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politicalpuck wrote:Scarlet Ice now Available at Scheels All Sports in Mankato. Scheels located in the River Hills Mall.
Online, Scarlet Ice is available is available at: Scarletice.com.
Ships this week.
scarlethockey33 wrote:Mankato West beats Proctor 5-2, they will face Duluth Marshall
I'm going to call this one about.....10-1. West will get thrashed. They are nowhere near the level of Marshall.Dog_Log17 wrote:I view this as a HUGE win for the Scarlets. To go up north and beat a quality nortern school 5-2 speaks volumes as to how this young team is beginning to mature. I am hoping for another strong effort tonight against Duluth Marshall. This will be hands down the best team the Scarlets have faced all season. If they can come out and skate with the Hilltoppers tonight, they should walk away a better hockey team and help prepare them for Lourdes when they come to Mankato in about 2 weeks.
scarlethockey33 wrote:Mankato West beats Proctor 5-2, they will face Duluth Marshall
Gretzky9 wrote:I'm going to call this one about.....10-1. West will get thrashed. They are nowhere near the level of Marshall.Dog_Log17 wrote:I view this as a HUGE win for the Scarlets. To go up north and beat a quality nortern school 5-2 speaks volumes as to how this young team is beginning to mature. I am hoping for another strong effort tonight against Duluth Marshall. This will be hands down the best team the Scarlets have faced all season. If they can come out and skate with the Hilltoppers tonight, they should walk away a better hockey team and help prepare them for Lourdes when they come to Mankato in about 2 weeks.
scarlethockey33 wrote:Mankato West beats Proctor 5-2, they will face Duluth Marshall
I don't know if I would call them a "pretty weak team". They are young and inexperienced. They have been playing up and down and are very inconsistant, which is part of the growing process. They do have some holes just like most teams do. One of the biggest problems they have is playing teams with equal abilites. The skill level of their competition varies so much. They play their cross town rival who can only muster something like 9 shots on west(just one example), now they play a top team in class "A". I don't think anyone on here is saying that they are going to win the state tour., they are a young team with a lot of potential. But to call them "pretty weak" isn't the appropiate label to put on them.Hockeyfacts wrote:A few of you talk up West so much when really they're a pretty weak team...I fully expect at least a 5 goal difference against Marshal
Chalk_Talk wrote:I don't know if I would call them a "pretty weak team". They are young and inexperienced. They have been playing up and down and are very inconsistant, which is part of the growing process. They do have some holes just like most teams do. One of the biggest problems they have is playing teams with equal abilites. The skill level of their competition varies so much. They play their cross town rival who can only muster something like 9 shots on west(just one example), now they play a top team in class "A". I don't think anyone on here is saying that they are going to win the state tour., they are a young team with a lot of potential. But to call them "pretty weak" isn't the appropiate label to put on them.Hockeyfacts wrote:A few of you talk up West so much when really they're a pretty weak team...I fully expect at least a 5 goal difference against Marshal
Duluth Marshall 3Hockeyfacts wrote:A few of you talk up West so much when really they're a pretty weak team...I fully expect at least a 5 goal difference against Marshal
In case anyone is interested, Roger Dier the author of the book will be coming to the River Hills Mall in Scheels on January 21 for a signing of the bookpoliticalpuck wrote:Scarlet Ice, the story of the 1994-95 Mankato West Scarlets hockey team today became the No. 1 selling hockey book released in the past 30 days, according to Amazon.com. The book is No. 13 on hockey books released in the last 90 days. Yesterday, it appeared at No. 74 on the list of all hockey books sold on Amazon.com.
The initial print run was 1,000 copies. A second printing is scheduled for early January by publisher Two Harbors Press of Minneapolis.
Yesterday, a reliable source informed me that head coach Elsa Westmark of Appleton (Wis.) read her team a paragraph of Scarlet Ice before their game with St. Francis (Minn.) in the Schwan Cup tournament in the Twin Cities on Thursday. Appleton beat St. Francis 6-1. When hockey players wearing the same jersey completely buy into each other, hockey teams become a beautiful experience.
i think they could crack top 10 again. i watched two games of earlier this season, and goaltending is a bit shaky at times. this team is good, not amazing. i was really impressed with the coaching staff and how all the kids buy into the system, they play really well with each other.notenoughhockey wrote:Will Lourdes be able to work their way back into the top 10 1A rankings? Not sure if they have their goalies figured out but Neumann played well his last 2 starts, and the guys put up some points in the Kiwanis. I know some of you guys are not big fans of the Kiwanis. But maybe it was a way to get back some confidence.
Thoughts
other than the defense and goaltender, most of the squad is the same from the past state tournament trips. Some games that would help their ranking would be their Saturday game v. Duluth Marshall. Also matchups further along their schedule against other good teams like Breck, Blake and Totino Grace could help their ranking pending on their performance of course. I expect Lourdes to make the top 10 again by the end of the season, maybe end the season somewhere in the top 10 as welltrev2k1 wrote:i think they could crack top 10 again. i watched two games of earlier this season, and goaltending is a bit shaky at times. this team is good, not amazing. i was really impressed with the coaching staff and how all the kids buy into the system, they play really well with each other.notenoughhockey wrote:Will Lourdes be able to work their way back into the top 10 1A rankings? Not sure if they have their goalies figured out but Neumann played well his last 2 starts, and the guys put up some points in the Kiwanis. I know some of you guys are not big fans of the Kiwanis. But maybe it was a way to get back some confidence.
Thoughts
hockeydad wrote:Here's my take on the top eight. Anyone else want to give it a shot?
1-Lourdes
2-Albert Lea
3-West
4-New Prague
5-Northfield
6-Red Wing
7-Le Sueur
8-LaCrescent
Hockeyfacts wrote:A few of you talk up West so much when really they're a pretty weak team...I fully expect at least a 5 goal difference against Marshal
I'm going to call this one about.....10-1. West will get thrashed. They are nowhere near the level of Marshall.
scarlethockey33 wrote:other than the defense and goaltender, most of the squad is the same from the past state tournament trips. Some games that would help their ranking would be their Saturday game v. Duluth Marshall. Also matchups further along their schedule against other good teams like Breck, Blake and Totino Grace could help their ranking pending on their performance of course. I expect Lourdes to make the top 10 again by the end of the season, maybe end the season somewhere in the top 10 as welltrev2k1 wrote:i think they could crack top 10 again. i watched two games of earlier this season, and goaltending is a bit shaky at times. this team is good, not amazing. i was really impressed with the coaching staff and how all the kids buy into the system, they play really well with each other.notenoughhockey wrote:Will Lourdes be able to work their way back into the top 10 1A rankings? Not sure if they have their goalies figured out but Neumann played well his last 2 starts, and the guys put up some points in the Kiwanis. I know some of you guys are not big fans of the Kiwanis. But maybe it was a way to get back some confidence.
Thoughts