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From the latest roster information that has been sent, it does appear that with exception of two girls from North Dakota all others are MN high school players - six teams have been assigned with no out of state teams participating this year.

Share rosters and who is coaching the teams.

http://www.mghca.com/2008jrfestroster.pdf

Rosters are up.

Thanks for the link. Interesting to read through to see the athletes and coaches. Looks like some good competition will be going on.

North Dakota has a number of players on Team Yellow including players from Hazen/Beulah, Minot High, Fargo North, Mayville-Portland CG, Mandan, Fargo North, Grand Forks, Watford, Williston, Bismarck and Fargo South.

As you read through the rosters it is interesting to read that neither of the MN state champions of Eden Prairie or Alexandria have any players participating this year.

If anyone is there observing, would love to hear updates on how it is going.

In the case of Eden Prairie I'm not even sure they had any juniors on the team. Ibelieve they had around 12 seniors and then a few sophmores or freshman on the team- probably one junior at the most

MGHCA took away 12 MN kids opportunities to be seen and compete. Why did they not invite a bunch SD, WI, and IA kids too? Then they can be the Upper Midwest HS Coaches Association. The ND kids maybe talented but this was a MN opportunity.

This is the statement right off of the MGHCA website (emphasis added):

The Junior Festival is an annual MGHCA event held during the first week of summer vacation (which is generally the second week of June). It was created as a spin off from the Senior Classic at the request of college coaches who wanted to see our kids before their Senior year when they are still uncommitted as opposed to after their Senior year when many have already made plans.

College coaches from around the country are invited to come and spend a couple of days watching the best of our kids play against each other. This past Junior Festival drew 48 college coaches from 34 different schools. Of those coaches, 24 of them were Division I coaches representing 20 different Division I programs.

Good question about why players from ND when it is a Minnesota Girls Hockey Coaches group putting on the event. IDK. Anyone that knows, please share. Possibly they are following the Minnkota district which would actually include both North Dakota and South Dakota. Am guessing given the current state of hockey here in MN though the event could have been all MN girls very easily.

Got me curious about the champ's rosters. Based on this past season's MSHSL rosters, Alex had 3 juniors on their roster while EP only had 1 junior on theirs.

[quote="Central"]Possibly they are following the Minnkota district which would actually include both North Dakota and South Dakota. Am guessing given the current state of hockey here in MN though the event could have been all MN girls very easily.quote]

Minnesota is now alone in the Minnesota District. N. Dak and S. Dak are part of the new Northern Plains District of USA Hockey with Wyoming and Montana.

Central wrote:Got me curious about the champ's rosters. Based on this past season's MSHSL rosters, Alex had 3 juniors on their roster while EP only had 1 junior on theirs.

It would seem not too many from the runner up's either. Didn't GRG have a few more juniors than that?

Thanks, Joe for the reminder about the districts (showing my age).... totally blows my possible theory....no idea why North Dakota girls are playing in Junior Fest...any ideas?

GRG had 5 juniors. Breck had 4 juniors.

District is irrelevant. This is a MGHCA event.

chickendance wrote:MGHCA took away 12 MN kids opportunities to be seen and compete.

The letter our family got said that it was for the top 60 kids in MN, and they would be divided into 4 teams, now there are 6 teams so I guess I would look at it like they added 21 spots for our kids to be seen and compete.

Thanks, allhoc21. Interesting to read that actually it sounds like they expanded the opportunity! No matter what the process was I hope all the girls are having a great experience!

Expanded opportunity. Interesting math. Looking through the lists of names of juniors not present...they took away 12 kids opportunities.

I'm guessing the M in MGHCA is optional.

allhoc11 wrote:The letter our family got said that it was for the top 60 kids in MN, and they would be divided into 4 teams, now there are 6 teams so I guess I would look at it like they added 21 spots for our kids to be seen and compete.

Based on this post, there were going to be only 60 MN spots for four teams (probably 15 MN players per team then). Now it appears there are 6 teams with 17 players on each team for a total of 102 players. If I counted ND girls correctly there were 12 so there are 90 MN players, which is an increase from the original 60 that allhoc11's post indicated were going to be there. Would it have been great to if these were all Minnesota girls? Yeah most definitely, but that is simply not the way it appears to have gone.

I hope the girls are having a great experience!

Central wrote:Would it have been great to if these were all Minnesota girls? Yeah most definitely, but that is simply not the way it appears to have gone

Very true, and that is the point. It should not have gone the way it did.

The girls are having a great experience by the way.

Black plays Green for the championship tomorrow

Have the games been close?

Looking at the participants at least the names I am familiar with.... I would expect they are fast paced. Fun to read their experience has been positive.

trojangoalie241 wrote:Black plays Green for the championship tomorrow

Red plays Teal for 3rd Place. This evening they battled to a 4-4 overtime tie. At one point Red was up 3-0 so Teal made a nice comeback, scoring their 4th and tying goal with just a few seconds left.

So who has looked good? Did any outstate players that don't get seen or mentioned very often impress?

The two Roseau kids look very good.

How far out do you call outstate?

I know JuniorFest isn't really a "team" tournament; still it's kind of fun to know how things turned out. Going into Friday I think I heard:

Black 4-0-0
Green 3-1-0
Red 1-2-1
Teal 1-2-1
White 1-3-0
Yellow 1-3-0

I know that in the first game Friday that White snuck by Yellow in a close 11-0 game, after only being up by 8-0 at halftime. How did the other two games go?

hshockeyfan91 wrote:I know JuniorFest isn't really a "team" tournament; still it's kind of fun to know how things turned out. Going into Friday I think I heard:

Black 4-0-0
Green 3-1-0
Red 1-2-1
Teal 1-2-1
White 1-3-0
Yellow 1-3-0

I know that in the first game Friday that White snuck by Yellow in a close 11-0 game, after only being up by 8-0 at halftime. How did the other two games go?

I know that Teal beat the Red 4-3 for 3rd Place - not sure who won the Championship between Black and Green (?)

Green won the championship 3-2