PEE-WEE A SCORES

[farmington14]

Farmington - 4
Champlin - 1

[BowlusEnforcer]

Chaska/Chanhassen 5
Burnsville 3

A D6 league game

Anyone know why these 2 towns don't split now that they have 2 high schools?

[buzzsaw]

Waconia 4 Jefferson 1

[statsmn1964]

Stillwater 6 Forest Lake 0
Stillwater 7 Edina 5
Stillwater 8 Wayzata Gold 0
Lakeville South 6 Stillwater 2

[Bleed Maroon and Gold]

Irondale 10
Fairbault 2

[silentbutdeadly3139]

Chaska/Chanhassen 5
Burnsville 3

A D6 league game

Anyone know why these 2 towns don't split now that they have 2 high schools?

Because High School has nothing to do with youth hockey.

[O-townClown]

I think Edina is at 4-4.

?

[ThePuckStopsHere]

I think Edina is at 4-4.

?

Who Cares

[frederick61]

Score from Tuesday evening:

White Bear Lake-4
North St. Paul-3

Some time ago, I don’t know when, White Bear Lake sort of sold their “hockey soul” to Edina. Over the years, it took what was the suburban evolution of St. Paul hockey and tried to morph it into an Edina model. They started at the peewee A level and linked together with other teams like Stillwater, Rochester, and Duluth East to form a sort of exclusive club of teams, just always under the radar on the average parent/fan who is passing through their two years of peewee hockey.

There is nothing wrong with that. It is just the way it is.

But associations and coaches sometimes forget that peewee’s are just 11-12 year old kids learning a sport. And there is this cultural thing that the kids get out of their neighborhoods. The kids sort of know this.

I saw White Bear Lake beat Blaine 7-2 ten days ago. On the same day, I saw Tartan and North St Paul scrimmage. Whether it is by chance or not, the Bear’s team seemed to emulate Edina’s team this year, both relying on speed and quickness and not size. The Polars skipped peewee A last year, fielding a B team, and had opened their D2 season with a 2-2 against Mahtomedi Monday night. Their peewee A team looked more “old school” with less emphasis on speed and quickness and more size and maturity.

The game was played at Polar, 12 minute stop time periods with 2 minute penalties. Surprisingly, the Polars matched the speed and quickness of the White Bear Lake kids by playing position well and using their size. The first period flew by with few errors and one late period penalty to the Polars. It ended in a 0-0 tie.

The second period started the same way, with both teams skating well and the Polars holding position. At the 7:54 mark, two Polar forwards executed a nice passing play to score after a Bear defense man overly committed in the Polar zone resulting in a 2 on 1 break with a high hard shot hitting the upper left corner of the net. Polars led 1-0.

Then the play became ragged. Three successive White Bear Lake penalties gave the Polars a 5 on 4 advantage for six minutes and they couldn’t score. White Bear, back at full strength with under a minute to go in the period, scored on a tip shot from the point that deflected the above and to the goalie’s left five feet in front of his out stretched glove to tie the score.

White Bear Lake stepped up their play in the opening minutes of the third period. They finally scored on a neat passing play on a three man rush into the Polar’s zone. A wing carrying the puck into the corner caught sight of a line mate swinging into the goalie’s weak side, slowed his own play to create the correct timing, a made a pass with the right speed to get through the defense and yet timed to hit his breaking line mate. It was an easy tip-in, but it came off a great play.

Three minutes later the Bears scored again to take a 3-1 and the Polars seemed to let down their play. For the next three minutes, they chased White Bear around the rink, but managed to avoid a fourth goal. With under 4 minutes left in the game, the Polars scored when a breaking wing put the puck in the net off a rebound on a hard shot into the Bear’s goalie. Two minutes later, the Bears retaliated on a scrum and scramble in front of the North St. Paul net. The Polars came back to score with eleven seconds on the clock another hard shot and rebound to end the scoring at 4-3.

It was a good game for the Polars who have potential to improve this season. If they do, they will be a threat in D2. For the Bears, who used their speed and quickness to bury a good Blaine team ten days ago, it remains to be seen. But that is why kids play hockey. It is called development. They learn. Who will learn the best?

[old goalie85]

Forest Lake 5 - Maht. 0

[farmington14]

Farmington 5
Tartan 0

[frederick61]

Game from Saturday morning played at BIG:

Jefferson-6
Eagan-3

The teams played 3 15 minute stop time periods with 1:30 minute penalties. Ice was cleaned between the second and third period. Jefferson played with 11 forwards, three were missing. Eagan had a full bench.

