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What a hypocrite! What parents coached the Mayo stars (Martin, Alcott, Holtan, Edwards,....) year after year, even tho their older kids were at Lourdes? What school employed your legendary coach for years? 4 programs in Rochester allow an additional 40 young men to play high school hockey over the 3...

-"because of a deeply rooted dislike for all private schools" -"going to drown a southern private school" -"im always gunna take public over private" -"A little surprised there isn't more chatter about this one." Seriously, Karl, wonder why no back and forth h...

"The Lourdes student section classless actions were a disgrace to the host city of Rochester and whole Lourdes school system. Rochester should lose hosting the section 1AA and 1A section games for such poor sportsmanship by a host city team.[/quote] OK, enough already! I was at the game and sea...

That is what it is all about! Should be a great game and a great honor to the winner.....don't let the elitist blowhards suck the fun out of it!!

[quote="hockeyking"]Northfield outplayed Lourdes in the first 2 1/3 periods, but at the end Northfield could not match up to Lourdes lines. If Northfield could have played only 5 kids the last 10 minutes of the game it would have been a different outcome. Note: Lourdes student's section wa...

Assuming you are speaking of A only. [/quote]

Thanks for clarifying for me....Barring an upset in the quarters, the semis and final will all be close games. NP-West will be fabulous.

Per QRF, 1A is the most competitive 1-4 in the State this year.....not a perfect system, but hardly a sign of the "worst"

Food for thought:
Based on QRF, Section 1A is the most competitive bracket 1-4 in the state.
Should be quite a tussle for the berth at the X

[/quote]Is Prior Lake still missing key players due to academic's/[/quote]

Is Lourdes senior forward starter and #3 scorer back from injury?
Is Lourdes senior defenseman fully recovered from his broken leg?
What if they played the game on the moon?

Give ME a break.

Lourdes has been playing the best goalie available all year. Not necessarily a strength position for a couple of years, but no doubting the effort. If younger kid is now best available, then he should take over in the playoff run. Running down the former starter is beneath adult discussion.

Lourdes Eagles

1: 7 Samuelson 8 Farrell 20 Funk
2: 2 Nellans 3 Nicolay 4 Weir
3: 17 Armstead 18 Potvin 23 Williamson
4: 15 Carstens 16 Carstens 5 Cossette

1: 12 Krecke 21 Slightham
2: 9 DeWitz 19 Campbell
3: 11 Roth 24 Anderson

Wow, THAT is pretty darn random!!

TRF gets the "8 seed"
STA gets the "7 seed"
Hermantown get the "6 seed"
Breck gets the "5 seed"

Don't like the "random" draw but at least it looks like they followed the rules for once.

Yep, nothing random about it....seen it just happen to work out in hockey and boys' soccer too many times for it to be "random"

Probably not ultimately that big a deal this year as the top three are pretty dominent and then there is everyone else

Prediction:

1. STA v New Ulm
2. Hermantown v Little Falls
3. Breck v Lourdes
4. Duluth Marshall v TRF

Privates vs publics is a stupid argument for any number of reasons. However, if you have won two state 1A tournaments, you are forced to go to 2A, no ifs-ands-or-buts. That includes H-town, Warroad, ..... The two tiered system has helped smaller and southern schools develop hockey programs....but th...

Don't be quite so certain about the Lourdes dynasty. They lose a lot of talent this year and next. Four years ago Rochester's top Bantam team finished second to Wayzata in the state tournament. Half of that team went to Lourdes (not all the top players) and the other half scattered to JM, Mayos, and...

Reply with your nominees for "All Section" blue liners. I will set up a poll with the nominees for the first of next week.

This was a beautifully played game, physical but honest. The ending penalty was not cheap, just an outcome of the stress of a very tough loss. Joe Morris ought to be tournament MVP, irrespective of the outcome. The cliche is apt for this game, a shame either team had to lose.

Howie, You are, of course, correct and I apologize for the language...the arm's length style of message boards does occasionally help me forget my manners. Your characterizations of public and parochial programs are simplistic at best, and pot-stirring at least. But you are very consistent: http://w...

Section 1A 2010 – Rochester Lourdes 2009 – Rochester Lourdes 2008 – Mankato West 2007 – Albert Lea 2006 – Mankato East 2005 – Albert Lea 2004 – Albert Lea 2003 – Rochester Lourdes 2002 – Rochester Lourdes 2001 – Rochester Lourdes 2000 – Rochester Lourdes 1999 – Red Wing 1998 – Red Wing 1997 – Red Wi...

Expect this will be an old fashioned low-scoring game, physical but clean. Scores last couple of years have been 2-1, 1-1, 4-1, 3-1, 3-1. If NP has some jump at the get-go, could be a mild upset.

That said, I'll follow the trend:
RL 3, NP 1

Lourdes is too high, getting to many "almost winner" points. History of good leads that they don't hold. Should get out of the section, can shut out a star, but will struggle against deep teams.

top ten definitely, top five probably, not higher than 4 at tourney start.

Home town, yes; home ice no.
RL has played only one game on this ice all season, it is home ice for Century and Ice Hawks. Home ice for RL is Graham Arena. Rec Center is a better place for Sectionals.

Looking like very shrewed planning by Faribault coaches, bring Forgaard back so slowly. Make him earn it back, but have him the unquestioned #1 goalie by Sections.

Faribault is the section sleeper, and probably love it that way.