Section 5A 2006-7

[ghshockeyfan]

SEC # RK PV TEAM RATING RK RATING GP W L T
5 1 Shakopee 21.131 72 67.038 27 18 9 0
5 2 Breck 8.128 76 67.885 26 13 11 2
5 3 Mound-Westonka 2.717 107 82.704 27 13 14 0
5 4 St. Louis Park 2.696 57 55.846 26 6 20 0
5 5 Hutchinson 1.967 70 66.808 26 8 16 2
5 6 Orono 1.070 104 81.704 27 8 17 2
5 7 Litchfield/Dassel-Cokato 0.333 115 94.148 27 9 18 0

[Rocketwrister]

Orono has a solid coaching staff and should be pretty good while playing one of the tougher schedules in class "A".

[#1D#2]

Yup I agree Orono should be good this year but they wil be playing some tough teams good luck to them and i hope they enjoy the locker room the took from the guys team

[SEhockeyDAD]

I don't know a lot about teams in this section, but I know that Shakopee had some good wins and close losses to good teams last year. Did they lose much to graduation? I've also heard that Breck added to their team. How much better can they be?

[ghshockeyfan]

Breck has added (Haller & Barton) but lost too? I shouldn't speculate, but I thought they lost one key player. I believe they have the Swiontkowski gal too and she's a strong player I believe.

[ghshockeyfan]

KRACH SAYS:

PV TEAM RATING SOSRK SOSRATING GP W L T PTS GF AVG GA AVG PCT
1 Breck 733.735 84 70.438 16 16 0 0 32 95 5.94 19 1.19 1.000
2 Shakopee 30.436 47 51.733 15 7 5 3 17 44 2.93 31 2.07 0.567
3 Mound-Westonka 9.926 82 69.143 14 8 6 0 16 51 3.64 44 3.14 0.571
4 Orono 3.881 90 73.933 15 6 8 1 13 31 2.07 38 2.53 0.433
5 St. Louis Park 2.751 42 49.143 14 1 11 2 4 17 1.21 70 5.00 0.143
6 Hutchinson 1.167 72 65.929 14 3 11 0 6 26 1.86 72 5.14 0.214
7 Litchfield/Dassel-Cokato 0.347 93 76.000 13 1 11 1 3 20 1.54 92 7.08 0.115

[hockeya1a]

From what I hear Shakopee lost 3 to Graduation and a very good 9th grader and solid D Broderson to Breck.
So far this year they have played some very good teams and suprised a few of those with ties or OT losses.
Breck has gotten some very good and young tallent from the SW Mostly 8th 9th and 10th graders.

[MNHockeyFan]

From what I hear Shakopee lost 3 to Graduation and a very good 9th grader and solid D Broderson to Breck.
So far this year they have played some very good teams and suprised a few of those with ties or OT losses.
Breck has gotten some very good and young tallent from the SW Mostly 8th 9th and 10th graders.

I've seen Breck three times now and you've got to give them all the credit in the world for going undefeated so far. There strengths are good coaching as evidenced by their passing and positional play, good balance across their entire lineup and two very good goaltenders. No huge superstars but that could change over the next few years as they are young and will only get better. All that said, they are somewhat fortunate to be unbeaten at this stage, thanks to a weaker-than-average schedule and some opportunistic goal scoring, their last game against Armstong being a case in point. It will be interesting how they do in the next 30 days, particularly against Blake which will be a real test for them.

[ghshockeyfan]

From what I hear Shakopee lost 3 to Graduation and a very good 9th grader and solid D Broderson to Breck.
So far this year they have played some very good teams and suprised a few of those with ties or OT losses.
Breck has gotten some very good and young tallent from the SW Mostly 8th 9th and 10th graders.

I've seen Breck three times now and you've got to give them all the credit in the world for going undefeated so far. There strengths are good coaching as evidenced by their passing and positional play, good balance across their entire lineup and two very good goaltenders. No huge superstars but that could change over the next few years as they are young and will only get better. All that said, they are somewhat fortunate to be unbeaten at this stage, thanks to a weaker-than-average schedule and some opportunistic goal scoring, their last game against Armstong being a case in point. It will be interesting how they do in the next 30 days, particularly against Blake which will be a real test for them.

