Roseau Bantam A tournament this weekend: Jan 7 - 9

[abc123]

Yeah poor coach Bellows..... maybe Trottier was right on that youtube video. Check it out if you have a chance it is very funny

[hockeycrank]

On the way back from Roseau Medina got beat up all weekend. Quits ans goes home gets in fights with Roseau. And Stillwater.we s

hould take checking out of hockey when edina. Plays please. Fairly called both ways all weekend Anne it didn't cost 25 to get in

[hockey girl]

Who drives to roseau to forfiet??

Edina is too good of a team to be playing in physical 3rd place games. They are built for Championship games. They did not have District 6 refs to protect them, coaches made the right decision.

Referees were USHL referees so that was not the problem. Edina took more roughing penalties all weekend then any other team. Nothing was said by coaches to refs in this game. Ref turned his back to report penalty to score table and the team was leaving the ice.

[nobama]

Sanctions ???

Mn Hockey shall declare them unclassified ??

[Snowmass]

On the way back from Roseau Medina got beat up all weekend. Quits ans goes home gets in fights with Roseau. And Stillwater.we s

hould take checking out of hockey when edina. Plays please. Fairly called both ways all weekend Anne it didn't cost 25 to get in

What? Sober up and re write post.

[Air Force 1]

On the way back from Roseau Medina got beat up all weekend. Quits ans goes home gets in fights with Roseau. And Stillwater.we s

hould take checking out of hockey when edina. Plays please. Fairly called both ways all weekend Anne it didn't cost 25 to get in

Don't text and drive!

[BlackTape]

Wow that is amazing. I have heard of this at the Jr Gold level for fighting and what not, but at A Bantams in a close 4-3 clean physical game?

I heard they left the game because their kids were tired (like the rest of the teams), the game was physical, and it was a meaningless 3rd place game.

You gotta be kidding me?

Maybe the Edina Board should take a look at removing the coach regardless of what his last name is.

[old goalie85]

Edina backs down to Blaine, because they were tired ???

[Ugottobekiddingme]

Hat's off to Roseau Ram country for a great tournament...Class act and I will leave the "Rez" fire tower standing for another year. Great people in Roseau county.

[thehockeyczar]

What does that teach the kids? When it gets tough just quit? I wonder if this would have happened if this was the championship game!

I think the lesson to the kids is: Work hard, play hard, but play clean and fair, otherwise the other team will retaliate, or if they have more class then you, they will walk off and not dignify your team as a legitimate competitor.

[hockey girl]

What does that teach the kids? When it gets tough just quit? I wonder if this would have happened if this was the championship game!

I think the lesson to the kids is: Work hard, play hard, but play clean and fair, otherwise the other team will retaliate, or if they have more class then you, they will walk off and not dignify your team as a legitimate competitor.[

Obviously, you weren't at any of these games!! Blaine was a tough competitor in this game. I think YOUR lesson is if you can't win embarrass your team and city by walking off??

[Air Force 1]

What does that teach the kids? When it gets tough just quit? I wonder if this would have happened if this was the championship game!

I think the lesson to the kids is: Work hard, play hard, but play clean and fair, otherwise the other team will retaliate, or if they have more class then you, they will walk off and not dignify your team as a legitimate competitor.[

Obviously, you weren't at any of these games!! Blaine was a tough competitor in this game. I think YOUR lesson is if you can't win embarrass your team and city by walking off??

I was trying to figure out if he was insulting Roseau or Blaine...or both.

[hockeyoldtimer]

Hockey Girl,
I agree with you. Only if you are from Edina do you think it is okay to leave a game in the middle of it. If things aren't going your way why not take your toys and go home? Pathetic, they should be ashamed. Edina ought to learn how to lose gracefully like the rest of us have to do when we lose to THEM!!

[hockey girl]

I think the lesson to the kids is: Work hard, play hard, but play clean and fair, otherwise the other team will retaliate, or if they have more class then you, they will walk off and not dignify your team as a legitimate competitor.[

Obviously, you weren't at any of these games!! Blaine was a tough competitor in this game. I think YOUR lesson is if you can't win embarrass your team and city by walking off??

I was trying to figure out if he was insulting Roseau or Blaine...or both.

Edina is going to have to take all the blame on this one. Lots of talents at this tournament from many teams. Great weekend of hockey.

[goodtimes]

I saw some of the best youth hockey I had ever seen.Hope to go next year. Thought Edina made the right move on entering the tourny Those kids were turning into champions with three brawls and no back down atitude. I thought they may have lost that cake eater distric 6 style of hockey but I was dead wrong and disapointed, herd they left walmart with lots of badades and cleenex

[supertacks]

What does that teach the kids? When it gets tough just quit? I wonder if this would have happened if this was the championship game!

