greenway1969 wrote:Some different teams at the State Tournament would create a more exciting atmospherre. The same teams (Edina, Hill-Murray, Moorhead, Eden Praire, Blaine, Duluth East) year after year takes away some of the interest. What I would like to see.
Seems you're not looking much at long-term. Some of those teams have made it an annual event lately and certainly have a history of making it, but they've all missed too.
You mentioned Blaine, well this is two years in a row they didn't make it. Hill-Murray didn't make it from 2003-2005. Duluth East didn't make it from 2006-2008.
Seriously Eden Prairie? They made it in 2009 and 2011, but they went from 1992 to 1999 without making it. Then they went in 2001 and 2003, and didn't make it again until 2009.
Edina didn't make it from 2001-2006.
People complained about Holy Angels, but they haven't been there since 2005 now.
There's been plenty of new blood in the 2000s forward:
Maple Grove made their first appearance in 2012
Eagan made it for the first time in 2006
Rochester Century made their first appearance in 2005
Woodbury made their first appearance in 2007.
Cloquet made it in 2008, their previous time was in 2002 and before that in 1993
Minnetonka made it in 2006, their previous state was 1994
Tartan made their first appearance in 2004
Eastview made their first appearance in 2001