Who's going to make the 54 who go on on the advanced 17

Hockey Fan · Post by **Hockey Fan** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 7:26 pm

Just wondering if anyone has any guesses as to who will go on in the advanced 16 and 17 year olds?

Bouchard92 · Post by **Bouchard92** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:18 pm

Just a guess/estimate
Im sure I am missing a few or have some errors
For the 17s:

Connor Faupel
JP Lafontaine
Jason Clark
Matt Campbell
Andrew Herbert
Jonathan Gehrt
Max Smith
David Jarret
Jeffrey Pauluk
Connor Polacek
Zach Wilkinson
Dan Coguyt
Joe Rubbelke
Carl Kreiger
Noah Gavin
Christian Isackson
Zach Shroeder
AJ Reid
Tom DeBace
Ryan Wolter
Sam Windle
Andrew Pitts
Brett Stern
Nick Bjugstad
Alec Horton
Alex Koopmieners
Jordan Palusky
Matt Youso
Derek Forbort
Jack McFarlane
Eric Sheid
Joey Benik
Cal Decowski
Garret Hendrickson
John Skerbec
DJ Jones
Max Gardiner
Kayle Rau
Quin Buckellew
Adam Knockenmus
Taylor Hedlund
Shane Omdahl
Joncarlo Westerlund

Just some of the names I noticed while watching the games last weekend. Im sure I am still missing a bunch

Husky88 · Post by **Husky88** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 11:54 am

The Final 54 roster for the 17's is out on Minnesota Hockey's website.

hockeyhockey44 · Post by **hockeyhockey44** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 12:09 pm

where?

Husky88 · Post by **Husky88** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 12:34 pm

http://minnesotahockey.org/assorted/Boy ... Roster.pdf

Sioux Fan · Post by **Sioux Fan** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 1:19 pm

Husky where did you get that as I went to the site and cannot find it and when I clicked on the link it worked initially but now doesn't could it be that this was not the final list.

I hope not I was hoping our goalie Aaron Dooley would move on he only let in 2 goals and stopped 7 or 8 shoot out shots and breakaways and had shutouts in the last two games in his half.

Husky88 · Post by **Husky88** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 1:24 pm

I think they made a change to the document and put it back out there under a different name .... here is the new one that is out there on the Minnesota Hockey Website (In the NEWS section - click on "Advance 17 Boys Roster").

http://minnesotahockey.org/assorted/200 ... osters.pdf

selloutcrowd99 · Post by **selloutcrowd99** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 1:28 pm

Final Top 54
DEFENSE:
Mike Parnell
Ben Marshall
Brett Stern
Justin Holl
Spencer Peratalo
Taylor Hedlund
Andrew Pitts
Curt Rau
Derek Forbort
DJ Jones
Joe Rubbelke
Matt Youso
Andrew Herbert
Buzz Tryggeseth
David Jarrett
Drew Brevig
Sam Windle
Jeff Pauluk
FORWARDS:
Darren Lapic
Adam Knochenmus
Brandon Zurn
Cal Decowski
Christian Isakson
Garret Hendrickson
Jason Clark
John Skrbec
Josh Archibald
Kyle Rau
Bob Kinne
Jack McFarlane
Brett Patterson
Jean Paul Lafontaine
Joey Benik
Justin Crandall
Nick Bjugstad
Riley Colvard
Shane Omdahl
Zach Wilkinson
A J Reid
Alex Koopmeiners
Brandon Chezik
Eric Scheid
Brady Loew
James Hughes
Max Gaede
Max Gardiner
Mitch Rogge
Tanner Lane
GOALIES:
Zane Gothberg
Nick Maiers
Adam Wilcox
Alexander Lyon
Jacob Meyers
Andrew Ford

Any surprises?

GR3343 · Post by **GR3343** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 2:00 pm

selloutcrowd99 wrote:Final Top 54
DEFENSE:

Buzz Tryggeseth

Jeff Pauluk
FORWARDS:

Jack McFarlane

GOALIES:

Any surprises?

The ones left up there were surprises to me. Where's Lutzka and Christenson from Sec. 7? Both deserved it. How about the goalie (Dooley?) from Sec. 1? Easily one of the tops in the tourney.
Just an observation.

johnnyquest · Post by **johnnyquest** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 2:10 pm

surprises to you - no brainers to me

Keep your posts positive (yea, like thats going to happen)

PuckTime · Post by **PuckTime** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 2:29 pm

Why no brainers? Because they've been on lists before?
Isn't it supposed to be about how players looked last weekend?
I saw good and bad flashes of just about everyone out there. I would not want to be an evaluator.
There are a few suprises to me too, like how does someone make it after skating in only one game...

