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Now don't get me started on how bad Celly celebrations have gotten over the past few years. I can't find anywhere there's a charity benefiting from an all-celly team. You know how after scoring a goal players will go over to their bench and give everyone high fives? Nothing wrong with it, but I've ...

Oh yeah, that was no goal either. Totally redirected that into the net.

It's for all the marbles. I understand boys going hard to the net. Loosen up the penalties on the D preventing guys going hard to the net. Let them lay the lumber and protect the goalie. I don't care what the game is for, they need to protect the goalie in his crease. Some of this, most of it, isn'...

It's for all the marbles. I understand boys going hard to the net. Loosen up the penalties on the D preventing guys going hard to the net. Let them lay the lumber and protect the goalie.

Uh-oh.

I will be checking this thread again tomorrow morning from work. Hint. Hint.

Thanks from all of us who can't get the day off.

I heard a rumor GAC stuffed the Hutchinson side programs with an insert of a map of SW MN for the downright confused tiger fans. Yes, Luverne is a city in MN with a real life, operational Ice Arena. BMIA even has a Zamboni. Somebody will have to confirm this for me later. There's even an outdoor ri...

You are either a good coach or you are not. Simple as that. Parent, non-parent, I don't care. I just want the best coach available. If they happen to be related to a kid on the team, okay, if not, that's fine too. Bottom line is do they get the job done, are they developing the players and turning t...

Didn't OMGHA have a dustup within the last two years where the MG side wanted to break off from the Osseo side and the Osseo kids would have ended up at North Metro? Seem to recall the reason it didn't happen was a lack of ice in MG. I spoke with a MG player who left there a few years ago to play Ti...

Should be a good one!

I think Hermantown’s attracts more kids to come play for them when/if they opt up. As a AA program, they would be the darlings of the state of hockey. I’m in Hermantown often. A great town, school, tax base, and a great sports community right next to Duluth. The Edina of northern Minnesota but bett...

When looking at the future prospects of a HS program I immediately go to the youth website and see how many teams they are fielding and what the records are like. First thing I look for is a pyramid, 6 Squirt teams, 5 Pee Wee teams, 4 Bantam teams, as opposed to an inverted pyramid where you have mo...

I agree with you wetP. The rich will always get better no matter the situation. The less fortunate, small town A hockey will suffer more. AA programs playing A hockey will dominate even more. Elite league has pretty much lost all credibility with me. And A programs playing AA high school can’t keep...

What about pushing the state tournament back to the end of March, extending the season a couple of weeks, and adding more games? What spring sports are you really running over? Track, lacrosse, baseball? The weather is still pretty crappy in late March and into April and a lot of these events end up...

My answer would be yes, about .500 record if they played a schedule of 20 A teams from across all sections of the state.

Dang Elliot. Back in the 80's all I can remember is A, B, C. My dad, who handled our scheduling, told me we played AA. In a recent conversation about all the AA, A, B1, B2, C and all the different levels and subdivisions stuff I commented how back in my day all we had was A, B, & C, why do there...

blueliner my question on this open enrollment solution would be how do you see it working? Would the top teams like Edina, Tonka, Wayzata and EP be asked to have their tryouts first? Then the kids cut from those teams would then go over and try out for the Bloomington, Chaska's and Shakopees? Since...

I would go the other way (yes I know it's not ever going to happen but...) Eliminate the transfer rule altogether. Play in your city or don't play...Build these communities back up instead of letting parents...I mean kids, jump from town to town. Unhappy parents are never happy. And nothing breaks ...

1989 there Elliot. 1989.

LOL. Love that movie. Have it ready to go to watch this weekend and will most certainly be watching it on Christmas Eve on NBC. You understand what I am saying. Top players are transferring and consolidating at schools for hockey purposes. What's wrong with players who are displaced and cut transfer...

I'll go one step further. I think the state high school association should loosen transfer policies into these schools that are at risk of losing their programs. I'm a player that gets cut from Edina I should be able to open enroll and play immediately at Jefferson if I choose to do so. Helps both p...

If I am coach or AD at either of the Bloomington schools I am openly recruiting any Edina, EP, or any other player who doesn't make the cut/doesn't believe they can make the cut at their school to open enroll. Good thing you are not the coach or AD! Why? The private schools make no bones about it, ...

If I am coach or AD at either of the Bloomington schools I am openly recruiting any Edina, EP, or any other player who doesn't make the cut/doesn't believe they can make the cut at their school to open enroll. Yes, I am attending a lot of Bantam games and camps and openly recruiting. It gives those ...

Anybody else have/had kids this age, pre-puberty through the teen years? Yeah, me too. There is A LOT of stuff that happens through those years and A LOT of things change. I've heard these kids names over the years and I'm sure they are very good, even elite youth hockey players, but it's a long roa...

I believe that there is a reason for every rule. I speculate that when icing was created the hockey people quickly realized that during penalty situations the game got bogged down by whistles and therefore made a rule allowing icing during penalty situations in order to keep the game flowing. That'...