Toronto Prospects tourney update

Bladesmom96 · Post by **Bladesmom96** » Fri May 15, 2009 11:24 am

96 Blades - 4
Boston Jr. Bruins - 1

gilmour · Post by **gilmour** » Fri May 15, 2009 11:34 am

98 Blades - 3
Honeybaked - 2

observer · Post by **observer** » Fri May 15, 2009 1:13 pm

Nice. Good luck to all the Blade teams.

Interesting roster for the 97 Blades.

http://www.prospectstourney.com/prosters.php

InigoMontoya · Post by **InigoMontoya** » Fri May 15, 2009 1:34 pm

Interesting roster for the 97 Blades.

Looks like a couple kids must have missed the plane?

GoldenBear · Post by **GoldenBear** » Fri May 15, 2009 1:42 pm

I believe the 97's had a previous commitment for Chicago this weekend and the Blades are required to field a team in Prospects so they put together another team. I thought I heard this a month or so ago.

Bladesmom96 · Post by **Bladesmom96** » Fri May 15, 2009 5:55 pm

96 Blades - 3
East Coast Selects - 3

In regards to the real 97's not being here, the Dad's up here said
the 97 Blades are really small and the head coach was worried his son
and others would get hurt.

Sk8 Str8 · Post by **Sk8 Str8** » Fri May 15, 2009 7:42 pm

[quote="In regards to the real 97's not being here, the Dad's up here said
the 97 Blades are really small and the head coach was worried his son
and others would get hurt.[/quote]

Ouch...Under the Bus

drhook · Post by **drhook** » Fri May 15, 2009 8:17 pm

bladesmom96 stick to washing dishes, and tell the dads to stop drinking so much beer, or at least get the facts before blabbing.

GB has the correct facts.

buttend · Post by **buttend** » Fri May 15, 2009 9:31 pm

drhook wrote:bladesmom96 stick to washing dishes, and tell the dads to stop drinking so much beer, or at least get the facts before blabbing. GB has the correct facts.

The 97 Blades are in Chicago. They committed to a tournament there. It conflicted w/ the Prospect Event. The team opted to go to Chicago and make good on that commitment. The Blades sent a team to Toronto w/ the help of some friends to fullfill that commitment as well.

RUKidding · Post by **RUKidding** » Sat May 16, 2009 8:19 am

Bladesmom96 wrote:In regards to the real 97's not being here, the Dad's up here said the 97 Blades are really small and the head coach was worried his son and others would get hurt.

Geez, I wonder which 96 manager/assist coach dad (singlular) from Wayzata that could be.

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My_Kid_Loves_Hockey · Sat May 16, 2009 10:29 am

the head coach was worried his son
and others would get hurt.

That could be the dumbest statment I have heard in a long time.......

Bladesmom96 are you upset that the '97 squad gets all the attention?

waylon · Post by **waylon** » Sat May 16, 2009 10:34 am

I second that/I hope my son comes home in one piece!!!!!!!!!And I'll thank him for holding the real blades slot!
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waylon · Post by **waylon** » Sat May 16, 2009 10:48 am

Sounds like they have been competetive
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Bladesmom96 · Post by **Bladesmom96** » Sat May 16, 2009 11:09 am

Team Taz - 4
96 Blades - 3

Wow. You guys are a tough crowd. I'm just a mom that relayed what some dads told me regarding why the real 97's aren't in Toronto. I guess I won't do that again. Go Blades! (92's-2001's)

drhook · Post by **drhook** » Sat May 16, 2009 11:28 am

bladesmom96 apology accepted good luck in the rest of the games

RUKidding · Post by **RUKidding** » Sat May 16, 2009 11:49 am

Bladesmom96 wrote:Wow. You guys are a tough crowd. I'm just a mom that relayed what some dads told me regarding why the real 97's aren't in Toronto. I guess I won't do that again. Go Blades! (92's-2001's)

Seriously, was it dads plural or was the one I guessed and maybe a nodding head or two? There's only one guy I know that would say anything so silly.

Bruins · Post by **Bruins** » Mon May 18, 2009 9:09 am

Bladesmom96 wrote:96 Blades - 3
East Coast Selects - 3

In regards to the real 97's not being here, the Dad's up here said
the 97 Blades are really small and the head coach was worried his son
and others would get hurt.

The 97 Blades were in Chicago and won the Cougars Classic. As I understand it the Prospects date changed and they had already confirmed to play in Chicago. The 97 Blades were in the championship game last year at Prospects. I'll post teams and scores when I get them all. How did the rest of the Blades teams do in Toronto

Doglover · Post by **Doglover** » Mon May 18, 2009 10:33 am

OK I give up - what the heck is the Cougar Classic? If I were on the 97 Blades I would want a little better explanation from the coaches/managers on why they would pass up the Prospects. Come on! It's the Prospects. Congrats on winning the Cougar Classic but it's not the Prospects.

