The Brick

EXPRO · Post by **EXPRO** » Mon Jun 28, 2010 1:20 pm

http://brickinvitational.pointstreaksit ... /home-page

Looks like the Brackets are posted, do you really think the Blades have a chance?
DIVISION 1
Toronto Pro Hockey
California
Toronto Bulldogs
Montreal Ice Storm
Winnipeg Junior Jets
Saskatchewan

DIVISION 2
Team Brick
Detroit Red Wings
Vancouver Vipers
Connecticut Yankees
Minnesota Blades
Chicago Jr Blackhawks

muckandgrind · Post by **muckandgrind** » Mon Jun 28, 2010 1:29 pm

Oh Dear Gawd.......another Brick thread.

Pucksahater · Post by **Pucksahater** » Mon Jun 28, 2010 1:56 pm

Looks like alberta brick is worried after how the team did in winnipeg, alot of strong teams in division 1. Both toronto teams in one division, only tough team in division 2 is vipers. Blades might be able to get a couple of wins, i don`t think alberta brick has a solid chance of winning it. I see toronto bulldogs, team sask and the vipers as teams with legitimate chances of winning the brick.

HockeyDad41 · Post by **HockeyDad41** » Mon Jun 28, 2010 3:16 pm

What's the deal with the brick? Why do they only let one team from Minnesota enter?

Tellitlikeitis · Post by **Tellitlikeitis** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 11:35 am

sounds like the Blades got an easy draw looking at the teams in the brackets. C'mon Blades just don't embarrass MN hockey. I heard ETS is helping coach the Blades....good luck with that Monopoly Man. What does that say for the Blades if they have to lure players from another program as well as a coach. My guess is Monopoly Man aka ETS said take me take me and I'll let you take some players. Classic.........

muckandgrind · Post by **muckandgrind** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 11:37 am

Tellitlikeitis wrote:sounds like the Blades got an easy draw looking at the teams in the brackets. C'mon Blades just don't embarrass MN hockey. I heard ETS is helping coach the Blades....good luck with that Monopoly Man. What does that say for the Blades if they have to lure players from another program as well as a coach. My guess is Monopoly Man aka ETS said take me take me and I'll let you take some players. Classic.........

valleyball · Post by **valleyball** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 11:44 am

Chicago Jr. Blackhawks 10 Minnesota Blades 2

observer · Post by **observer** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 1:22 pm

It would interesting to see where the Jr. blackhawks are from? Considering there isn't a AAA club called the Jr. Blackhawks I'll guess the players came from the Mission, Team Illinois, the Fury, etc. If that's the case it's interesting that they are able to set aside their differences and select what must be a true regional all star team.

The Blades really need to change their stance on this.

phil mccracken · Post by **phil mccracken** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 1:32 pm

observer wrote:It would interesting to see where the Jr. blackhawks are from? Considering there isn't a AAA club called the Jr. Blackhawks I'll guess the players came from the Mission, Team Illinois, the Fury, etc. If that's the case it's interesting that they are able to set aside their differences and select what must be a true regional all star team.

The Blades really need to change their stance on this.

This is only Illinois 2nd year at the Brick. Fury or CYA may not have had players good enough for the trny, and Mission strongly said "do not participate" One of the better Mission players played the bluff and won.

wayupnorth · Post by **wayupnorth** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 1:56 pm

FYI

Illinois does not start AAA (Mission,TI,CYA, and Fury)until squirt major.

I would assume that all these players (2000s) played with their local organizations in Illinois.

Detroit does have Tier 1 squirt minor.

