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Ben was INEFFECTIVE today. He didn't do anything to help Little Falls. Congrats to him on a great season though.

Gopher Blog wrote:

masterB wrote:forget Edina. after seeing the Breck-LF's game, i'm starting to think if he'd played for any respectable team in the metro area he wouldn't have gotten half the career pts he did.

Bingo. He was a total and complete NON-factor in his team's biggest game of the year. Put him in the metro and he becomes just another above average senior forward with 50 points or so.

If that was "Mr. Hockey' out there, then they ought to put that award away for good. No way is that guy on the level of Nick Leddy. Heck, I don't think he is on the level of some of the other metro candidates.

Congratulations. I know you've been waiting all year to make that post. I bet you feel all warm and fuzzy inside now.

I have been a huge Gopher fan my entire life. Always have been. Always will be. But your complete ignorance towards anything NON-GOPHER is amazing.

Congrats to Breck on a dominating performance. Should be a good one tomorrow with Warroad in the Championship.

You openly admit to being a Flyer fan so I wouldn't expect you to see it any other way. Which is why it makes it so easy to dismiss your remarks.

Many of you LF fans sure like to dish out the opinions but you definitely can't take any opinion that doesn't fall in line with your own.

Yeah, we'll just sit back and take it when the kids accomplishments get bashed. Sure.

What does the CSB see in Hanowski that you don't? I'm curious??

Did you talk about Guyer and Pohl the same way when they were in HS?

If "bashing" is pointing out that he was a total non-factor in the biggest game of the year, so be it. I call it fact. I also think it is clear that if he cannot do more than a meaningless assist against a decent Twin Cities opponent, he certainly wouldn't be near the points he has. Probably not even half the points he ended up with.

It wouldn't matter where he went to college. Spehar was a similar overhyped guy. Although at least he won state title and had to play against many good teams to achieve his numbers.

I took great enjoyment in watching Couture lose big since he seems to have no problems running it up on other teams. I don't feel one ounce of sympathy for him or his team given that fact. They got totally whipped today and I couldn't be more happy given how they (and their fans) didn't seem to have any issues running up the score (all for the sake of stats) against weaker teams throughout the year. Justice was served today.

Gopher Blog wrote:If "bashing" is pointing out that he was a total non-factor in the biggest game of the year, so be it. I call it fact. I also think it is clear that if he cannot do more than a meaningless assist against a decent Twin Cities opponent, he certainly wouldn't be near the points he has. Probably not even half the points he ended up with.

It wouldn't matter where he went to college. Spehar was a similar overhyped guy. Although at least he won state title and had to play against many good teams to achieve his numbers.

I took great enjoyment in watching Couture lose big since he seems to have no problems running it up on other teams. I don't feel one ounce of sympathy for him or his team given that fact. They got totally whipped today and I couldn't be more happy given how they (and their fans) didn't seem to have any issues running up the score (all for the sake of stats) against weaker teams throughout the year. Justice was served today.

There's no doubt about it putting up 100+ pts in one season for four seasons against any schedule is tough to do..it takes a lot of skill to complete a task like that. However, against this good city school he did disappear which is a little disheartening to see. The real test is going to be tomorrow because the Flyers will take on another tough team in SCC.

bender0905 wrote:There's no doubt about it putting up 100+ pts in one season for four seasons against any schedule is tough to do..it takes a lot of skill to complete a task like that. However, against this good city school he did disappear which is a little disheartening to see. The real test is going to be tomorrow because the Flyers will take on another tough team in SCC.

A rematch of the Dec. 9th meeting in which Mr. Hockey had 3g,2a in a 5-4 Small Falls victory in O.T.

I guess sometimes, great players don't show there best in big games(how dare we talk about other great players who failed in the tournament, cough cough, Edina)

masterB wrote:he plays for Edina, i'm not sure he would've been 1st line.

Yes, Hanowski played like crap and completely disappeared in the game against Breck. But to say that he wouldn't even be first line on Edina is just stupid. Everyone has bad games from time to time. Yes, anybody who is logical knows that he wouldn't have had anywhere near the amount of points he had for his career if he played for a metro area team. That doesn't mean that he's not a great player and one of the best in the state, because he is. You could pick one game (or several for that matter) of anybody's career and show that they were overrated. He drastically under-performed yesterday, and it is a shame, but he is still one of the best players in the state.

this is for gopher blog. i am a neutral fan who loves to watch high school hockey.

you are a complete jerk when it comes to hanowski. i watched him play, and he IS something special... he is, without a doubt, one of the top three players in the state. 400 plus points in a high school career speaks for itself. who else in the history of minnesota hockey has done that??(he isn't the first player ever to have an easier than average schedule.) exactly... it seems like you waited thirty games for little falls to finally lose just so you can jump all over them and say how overrated they are.

breck, today, showed them that they are the better team. they are the first team all year to actually handle little falls(cathedral lost to little falls...) then, you call breck a "decent" team who hanowski could only score one point against... breck might win state. "decent" teams don't win the state title.

congratulations to the flyers on another great season! also, i wish the best for ben, and am excited to see him reunited with his ex-linemate, festler, at scsu next year.

my guess is that you are just simply a gopher fan, and annoyed he isn't playing for your team next year. guest a guess? if he had signed a letter of intent to the U, i can GUARANTEE that you wouldn't be saying the stuff you are. do not even try and deny it. therefor, your comments seem a) ignorant, b) naive, or c) unintelligent. you choose. give the kid and the team a compliment for ONCE. they deserve it.

number56 wrote:

masterB wrote:he plays for Edina, i'm not sure he would've been 1st line.

