2008 MN Selects Tournament

Pens4 · Post by **Pens4** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 4:23 pm

My_Kid_Loves_Hockey wrote:
Pens4 needs a reality check. "we will be at Chi Town Shuffle in Chicago....." WOW!!!!! Anyone that takes their kid out of their own school sports program because they think they are better than everyone, needs to take a reality pill. Did you know that sniffing that much Elmers Glue causes serious brain damage? Laughing
Having your kid miss a day of school means you need to have reality check?

How many kids have missed a day to go to an out of town tournament?

Yes.....My kids have missed days for tournaments. Again , what the H--- are you talking about?

bernie007 · Post by **bernie007** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 4:42 pm

My_Kid_Loves_Hockey wrote:
Pens4 needs a reality check. "we will be at Chi Town Shuffle in Chicago....." WOW!!!!! Anyone that takes their kid out of their own school sports program because they think they are better than everyone, needs to take a reality pill. Did you know that sniffing that much Elmers Glue causes serious brain damage? Laughing
Having your kid miss a day of school means you need to have reality check?

How many kids have missed a day to go to an out of town tournament?

About 10,000 of them in the first week of March in Downtown
St Paul. It is called the State Tournament I suppose that doesn't meet
the standard of out of town but ask any kid and he will tell you where
he want's to go. You work hard do extra classwork turn in extra assignments above and beyond what the others are required to do.
Have lots of extra credit points and be able to enjoy the games. It is
called the course of society where you learn how to act and control your
actions amongst other human beings in a public forum. I say it is all good
as long as you do the required work and a little extra. After all it is only
for a day or two. We all hope to live a long life and the couple of days
each year will not prevent you from achieving your academic goals as long as you prepare yourself for the future and what you want it to hold
for you in the terms of a good education. These wer'e some of the best
days of my life and I am going. I am not sorry for you and your child to miss out as that is your choice but remember when it is all over and you
kept your child from this great experience it looks as though you wer'e
the one sniffing the elmers glue.

My_Kid_Loves_Hockey · Post by **My_Kid_Loves_Hockey** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 4:52 pm

I Misread the post and misinterpreted what it said........

MoreCowBell · Post by **MoreCowBell** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 7:51 pm

watchdog wrote:no because the 96 machine wouldnt beat anyone at the 95 or 94 level in which their playing against in peewee hockey. the diffrence is their playing against associations now with a hand picked team. doesnt mean much to people who know hockey. i have to say it is impressive for a 96 age group to beat the top peewee team in the state. although i think the machine are impressive in the summer their not blowing teams off the ice.

It so fun conversing with someone that doesn't have a clue to what he is talking about. For your information the 96 Machine played in I'm not sure what 95 tournament, might of been the International Cup but 96 Machine did not lose a game in winning the 95 Tournament beating the 95 Predators in the championship game. Care to revise your prediction.

love2skate · Post by **love2skate** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 7:51 am

More Cow Bell. Sorry but you got it wrong. The 96 machine did not go undefeated in that tourney but lost to the Predators earlier in the tournament and came back and won in the champ game. Don' know offhand if they lost to anyone else. Top teams were not in that tournament

DMom · Post by **DMom** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 9:00 am

no one knows if the Fire is loaded with 96 machine kids, because there is change over the winter, but the Fire roster on their website does have a lot of kids who played with the 96 Deuce last season, not a lot of Machine kids at the 96 level.

I think Pens4's point is that if you are going to spend money on a spring tournament, certainly the Chi-Town shuffle is loaded with talent. Besides that you can get a bloody mary rinkside at 7am!!! can't do that at Selects or Super Series

The best "all star" weekend tourney we have participated in was Bernie's Summit Series. Great competition.

Personally, my 96 played tougher hockey at PeeWee A this year. He grew mentally tougher playing against 94s all winter, and now when he goes back to AAA summer program he'll be one of the oldest kids on the ice and he can work on his creativity. The best of both worlds.

Doglover · Post by **Doglover** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 9:43 am

Never even heard of Bernie's Summit Series. In my opinion Super Series is the best but they're all just money makers and pay to play tournaments. Most of the better players do participate in them though. The strongest off season tournaments are in Canada, Chicago and Boston. That's where you see what other states/countries are really turning out and the tiny Machine players would get a better perspective of their long term options. I've heard that playing against the big boys in Canada makes the Meltdown look like a joke.

bernie007 · Post by **bernie007** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 9:53 am

Doglover wrote:Never even heard of Bernie's Summit Series. In my opinion Super Series is the best but they're all just money makers and pay to play tournaments. Most of the better players do participate in them though. The strongest off season tournaments are in Canada, Chicago and Boston. That's where you see what other states/countries are really turning out and the tiny Machine players would get a better perspective of their long term options. I've heard that playing against the big boys in Canada makes the Meltdown look like a joke.

Lovedog The Stampede in Calgary the 96 Machine won it all I was pretty sure that
Calgary is Canada Ay or is it ya 7wins 0 losses. Lovedog at least know
what you are talking about ay........................