Jefferson opened the scoring off a scrum in front of the Eagan goalie. The score came with a little less than 10 minutes left in the first period. Eagan answered on a nice breakaway with a Wildcat wing putting the puck into the net from the goalie’s right side. He took a low hard shot less than a foot above the ice to the goalie’s left. Jefferson answered two minutes later on a power play goal, Eagan retaliated on a two on zero rush a minute later to tie the score 2-2.

Jefferson held Eagan in their offensive zone for most of the first period. The Wildcats tried to carry the puck through the center zone only to lose control and have the Jags counterattack.

The second period opened with a Jag penalty followed by an Eagan power play goal less than a minute later. Jefferson tied the game at 3-3 less than two minutes later on a breakaway with a nice hard shot to the upper right corner.

On the power play with 6 minutes to go in the second, a Jag forward took a short pass from the corner along the boards and turned to pass. Sensing the Eagan defense had moved back in anticipation of a pass, the Jag quickly moved into the faceoff circle and snapped a hard lower left shot that put the puck in the net. A minute later, a Jag defense man forced the action into the corner and then denied the Wildcats breakout in front of the goal. The loose puck was recovered inside the blue line at center ice by a Jag forward who fed a breaking wing for the fifth Jag goal. The second period ended 5-3.

The third period started after cleaning the ice. Eagan came out and pressured the Jag goal for the first 5 minutes, but couldn’t put the puck in the net. At the 10 minute mark, the Wildcat defense overcommitted for the third time in the game and it cost them a third goal. The Jags swept into the Wildcats zone, two on nothing but the lonely goalie. The Jag wing carrying the puck flinched as if to pass and the goalie reacted just enough as the wing shot instead and buried the puck in the net. That was the final score, 6-3.

Eagan has talent, but has not gotten it together yet. It is early in the season and the Wildcats will improve. Jefferson showed great team understanding and was impressive in how they played together as a team. The Jags have some size and speed in the forwards. With three forwards gone, it will be interesting to see how the Jags play with a full team and how they develop over the season. It was a good game.

[frederick61]

In a Saturday evening game at Wakota:

Sibley-5
South St. Paul/Inver Grove Heights-0
Two 12 minute stop time periods followed by 18 minute running time third period were played. Penalties were a 1:30 long.

In two days, Sibley will play Lakeville South in its opening D8 game at the West St. Paul Arena. It will be a tough one against one of the teams favored to win it all in D8 this year. But like all things D8, it is only appropriate that these two D8 teams play each other before they open the D8 season next week. South St. Paul/Inver Grove Heights plays Woodbury this week.

Sibley scored three times in the first period. The first goal came at the 8 minute mark when the goalie forgot his training and tried to glove a slow moving puck on the ice only to deflect it in. The second goal game when the Generals caught the SSP/IGH defense forward and ended up with a two on none rush two minutes later. The third goal said all for the SSP/IGH team. It came at the 5 minute mark when a Sibley defense man turned and flipped the puck on the goal from the blue line. It bounced just before the goalie and found the 5-hole. The period ended with the score 3-0. Surprisingly, no penalties were called.

The second period was evenly played. Both teams had chances. Both teams changed goalies halfway through the period. With a minute to go in the period, a Sibley forward had a breakaway off the boards, came into the top of the face off circle and blasted a hard shot that deflected off the SSP/IGH goalies glove upward into the net. The period ended 4-0.

The third period again was evenly played, with both having chances. Sibley finally found the back of the net with a hard shot from the slot with three minutes left in the period. That ended the scoring 5-0.

Tonight, SSP/IGH was just a step slow to the puck and lost a lot of races to the puck or their forwards were chased down. Their defense struggled, but it should improve over the season. Sibley played an even style throughout the game and kept the pressure on SSP/IGH. Their goalies played tough and it showed with a shutout. Now the regular season starts. This game was a good tune-up for both teams.

The Sibley goalies better come prepared to face lots of shots. Lakeville South just blitz the Minnetonka goalies this afternoon.

[frederick61]

Another Saturday evening score:

Cottage Grove-1
Andover-1

The teams played two 12 minute stop time periods. The third period was 17 minutes running time. Penalties were a 1:30 long. Game was played at Cottage Grove.

