Wby is lacking depth. The split of the Two schools has hurt both teams tremendously. It has taken a number of decades for the Hockey club to get large enough to overcome the losses it see's continously every year to the private schools. The high school hockey program was finally coming of age before the tragety of the school split. Woodbury finally obtained a coach who new what to do with the talent at hand. White bear suffered the same fate while two schools existed. The bears only problem now, is that they lack a coach who knows how to direct the talent. East Ridge could get 70% of the talent pool on any given year and it wont matter, as long as they have the coacing issues like White Bear. This was suppose to be the year that they bounced back with seniors and showed everone who the new power in Woodbury was going to be. Yeah right . Good luck with that one.Looks more to me like they are modeling after the Bloomington Kennedy program

When will the fans and parents here in Hastings finally realize this program needs some new blood? What a waste! Year after year it's the same old story. Again this year this team has some talent, but as has been the case for what. 15 years now? No one who has any idea how to lead and bring a bunch of kids together as a team.
Sports Guy we know you've watched this program for year's and it all sounds great when you pump up the team. Maybe you think you have no other options i don't know but just once it would be nice to see you be honest and write what you really think. At least a little bit.