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1 Chisago Lakes Area 8-10-0
2 Monticello/Annan/Maple Lake 12-5-0
3 Princeton 7-8-1
4 Pine City Area 13-6-0
5 North Branch 7-7-1
6 Sauk Rapids-Rice 3-14-0
7 Mora/Milaca 7-7-1
8 Becker/Big Lake 4-13-0
9 Moose Lake Area 3-14-0
10 Legacy Christian 1-17-0


Chisago vs Moose Lake
Pine City vs North Branch

Monticello vs Mora
Princeton vs Sauk Rapids

Chisago vs North Branch
Monticello vs Princeton

Chisago vs Monticello

Monticello to state.

This section is invisible. I understand they had to move Hermantown or Cathedral out of this section but when they moved Hermantown to 7A and Cathedral to 6A, this section became a black hole in the state.

Section 3A is probably a comparable competitive level but with all the squawking from Cardinal faithful the last 4 years, 3A is visible. 1A has a modicum of visibility due to programs like Mankato West, Northfield, and New Prague having some nice seasons and being relatively close to the metro but 5A is just a huge, quiet, unrecognizable, unknown.

air force one wrote:This section is invisible. I understand they had to move Hermantown or Cathedral out of this section but when they moved Hermantown to 7A and Cathedral to 6A, this section became a black hole in the state.

Section 3A is probably a comparable competitive level but with all the squawking from Cardinal faithful the last 4 years, 3A is visible. 1A has a modicum of visibility due to programs like Mankato West, Northfield, and New Prague having some nice seasons and being relatively close to the metro but 5A is just a huge, quiet, unrecognizable, unknown.

Except that New Prague is in 2A now.

bo the dangle has made it more of a item with his 'rage against the monti' thing.

air force one wrote:This section is invisible. I understand they had to move Hermantown or Cathedral out of this section but when they moved Hermantown to 7A and Cathedral to 6A, this section became a black hole in the state.

Section 3A is probably a comparable competitive level but with all the squawking from Cardinal faithful the last 4 years, 3A is visible. 1A has a modicum of visibility due to programs like Mankato West, Northfield, and New Prague having some nice seasons and being relatively close to the metro but 5A is just a huge, quiet, unrecognizable, unknown.

I think Mahtomedi and Totino-Grace should be moved into this section to give it some life.

New section alignments for 2017-18 and 2018-19 should be released in early March, if the MSHSL follows their pattern the past several years.

In AA, Section 3 is overloaded with 10 team and Section 2 only has 7 teams due to southern schools with large enough enrollment #'s continuing to opt down. (It has happened the last 2 cycles).

My prediction....

Breck stays in 2A
Hermantown stays in 7A
Jefferson from 3AA to 2AA

elliott70 wrote:bo the dangle has made it more of a item with his 'rage against the monti' thing.

Lol

I have zero problem with monticello. I have a problem with their leadership petitioning to move down when they were beating other 8AA teams that year. They also knew they had a group coming through that made the state tournament at the highest level in youth hockey. It was all very well planned!

Even some former "moose" parents chimed in how "w" came up with the perfect plan in the other thread.

Drop their number 1 and 7 scorer (not sure of others out of top 10) from the other schools and then they're in the A field. The number 5 scoring European kid must have just happened to play hockey.

As they continue to beat fellow - former 8AA schools and other AA schools with way less numbers....

Better than a couple sections overall, looking at the few head to head and common opponents.

All the top talent in the area were feeding into a couple privates and a few other large programs.. Kids are starting to stay home and hockey is really improving. Quite a few bantam teams have been ranked pretty high and there's some very good young talent on some of the teams. Princeton still lost to Cathedral, but nothing like in the past around he area.

I guess the high school league can always kill hockey parity in the area again and you'll see a mad scramble.. Don't they do enough already to keep the focus on just a few and not grow the sport?

We'd take the Edina fourth team kids!!!