Tonka vs. Hopkins

Circles · Post by **Circles** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 1:51 pm

Go Flyers '76 wrote:
who_b_dat wrote:Keeping the streak alive! It continues to be a great story to date. Can't wait to see how this book ends. Anyone know how many points Boyd got?

Boyd got one goal. Other goal scorers were Essel, Skalbeck and Hicks. Hopkins' strength does not rest with one or two key players. Goals are spread among several leaders. They have great forwards, an excellent defense and an awesome goalie in Alex Fons. Hopkins is no fluke. They have the momentum for now. I think they can continue it. Like most good teams, these guys have skated together for years. In youth hockey, they made it to regions most years. These kids have grown up together playing pond hockey for hours on end. If they have continued victories, it will be icing on the cake of an already successful season. This may appear to be a Cinderella team, but it has been years in the making.
Jack Paul, Appelhof, Gardiner, Fink and Essel grew up together........where are they now other than Essel?

It IS a Cinderella story, noone thought Travis Boyd could come in and play as well as he has, making his teammates better as an 8TH GRADER, Skalbeck has been great as well as a Sophomore, and everyone knew Fons would be good, but as good as he was last night? I don't think so.

Junior Samples · Post by **Junior Samples** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 1:57 pm

scoreboard33 · Post by **scoreboard33** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 2:02 pm

Circles wrote:
Go Flyers '76 wrote:
who_b_dat wrote:Keeping the streak alive! It continues to be a great story to date. Can't wait to see how this book ends. Anyone know how many points Boyd got?

Boyd got one goal. Other goal scorers were Essel, Skalbeck and Hicks. Hopkins' strength does not rest with one or two key players. Goals are spread among several leaders. They have great forwards, an excellent defense and an awesome goalie in Alex Fons. Hopkins is no fluke. They have the momentum for now. I think they can continue it. Like most good teams, these guys have skated together for years. In youth hockey, they made it to regions most years. These kids have grown up together playing pond hockey for hours on end. If they have continued victories, it will be icing on the cake of an already successful season. This may appear to be a Cinderella team, but it has been years in the making.
Jack Paul, Appelhof, Gardiner, Fink and Essel grew up together........where are they now other than Essel?

It IS a Cinderella story, noone thought Travis Boyd could come in and play as well as he has, making his teammates better as an 8TH GRADER, Skalbeck has been great as well as a Sophomore, and everyone knew Fons would be good, but as good as he was last night? I don't think so.
Hicks and Seashore both played with those kids too and they are still at Hopkins with Essel.
I heard that Jack Paul left to play football for Tonka, because his uncle, Coatta's dad, was the offensive coodinator for them and the decision had nothing to do with hockey.
It is too bad they lost all those players, but every schools loses some players and that argument has been used many times for many teams, so that argument is not very good.

Circles · Post by **Circles** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 2:12 pm

scoreboard33 wrote:
Circles wrote:
Go Flyers '76 wrote: Jack Paul, Appelhof, Gardiner, Fink and Essel grew up together........where are they now other than Essel?

It IS a Cinderella story, noone thought Travis Boyd could come in and play as well as he has, making his teammates better as an 8TH GRADER, Skalbeck has been great as well as a Sophomore, and everyone knew Fons would be good, but as good as he was last night? I don't think so.
Hicks and Seashore both played with those kids too and they are still at Hopkins with Essel.
I heard that Jack Paul left to play football for Tonka, because his uncle, Coatta's dad, was the offensive coodinator for them and the decision had nothing to do with hockey.
It is too bad they lost all those players, but every schools loses some players and that argument has been used many times for many teams, so that argument is not very good.
Yes they were there too, but I think you missed the post I was responding to, my post had nothing to do with complaining about losing players. Losing players is completely expected.

My point was that this high school team is not nearly the same as the many successful youth teams this age group was involved in. Also, they were still clearly less skilled than Tonka was, though it was closer to even when they gained confidence in the second and third.

