How does 2008 tourny rank?

Gopher Blog · Post by **Gopher Blog** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 9:37 pm

Relatively boring tourney. Outside of the BSM/Edina game, it didn't have a tremendous amount of excitement.

Sections had more intriguing games than the state tournament itself.

.Marshall · Post by **.Marshall** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 9:51 pm

Only quarterfinal game worth mentioning was the Little Falls vs. #1 STA game.. I thought that was the highlight of the Class A tourny.. seeing how the rest of Class A proved it impossible to score more that 2 against STA and hold them to under 5 goals

The Milk Man · Post by **The Milk Man** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 11:55 pm

I believe this is the worst State Tourney i have ever experienced totally boring beside benilde Vs. Edina. I think the JR. Gold state tourney in rapids this weekend will bring more excitment the best part is we dont have to listen to Lou Nanne for a whole year.

xcel554 · Post by **xcel554** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 4:17 am

The Milk Man wrote:I believe this is the worst State Tourney i have ever experienced totally boring beside benilde Vs. Edina. I think the JR. Gold state tourney in rapids this weekend will bring more excitment the best part is we dont have to listen to Lou Nanne for a whole year.

you are really going to compare last weekends tourney to a Jr gold Tourney? I will agree that most games really did not come down to the wire, but a Jr gold comparison is a little over board.

mnmouth · Post by **mnmouth** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:30 am

The Milk Man Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 10:55 pm Post subject:

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I believe this is the worst State Tourney i have ever experienced totally boring beside benilde Vs. Edina. I think the JR. Gold state tourney in rapids this weekend will bring more excitment the best part is we dont have to listen to Lou Nanne for a whole year.

One surely could not think that a Jr. Gold tournament was better than the State High School tournement, could he? Dissing Sweet Lou???? Whew, things are not that bad off.

Overall, the '08 tournament lacked hype going in (aside from Roseau going undefeated and defending its title? Aside from a Roseau-Edina final?) and was not able to sustain intrigue throughout the whole tournament. However, this is not unusual. It's been a long time since there's been a tournament that was totally compelling all the way through. You may have to go back as far as 1998, when East, Jefferson, Anoka and Hastings all had teams with legitimate title aspirations going in. East just proved to be substantially more balanced in the end, in beating all those teams, all of which went home with hardware.

For we fans of northern hockey, there could not have been a worse match-up than Hill-Edina for an AA title game. Among my hockey-loving friends from all points north of St. Cloud, that game was universally dismissed, which is unfortunate, but that's the way it's always been.

Still, when late-Feb. to early March rolls around, there is no better time of the year. I'm just happy that this tournament - A and AA - exists in any form and will continue to exist for years to come. I hope next year's tournament is an improvement over this year's, but it could be even more lackluster. I, for one, will still be paying major attention, no matter what.

watchdog · Post by **watchdog** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:34 am

one of the worst tourneys. it has to be one good game in semis and that was it.