Peewee A Colder by the Lake Tournament 11/20-11/22

[Ron Hextall]

This tournament has an interesting format. Each team from pool A plays all three teams from pool B, they earn points for wins, ties and a shootout win. Then they are all ranked 1 thru 6, based on points (with tie breakers being head to head and fewest goals allowed and fewest penalty minutes). Then the #1 plays #2 for the championship, so both championship teams can come from the same pool. The stronger pool appears to be the A pool and I could see all three of those teams going 3-0 making it come down to fewest goals allowed and penalties. If it has to come down to tie breakers, that could make the city team the odd one out.

I will be curious to see how this turns out as I like this format better than playing 2 games within a pool and then ranking.

Pool A
Superior
Trip down to Blaine last weekend showed that superior can hand with mid level D10 teams, they don't get blown out and they don't light it up. Should feel at home and find themselves playing highland for the title on Sunday.

Highland Central
Few games played to date, but they have been victories. First test was supposed to be against Stillwater, but the Ponies were a no show. Scrappy team last year combined with group of peewee B's that finished ranked in the top 20 last year makes them the favorite.

Dryden Paperkings
A peewee AA team from Ontario. They just recently won the Westford Pizza Hut/Wing Street championship, defeating the Norwest Stars and Fort Frances. Difficult to compare with few common opponents, Fort Frances typically beats up on Warroad, for whatever that is worth. But a championship is a championship.

Pool B
Proctor Rails
Tie with superior early indicates they can compete with teams in this tournament, still to early to tell for sure. Although Frederick seems to think they are the #3 seed in D11, I will wait to see more.

Norwest Stars
Peewee AA team from Ontario, play in Lakehead Minor hockey league, currently third place, but have tied and beaten the two teams ahead of them. Score as much as they give up basically, first competition of the year against Minnesota teams.

Faribault
Only losses this year come from Prior Lake, but Faribault has consistently been a team comfortable in their D4 surroundings and not so much out of them.


In any case my predictions go as follows:

Highland over Dryden in the Championship

Superior over Proctor in the third place game

Faribault over Norwest in the consolation

[thunderwolf]

Having seen both teams play in the Westfort tourney, Dryden is a much stronger club than Norwest. Norwest may be in tough in an A tourney depending on the level of the A teams registered. Dryden should fair well though.

[HockeyStorm]

Opening Night Scores:

[HockeyStorm]

Round 2 scores:

[thunderwolf]

Does anyone know the result of the final, Dryden vs Highland?

[Ron Hextall]

I found Faribault beat Superior 1-0 for third place.

Can't find anything on the Highland game though.

[hockeyday]

Dryden Hockey Wins Gold and Silver
104 News - Nov 23 09

The Dryden AA Peewee Paperkings added to their gold medal in Thunder Bay last weekend by capturing silver in a hard fought 5-3 loss to the Highland Central Peewee A Capitals from St. Paul on Sunday. Trey Palermo, Josh Oberg and Trevor Kavanaugh scored for Dryden in the championship game at the Superior "Colder by the Lake" peewee A tournament in which Dryden was down 4-3 in the last minute before Highland secured the win with a power play empty netter. Dryden earned the championship berth by going undefeated in the round robin defeating Faribault Minnesota Falcons 6-3, Procter Minnesota Rails 12-0 and Thunder Bay Norwest Stars 2-0.

[observer]

Congrats to the Highland PeeWee As. Nice tourney victory to start the season.

[hockeyday]

Procter Rails beat Norwest 4-3 in a shoot out in the consolation 5th place game if anyone cares. Was a bit surprised to see that as Dryden beat Norwest 2-0 and Procter 12-0. I guess stats aren't always right or why play the game.