Randy Gendreau out at North Branch

[MrBoDangles]

The school has assured the parents NO co-op next year!!!

You're excited about that?

[whodoesntlovehockey]

I'm not sure if they are or not, it's just what they told me.

[old goalie85]

Co-op with FL and they would win state. Plus skate after school. Truthfully NB needs to keep it's own program. New rink and bigger #'s coming up that would be a step back.

[MHGr8ness]

Here’s what I heard as to why North Branch Coach Randy Gendreau was suspended.

One, he was written up because he was defending the kids. The school buses did not show up two times, once to bring them to a tournament game and the other was to a practice (they have a morning practice & leave the school at 4:45 AM in the morning). So the kids had to drive themselves, which I believe is against Minnesota State High School Leagues rules. He emailed the parents to contact the busing garage to complain because the kid’s safety was at risk.

Two, there was a senior parent who caused lots of drama which caused him to be suspended. They didn’t know the specifics as to why, but something to do with emails going back & forth in which the senior parent forwarded to the Principal & Activates Director. We all know through the years that there’s always one parent who thinks that their kid is a superstar or who thinks their kids deserves more ice time then others even though their kid doesn’t go to all the practices. Unfortunately all the kids have to suffer from this one parents selfish decision.

The combination of all of this got him suspended. From what I heard he is a fantastic coach & doesn’t deserve to have his reputation smeared, so thought I’d share what I heard so any rumors can be stopped. I just hope he can go back to the North Branch program, they certainly can use him & his experience.

pathetic.. again coming from a rival player I used to think that playing NB meant my stats would get a boost as long as I watched out for the cheapshots, but since he took over I had to watch out for a decent game and not my back. Extremely different team and a much better one both on and off the ice in my opinion and it should be attributed to their coach

[MrBoDangles]

Here’s what I heard as to why North Branch Coach Randy Gendreau was suspended.

One, he was written up because he was defending the kids. The school buses did not show up two times, once to bring them to a tournament game and the other was to a practice (they have a morning practice & leave the school at 4:45 AM in the morning). So the kids had to drive themselves, which I believe is against Minnesota State High School Leagues rules. He emailed the parents to contact the busing garage to complain because the kid’s safety was at risk.

Two, there was a senior parent who caused lots of drama which caused him to be suspended. They didn’t know the specifics as to why, but something to do with emails going back & forth in which the senior parent forwarded to the Principal & Activates Director. We all know through the years that there’s always one parent who thinks that their kid is a superstar or who thinks their kids deserves more ice time then others even though their kid doesn’t go to all the practices. Unfortunately all the kids have to suffer from this one parents selfish decision.

The combination of all of this got him suspended. From what I heard he is a fantastic coach & doesn’t deserve to have his reputation smeared, so thought I’d share what I heard so any rumors can be stopped. I just hope he can go back to the North Branch program, they certainly can use him & his experience.

pathetic.. again coming from a rival player I used to think that playing NB meant my stats would get a boost as long as I watched out for the cheapshots, but since he took over I had to watch out for a decent game and not my back. Extremely different team and a much better one both on and off the ice in my opinion and it should be attributed to their coach

Coach G's job was not renewed for next year. From the sound of it the two best players are moving into a NWSC school's district and a few others are going a different route. This program had a good thing going and now it is very doubtful there will even be a team next year.

He will be a great coach for some lucky high school out there............

[eastsideguy]

What a concept, these kids are leaving because they think there is a better opportunity elsewhere. Shame on them

[MHGr8ness]

Here’s what I heard as to why North Branch Coach Randy Gendreau was suspended.

One, he was written up because he was defending the kids. The school buses did not show up two times, once to bring them to a tournament game and the other was to a practice (they have a morning practice & leave the school at 4:45 AM in the morning). So the kids had to drive themselves, which I believe is against Minnesota State High School Leagues rules. He emailed the parents to contact the busing garage to complain because the kid’s safety was at risk.

Two, there was a senior parent who caused lots of drama which caused him to be suspended. They didn’t know the specifics as to why, but something to do with emails going back & forth in which the senior parent forwarded to the Principal & Activates Director. We all know through the years that there’s always one parent who thinks that their kid is a superstar or who thinks their kids deserves more ice time then others even though their kid doesn’t go to all the practices. Unfortunately all the kids have to suffer from this one parents selfish decision.

The combination of all of this got him suspended. From what I heard he is a fantastic coach & doesn’t deserve to have his reputation smeared, so thought I’d share what I heard so any rumors can be stopped. I just hope he can go back to the North Branch program, they certainly can use him & his experience.

pathetic.. again coming from a rival player I used to think that playing NB meant my stats would get a boost as long as I watched out for the cheapshots, but since he took over I had to watch out for a decent game and not my back. Extremely different team and a much better one both on and off the ice in my opinion and it should be attributed to their coach

Coach G's job was not renewed for next year. From the sound of it the two best players are moving into a NWSC school's district and a few others are going a different route. This program had a good thing going and now it is very doubtful there will even be a team next year.

He will be a great coach for some lucky high school out there............

Who's moving where?

[Dirty Coaches]

The Miska kid is a solid goalie but does not perform well enough to win games for his team. That may come with age but He is not clutch enough to stop the shots that should be routine saves. In my opinion He is overrated seeing that kids on his team even say he lets up soft goals when they need him the most.......

They lost 3-1 to Proctor last night....

He saved 58 out of 61

29 alone in the third when the rest of his team put there heads down!!!!!

North Branch had 13 shots on goal....

Put any other goalie in the state in that situation and see how clutch they'll be.

The kid has more class than you could ever dream of having.

All I'm saying is that he is no where near the level your putting him up to be. NAHL is no place for ANY sophomore player, especially a goalie. And another thing Calvin Miska has 26 points this year in a terrible two rivers conference. If he was NAHL material after this year he would have at least 50 points. He could probably go play MNJHL for the Minnesota Wildcats like other North Branch Star Jarret Sachs, who you seemed to talk up a whole lot last year buddy. But he only has 4 points in the MNJHL in 18 games. So i think you just like to boast up your precious North Branch players.

I have to agree with you JohnnyHopkins. I was able to watch the Miska boys in action this weekend in the Reebok High Performance Tournament and was hoping to witness these up and coming young players that were going to play for Alaska or the juniors next year and all I saw was average players; maybe they both just had a bad weekend. Calvin didn't have any points in the 3 games he played and Hunter gave up 5 goals and showed a .87 SV%. Maybe Alaska should look at that Eden Praire kid (Jake Gerdes) who had 3 shutouts; that's impressive with the talent he faced. I'll keep watching these Miska boys but I just don't see what Mr. Bo Dangles does.

[whodoesntlovehockey]

eastsideguy i agree with you - how sad

[MrBoDangles]

eastsideguy i agree with you - how sad

Immature parents are the problem. They had a good thing going and then they all had to whine......... This program will barely have a pulse now.

He played the players that were able to compete.