Unlucky/tuffest schedule of the week.

Maple Grove Crimson#1 · Wed Dec 21, 2011 8:17 pm

Robbinsdale Armstrong Falcons:

Played #2 Minnetonka Tuesday night, then They get #3 Maple Grove on Thursday. tuff week for the falcons.

Armstrong suffered a 9-2 loss to Tonka. another loss like that tomorrow has to be tuff mentally. I know it would be for me.

Roseauverrated · Post by **Roseauverrated** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 12:21 am

Seriously dude, it's spelled "tough".

Maple Grove Crimson#1 · Thu Dec 22, 2011 2:34 am

Roseauverrated wrote:Seriously dude, it's spelled "tough".

I prefer tuff. ty

blueliner5 · Post by **blueliner5** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 7:33 am

Roseauverrated wrote:Seriously dude, it's spelled "tough".

Must be pretty slow out here, if we have to lower ourselves to this. Obviously, Crimson had the intention to misspell "tuff". Enough said move on. Keep up the good work Crimson

Bonehead · Post by **Bonehead** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 8:50 am

Maybe Maple Grove will be over confident after that BSM game?

MNHockeyFan · Post by **MNHockeyFan** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 9:40 am

Armstrong had it even "tuffer" when they were part of the old Classic Lake Conference. Considering the shape their youth program is in (now combined with Cooper) and how many good kids they lose to the private schools, they actually do surprisingly well.

HShockeywatcher · Post by **HShockeywatcher** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 11:35 am

Roseauverrated wrote:Seriously dude, it's spelled "tough".

Correcting spelling with improper grammar? Doesn't get much funnier on a Thursday morning

blueliner5 · Post by **blueliner5** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 12:58 pm

HShockeywatcher wrote:
Roseauverrated wrote:Seriously dude, it's spelled "tough".
Correcting spelling with improper grammar? Doesn't get much funnier on a Thursday morning

Thank goodness it's Thursday and not Monday, otherwise Roseauverrated might had to of thought twice about that one...

SChockey · Post by **SChockey** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 2:31 pm

MNHockeyFan wrote:Armstrong had it even "tuffer" when they were part of the old Classic Lake Conference. Considering the shape their youth program is in (now combined with Cooper) and how many good kids they lose to the private schools, they actually do surprisingly well.

I have to agree. They are consistently in that 5-6 seed range and seem to perform decently. But seriously, when was the last time they had a legitimate player come out of their program?

GoldenBear · Post by **GoldenBear** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 2:49 pm

Tommy Fallen freshman at Yale...playing a lot as a freshmen. Armstrong Youth Hockey Association has produced many division 1 players over the years. GB

PuckU126 · Post by **PuckU126** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 3:01 pm

GoldenBear wrote:Tommy Fallen freshman at Yale...playing a lot as a freshmen. Armstrong Youth Hockey Association has produced many division 1 players over the years. GB

Do you have a list of others and where they played?

Did any of them play for the high school or were some "recruited" out of the program?

SChockey · Post by **SChockey** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 3:18 pm

PuckU126 wrote:
GoldenBear wrote:Tommy Fallen freshman at Yale...playing a lot as a freshmen. Armstrong Youth Hockey Association has produced many division 1 players over the years. GB
Do you have a list of others and where they played?

Did any of them play for the high school or were some "recruited" out of the program?

Considering they might lose a good number to privates, there can be quite a difference in how many D1 players the association produces compared to the high school program. I'm not bashing Armstrong hockey, but I just can't think of any real standouts since maybe Thorson in '07.

MNHockeyFan · Post by **MNHockeyFan** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 5:05 pm

SChockey wrote:Considering they might lose a good number to privates, there can be quite a difference in how many D1 players the association produces compared to the high school program. I'm not bashing Armstrong hockey, but I just can't think of any real standouts since maybe Thorson in '07.

To my knowledge there haven't been any lately. But 3-5 years back the association produced Kent Patterson of the Gophers, Cory Thorson of SCSU, Mike Morin of CC, Pat Borer (now at Niagra) and Tommy Fallon of Air Force. Maybe others I don't remember...but they did have some very competitive PeeWee and Bantam teams.

mghockey18 · Post by **mghockey18** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 5:16 pm

SChockey wrote:
MNHockeyFan wrote:Armstrong had it even "tuffer" when they were part of the old Classic Lake Conference. Considering the shape their youth program is in (now combined with Cooper) and how many good kids they lose to the private schools, they actually do surprisingly well.
I have to agree. They are consistently in that 5-6 seed range and seem to perform decently. But seriously, when was the last time they had a legitimate player come out of their program?

Cory Thorson '08 SCSU
Tommy Fallen '09 Yale

Since '08. Not bad having two D1 players in three years.

SChockey · Post by **SChockey** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 9:20 pm

MNHockeyFan wrote:
SChockey wrote:Considering they might lose a good number to privates, there can be quite a difference in how many D1 players the association produces compared to the high school program. I'm not bashing Armstrong hockey, but I just can't think of any real standouts since maybe Thorson in '07.
To my knowledge there haven't been any lately. But 3-5 years back the association produced Kent Patterson of the Gophers, Cory Thorson of SCSU, Mike Morin of CC, Pat Borer (now at Niagra) and Tommy Fallon of Air Force. Maybe others I don't remember...but they did have some very competitive PeeWee and Bantam teams.

I'm sure they did have some competitive youth teams with players like that. I guess I wasn't fully aware of some of the players that have come from Armstrong.

blindref · Post by **blindref** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 12:53 am

PuckU126 wrote:
GoldenBear wrote:Tommy Fallen freshman at Yale...playing a lot as a freshmen. Armstrong Youth Hockey Association has produced many division 1 players over the years. GB
Do you have a list of others and where they played?

Did any of them play for the high school or were some "recruited" out of the program?

Jordan Leopold (I think he played his senior year at the USDP) um
Todd richards um
Travis richards um