Here is YHH's take on the PeeWees this year. Thoughts?
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I'd say overall its a pretty good take.
It will be interesting to see if OMG and Andover are still as small as they were in Squirts two years ago. If they are, will that bring them back to the pack a bit in the PeeWee game which is a bit more physical? Tony appears to think Rosemount will slip a tad from Squirts....probably based on a so so outing at Velocity and some things he saw at the PeeWee Challenge.
While I don't see any chance they will be the juggernaut the few classes above them are, I'd think Edina has a chance to be better than #6, but you won't know until you see what their combined team looks like.
Other teams that I think could be in the top 10 at some point during the year would be Cloquet, Warroad and Blaine.
It should be a fun year at PeeWees with things likely being a bit more wide open than they have been the past two seasons.
It will be interesting to see if OMG and Andover are still as small as they were in Squirts two years ago. If they are, will that bring them back to the pack a bit in the PeeWee game which is a bit more physical? Tony appears to think Rosemount will slip a tad from Squirts....probably based on a so so outing at Velocity and some things he saw at the PeeWee Challenge.
While I don't see any chance they will be the juggernaut the few classes above them are, I'd think Edina has a chance to be better than #6, but you won't know until you see what their combined team looks like.
Other teams that I think could be in the top 10 at some point during the year would be Cloquet, Warroad and Blaine.
It should be a fun year at PeeWees with things likely being a bit more wide open than they have been the past two seasons.
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Minneapolis is for real, very fast, size and execute very well. Goaltending appears to be strong as well. They will challenge the three teams ahead of them on this list, especially Andover and OMG due to size difference. D6/3 will be very strong this year. Oh wait, it always is!
Blaine is a sleeper not on this list, yes they have the two brothers as nice additions which are both great players, but the team is also very heavily weighted as an older team as they have a very large number of '01 players. Do the addition of the two younger players compensate for the departure of a couple of older players? Time will tell, but I think this is a team that will be around when the dust settles in March.
Blaine is a sleeper not on this list, yes they have the two brothers as nice additions which are both great players, but the team is also very heavily weighted as an older team as they have a very large number of '01 players. Do the addition of the two younger players compensate for the departure of a couple of older players? Time will tell, but I think this is a team that will be around when the dust settles in March.
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Saw some teams play in Hopkins Tourney...
Peewee A is what I have seen lately. Orono is strong, Hornet is strong (er) with their 2 goal win against them. Johnson/Como/No St Paul was not as impressive to me as Orono but due to the 12 team format made the final 4 and finished 2nd to Edina. Orono rolled thru the "consolation" or 5-8th place bracket destroying everyone they played the whole tourney by 5 goals (other than Edina).