I just want to make sure I get credit for calling this one back on June 20!:

http://www.ushsho.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7206

ghshockeyfan wrote:

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Location: Edina/IGH/NSP MN
Posted: 20 Jun 2006 14:20 Post subject: Re: Lakeville North and South news

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Jethrotull wrote:

As most have heard, coach Herb Harvey has left Lakeville South for Eastview and his daughter may follow. Another south player Andy Foss has transfered to Breck. Andy was the best player in her age group at LSHS and will be hard to replace. At season's end last year a number of players talked about leaving, we will see in the next few months what is left at South. North seems to be holding onto all off their players. Anyone heard of any more tranfers at either school?

Note to all - Breck will have a very good team next year. I heard of two other players that will be coming in too.
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[ghshockeyfan]

KRACH as of 1-24 AM:

RK TEAM RATING SOS RK SOS RATING GP W L T PTS GF AVG GA AVG PCT
1 Breck 125.577 77 68.524 21 19 2 0 38 113 5.38 27 1.29 0.905
2 Shakopee 16.591 62 59.429 21 10 7 4 24 64 3.05 45 2.14 0.571
3 Mound-Westonka 10.429 82 69.850 20 12 8 0 24 68 3.40 62 3.10 0.600
4 Orono 3.053 92 77.045 22 9 11 2 20 50 2.27 56 2.55 0.455
5 St. Louis Park 2.734 43 50.429 21 3 16 2 8 35 1.67 101 4.81 0.190
6 Hutchinson 0.640 64 59.950 20 3 17 0 6 34 1.70 117 5.85 0.150
7 Litchfield/Dassel-Cokato 0.299 103 82.667 21 4 15 2 10 42 2.00 121 5.76 0.238

[ghshockeyfan]

http://www.mshsl.org/mshsl/showbrackets.asp?tournid=643

[hshockeyfan91]

I am really surprised by the seeding in this section. Here is the info from the final regular season rankings for this section:

RK 2/1 RK PV TEAM RATING RK SOS W L T
21 6A 5 5 Breck 89.172 73 67.040 21 4 0
49 12A 12 11 Shakopee 17.480 61 58.240 12 9 4
64 17A 18 17 Mound-Westonka 10.273 88 74.960 16 9 0
79 24 25 St. Louis Park 4.359 43 48.720 5 18 2
88 28 28 Orono 2.674 96 77.440 10 13 2
100 37 37 Hutchinson 0.597 67 63.435 4 19 0
111 43 43 Litchfield/Dassel-Cokato 0.208 105 81.800 4 19 2

How did Mound jump past Shakopee in the section seeds? yeh, Mound beat Shakopee a month ago, but if that's the primary criteria, then the fact that St Louis Park beat Mound 2 days ago should have caused Park to jump ahead of Mound.

Shakopee beat Eastview, lost to AHA by 1 goal and tied Edina. Did Mound do anything even remotely close to that?

Compare SLP's strength of schedule to Orono. Park played BSM, Eastview and Irondale twice, and played Hopkins, Eagan and other strong AA programs as well. I'm not even sure than Orono played anyone who was AA. In addition, SLP beat Richfield and Mound - ranked A teams. Did Orono beat anyone in that category?

Obviously the computer ranking system and the LPH rankings are not flawless, but still they generate some significant questions.

It looks like the seeding was totally based on record, regardless of SOS. If the coaches in this section are going to do seeding on that loose of a basis, they would have been more accurate to just use the computerized rankings - it would have been just as easy, and more accurate.

[keepitreal]

How did Mound jump past Shakopee in the section seeds? yeh, Mound beat Shakopee a month ago, but if that's the primary criteria, then the fact that St Louis Park beat Mound 2 days ago should have caused Park to jump ahead of Mound.

I agree with you, however I don't think Hutch or Litchfield have enough to upset either of these teams on their way to a meeting in the semi-finals. I like Shakopee to meet Breck in the final.

[jmpfan2008]

Breck wins the Section with a 4-0 win over Mound.
7-0 over SLP