So YES, this is a cinderella story, it was a great upset last night and I won't believe anyone who says AFTER THE FACT that they were expecting this.

breakout · Post by **breakout** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 2:19 pm

Hopkins seems to have a nice nucleus of players and good goal tending. I am not surprised they beat the Skippers.

Would Hopkins be a better team with Fink? Or, would that change the chemistry they have now?

It will be exciting to watch Hopkins play the rest of the way.

Circles · Post by **Circles** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 2:21 pm

breakout wrote:Hopkins seems to have a nice nucleus of players and good goal tending. I am not surprised they beat the Skippers.

Would Hopkins be a better team with Fink? Or, would that change the chemistry they have now?

It will be exciting to watch Hopkins play the rest of the way.

So much hindsight bias here, NOONE was expecting Hopkins to win, rooting for them? Sure. But noone expected this, lets be real.

breakout · Post by **breakout** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 2:27 pm

Circles wrote:
breakout wrote:Hopkins seems to have a nice nucleus of players and good goal tending. I am not surprised they beat the Skippers.

Would Hopkins be a better team with Fink? Or, would that change the chemistry they have now?

It will be exciting to watch Hopkins play the rest of the way.
So much hindsight bias here, NOONE was expecting Hopkins to win, rooting for them? Sure. But noone expected this, lets be real.

Look at the top.........there appears to be 16 believers

That is why goalie is the most important position.

Junior Samples · Post by **Junior Samples** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 2:32 pm

gopherhockey99 · Post by **gopherhockey99** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 3:08 pm

i continue to be impressed with hopkins. seems to be a team that simply can find a way to win, a mark of a good team. it will be fun to see how they do down the home stretch of the season

fiveforfighting · Post by **fiveforfighting** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 3:59 pm

what ever happend to Fink?

wbmd · Post by **wbmd** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 4:04 pm

fiveforfighting wrote:what ever happend to Fink?

U.S.H.L.

fiveforfighting · Post by **fiveforfighting** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 4:13 pm

what D-1 school is he going to?

Can't Never Tried · Post by **Can't Never Tried** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 4:23 pm

breakout wrote: Would Hopkins be a better team with Fink? Or, would that change the chemistry they have now?

That's a great question! Sometimes having one stud on a team seems to have an effect on the other players..I have seen it work both positively and negatively.

To me once the superstar is gone the rest of the team picks up their game, and then those remaining players tend to play a better team game. IMO

Go Flyers '76 · Post by **Go Flyers '76** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 4:54 pm

scoreboard33 · Post by **scoreboard33** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 6:51 pm

If you read the StarTrib article, sounds like there coach didn't even really believe.

who_b_dat · Post by **who_b_dat** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 7:59 pm

Thanks Go Flyers '76 for filling me in on the scoring and Boyd. Much appreciated.

Gopher Blog · Post by **Gopher Blog** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 8:17 pm

breakout wrote:Would Hopkins be a better team with Fink?

Difficult to say. But I do think they seem like more of a "team" this year than they did last year.

hshwatcher · Post by **hshwatcher** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 10:58 pm

Can't Never Tried wrote:
hshwatcher wrote:this game really just came down to two things. outstanding goal tending by Alex Fons and a poor show by Tonkas goalie (2 goals in 4 shots in the first)
Clone?????????????

yes my mistake

hshwatcher · Post by **hshwatcher** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 11:04 pm

Can't Never Tried wrote:
hshwatcher wrote:this game really just came down to two things. outstanding goal tending by Alex Fons and a poor show by Tonkas goalie (2 goals in 4 shots in the first)
Clone?????????????

haha yes my mistake i don't know what i was thinking i might have been reading the news story on the game at the time

Go Flyers '76 · Post by **Go Flyers '76** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 10:55 pm

selloutcrowd99 · Post by **selloutcrowd99** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 11:43 pm

http://kstp.com/article/stories/S308545.shtml?cat=1

This 8th grader loves to celly his goals in practice and im just lovin' that.

Go Flyers '76 · Post by **Go Flyers '76** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 7:03 am

tourneytickssince59 · Post by **tourneytickssince59** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 7:09 am

Let them enjoy their fun while they can. It does not get any easier the rest of the way.

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