Next Year Big Nine

ggophs7 · Post by **ggophs7** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 2:10 am

Who looks good for the 09-10 season? I know JM has a lot of returning Sophomores but are there any decent Juniors returning?

Roseauverrated · Post by **Roseauverrated** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 3:13 am

Maybe we should wait for this season to conclude before we start discussing the next one.

ggophs7 · Post by **ggophs7** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 4:10 am

Roseauverrated wrote:Maybe we should wait for this season to conclude before we start discussing the next one.

I understand your point, but for every team in the state except the 16 play this weekend, preparing for next season started as soon as the last game ended

Marty McSorely · Post by **Marty McSorely** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 8:28 am

JM has a couple of JR's but 3/4 of there team couldn't make a team north of Farmington!

Mankato East and AL will be strong and Century will find a way to win. MW and Austin won't be able to beat a B Bantam team.

The rest I'm not sure on.

Chalktalk · Post by **Chalktalk** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 8:53 am

Marty McSorely wrote:JM has a couple of JR's but 3/4 of there team couldn't make a team north of Farmington!

Mankato East and AL will be strong and Century will find a way to win. MW and Austin won't be able to beat a B Bantam team.

The rest I'm not sure on.

Mankato East?? They have one or two decent players. No goaltending at all on thier roster. Are you sure about that?

Str8 cash homie · Post by **Str8 cash homie** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 10:49 am

Marty McSorely wrote:JM has a couple of JR's but 3/4 of there team couldn't make a team north of Farmington!

Mankato East and AL will be strong and Century will find a way to win. MW and Austin won't be able to beat a B Bantam team.

The rest I'm not sure on.

what about winona? winona has 2 of the top 8 scorers in the conference returning and a top notch tender and the varsity roster is packed with sr's ...

ggophs7 · Post by **ggophs7** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 12:10 pm

Str8 cash homie wrote:
Marty McSorely wrote:JM has a couple of JR's but 3/4 of there team couldn't make a team north of Farmington!

Mankato East and AL will be strong and Century will find a way to win. MW and Austin won't be able to beat a B Bantam team.

The rest I'm not sure on.
what about winona? winona has 2 of the top 8 scorers in the conference returning and a top notch tender and the varsity roster is packed with sr's ...

I'm with chalktalk as far as East goes, to go from a winless season to being a competitive team is a real stretch. Century should be interesting. I'm not sure how much depth there is after the top line.and they are dropping a lot of quality players this year. But it also wouldn't be the first time they have been a surprise

crankshaft · Post by **crankshaft** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 12:16 pm

Maybe the two East kids will talk there parents into moving to the WESTside, and with the super sophmore class they would dominate, if the two junior defense men stay in Mankato.

Hey Marty would that be the same Bantam B team that you play on

HockeyMN1 · Post by **HockeyMN1** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 12:33 pm

Eden Prairie already plays ten sophomores on varsity this year, including the starting goalie Ford whose only loss came to Edina in overtime, and Rau who leads the team in points and scoring this year. They will dominate next year.

crankshaft · Post by **crankshaft** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 12:50 pm

Faribault should be the hands down favorite, they are loosing the least and may gain a top notch player or two.

Best shot at taking section 1 also.

davey · Post by **davey** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 1:24 pm

crankshaft wrote:Maybe the two East kids will talk there parents into moving to the WESTside, and with the super sophmore class they would dominate, if the two junior defense men stay in Mankato.

Hey Marty would that be the same Bantam B team that you play on

Where would the 2 junior defensemen go. I have not heard any rumors.

southernmnscout · Post by **southernmnscout** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 2:16 pm

HockeyMN1 wrote:Eden Prairie already plays ten sophomores on varsity this year, including the starting goalie Ford whose only loss came to Edina in overtime, and Rau who leads the team in points and scoring this year. They will dominate next year.

HockeyMN!-- Is E.P. moving to the Big Nine next year???????

crankshaft · Post by **crankshaft** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 2:20 pm

I know both have dreams of bigger and better things, but will have to see what materializes over the summer.

hockeyblitz · Post by **hockeyblitz** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 2:53 pm

Faribault will be the team to beat next year hands down. Owatonna will be alright as well. Otherwise alot of parity amongst the others. Within the JV programs I would have to say Owatonna and Mayo had the better JV prorams this year. Mayo lost to Owatonna twice and to Chaplan Park and Duluth East otherwise they beat every other JV team in the Big 9. However they lose 12 seniors I believe. AL will be way down next year and the year after. Winona has some scorers coming back but again nothing down below to fill gaps. JM is a question mark. There JV lost to Austin's JV if that tells you anything. They do have players returning ,I guess it depends on if they continue to play like they did against Dodge County. Again like this year there will be no oustanding team. Alot of parity and good games but I will pick Faribault to win the Big 9 next year.

hockeyblitz · Post by **hockeyblitz** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 2:55 pm

I heard Burnsville is possibly moving to the 1AA section next year. Just rumorville though.

ggophs7 · Post by **ggophs7** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 4:34 pm

hockeyblitz wrote:I heard Burnsville is possibly moving to the 1AA section next year. Just rumorville though.

I wonder if they would do that just because section 1 considered to be not the greatest section in the state. If it goes threw I think we would see a lot more Burnsville teams in the state tournament

nipeshow18 · Post by **nipeshow18** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 4:52 pm

ggophs7 wrote:
hockeyblitz wrote:I heard Burnsville is possibly moving to the 1AA section next year. Just rumorville though.