InigoMontoya · Post by **InigoMontoya** » Mon May 18, 2009 10:41 am

I like the integrity shown by going to a lesser tourney because you gave your word, rather than jumping to something better when the date changed. It's nice to hear about a promise kept in summer hockey.

Bruins · Post by **Bruins** » Mon May 18, 2009 10:58 am

Doglover wrote:OK I give up - what the heck is the Cougar Classic? If I were on the 97 Blades I would want a little better explanation from the coaches/managers on why they would pass up the Prospects. Come on! It's the Prospects. Congrats on winning the Cougar Classic but it's not the Prospects.

1997 Division: Team Illinois, Detroit Little Caesars, Detroit Honeybaked,
St. Louis Blues, Detroit Belle Tire, Madison Capitals, Chicago Young Americans, Lemieux Academy, Colorado Thunderbirds. I think it would be tough to turn this tournament down.

buttend · Post by **buttend** » Mon May 18, 2009 12:05 pm

Bruins wrote:
Doglover wrote:OK I give up - what the heck is the Cougar Classic? If I were on the 97 Blades I would want a little better explanation from the coaches/managers on why they would pass up the Prospects. Come on! It's the Prospects. Congrats on winning the Cougar Classic but it's not the Prospects.
1997 Division: Team Illinois, Detroit Little Caesars, Detroit Honeybaked,
St. Louis Blues, Detroit Belle Tire, Madison Capitals, Chicago Young Americans, Lemieux Academy, Colorado Thunderbirds. I think it would be tough to turn this tournament down.

The field in Chicago was not as strong as the Prospects. Allot of "big" team names. But not their winter team rosters. Hindsite being 20/20 I'm sure Prospects tourney would have been the better choice.

Caps, CYA and Colorado were all here for the Meltdown.
St Loius Blues had 1/3 of their roster in Toronto this weekend

Bruins · Post by **Bruins** » Mon May 18, 2009 12:30 pm

You guys are tough on the Blades and Machine when they win. If the the Blades would have won in Toronto you would have said big deal two thirds of the St louis Blues team was in Chicago along with the top Detroit teams. Last year the Blades (including the 97s) had games with the margin of victory greater than 10 goals in Toronto and people said the tourny was weak. I dont get it.

dogeatdog1 · Post by **dogeatdog1** » Tue May 19, 2009 9:50 am

buttend wrote:
Bruins wrote:
Doglover wrote:OK I give up - what the heck is the Cougar Classic? If I were on the 97 Blades I would want a little better explanation from the coaches/managers on why they would pass up the Prospects. Come on! It's the Prospects. Congrats on winning the Cougar Classic but it's not the Prospects.
1997 Division: Team Illinois, Detroit Little Caesars, Detroit Honeybaked,
St. Louis Blues, Detroit Belle Tire, Madison Capitals, Chicago Young Americans, Lemieux Academy, Colorado Thunderbirds. I think it would be tough to turn this tournament down.
The field in Chicago was not as strong as the Prospects. Allot of "big" team names. But not their winter team rosters. Hindsite being 20/20 I'm sure Prospects tourney would have been the better choice.

Caps, CYA and Colorado were all here for the Meltdown.
St Loius Blues had 1/3 of their roster in Toronto this weekend

Looks like noone has a winter roster playing in either tourney. Lots of good hockey players that show up at these top end tourneys. Couple of ?s 1. is a winter roster better? 2. Maybe to gain respect the machine and blades should put a winter team together to beat these teams... cmon people, give the minnesota teams their due.. We do have a bunch of great top end kids that can play at that level and WIN!!! all the bashing sounds like sour grapes. If the Blades or Machine stay home and blow through tourneys here people complain about that too! 97 Blades stayed home last year and played up at the 96 level and got to the Championship in a tourney. 97 blades replacement team went to prospects and lost but were competetive. The bottom line is there are politics involved in trying to get top end teams to play and sometimes you need to be creative to get to the competition. The talk about being afraid to play somewhere and getting hurt is laughable at best. MN hockey is producing some top end kids that need to be challenged and the people that are running these teams are trying to just that/.

notfromhere · Post by **notfromhere** » Fri May 22, 2009 7:40 am

96 Prospects was a great tourney. Regional Express was a deserving winner and a deep and talented team of players primarily from NY/Canada. Even thought the Blades didn't make the 8 team playoff bracket (they were 9th after seeding games), they competed well and the top 8 teams were all deserving quality teams. I had a chance to catch up with a couple of the Blades folks that I know there and as usual had good hockey conversation and am looking forward to hopefully seeing them this winter with their regular clubs.

icedad · Post by **icedad** » Fri May 22, 2009 9:18 am

notfromhere wrote:Even thought the Blades didn't make the 8 team playoff bracket (they were 9th after seeding games), they competed well and the top 8 teams were all deserving quality teams.

Sad thing was that the only game the team lost (along with one tie), was what knocked them from #2 seed to #9 out of 20 teams. Oh well, next year ...

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