Deep Breath · Post by **Deep Breath** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 3:52 pm

Jr Blackhawks are made up of a lot of kids that played for the 2009 Windy City Black Hawks; which won the 2000 division of the 2009 AAA Independent Classic. They also added a few players from the Nike Bauer Selects that won this year's Chi-Town Shuffle.

observer · Post by **observer** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 4:05 pm

The point is they are a team made up with kids from several different organizations in the interest of bringing the best possible team to The Brick. Blades should take a page from that book before they lose their berth for not doing more to assure the strength of their team. It's a neat opportunity for them to revise their stance and do it right. Kinda silly on their part at this point. How cool would it be to really gather the best 17 players and make a run.

Mr. Moore, care to lay out your plans for next spring's selection process?

GreatOne99 · Post by **GreatOne99** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 5:19 pm

observer wrote:The point is they are a team made up with kids from several different organizations in the interest of bringing the best possible team to The Brick. Blades should take a page from that book before they lose their berth for not doing more to assure the strength of their team. It's a neat opportunity for them to revise their stance and do it right. Kinda silly on their part at this point. How cool would it be to really gather the best 17 players and make a run.

Mr. Moore, care to lay out your plans for next spring's selection process?

As it has been pointed out numerous times on this board, the only two MN teams at this young age who has the talent to compete at the Brick are the Blades and the Machine, and the Blades have reached out, again numerous times to take Machine kids, but Machine kids have been banned from playing with the Blades by BM because they have to wear a Blades jersey, this is the only reason why Machine kids can't compete! Do not blame the Blades, they tried! BM wants this (Brick) tourney bad, and will do anything to get it, but the Blades have the Charter and the MN team that plays in this tourney must wear a Blades jersey, and from what I hear that will NOT change. BM check your ego at the door and let the best kids off the Machine team play with the best of the Blades and we'll compete, if not win the darn thing! These teams that compete at the Brick are all-star teams put together just for the tourney picked from teams from all over Canada and the USA. The Blades Brick team is a good young hockey team, but it's hard to compete against teams with kids from all parts of the country. Trust me, you take the Machine team and put their existing team in the Brick, and they go down hard also, but combine with the Blades and it's a competitive tourney.

mudtuttle · Post by **mudtuttle** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 7:16 pm

Just a FYI,13 of the Junior Blackhawk players are on the Fall 2010-11 Squirt Roster for the Chicago Mission.

offside14 · Post by **offside14** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 8:24 pm

GreatOne99 wrote:
observer wrote:The point is they are a team made up with kids from several different organizations in the interest of bringing the best possible team to The Brick. Blades should take a page from that book before they lose their berth for not doing more to assure the strength of their team. It's a neat opportunity for them to revise their stance and do it right. Kinda silly on their part at this point. How cool would it be to really gather the best 17 players and make a run.

Mr. Moore, care to lay out your plans for next spring's selection process?
As it has been pointed out numerous times on this board, the only two MN teams at this young age who has the talent to compete at the Brick are the Blades and the Machine, and the Blades have reached out, again numerous times to take Machine kids, but Machine kids have been banned from playing with the Blades by BM because they have to wear a Blades jersey, this is the only reason why Machine kids can't compete! Do not blame the Blades, they tried! BM wants this (Brick) tourney bad, and will do anything to get it, but the Blades have the Charter and the MN team that plays in this tourney must wear a Blades jersey, and from what I hear that will NOT change. BM check your ego at the door and let the best kids off the Machine team play with the best of the Blades and we'll compete, if not win the darn thing! These teams that compete at the Brick are all-star teams put together just for the tourney picked from teams from all over Canada and the USA. The Blades Brick team is a good young hockey team, but it's hard to compete against teams with kids from all parts of the country. Trust me, you take the Machine team and put their existing team in the Brick, and they go down hard also, but combine with the Blades and it's a competitive tourney.