I think the lesson to the kids is: Work hard, play hard, but play clean and fair, otherwise the other team will retaliate, or if they have more class then you, they will walk off and not dignify your team as a legitimate competitor.

Nice try Czar, but unfortunately there is nothing you can say that can defend this. Those coaches should be ashamed of themselves for taking the cowardly, chickbleep way our of a situation that obviously couldn't handle. Maybe too many at the Legion the night before.

[observer]

Yeah poor coach Bellows

Head coach, Greg Dornbach

Love to hear the reason for leaving a game early. Never heard of that before. I've watched Blaine and they're small and not overly aggressive. The 2 losses will drop Edina from #1.

[DMom]

what a difference a week makes and a couple of hundred miles.

As a parent/mom, I had a kid who was involved in a summer game that got waaaaaay out of hand. Refs didn't do anything. We had a great, classy coach who tried to get the game back under control by talking with Refs and other coach. It was by far the scariest game I have ever saw. Our coach indicated he might forfeit but instead pulled our goalie very, very early in the game and played 6 on 5/4/3 (because the refs did call some things) and played keep away for the rest of the game. It worked, we were winning before he pulled the goalie and stayed ahead, and no one got hurt.

I do wonder why a team with as many horses as Edina, has to play the way they do. A lot of cheap play, and if you look back, I didn't say they didn't earn the most penalty minutes in their own tournament because I believe they did. ( I don't know that Mr. McBain taught them not to get penalties, just to skate really fast to the box.) I thought the refs would let them get by with that up north. I agree that Blaine doesn't have a lot of size, less than Edina.

[goodtimes]

2 losses 1 forfeit makes three I herd that Edina started their program back in the day as a ringette program with no checking or ruff play in other words Hockey we all maybe should be able to choose form 2 leagues

[Snowmass]

So Edina's Bantam 'A's pull this stunt (forfeiting mid game) and the Peewee 'B's pulled a similar stunt at the EP tournament in they simply no showed for a game because of the "weather" even though they are across HWY 169 from EP. (head shaking) Maybe they should just have 'in association' games only.
**I was NOT in Roseau, only reading reports here. So IF Blaine was indeed running kids, safety was in serious jeopardy etc....I guess I'd back peddle on the forfeit and rip Blaine for not losing with class.

[Green and White Fan]

Kind of ironic that Roseau played in 3rd place game at the Edina tournament. You know what, they played the entire game, took a tough loss and headed home. The big difference is that Edina schedules their tournament so that the Championship and 3rd place games are played at night. Roseau played at 6:45 PM, then boared the bus and headed back to Roseau. The last time I checked, it is the same distance from Edina to Roseau as it is from Roseau to Edina. If Edina would have finished the game, they would have been half way back to the cities, by the time the 3rd place game had even been scheduled to start in their tournament. I just don't think you are teaching kids very good values by telling them, if you aren't playing for championships, then it isn't worth playing!

[hockeyoldtimer]

Green and White Fan,
Well said. When my kid played in Roseau was always a great tournament with competitive hockey. We always expected it to be more physical up there. The trip and the drive was part of the fun.
Heard that the Edina Bantam A coaches have canceled 2-3 other games because their boys were " too tired". Must be from the arm-pumping when they beat up on the rest of us! PLEASE!

[old goalie85]

No way I can understand this. I doubt the kids wanted to quit. And I'm sure most of the parents wanted to continue. I wish we could hear from some of those folks.

[Bronc]

No way I can understand this. I doubt the kids wanted to quit. And I'm sure most of the parents wanted to continue. I wish we could hear from some of those folks.

Hard to imagine any parent, coach or player condoning this.

The only injury heard of on Sunday was when two Edina players collided in "WARMUPS" and knocked one of their own players out.

Maybe they were already worried about Blaine and looking for a reason to quit.

Do I hear boycott of Edina Tournaments (Both going to and allowing in)?

They owe Roseau and Blaine an apology.

All edina and the parents and coaches taught these kids this weekend is when you can't win, QUIT trying.

After the stuff they did at their own tournament I guess nothing should amzae folks about them.

[Pinky]

Kind of ironic that Roseau played in 3rd place game at the Edina tournament. You know what, they played the entire game, took a tough loss and headed home. The big difference is that Edina schedules their tournament so that the Championship and 3rd place games are played at night. Roseau played at 6:45 PM, then boared the bus and headed back to Roseau. The last time I checked, it is the same distance from Edina to Roseau as it is from Roseau to Edina. If Edina would have finished the game, they would have been half way back to the cities, by the time the 3rd place game had even been scheduled to start in their tournament. I just don't think you are teaching kids very good values by telling them, if you aren't playing for championships, then it isn't worth playing!

Actually Edina's board members had gatorade, pizza etc all waiting for our Roseau Bantam A players so that they wouldn't have to stop on their way home after that 3rd place game...so in all honest thats pretty respectful if you ask me.