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SEC # RK PV TEAM RATING RK RATING GP W L T
7 1 1 Cloquet/Esko/Carlton 556.288 2 27.967 31 24 6 1
7 2 2 Grand Rapids/Greenway 57.675 14 36.250 28 15 13 0
7 3 3 Chisago Lakes/Pine City 36.479 43 49.038 27 16 10 1
7 4 4 St. Francis/North Branch 33.679 64 61.038 27 18 7 2
7 5 5 Forest Lake 21.708 31 44.000 26 11 13 2
7 6 6 Duluth East 17.176 50 52.087 26 14 12 0
7 7 7 Proctor/Hermantown/Marshall 16.411 74 67.500 26 17 9 0
7 8 8 Cambridge-Isanti 12.965 103 81.692 26 17 5 4
7 9 9 Duluth Central/Denfeld 2.211 51 52.750 26 7 19 0

What does GR/Greenway have comeing back? Cloquet?

GRG has the majority of their people coming back, lost 3 players to graduation, including their goalie. But have their top line returning with Erickson, Arola, and Newton.

CEC also has some power coming back with Lundquist and their goaltender Thunder, however, with Maunu gone it will leave a pretty significant dent in their scoring as well as their defense.

Overall, my vote goes for GRG, but...it usually does.

What strikes me about C-E-C is that they're always +/- 1 with almost every top team they play. To me that says good team defense. When it comes down to the big game, I guess I'll take the team that wins with defense (C-E-C) over the "beat 'em 6-4" team (GRG).

Molly Arola will dominate play this year. I look for her to have near 70 points.

Bob..... who else from rapids?

Molly Arola, Emily Erickson, and Natalie Newton will have to do a bulk of the scoring. I don't see too many other girls scoring more than ten goals.

They are definitely the core. They do have some good defensmen returning, too. Heather Horgan was a good addition to the defense last year, then there's Clafton, Johnson, Dekich, Rothstein, and Hull. Pretty solid defensively.

However, don't count out Dana Gallop, she put up some numbers last year. She might make it over the ten hump.

Gallop and Horgen are the other two I thought could possibly do it.

Looks Like a pretty even split for the poll... Shoud be an interesting section to watch...

Yes, i do agree that Rapids will have a good returning team. However you have to think about cloquet as well! I mean they have a good offensive and great defensive team with or without maunu..they still have that um vichorek who is a great player and with thunder in the nets it's not going to be easy to score. I'm not going to say the jacks are going to just breeze through because they are wonderful but they are a tough team and always seem to be a powerhouse.

Does anyone know about Cambridge? I heard they have a great goalie and Defense player.

Jessica Newstrom looked very impressive at the Freshman-Sophomore clinic. Never seen the team play.

Forest lake looks strong in this section and tough to overlook. They return
all but one from last years team that was over 500 in the suburban east conference, in addition to the returners they get back a scoring threat from the t-breds this year. There 1st line is all summer elite players including "d" and goaltender(a nelson,shelofoe,haglund,m nelson,hamner
and cassi carpenter in nets)

Duluth is one team now I believe? I can't edit the poll, but once I confirm may have to start another...

you are correct. Coached by Frykland I'm pretty sure.

I 'LL GO WITH CEC (STRONGER GOAL TENDING), BUT IT SHOULD BE A GOOD BATTLE WITH GRG.

ARE ALL THREE GIRLA ON THE AROLA LINE SENIORS?

Arola-Soph
Erickson-Jun
Newton-Sen

It's going to be tough. Duluth will be tough along with C-E-C and GRG. Nice thing about the lighting is they have some skilled players in the younger classes like Gallop, Havel and a strong junior class. should have some nice teams for a few years.

The Lightning has lots of young talent moving up. Their bigest problem has always been playing as team. They have the skills to take it to the state tourney but it's all a matter of putting those skills together. If they are able to play as team this year then they will easly take the section.

I agree to a certain extent. The lightning has all sorts of talent, young and old. They will have to cover up for losing Molly Dekich for the year to a torn ACL. That leaves them with some BIG defensive question marks. They will return Kayla Clafton and Heather Horgen, two very good defense. Maggie Rothstein, a captain, also returns, along with Stacey Hull. The thoughts of Rothstein and or Clafton playing forward are all but gone now. Four D will wear down throughout the course of a season so they need to find a fifth one. They also need a goalie. In the first years of the co-op goaltending has lost them some games, but won them some too. If they can get consistent play out of Sara Hammann the lightning will be very tough.

She has had two years to be consistant and they haven't seen it yet. That will be the key, I agree.

Goaltending and Defense win championships in hockey--look at Cretin Derham Hall on the boys side...

boblee wrote:Goaltending and Defense win championships in hockey--look at Cretin Derham Hall on the boys side...

I agree with this, but some would argue that so too does Open Enrolment/Private Schools (wins championships). Teams that don't meet these criteria stand little chance in this day & age in guys or girls in either class.

boblee wrote:Goaltending and Defense win championships in hockey--look at Cretin Derham Hall on the boys side...

Perhaps true in Boys hockey, but can you name a girls state championship that was won by goaltending? Horak amd Ellison came close but lost out to scoring.