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Gotta tell ya, love him or hate him Randolph is a genius. He always starts slow and peaks right on schedule at the end of the year. Most heard in the interview last night, he has little interest in wins or losses through Christmas. He's working on his analysis of his team, e.g. strengths, weaknesses...

End of the day you have to score goals. O'Leary's Defense first is great, but you HAVE to score goals. Another common theme is loading one line with your top scorers. Scoring has to come from a minimum of two lines. Coaches get nervous/chicken out and load one line thinking they'll carry the day. To...

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sanryam wrote:No defense.

Heard they tried one of their top forwards at D against Coon Rapids. If they leave him there is could be interesting tonight vs. Blaine.

Beat Blaine and now Centennial. Looks like moving the forward was a good idea. Let's see what MG does Saturday against Hill Murray.

sanryam wrote:No defense.

Heard they tried one of their top forwards at D against Coon Rapids. If they leave him there is could be interesting tonight vs. Blaine.

observer wrote:Wow. Big youth program with a lot of talent through all ages. Makes you look back 2-3 years and realize it was a talent bubble. I'm surprised by the valley.

Sounds like system/coaching issue. Challenges with Defense goes without saying. Both goalies are VERY solid.

While Benilde is a solid, well coached team, gotta say Wayzata's loss has to be a big upset.

Bluelightspecial wrote:Knutzf, guessing by your first post your going to Omaha? Good luck to your son.

Nailed it !!!

Good luck with your second post.

Bluewhitefan wrote:
True. The list is about "Who is leaving High School Hockey" not "Who will regret leaving High School Hockey."

Fair point. Perhaps we should start that thread.

Should AAA transfer really be included in list. IMO, no. Feel free to make you're own list then. :) Gotta go with Prefer on that one. Going AAA after playing High School is a step backward to younger hockey. That's not leaving to progress, that's regressing to play with younger kids (and perhaps to...

blueblood wrote:From Burnsville

Blaine - 1
Chanhassen - 3

Finals: went to a shoot out

Burnsville - 4
Chanhassen - 3

CHANHASSEN ?!?! R E A L L Y ????

Only 4 teams this year, where in years past there were upwards of 12. This is probably the last year unless they make this year special somehow. Realy too bad. It used to be awesome !!!

Killed my bracket game 1 bro. I could've told you this was going to happen. I've finally wised up and have stopped picking them to go anywhere in my bracket (which was actually looking great until this past weekend). In the past six years they've now lost to a double-digit seed five times--twice as...

RUKidding wrote:So as the tournament ends and Mr. Hockey is named, the search for a new coach at MG begins.

Any names yet?

HUDL - Simple. Easy to get to comments to players.

Heard there 'may' be trouble in Tonka too. Something about a lawsuit. Obviously there will never be any details on that one. Too bad if true. Urick is an awesome coach.

Edina gets a bye.

Is the fact that Charlie's younger brother open-enrolled at Eagan High School as a ninth grader really relevant to this discussion? I know this is 1AA, but anyone else on the younger brother's Eagan team that played Bantams in another city last year? :wink: Retaining is good; recruiting is awesome!

They're scrambling for players. What does that tell you?

D3Referee wrote:Perhaps they would put Blaine in the 5-hole

Blaine's got to make it to St. Paul first. They're 1-4 vs. Maple Grove the last couple of years and are not the strongest between the pipes this year.

In My Humble Opinion

whether you like it are not one teams going to make there way out of this section and will be playing in St.Paul A travesty regardless. How can two teams with horribly losing records <IN KNOW STATED EARLIER> North 8-16-1 (conf 5-11-1) and South 9-16 (conf 6-11) be seeded 1 and 3 in their section an...

Its hard to imagine any possible scenario in which Eagan coughs this one up. Scoring goes to Wildcats. Defense goes to Wildcats. Goaltending to Lighting. Would be a good game to watch at any arena in the State except the morgue known as the Coliseum. HORRIBLE place for a horse show let alone a hock...

elliott70 wrote:I hate cheering for a private school

Awesome quote !!!

No way the dogs win the big dance however.

In My Humble Opinion

As pointed out, one of the Wayzata's mantras is Defense WINS championships. Karl's comment that BSMs has "played much better defensively of late" ain't enough to take the day. What I will agree with our esteemed moderator is about the importance of having Dingmann in net. While lack of exp...

Depends on which Hound team shows. I gotta go with the darkhorse -- GR.

its hard to beat a team 3 times in one year. Looking at goalie stats for Centennial, Maple Grove, and Blaine, the Cougars actually look like the tougher team to score on. Blaine is clearly the weaker of the two teams between the pipes. That said, in both of MG's losses to Centennial they started th...