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The St. Cloud schools are Class A by enrollment. Tech over from AA to A by dropping their pairing arrangement with Holdingford.

According to the MSHSL website: There are no appeals to the placements. There are three ways these could change: A school drops an activity. A new school adds an activity. A cooperative agreement is formed or dissolved. If your school or team is not doing one of the above, you will play in the assig...

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I actually liked the stock boy stick handler. Thought it was clever.

After 2, 4-2 Czechs over the Germans

NP goals Witt (PP), A Gregor, A Gregor (SH), Simon

NU Goals Helget, Beltz (PP)

Shots 22-13 NP

Listening on radio, New Ulm scored first, NP scored 3 straight, including a shorthanded goal to go up 3-1, but 20 seconds later (just as I was typing this) New Ulm made it 3-2. 13 minues left in second

Neither BP or Jordan have an official boys hockey pairing. I know that several area associations draw kids from those communities, and most likely, if anyone wants to play hockey from those communities, they open enroll or go to a private school. I would expect BP kids would go to New Prague, Waconi...

The MSHSL website still has noon on Saturday for Class A finals.

It's one game, a hot goalie, a funny bounce of a puck, a phantom call here or there and anything can happen. New Prague has the better team, but they cannot come in overconfident or play careless with the puck. They let Faribault stay in the game way too long on Saturday. If they make some of those ...

AA
1-LV North
2-Edina
3-STA
4-Hill-Murray, White Bear
5-Blaine, Centennial
6-Eden Prairie, Holy Family
7-ElkRiver, STMA
8-Bemidji
1x1x1x2x2x2x2x1=16

A
1-New Prague
2-Breck, Delano
3-Luverne
4-Mahtomedi
5-Spring Lk Pk
6-Alexandria
7-Hermantown
8-EGF, TRF Warroad

1x2x1x1x1x1x1x3=6

I talked to girls who played in state at both venues back when the switch was made and most favored the x

One thing to keep in mind, Goldy, is that the majority of teams in the section are Big 9 teams, and historically in most sports, they tend to support each other in seeding. For that reason, I don't see Le Sueur or LaCrescent getting a break in the seeding. I could be wrong, though.

FOIA laws don't apply here... SPA is a private school.

New Prague, but they will have to lace up their skates tight and play hard each game. They've laid a couple of big eggs this season (first Delano game, second Holy Family game). If they put that lack of effort in any of their three section games, they'll be in trouble

GopherPuck15 wrote:So by picking playoff high school hockey wrong you're not a great hockey mind, but picking correctly you are? Please don't coach my kids.

P.S. Does this really need its own thread?

Lighten up, Francis!

Gopherpuck, you hit the nail on the head. None of the top eight teams are upset-proof. I could see a 9-seed (Lourdes?) beating New Prague. But in order to win the section, you have to win three (or four) straight games. I don't think any of the lower seeded teams have shown they can put together tha...

Definitely a strange year in 1A. New Prague, unbeaten in the section, is the definite No. 1, but 2-8 are real tough to pigeonhole. I'm guessing West at No. 2 and Northfield/Faribault/LeSueur somewhere in 3-5 then LaCrescent/Albert Lea/East/Lourdes in 6-9 in some combination after that. To me, No way...

The fifference is that duluth is declining in both population and enrollment. Rochester century opened about 15 years ago when enrollment was growing rapidly. Population growth has slowed and enrollment has stabilized, but is not go down significantly, and is likely to go up with DMC coming

Roy - I totally agree with your assessment. But it is Ironic that within two hours of your post regarding New Prague's lack of scoring punch, they light up LDC for 10 goals

That would make an interesting matchup

Mankato West's games on Thursday and Saturday have been postponed due to football playoffs. Surprised Simley's game is still on, unless the Spartans don't have any football/hockey players.

Unless the family actually moves back into the old school district.

Generally, in most sports, the MSHSL allows a games to be played at the end of the second week of practice, with a week being considered monday through friday.

Many sports will have their first games on the second Thursday of the season. Been that way as far back as I can remember.

Just want to correct a point someone made about eligibility. They used the Brodeur kid as an example of someone who is ineligible because he doesn't live with his parents. That is incorrect. If I remember correctly, the league does have an exception for boarding schools (Shattuck and St. John's Prep...

No co-op....Armstrong is absorbing Cooper's hockey program. They'll wear Armstrong uni's and have a Cooper patch on the shoulder. Fat cat… that is the definition of a co-op. Two or more schools fielding one team. http://post.mnsun.com/2014/03/armstrong-parents-generally-oppose-co-op-with-cooper-boy...