GR3343 · Post by **GR3343** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 3:41 pm

johnnyquest wrote:surprises to you - no brainers to me

Keep your posts positive (yea, like thats going to happen)

Where's the negativity? Missed that I guess.

selloutcrowd99 · Post by **selloutcrowd99** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 4:24 pm

Who do Nick Maiers and Alexander Lyon play for?

sideways · Post by **sideways** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 4:32 pm

[quote="selloutcrowd99"]Who do Nick Maiers and Alexander Lyon play for?[/quote]
Nick Maiers....is from St. Cloud Cathedral.

Factsmatter1 · Post by **Factsmatter1** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 4:33 pm

selloutcrowd99 wrote:Who do Nick Maiers and Alexander Lyon play for?

Lyon - Lake of the Woods with a 5-11-1 record and a 3.44 GAA
Maiers - St. Cloud Cathedral with a 19-2-1 record and 1.51 GAA

JeepersCreepers · Post by **JeepersCreepers** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 5:32 pm

No Jordan Palusky?

scoutmn · Post by **scoutmn** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 7:18 pm

Sioux Fan we were hoping your goalie Aaron Dooley made the final 54 he definatly deserved the opportunity! . He plays with a lot of heart true hockey player and directed his team putting them in position and yelling out directions. your team played better when he was in the net.
I watched about 5 games and I was impressed how comfortable Dooley was in the net. His shoot out was impressive. It's a true misfortune that he didn't make the cut.

Sioux Fan · Post by **Sioux Fan** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 9:41 pm

I agree both Nick Heimer and he played well it was more of a case of our forwards not scoring and it is a problem everywhere.

DannyCalifornia · Post by **DannyCalifornia** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 12:16 am

JeepersCreepers wrote:No Jordan Palusky?

ya, they missed on Palusky and Bonner

Sioux Fan · Post by **Sioux Fan** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 12:52 am

Jordan Palusky is a huge miss. He is a great kid and loves to score. He was a big part of the Section 5 team..He had a great state tourney...

Good Luck to Jordan.

Jbone · Post by **Jbone** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 1:50 pm

Where was Noah Gavin at? Did he even try out?

hockeyboys · Post by **hockeyboys** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 2:00 pm

Gavin tried out. didn't make it.

Marty McSorely · Post by **Marty McSorely** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 3:09 pm

No Dooley didn't get picked because he's from Austin, MN......Zero respect for Section One again. The kid let's in two goals the whole tourney.....It's BS

Papa Bergundy · Post by **Papa Bergundy** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 11:01 pm

Yes definately some players missing that were previously mentioned. Very surprised Noah Gavin didn't make it. Didn't watch him much this weekend but he's a good hockey player no question.

There are players missing, but I also don't see any glaring holes. As expected and as usual, a very talented group of players and all should be very proud of themselves.

Factsmatter1 · Post by **Factsmatter1** » Sat Apr 04, 2009 11:07 am

Papa Bergundy wrote:Yes definately some players missing that were previously mentioned. Very surprised Noah Gavin didn't make it. Didn't watch him much this weekend but he's a good hockey player no question.

There are players missing, but I also don't see any glaring holes. As expected and as usual, a very talented group of players and all should be very proud of themselves.

Think PapaG nailed it. The "Final 54" is clearly a very talented group of kids who should be extremely proud of themselves to have reached this level of acknowledgement in Minnesota High School hockey. They are in the rarefied air of the top 50 in their age group in "the state of hockey" ... and they should be proud of not only their hard work and sacrifice... but as many in Minnesota know they should step back and take a moment to acknowledge the hard work and sacrifice of their parents, family, and coaches who have supported them and helped acheive this memory...

There are always disappointments. I would hate to be in a position to decide the last 5 kids on the bubbble for any position on any team. I don't envy the evaluators job in making these tough decisions. However, nothing on the 17 list leads me to beleive there was anything approaching significant malice, politics or unfairness. In the end one often learns little from success and a great deal from disppointment. All the kids who made the festival should interpret not making the "Final 54" as an opportunity and not as a message of failure. Anyone on that festival list has the opportunity to move ahead in their hockey careers if they have the desire, discipline and most of all perseverance to do something with their current disappointment... Remember, in two weeks there will be 30 more disappointments and 8 weeks after that thier will be 24 disappointments... disappointment is not an end for the truly great but rather a beginning...

Congrats to the FINAL 54.