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Little Falls hosted Blaine today and they skated to a 1-1 tie. I thought it looked pretty even. LF played w/o Berglund and Ben Hanowski.

Tomorrow LF will have a jamboree against DL, Alexandria and St. Cloud Cathedral (I think).

Cloquet - 0
Holy Angels - 0
This was after 45 min. of 5 on 5.
They worked special teams after...

JV
Cloquet - 4
AHA - 2

BSM-4
Grand Rapids-2

BSM controlled play.

Grand Rapids 1
Holy Angels 0

Shots:
Grand Rapids 20
AHA 22

boblee wrote:Grand Rapids 1
Holy Angels 0

Shots:
Grand Rapids 20
AHA 22

Rapids played extremely well. Best they've looked all pre season. Roy stood out and was the player everyone expected him to be. Goaltending was solid again as all three tenders made some great saves. GR had the better of the scoring chances and the score could have been 3 or 4 to 0. Long day of hockey for the younger players. Legs starting to go. Merritt, Schulte and Kleinendorst have logged a lot of ice hours in the past the two weeks. Schulte showed flashes of some great hockey throughout the day, tiring a bit vs the Stars. Merritt sat this one nursing a strained groin, but should be back tomorrow vs St. Thomas. Kleinendorst played solid. Outlook on GR is still very positive. Good mix with the youth getting in some quality time. Four sophs should get some meaningful time this season off and on. Should be fun to watch. This team will be tough.

I see in some of the posts rapids is playing 3 goalies. Are there still cuts looming, or is there a junior on the squad that will play JV?

Indians forever wrote:I see in some of the posts rapids is playing 3 goalies. Are there still cuts looming, or is there a junior on the squad that will play JV?

The same questions are being asked by many. No one seems to know or have any insight. I for one would hate to be in Bruce LaRaque's shoes right now. On one hand, it's probably a nice problem to have.(Too many good goaltenders) On the other, it must be a nightmare to have to choose. All three have played very, very well. Especially today. Figgins seemed to see the much more difficult shots, but each goaltender made several outstanding saves. Of the three, Underwood seems to be the most athletic, Tabaka plays the position the most sound(angles and such) and Figgins is the wild card. He plays according to the situation.(The harder things are, the more up to the challenge) Good luck to all three and good luck to Bruce. Although it may be a hard choice, he ultimately can't go wrong because all three are going to be worthy of the challenge ahead.

St. Thomas 6, Grand Rapids 1

Shots:
St. Thomas 31
Grand Rapids 17

I think they are now going to run about a half hour of special teams play.

Friday Nov 23

Duluth East v Hopkins

East won 10 -1

Between Johnson Tardy and Boese there were 6 goals

Saturday Nov 24

East v Benilde 1:15 Wessman

East v Holy Angels 4:30 Decc

boblee wrote:St. Thomas 6, Grand Rapids 1

Shots:
St. Thomas 31
Grand Rapids 17

I think they are now going to run about a half hour of special teams play.

Looks like Rapids has been real hot & cold so far...

Keep in mind they are just scrimmages, and often half the players or more can be different from one scrimmage to the next. I've been to these scrimmages many times and a lot of times they might play with a varsity roster at a noon scrimmage, then at 2:00 it's like half varsity half JV just to get some kids new experiences.

However, I don't know if that was the case with St. Thomas, perhaps it was a full varsity roster that just flat out got their rears handed to em on a platter.

From the National Hockey Center:

St. Cloud Tech -- 10
River Lakes -- 1

Duluth East 3 Benilde 1


East 4 Holy Angels 1

tommyboy wrote:Duluth East 3 Benilde 1


East 4 Holy Angels 1

thanks for updates, wow..looks like east dominated play today, were you there?

I heard Minnetonka upset Roseau 1-0 on saturday. Can anyone confirm that?

yes i was 1st two lines looked really strong... Benilde looked good, Holy Angels wasnt the team i expected to see

From Saturday

Elk River........5
SC Apollo.......0

Shakopee.......2
SC Apollo.......3

New Prague.....2
SC Apollo........3

Elk River.........1
New Prague.....3

On Friday, SC Apollo beat North Metro and Mora. Both of these games where player 5-5 until the last ten minutes. Then each team had a 5 minute power play. It was more of a situational scrimmage.

Grand Rapids 4, Champlin Park 1

Grand Rapids looked real good in this one.

Anyone have results/observations on the scrimmages in Moorhead on the 24th?

Most teams had 20-25 players along for the weekend in Moorhead. Hard to really see just how good some teams are with key players skating with different players or not playing at all. I thought Roseau looked the best at this point with great team speed and pretty physical. Tonka look very good at times too. Blaine,Centennial,Brainerd,and Moorhead all struggled at times but were using many players. Should be a fun season of high school hockey.

Was anyone at the Little Falls Jamboree on Saturday? Who looked good, who didn't?

Was in Moorhead Saturday happened to watch Roseau and Blaine among others...Roseau came out flying and it was 3 - 0 in the first 8 to 10 minutes and then they backed off final was like 4 - 1, the Rams were toying with the Bengals. Later in the day I was chatting with some Blaine dads and the comment was made by one of them they hope there's a white out blizzard during their game on FSN on Baudette Bay if it was anything resembling the schooling they took so the viewing audience won't have to watch. And the other thing I am convinced of is quoted just below....

How did Warroad do in the scrimmages this weekend. I heard they were playing against EGF and Crookston and a couple others in EGF and some AA schools in Moorhead. Anybody got any insight.

I'll nibble just long enough to spit the hook before you set it, wrong lure should have used a Dare Devil instead of a Swedish Pimple. Wasn't able to get out of the office on Friday but here's what I was told about Friday & Warroad from neither a dad/mom or a player but was confirmed in discussions on Saturday morning and Sunday night. Gave up 1 goal in 4 scrimmages pair of youngsters out later in the EGF scrimmage. Warroad had at least 120 shots on goal and gave up less than 30 in all four. Crox played with them first 10 minutes and ran out of gas. EGF was only real challlenge finished 3 or 4 to 1, without Ravndalen and Shaugs in the 8A match-ups. Faired OK in Moorhead started slow against Centennial weathered the storm and and got stronger as they went came away with a 4 - 1 "win". Talked with a Centennial coach afterwards and asked about their line-up it was one of their better ones and he was disappointed. Skated 1 -1 with Minnetonka who had sat their big gun(s) and lost to Blaine 4 - nil; started out down right away after a D sent a breakout pass to a center curling not paying attention that wound up on a Bengal stick in the kill zone; it was fairly up and down and they couldn't put it away Bengals goalie was impressive and Warroad looked tired (7th scrimmage in 2 days) got chippy both ways late - Bengals quick as usual. Saturday I think I was most impressed with Hellquist went hard ALL the time and also Nelson who looked smooth & confident for a Sophomore. Now I know you were fishing for some Crox & EGF comments since you were at both days; what did you think? If you want specifics we'll take it off line.