Greatone99 you are a classic. Here you go calling onthe dogs again. The Blades didn't ask for machine players until they got smoked by a brick contender in Chicago. Machine leave Saturday for las vegas for a tournament of their own so how would the kids have been able to suport the goodwill of the Blades to let a few of the chosen to compete among their obvious hockey prowess. So lets get over your attempt to bash BM again and again. On a side note apparently you haven't heard of a little tourney called the subway classic where the 2000 machine just competed against "teams from all parts of the country" and lost 2-1 in the championship while dominating the game, vipers goalie was very good. The machine also beat that team in round robin play 4-1. By the the way since it is apparent that you research/think before you speak - NOT, 2 of the teams that were at the subway are in the blades pool lets wait and see how they fair since the machine s already proven capable to play with teams of this caliber. Hopefully they had a bad game this morning and tonight wont be more of the same.

muckandgrind · Post by **muckandgrind** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 8:27 pm

offside14 wrote:
GreatOne99 wrote:
observer wrote:The point is they are a team made up with kids from several different organizations in the interest of bringing the best possible team to The Brick. Blades should take a page from that book before they lose their berth for not doing more to assure the strength of their team. It's a neat opportunity for them to revise their stance and do it right. Kinda silly on their part at this point. How cool would it be to really gather the best 17 players and make a run.

Mr. Moore, care to lay out your plans for next spring's selection process?
As it has been pointed out numerous times on this board, the only two MN teams at this young age who has the talent to compete at the Brick are the Blades and the Machine, and the Blades have reached out, again numerous times to take Machine kids, but Machine kids have been banned from playing with the Blades by BM because they have to wear a Blades jersey, this is the only reason why Machine kids can't compete! Do not blame the Blades, they tried! BM wants this (Brick) tourney bad, and will do anything to get it, but the Blades have the Charter and the MN team that plays in this tourney must wear a Blades jersey, and from what I hear that will NOT change. BM check your ego at the door and let the best kids off the Machine team play with the best of the Blades and we'll compete, if not win the darn thing! These teams that compete at the Brick are all-star teams put together just for the tourney picked from teams from all over Canada and the USA. The Blades Brick team is a good young hockey team, but it's hard to compete against teams with kids from all parts of the country. Trust me, you take the Machine team and put their existing team in the Brick, and they go down hard also, but combine with the Blades and it's a competitive tourney.

Greatone99 you are a classic. Here you go calling onthe dogs again. The Blades didn't ask for machine players until they got smoked by a brick contender in Chicago. Machine leave Saturday for las vegas for a tournament of their own so how would the kids have been able to suport the goodwill of the Blades to let a few of the chosen to compete among their obvious hockey prowess. So lets get over your attempt to bash BM again and again. On a side note apparently you haven't heard of a little tourney called the subway classic where the 2000 machine just competed against "teams from all parts of the country" and lost 2-1 in the championship while dominating the game, vipers goalie was very good. The machine also beat that team in round robin play 4-1. By the the way since it is apparent that you research/think before you speak - NOT, 3 of the teams that were at the subway are in the blades pool lets wait and see how they fair since the machine s already proven capable to play with teams of this caliber. Hopefully they had a bad game this morning and tonight wont be more of the same.

Lot's of venom in your post......Take this pretty seriously, do you?

EXPRO · Post by **EXPRO** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 8:50 pm

O.K. let's go back to original post:
Looks like the Brackets are posted, do you really think the Blades have a chance?

Offsides14, you hit the nail on the head. My point in the post was to ask can the Blades compete in what seems to be the same type of highly competitive pool the machine had in Canada. I don’t think the Blades fully understand the competitive level of play at the brick, and it will not help with a rental coach or rental players, it needs to be a team developed over time like the 2000 machine, and oh how I hate to use the Machine name and Blades name in the same sentence, so let’s how they do tonight.
Now, I clearly don’t understand the BM bashing, why must everyone take a swing at BM and his organization, I see nothing wrong with MM great development, at a highly competitive level, it’s a good organization. Good luck to the 2000 machine in Vegas!