Doglover · Post by **Doglover** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:18 am

Not all Canadian tournaments are created equal. Pick a light tournament and bring home a statue to put in your nice MM trophy case. Not sure it's worth the airfare though. Sorry Bernie, not a believer.

bernie007 · Post by **bernie007** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:42 am

Doglover wrote:Not all Canadian tournaments are created equal. Pick a light tournament and bring home a statue to put in your nice MM trophy case. Not sure it's worth the airfare though. Sorry Bernie, not a believer.

Lovedog get a clue like I said you do Not know what you are talking about. The trophy STAY'S with the TOURNAMENT it will never make
it to the Minnesota Made Tophy case , it is all Full anyway. Nice try but as
usual you lose. If it was about the statue I wouldn't have gone to this
tournament as I know you do not bring the statue from this tournament
home with you. I guess this shows that the statue is really meaningless
to me it is the competition that I am after ay or is it Ya ? Lovedog you pretend to know what you are talking about only problem is you don't have a clue as to what it is you are talking about..

Doglover · Post by **Doglover** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:46 am

It's your rink, build a bigger case!

MoreCowBell · Post by **MoreCowBell** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:46 am

DMom wrote:no one knows if the Fire is loaded with 96 machine kids, because there is change over the winter, but the Fire roster on their website does have a lot of kids who played with the 96 Deuce last season, not a lot of Machine kids at the 96 level.

I think Pens4's point is that if you are going to spend money on a spring tournament, certainly the Chi-Town shuffle is loaded with talent. Besides that you can get a bloody mary rinkside at 7am!!! can't do that at Selects or Super Series

The best "all star" weekend tourney we have participated in was Bernie's Summit Series. Great competition.

Personally, my 96 played tougher hockey at PeeWee A this year. He grew mentally tougher playing against 94s all winter, and now when he

goes back to AAA summer program he'll be one of the oldest kids on the ice and he can work on his creativity. The best of both worlds.

96 Fire;

Machine Players-Fidler, Norman,Springman,Sharp, Phelps, Dougherty, Glover, Pederson, Cass, Lindgren.

Duece Players- Donahue, Weier.

Blades Player- Zerban.

bernie007 · Post by **bernie007** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:53 am

Doglover wrote:It's your rink, build a bigger case!

Lovedog Nice comeback I have no time for you I am respectfully moving forward I do not wish to keep you from your Alpo and your ability to piddle on the
paper. Lovedog do you know what all of this means ay or is it Ya ???

watchdog · Post by **watchdog** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 11:44 am

lovedog, im not sure which part of canada your talking about but as far as winnipeg which is a large city for western canada the top tournaments their are not as good as the melt down invite. the canadien teams that came to the invite last year in the 95 division finished last or next to last. thats if my memory serves me right. i think the machine could handle themselves very well at any tournament except maybe the prospects in toronto.

Doglover · Post by **Doglover** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 1:09 pm

Good points watchdog. Again, not all Canadian tournaments are created equal - just like tournaments in the States. The Prospects is the top Candian tournament along with the Brick in Edmondton for 10 yr. olds. That's why only the top US players are invited to compete there. The N/S/E/W tournies are fun, but not always that competitive, especially if they can't draw the great northern MN players.

Doglover · Post by **Doglover** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 1:15 pm

Does anyone else think our new friend Bernie007 sounds an awful lot like our old nemesis Boogeyman? Hmmmm

watchdog · Post by **watchdog** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 1:44 pm

doglover, bernie is not boogy he came after me on another post i doubt boogy would.. i can say with a handle like that hes not gona be to popular on this board. can you say tag team..

bernie007 · Post by **bernie007** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 1:56 pm

watchdog wrote:doglover, bernie is not boogy he came after me on another post i doubt boogy would.. i can say with a handle like that hes not gona be to popular on this board. can you say tag team..

Wish dog Watch dog love dog as you can see from my posts I am
just warming up wait till we drop the puck and the game is on I hope you
all have more game than what you are presently displaying. UMMMMMM
those urinal mints must be pretty tasty....

gilmour · Post by **gilmour** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 2:03 pm

Boogey and Bernie are the same person...

watchdog · Post by **watchdog** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 2:11 pm

either the same or drinkin the same coolaid at mm...

bernie007 · Post by **bernie007** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 2:25 pm

watchdog wrote:either the same or drinkin the same coolaid at mm...

Smart Dog Ness has his cup in the cooler as it was all part of the
deal. Will make a man out of Ness why do you think he chose U of M over
UND ? To get farther away from you UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM... And
the KOOL AID sure tastes better than the urinal mint....... But like they
say you can't teach a stupid dog new tricks....... ummmmmmmmmmm.

watchdog · Post by **watchdog** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 3:15 pm

well i can tell ya this if people like yourself represant the u of m.. which is giving you waaaaaaaay to much credit to be even near that. id send my kids to und in a heartbeat over joining people like yourself. theres alot of great people down south that know hockey but people like yourself make them look bad.

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