Whenever games notes fit on a single side of a small sheet of paper, it says it was a cleanly skated game. It was.

Cottage Grove went from fielding a B team last year; to fielding an A team this year along with three B teams and a C team. The Wolfpack are a large pack this year and have played well in the early season. They did not disappoint this Saturday.

Andover, like most D10 teams have become at this time of the year, are a mystery. It has to do with D10’s pre-season game policy (what is a game?). If one were to put that question to the members of 3 association boards and lock them in one room to answer the question, you would likely get a 30 page document with 30 different opinions at the end of a week of debate. Coaches, especially coaches moving up from coaching squirts, get confused and conservative and will bend over to play a “not a game”.

To me, this game was Andover’s first real test, clock referees and all. And the Huskies skated well. It was the best game of the week. The first period ended in a scoreless tie with only three penalties called. With 4 minutes left in the second period, Cottage Grove scored on a high deflection from a shot at the top of the face off circle to take a 1-0 lead. Two penalties were called in the second and the second period ended with the Wolfpack up 1-0.

The Huskies tied game on an unusual goal with 9 minutes left in the third period. An Andover forward picked the puck up on the side of the Cottage Grove net and skated towards the goalie at a tough angle. He shot from near the edge of the crease and the puck went high hitting the upper left corner to tie the score 1-1. The Cottage Grove had held his position well, but the puck was in the net.

Both these teams have strength and should develop into contenders for regional berths by the end of the season. Cottage Grove forwards have size and have very good acceleration.

[Bluegold]

Wayzata gold tied mound 2 2
Wayzata gold tied Minneapolis 1 1

Wayzata blue beat st Louis park 9 1
Wayzata blue beat crow river 3 1
Wayzata blue tied Armstrong 0 0
Wayzata blue played Rochester red today don't know score

[Stratal]

[quote="Bluegold"]Wayzata gold tied mound 2 2
Wayzata gold tied Minneapolis 1 1

Wayzata blue beat st Louis park 9 1
Wayzata blue beat crow river 3 1
Wayzata blue tied Armstrong 0 0
Wayzata blue played Rochester red 5-5

[Rank12]

Prior Lake - 3
Elk River - 2

[Task Force 34]

Any Scores from the Duluth East PWA Tournament last weekend?

[This is nuts!]

Score from Tuesday evening:

White Bear Lake-4
North St. Paul-3

Some time ago, I don’t know when, White Bear Lake sort of sold their “hockey soul” to Edina. Over the years, it took what was the suburban evolution of St. Paul hockey and tried to morph it into an Edina model. They started at the peewee A level and linked together with other teams like Stillwater, Rochester, and Duluth East to form a sort of exclusive club of teams, just always under the radar on the average parent/fan who is passing through their two years of peewee hockey.

There is nothing wrong with that. It is just the way it is.


But associations and coaches sometimes forget that peewee’s are just 11-12 year old kids learning a sport. And there is this cultural thing that the kids get out of their neighborhoods. The kids sort of know this.

I saw White Bear Lake beat Blaine 7-2 ten days ago. On the same day, I saw Tartan and North St Paul scrimmage. Whether it is by chance or not, the Bear’s team seemed to emulate Edina’s team this year, both relying on speed and quickness and not size. The Polars skipped peewee A last year, fielding a B team, and had opened their D2 season with a 2-2 against Mahtomedi Monday night. Their peewee A team looked more “old school” with less emphasis on speed and quickness and more size and maturity.

The game was played at Polar, 12 minute stop time periods with 2 minute penalties. Surprisingly, the Polars matched the speed and quickness of the White Bear Lake kids by playing position well and using their size. The first period flew by with few errors and one late period penalty to the Polars. It ended in a 0-0 tie.

The second period started the same way, with both teams skating well and the Polars holding position. At the 7:54 mark, two Polar forwards executed a nice passing play to score after a Bear defense man overly committed in the Polar zone resulting in a 2 on 1 break with a high hard shot hitting the upper left corner of the net. Polars led 1-0.

Then the play became ragged. Three successive White Bear Lake penalties gave the Polars a 5 on 4 advantage for six minutes and they couldn’t score. White Bear, back at full strength with under a minute to go in the period, scored on a tip shot from the point that deflected the above and to the goalie’s left five feet in front of his out stretched glove to tie the score.

