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O-townClown wrote: ↑Mon Oct 08, 2018 1:47 pm A double unicorn! The US National Team in a FREE-to-watch game and a rare online viewing of Upper Midwest HS Elite League action!

http://www.watchingpuck.com/ is the website.

Sat. Oct. 13th - NTDP vs. North
Sun. Oct. 14th - NTDP vs. Southwest

Both games at 11:30 am CT. Watch live or archived. Your HS hockey fix until the girls kick off in a month. Boys about six weeks out.

blueblood wrote: ↑Sat Oct 13, 2018 2:28 pm This was marketed as Team North vs USA17’s, except there were several non-North players in the lineup. Why not reward the #218 kids that have had a great season to date vs adding other players.

What do you have to say kniven?

blueblood wrote: ↑Sat Oct 13, 2018 2:28 pm This was marketed as Team North vs USA17’s, except there were several non-North players in the lineup. Why not reward the #218 kids that have had a great season to date vs adding other players.

What do you have to say kniven?

ThatMNHockeyGuy62 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 13, 2018 6:05 pm How many non-north guys suited up? They did it earlier having some ccm guys fill in, and I’m pretty sure it’s due to injuries no?

blueblood wrote: ↑Sat Oct 13, 2018 6:30 pm There were at least 3:

Koster
Gleason
Pinoniemi

All non-CCM players

WestMetro wrote: ↑Sat Oct 13, 2018 4:29 pm For being 2002s , Team USA has some good sized kids

WestMetro wrote: ↑Sat Oct 13, 2018 8:45 pm Fargos Kleven and Calif Peterson both listed as 6.4 with Jan 02 birthdates , could easily top out at 6.6 or 6.7. Both had a few inches on Norths biggest Dmen Cochran and M Langenbrunner . Dman Laatsch from Altoona 6.4 with Feb O2 birthday


Thinking about it some more , I suppose if North had wanted to keep as 218 as possible , they could have drafted the Greenway D1s , but that would have depleted Great Plains pretty badly

O-townClown wrote: ↑Sat Oct 13, 2018 7:26 pm

ThatMNHockeyGuy62 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 13, 2018 6:05 pm How many non-north guys suited up? They did it earlier having some ccm guys fill in, and I’m pretty sure it’s due to injuries no?

Three F (Mittelstadt, Gleason, Pinoniemi) and one D (Koster) filled in for injured players.

20 man roster
14 from 3 HS teams (D East, Hermantown, Cloquet)
4 replacements from Twin Cities
2 from Grand Rapids

That's it. The best 2002 born players sourced from Alaska to New York just eked out a win over an all-star team from little more than 3 Minnesota-based high schools. A GREAT showing for the North! Well done, boys.

WestMetro wrote: ↑Sat Oct 13, 2018 8:45 pm Fargos Kleven and Calif Peterson both listed as 6.4 with Jan 02 birthdates , could easily top out at 6.6 or 6.7. Both had a few inches on Norths biggest Dmen Cochran and M Langenbrunner . Dman Laatsch from Altoona 6.4 with Feb O2 birthday


Thinking about it some more , I suppose if North had wanted to keep as 218 as possible , they could have drafted the Greenway D1s , but that would have depleted Great Plains pretty badly

WestMetro wrote: ↑Sun Oct 14, 2018 6:28 pm SW lost 5-4. SW goals: Olmscheid, Luedtke, Pitlick, O’Neill . Video replay is on line at Elite
League website

ThatMNHockeyGuy62 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 14, 2018 8:14 am FInally had a chance to watch the archived stream. Did think it was interesting they put non-north Koster on first PP unit, but I guess they’re trying to win the game. This was my first viewing of Donovan this fall and he didn’t disappoint. That combo of size and skating is something special.

Again with the metro kids, but Koster and Gleason looked great. Pino had some really good flashes too. Maybe it was just me, but I thought Mittelstadt appeared to struggle. He works pretty hard, but doesn’t seem to have the poise when the game gets this fast and tight. Was directly responsible for at least two of USA’s goals. He’s had a great off-season and a pretty good fall, so I’m hoping it was just an off night for him.