pekyman wrote:rainier wrote:pekyman wrote:
Top 2-3 players from each association? What a bunch of bs.
Your two best defenseman live in the Proctor school district and your 3rd best d-man moved to Hermantown when he was 16.
On your 2nd line, one kid is from Proctor school district and the other moved to Hermantown four years ago, when he was already a fantastic player.
If you had only the "hometown" kids playing at Hermantown, you'd have four excellent forwards, mediocre-at-best defense, and an excellent goalie. This would make you very similar to just about every other top ten A team other than Breck.
Your program benefits hugely from being in a metro area of 150,000 people, just admit it.
It's funny how proctor gets credit for players that live closer to Hermantown and have never actually went to proctor. Played and developed in Hermantown their entire life but somehow they were recruited and taken from proctor. What a joke. I get it, Hermantown is good and you want them to move up but painting them as the STA of the north that gets the majority of its top players from other programs is flat out bs. Hermantown has a vastly superior hockey program to Hibbing and they out worked, skilled and muscled your team. Put your boys in the Hermantown program and work ethic and they would be competitive with the top teams. I know, I talk to disgruntled Hibbing parents. Maybe if you quit your whining and improved your program you would attract players to your program. You have twice the inside ice and one of the nicest arenas in Minnesota. Puts the modest 1 sheet Hermantown arena to shame. Anyway, you keep repeating your anti Hermantown rants and they are anti because you are disparaging the hard working coaches, players and parents that do so much to make the program what it is by saying there just like Hibbing. they just steal star players from all the surrounding programs that's why their so good. Yea right and yes, I'm really sick of you.
I think it's great that Hermantown's school and hockey program is good enough to attract so many talented players to their team. I really do. I just think that when a team in a metro area starts to attract this many outsiders and has as much success as Hermantown has had, then they have to be AA and should be relentlessly shamed until they do.
I am not disparaging the hardworking parents, players, and coaches. (Plante only.) I constantly compliment them on what they have built, and many others do also. What I disparage is the claim that your success is built entirely on "hometown" kids, which it clearly is not.
You seem to think that if the entire Hermantown program were to switch geographic places with the TRF or Greenway program, that Hermantown would still be just as good. No chance. Being a suburb in a metro area of 150,000 people is an
enormous advantage over isolated community schools such as Little Falls, Virginia, or I-Falls.
I'm not taking anything away from the parents, players, and coaches when I say that, I am only taking away from your insanely over-inflated view of your program.
I remember when the STA people's response to your whining was "Make your program better." Yet, you did not accept this as sufficient reason to accept STA being in A, so why should I accept it from you? You can't have it both ways peky.
Regardless, five of the top ten players from Hermantown are either open-enrollees or have moved there the last 3-4 years, so half of your best talent are not "hometown." You have a great program, but without open-enrollment in a metro area of 150,000 people, the Hawks are just another good A program, not great.
But they managed to be favored every game.