EnjoyTheShow · Post by **EnjoyTheShow** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 9:09 pm

Tellitlikeitis wrote:sounds like the Blades got an easy draw looking at the teams in the brackets. C'mon Blades just don't embarrass MN hockey. I heard ETS is helping coach the Blades....good luck with that Monopoly Man. What does that say for the Blades if they have to lure players from another program as well as a coach. My guess is Monopoly Man aka ETS said take me take me and I'll let you take some players. Classic.........

wow another gem, you just keep swinging away don't you... real classy! You sure seem to worry about what i 'm doing all the time. Why don't you find abother hobby. Seems like all you want to do is try to make stuff up about me and root against 10 year olds who represent minnesota. What a waste!

EnjoyTheShow · Post by **EnjoyTheShow** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 9:14 pm

Haven't seen this link on here yet.

Http://bisnht.stats.pointstreak.com/sco ... agueid=845

Live updates... looks like the blades are in the 3rd period. Seem to be having a much better game than the one against chicago. Hopefully they keep improving and represent the dtate well by the end of the week.

scoreandscoreoften · Post by **scoreandscoreoften** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 9:17 pm

EXPRO wrote:O.K. let's go back to original post:
Looks like the Brackets are posted, do you really think the Blades have a chance?

Offsides14, you hit the nail on the head. My point in the post was to ask can the Blades compete in what seems to be the same type of highly competitive pool the machine had in Canada. I don’t think the Blades fully understand the competitive level of play at the brick, and it will not help with a rental coach or rental players, it needs to be a team developed over time like the 2000 machine, and oh how I hate to use the Machine name and Blades name in the same sentence, so let’s how they do tonight.
Now, I clearly don’t understand the BM bashing, why must everyone take a swing at BM and his organization, I see nothing wrong with MM great development, at a highly competitive level, it’s a good organization. Good luck to the 2000 machine in Vegas!

Some of the same team names in the Subway and at the Brick. Not so sure they have the same rosters.

scoreandscoreoften · Post by **scoreandscoreoften** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 9:21 pm

EnjoyTheShow wrote:
Tellitlikeitis wrote:sounds like the Blades got an easy draw looking at the teams in the brackets. C'mon Blades just don't embarrass MN hockey. I heard ETS is helping coach the Blades....good luck with that Monopoly Man. What does that say for the Blades if they have to lure players from another program as well as a coach. My guess is Monopoly Man aka ETS said take me take me and I'll let you take some players. Classic.........
wow another gem, you just keep swinging away don't you... real classy! You sure seem to worry about what i 'm doing all the time. Why don't you find abother hobby. Seems like all you want to do is try to make stuff up about me and root against 10 year olds who represent minnesota. What a waste!

Kind of funny, if ETS is Scott then he's posting and coaching the Blades while their game is going on.

scoreandscoreoften · Post by **scoreandscoreoften** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 9:30 pm

Final Brick 3 Blades 1

murray · Post by **murray** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 9:51 pm

What is the brick?

phil mccracken · Post by **phil mccracken** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 9:55 pm

murray wrote:What is the brick?

A large furniture store based predominately in western Canada.

EnjoyTheShow · Post by **EnjoyTheShow** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 10:00 pm

scoreandscoreoften wrote:
EnjoyTheShow wrote:
Tellitlikeitis wrote:sounds like the Blades got an easy draw looking at the teams in the brackets. C'mon Blades just don't embarrass MN hockey. I heard ETS is helping coach the Blades....good luck with that Monopoly Man. What does that say for the Blades if they have to lure players from another program as well as a coach. My guess is Monopoly Man aka ETS said take me take me and I'll let you take some players. Classic.........
wow another gem, you just keep swinging away don't you... real classy! You sure seem to worry about what i 'm doing all the time. Why don't you find abother hobby. Seems like all you want to do is try to make stuff up about me and root against 10 year olds who represent minnesota. What a waste!
Kind of funny, if ETS is Scott then he's posting and coaching the Blades while their game is going on.

Hey, now THAT is a good point.

Facts have never stopped him before though.