Iron range bantam b1 teams, who's the best?

hawks2001 · Post by **hawks2001** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 6:42 pm

I wanna know who you iron rangers think the best B1's are.

dangle-snipe18 · Post by **dangle-snipe18** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 7:04 pm

I heard hibbing is bad. rapids beat Northern lakes 6-0. Greenway beat northern lakes 6-2. mesabi east beat Northern Lakes also.

hawks2001 · Post by **hawks2001** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 7:43 am

i was up in M. east an watched them play greenway and got beat in OT. greenway didn't look bad. they only had four good skaters and a goalie. i also watched M.east play wadena and they gave them a good fight but came up short in OT

BarTender3035 · Post by **BarTender3035** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 5:25 pm

No Political Connections wrote:Hermantown got beaten up by Silver Bay. Hibbing got beaten by Hermantown, the Lakers beat Hermantown in OT, I think Two Harbors beat Hermantown. Duluth East beat Hermantown pretty easily in a preseason scrimmage but you have to figure that they will be the toughest team up here. Not sure how Grand Rapids is for sure but heard they were good. If I remember right I heard that Hastings or Edina (was a B2 team) came up for a range team weekend and Grand Rapids either beat them or staid close to them. They really man handled the Hermantown team. All in all I think that the Silver Bay team will have to be one of the tougher ones also since they have a couple of kids (they do not have a Bantam A team) who are good skaters and pretty big so they tend to be those "deal breaker kids" who are good and then get a whole lot better when the shifts rotate in a way to get them on the ice with B2 level kids.

Hastings was a Bantam B team. Rapids this week has Hermantown Fri, Mesabi East Sat Falls Sun and Greenway Thrus according to the web site.

hawks2001 · Post by **hawks2001** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 5:33 pm

rapids should get a few wins out of that. how is falls i havent heard about them.

rockcrusher · Post by **rockcrusher** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 9:24 pm

Silver Bay only has ten skaters. They beat Cloquet with seven skaters, Hermantown 7-1 with eight skaters. Last night they beat Duluth East at Fryburger 3-2 with the whole team there. Duluth East's third and fourth line never touched the ice in the third period. They also beat the Lakers and Ashland on the road also. Must have been their 'big players' taking advantage of East and the Lakers B2 players they have on their team when they were on the ice. Wow.

getoveryourbadself · Post by **getoveryourbadself** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 9:45 pm

Correct me if I am wrong,

rockcrusher · Post by **rockcrusher** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 10:13 pm

You are right no A team in Silver Bay. TEN skaters in the whole bantam program. A couple might make an A team in Duluth, three or four are B players, and a couple or three are B2 players. So where would you put this team in league play? By beating East and the Lakers by a goal or two i would say its about right, especially is those two teams are definite B teams. Here is a question, how many of East's bantam b's will ever get a sniff at hound ice as a high schooler? Not trying to be a wise ass, just curious to see how many of these kids organized hockey days are over after bantams. Anyone have any ideas?

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hawks2001 · Post by **hawks2001** » Wed Dec 09, 2009 3:52 pm

ill give it to silver bay, im on a team with 11 skaters and we only have 4 players that could make an a team if that. the rest would be on a b2 or even a c team and its tough with few numbers and more than half those numbers being bad. they have ten players and they beat east. that is an acomplishment. congrats to them

rockcrusher · Post by **rockcrusher** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 4:40 pm

It sounds like Superior might be the bantam team to beat this year.

northwoods oldtimer · Post by **northwoods oldtimer** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 6:22 pm

rockcrusher wrote:You are right no A team in Silver Bay. TEN skaters in the whole bantam program. A couple might make an A team in Duluth, three or four are B players, and a couple or three are B2 players. So where would you put this team in league play? By beating East and the Lakers by a goal or two i would say its about right, especially is those two teams are definite B teams. Here is a question, how many of East's bantam b's will ever get a sniff at hound ice as a high schooler? Not trying to be a wise ass, just curious to see how many of these kids organized hockey days are over after bantams. Anyone have any ideas?/

I do not know of any kids who have made it out of the B ranks to East Varsity. Perhaps Karl or east hockey can give us a more defined answer to a very good question.

I think they send those boys over to Marshall

hawks2001 · Post by **hawks2001** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 7:56 pm

rockcrusher wrote:It sounds like Superior might be the bantam team to beat this year.

how many kids do they have on their team cause i heard they are good.

Throwback · Post by **Throwback** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 10:16 am

I-falls appears to be the team to beat at the B level in the iron range this year. Beat Greenway (a mixed AB team) 10 - 2 the other night. Team only has 10 players but is a highly skilled group of "rink rats".

BarTender3035 · Post by **BarTender3035** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 5:41 pm

Throwback wrote:I-falls appears to be the team to beat at the B level in the iron range this year. Beat Greenway (a mixed AB team) 10 - 2 the other night. Team only has 10 players but is a highly skilled group of "rink rats".

Did u play Rapids Yet?

Throwback · Post by **Throwback** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 10:28 am

whooops, looks like I spoke to soon.

Falls lost to GR 0-7 the other night. Did beat ME-Eveleth 9-3.

Reggie · Post by **Reggie** » Wed Jan 27, 2010 1:14 am

No Political Connections wrote:Hermantown got beaten up by Silver Bay. Hibbing got beaten by Hermantown, the Lakers beat Hermantown in OT, I think Two Harbors beat Hermantown. Duluth East beat Hermantown pretty easily in a preseason scrimmage but you have to figure that they will be the toughest team up here. Not sure how Grand Rapids is for sure but heard they were good. If I remember right I heard that Hastings or Edina (was a B2 team) came up for a range team weekend and Grand Rapids either beat them or staid close to them. They really man handled the Hermantown team. All in all I think that the Silver Bay team will have to be one of the tougher ones also since they have a couple of kids (they do not have a Bantam A team) who are good skaters and pretty big so they tend to be those "deal breaker kids" who are good and then get a whole lot better when the shifts rotate in a way to get them on the ice with B2 level kids.

Hermantown, Silver Bay, and DE are not IR teams

hawks2001 · Post by **hawks2001** » Sat Jan 30, 2010 7:42 am

Throwback wrote:I-falls appears to be the team to beat at the B level in the iron range this year. Beat Greenway (a mixed AB team) 10 - 2 the other night. Team only has 10 players but is a highly skilled group of "rink rats".

greenway had beaten them earlyier in the year 7-2. greenway clearly had not come to play that day. we will see what happens in districts

Throwback · Post by **Throwback** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 10:50 pm

Int'l falls #1 regions seed

GR #2 seed