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HM playing their first game of the year looking really good against EP. 5-1 score after 2. Also watching my HM girls up 4-1 at Edina in a state championship rematch.

STA beats up 5-0 on Holy Angels
Hibbing up 3-1 on Cloquet. Hibbing started the year beating CDH. Look to be the real deal.

Sparlimb wrote: ↑Tue Nov 25, 2025 8:27 pm HM playing their first game of the year looking really good against EP.

STA beats up 5-0 on Holy Angels

The HM-EP score isn't too shocking (the cupboards are pretty bare at EP - it's going to take a couple years to rebuild and be a decent team again), but the STA/Holy Angels one is.

The score of the STA vs AHA games does not show how the game really went. AHA had a great opportunity to go up 1-0, missed STA came down and scored. Second goal was back breaker after that Sill was tired. Faced almost 50 shots. AHA's first game and STA third.

Oof. Giving up 3 in the 3rd to EP is not a good look. When it's 6-1 early in the 3rd, get it to RT and lock it down.

Giving up 3 goals in one period was deadly last season.

Grand Rapids and Duluth East tie 2-2. Pretty even game; Rapids probably with a few better chances thanks to their veteran upperclassmen; they've got an alright core with Garski, Rajala, Salisbury, Shermoen, etc. that will be enough to contend in this year's 7AA, but I don't think they're top 15 material right now. For perhaps the first time in my memory, goaltending may be a question mark for them.

East is on the road back to relevance. It won't happen overnight; they're young, and they probably won't have any high volume scorers this season, but they're deep with kids who can skate and you can see the potential. If they can move the puck enough to create chances, they too could be a factor in 7AA. I'm intrigued to watch.

ryguyMN wrote: ↑Tue Nov 25, 2025 8:34 pm

Sparlimb wrote: ↑Tue Nov 25, 2025 8:27 pm HM playing their first game of the year looking really good against EP.

STA beats up 5-0 on Holy Angels

The HM-EP score isn't too shocking (the cupboards are pretty bare at EP - it's going to take a couple years to rebuild and be a decent team again), but the STA/Holy Angels one is.

The cupboard certainly isn’t full but it isn’t bare IMO. They don’t graduate much with only 5 seniors on paper. It really depends on whether the two freshman come back. Don’t get me wrong, Hill is clearly the better team but they got the first two on the PP and shots were fairly even. I certainly didn’t expect it to be 7-4 but it’s early in the season.