I wonder if they would do that just because section 1 considered to be not the greatest section in the state. If it goes threw I think we would see a lot more Burnsville teams in the state tournament

Remember though, that the sections change every two years. I would not at all be surprised to see a Burnsville, Apple Valley, Eastview or Rosemount get put in section 1AA because they are all right next to Farmington/Lakeville. I think getting a Lakeville and a Rochester out of 1AA would be ideal, and I also do not like the fact that the whole big 9 is in section one. I am not a supporter or a fan of the Big 9, but when they do have an up year, no one gets to see it because at a max they send one AA represenative to state, and possibly an A team. Just my two cents.

Had to edit my typo

ggophs7 · Post by **ggophs7** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 5:03 pm

nipeshow18 wrote:
ggophs7 wrote:
hockeyblitz wrote:I heard Burnsville is possibly moving to the 1AA section next year. Just rumorville though.

I wonder if they would do that just because section 1 considered to be not the greatest section in the state. If it goes threw I think we would see a lot more Burnsville teams in the state tournament
Remember though, that the sectoins change every two years. I would not at all be surprised to see a Burnsville, Apple Valley, Eastview or Rosemount get put in section 1AA because they are all right next to Farmington. I think getting a Lakeville and a Rochester out of 1AA would be ideal, and I also do not like the fact that the whole big 9 is in section one. I am not a supporter or a fan of the Big 9, but when they do have an up year, no one gets to see it because at a max they send one AA represenative to state, and possibly an A team. Just my two cents.[/quote

True. Which Rochester school would you like to see leave the section and where would they go. Would they just switch places with whoever comes into section 1

nipeshow18 · Post by **nipeshow18** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 5:07 pm

I guess it wouldn't really matter. Distance shouldn't really be a huge issue, especially when you have teams like Buffalo who had to drive to Roseau ('07) to get walked all over. I think a spot in section two would be just fine, swapping with Burnsville if they came to section one, or possibly even section three, swtiching with an Apple Valley, Eastview or Rosemount. But yeah, I think the toughest part would be deciding which Rochester school to move.

Nodak Sioux · Post by **Nodak Sioux** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 5:44 pm

they should put St. Thomas in 1AA next year!

jackstraw · Post by **jackstraw** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:07 pm

Hockeyblitz, I read your posts from early in the season and you said the same thing about AL that you do now. Goaltending proved to be very good at the end of the season and they proved to be right up there at the top of Sec.1 with 2 very good games with Red Wing, split with Lourdes and were co-champs of the Big 9. I think they will surprise you again next year with very good goaltending and another group of very hard working kids. Faribault gets my early pick simply due to the fact that next years group of Sr.'s and Jr.s' pretty much dominated the youth ranks coming up. The variable here might be the fact that at that time, they were much physically stronger than the field and the field has been catching up. I do think they will be very good these next couple years and with an improvement in the goaltending department, they might have a nice couple year run.

gopherhockey21 · Post by **gopherhockey21** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 7:09 pm

ggophs7 wrote:Who looks good for the 09-10 season? I know JM has a lot of returning Sophomores but are there any decent Juniors returning?

Mayo will have a good goalie next year. He will be a Junior next year, but other than that their team is pretty weak. I think it will be Albert Lea winning the big nine next year.

UofM · Post by **UofM** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 7:15 pm

i agree with "Str8 cash homie" according to pointstreak, winona does have quite the returning roster with almost the whole team being seniors next year. two great forwards and a goalie who is second to none. mayo, in my opinion, is dropping off big time losing (yaggy, whitney, and alexander) and will not be seen in the top 3 next year, faribault should have a strong team with once again a lot of seniors, but i think i might squeak winona a conference championship after years of consistently scraping the bottom of the teams in the state

goldy313 · Post by **goldy313** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 7:25 pm

Faribault should be very good next year. Mayo land West both lose a lot, probably the most. JM loses very little but weren't very good so they'll have to make a big improvement, they're probably 2 years away from being any kind of a factor. Century is in an odd situation as they return their top two scorers but graduate their top 4 defensemen and nearly 5 of their top 8 forwards. Their sophome heavy JV team went 3-22 beating only East and Austin, they needed their 3rd line varsity to get their 3rd win over a pretty poor JM team. What they do to replace all the lost talent will be interesting.

Albert Lea loses a bunch of scoring as well, but that seems like it's always the case with the Tigers yet their always in contention so why exprct anything different next year? Owatonna brings back some real good players in Snorek, Pirkl, and Rohrig to name just 3, they'll be in the mix with Faribault and possibly Century. Winona's a wild card, Austin and East are still building for the future.

HShockey2180 · Post by **HShockey2180** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 7:42 pm

gopherhockey21 wrote:
ggophs7 wrote:Who looks good for the 09-10 season? I know JM has a lot of returning Sophomores but are there any decent Juniors returning?
Mayo will have a good goalie next year. He will be a Junior next year, but other than that their team is pretty weak. I think it will be Albert Lea winning the big nine next year.

The senior is better than the junior, at the varsity level kids will pick up on the junior's poor form and big rebounds and capitalize on it. It could go either way right now, depends who puts in more effort in the off season.

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