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And... IT emerges from its Jonestown drink induced slumber....
I've stayed off this thread because... really...what difference does it make? You can't de-program a cult like this. But this guy (who roots against other northern teams and demeans them...). The HT guy whining about what East "should do" "what's right" because it's "BS" that they don't, is just too rich too pass up!
So here's the HT facts: (facts are "truth" not the make believe, Hawk Davidian, earth is flat, stuff you guys learn):
*AA in youth and consistently ranked high. (BAA has been ranked #1 this year)
*You play 17 of your 25 HS games against crappy AA teams (like EP, BSM, MTKA, etc) and do very well (usually 2-4 losses). (If you guys hate high-tuition-paid "privates" so much, then why are you playing BSM, HM, Cretin DH and Holy Family this year? Every private it appears except the one you can't beat, even with a 3 goal lead.... STA)
*You gripe about the "privates" but aren't you a "free" private school grabbing players from all around the area (but still play at the A level)?
*You guys "scouted"/put feelers out for a goalie this summer from Cloquet, Denfeld, etc (but it's looking like you might be just fine with an actual "homegrown" HT kid).
*You just beat that "wealthy, just shy of AA" enrollment, #4 ranked Mahtomedi team 9-2.... 9-2!!!
Did you really just call East cowards?
It must be nice to be in a cult because you never have to have any self-awareness of what the outside world sees. Pure blissness. What color is the sky in your world... yellow?
Btw, DAHA doesn't have a thing to do with what happens at HS. If you go to school at East, you play at East. You don't get "added to the East roster". Are you for real? You guys know all about the open-enrollment thing... right? You should, your roster has been littered with them over the years.
Not everyone is like you guys bringing kids in for summer "tryouts/ get-to-know-the-new-guy" sessions. I saw the new "homegrown" "movin' in to a 'better' neighborhood" senior kid posted early this summer for work-out sessions at HT. How was he able to do that when... they hadn't even moved yet or enrolled? Tisk, tisk. You might want to bury that paper as the MSHSL could consider it "tampering with a currently enrolled student". The Cloquet goalie must not have liked the session with the Hermantown And Surrounding Area group. I guess HASA isn't for every blue chipper in the area.
East didn't pull out of the LSC because of you. You're not as important as you think. There used to be more required conference games so they pulled out to go independent and add tougher games so they could compete at State better. (You know, like you all the way up through youth & HS regular season... and then move down a class...just before "playoffs", aka "banners").
Randolph will play you... as soon as you go AA. He's said it out loud in front of people. He won't be like your new Dear Leader Coach. (The one who "said" he'd go AA but then didn't get the right "A" banner so he must have become ill with "nocommentonAAitis" because he's mute since). If you care so much about northern hockey, like you claim you do, HT moving to AA would push a cities team, either Andover or Elk River, out of 7AA making it MORE likely a northern team would go to State). It's sure going to be fun watching that Plante group outscore opponents 84-1 or whatever getting to the championship game.
The Randolph "excuse" is this:
East doesn't care about you. HT is irrelevant to East. They won't ever care about you. If you want to be relevant to East and play them, you'll have to go AA. That's the only way it will ever happen. Until then, they'll just snicker at how cute you are with your "we're the little homegrown engine that could" diatribe against East.
Does East have kids play for them that aren't "East" kids? Yep. But they play AA so some kids go there to play at the AA level. Just like Moose Lake kids go to Cloquet and some range kids go to Rapids.
Who is this anyway...Dowd...? Could be anybody I guess, except the guy who knows the most about hockey up there. You know who he is but probably don't like him... because he doesn't drink the Kool-Aid and speaks truth.
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Post of the year love it!