White Bear Lake stepped up their play in the opening minutes of the third period. They finally scored on a neat passing play on a three man rush into the Polar’s zone. A wing carrying the puck into the corner caught sight of a line mate swinging into the goalie’s weak side, slowed his own play to create the correct timing, a made a pass with the right speed to get through the defense and yet timed to hit his breaking line mate. It was an easy tip-in, but it came off a great play.

Three minutes later the Bears scored again to take a 3-1 and the Polars seemed to let down their play. For the next three minutes, they chased White Bear around the rink, but managed to avoid a fourth goal. With under 4 minutes left in the game, the Polars scored when a breaking wing put the puck in the net off a rebound on a hard shot into the Bear’s goalie. Two minutes later, the Bears retaliated on a scrum and scramble in front of the North St. Paul net. The Polars came back to score with eleven seconds on the clock another hard shot and rebound to end the scoring at 4-3.

It was a good game for the Polars who have potential to improve this season. If they do, they will be a threat in D2. For the Bears, who used their speed and quickness to bury a good Blaine team ten days ago, it remains to be seen. But that is why kids play hockey. It is called development. They learn. Who will learn the best?

Not sure if WBL is trying emulate Edina or if its a couple things. #1 the no checking rule. The speedy players are now able to play without being slowed down by physicality of the game. #2 I think your team represents the pool of players that tryout. Meaning some years you might get a group of smaller faster players and thats what your team brings to the table. Some years you might get bigger stronger type kids and that is the type of team you have.

Now days with the no checking rule, if I were chosing a team I would lean towards the faster more skilled players. Where as if there was checking, I might lean towards the bigger kid assuming the skills are similar.

Just a thought....

[statsmn1964]

Any Scores from the Duluth East PWA Tournament last weekend?

Stillwater 3 White Bear 1
Stillwater 5 Duluth East 2
Stillwater 10 Red Wing 2
Stillwater 3 Marquette, MI 1
Stillwater 3 White Bear Lake 2 (Championship)

[MrBoDangles]

I think Edina is at 4-4.

?

Remember when you talked about too much Hockey? You should of seen the Edina A Squirts schedule last year...... Burnout?

Were they even able to step on the pond? Talk about a way to lose the passion.

Cookie cutter factory

[frederick61]

Score from Monday night:

Lakeville South-9
Sibley-0

This was the opening D8 game for both teams and I watched only the first half of the game. To the casual observer, it looks to be an “expected result”. But here is another interpretation.

Lakeville South is loaded this year and is likely to emerge as the dominant team in D8. They have a number of players returning from last year’s team that made it to the Regionals. To that they have added some Fire players and some move-ins. Sibley is an unknown team at this point.

But Sibley showed up playing a hard brand of hockey. The Generals played position extremely well against Lakeville South and for the first half of the game, aggressively covered every Cougar’s pass attempt, knocking the puck to neutral ice or into a corner. The Cougars could never get rolling until the Cougars drew a penalty late in the first period with the score 0-0.

The Generals, now on the power play, relaxed and switched to an offensive mode mentally on the ice. They still played position well, forming a neat box around a sharp skating Cougar forward, but they were looking for the other to knock the puck loose. As a result, all four watched the Cougar simply skate to open ice as he went through them to pound the puck into the net. That took some of the wind out of the Generals.

But they hung in there, until with less than a minute to go in the first, a General defense man protecting the goalie’s weak side, kicked a Cougar cross crease pass off his leg’s calf into the open net.

Down 2-0, going into the second, the Generals still hung in the game. Forcing the action at times in the Cougar zone, until halfway through the period they gave up a third goal. Then I had to go.

The final score did not surprise me, but I was impressed with the Generals aggressive play. They held their positions and were on the Cougars every time a Cougar touched the puck. They skated with the Cougars for the part of the game I saw, and I suspect, tired in the last half of the game.

Tiring is always an early season problem for teams whose kids have not be skating hard doing the summer. But if the Generals continue to play hard and develop, they will be a team that will contend in D8 regular season and (most importantly) in the D8 playoffs.

As for Lakeville South, they have a D8 game with Farmington on Nov 22. Both teams should be 2-0 going into that game. That will set the course for both teams in D8 this year. A win by South will make the Cougars the odds on favorite to take the title. Lakeville South is looking good in D8 this year.

[helightsthelamp]

Elk River 8 Irondale 0

[helightsthelamp]

Elk River 8 Irondale 0

[@hockeytweet]

From last week:
Eden Prairie 11
Chaska Chan 2