Yes, Hanowski played like crap and completely disappeared in the game against Breck. But to say that he wouldn't even be first line on Edina is just stupid. Everyone has bad games from time to time. Yes, anybody who is logical knows that he wouldn't have had anywhere near the amount of points he had for his career if he played for a metro area team. That doesn't mean that he's not a great player and one of the best in the state, because he is. You could pick one game (or several for that matter) of anybody's career and show that they were overrated. He drastically under-performed yesterday, and it is a shame, but he is still one of the best players in the state.

He is a very good player. Certainly, he is not best in state. I will give him top ten.

I watched him play a couple of times this weekend. The disservice to him is his extraordinarily long shifts. He does not back check because he is waiting to turn north and head for the opposing goal. In a way, GB may be right. Did coach have an obsession to get the record? Did he sacrifice development of the rest of the team? We saw Edina lose last year on a very thin bench.

Certainly the kid has a knack for scoring.

In my opinion, speed or lack of it showed in the Breck game.

number56 wrote:

masterB wrote:he plays for Edina, i'm not sure he would've been 1st line.

Yes, Hanowski played like crap and completely disappeared in the game against Breck. But to say that he wouldn't even be first line on Edina is just stupid. Everyone has bad games from time to time. Yes, anybody who is logical knows that he wouldn't have had anywhere near the amount of points he had for his career if he played for a metro area team. That doesn't mean that he's not a great player and one of the best in the state, because he is. You could pick one game (or several for that matter) of anybody's career and show that they were overrated. He drastically under-performed yesterday, and it is a shame, but he is still one of the best players in the state.

i don't think so. have you seen Edina play this year? minus Budish's injury, alongside Lee, Everson and several other players, I don't see how Hanowski squeezes onto the first line. I do think Ben is a good player, however, the only concerning thing about him is they have really not played anyone this year. after Breck the next toughest opponent would be SCC, and i'm not really sold on them either.

gopherblog has a hockey stick up his (_!_)

He really doesn't believe what he is saying. The difference being that he would never say what he said to anyone in public, showing his face. He needs to hide behind a pseudonym.

It is obvious he simply does not respect outstate hockey.

That's a fact Jack.

I was at this game yesterday, Mr. Hanowski disappeared for this whole game...

It is one game, but in watching him all game, this is what I saw yesterday..

Floater, did not have jump to go after loose pucks, and did not create his own opportunities at all... Of course, Breck clearly dominated this game, and their effort overshadowed Hanowski...

I saw bits of the Wednesday game on TV, and he appeared to have great hands, when set up in the offensive zone...

Ben has had a great hockey career at Falls, but as Mr. Festler has somewhat disappeared, Ben showed traits that he may follow the same pattern in college...

Little Falls schedule was a bit weak this year, and Breck tore them apart all day yesterday...

I wish Ben all the best at SCSU, but Mr. Motzko will be asking for a little more effort on a bigger stage, than I saw yesterday...

Sioux4Ever wrote:this is for gopher blog. i am a neutral fan who loves to watch high school hockey.

Sioux fans are never neutral when it comes to anything a Gopher follower has to say. Next...

Stitch Lips wrote:He needs to hide behind a pseudonym.

Oh... is Stitch Lips your real name? If so, your parents must not have liked you very much.

I'd say anything you wish to Couture's face. I think he is a jerk. He was so busy padding stats for his boy all season long that he seemed to lose sight of the fact that there are more important things. I saw a number of teams this year refuse to put their top line out in the 3rd period of games (or not play their top guys on the PP) because the game was already well at hand. They were more interested in giving other players a chance. It wasn't about padding stats against overmatched competition. He could learn some lessons from some of his more classy coaching brethren. He deserved to lose after the lack of respect he seemed to show for other teams.

As far as not respecting outstate hockey, it is quite the opposite. My family background is Iron Range. But that doesn't stop me from seeing reality on the quality of play.

Ben's come back with 1 G, 1 A thus far in the 3rd Place game, so that's good news.

flyers win with game winning goal by ben with 21 seconds left

Gopher Blog wrote:

Stitch Lips wrote:He needs to hide behind a pseudonym.

Oh... is Stitch Lips your real name? If so, your parents must not have liked you very much.

I'd say anything you wish to Couture's face. I think he is a jerk. He was so busy padding stats for his boy all season long that he seemed to lose sight of the fact that there are more important things. I saw a number of teams this year refuse to put their top line out in the 3rd period of games (or not play their top guys on the PP) because the game was already well at hand. They were more interested in giving other players a chance. It wasn't about padding stats against overmatched competition. He could learn some lessons from some of his more classy coaching brethren. He deserved to lose after the lack of respect he seemed to show for other teams.

As far as not respecting outstate hockey, it is quite the opposite. My family background is Iron Range. But that doesn't stop me from seeing reality on the quality of play.

Nicely said (fun year for a lot of those kids huh) 8-1 on the power play Ben get your line on the ice?????WOW. Is that how Johnny Pohl did it? Ben is an EXCELLENT player at the high school level but i'll see how he does at SCSU as I said in a post long ago. Hey, it was a good run for Little Falls while it lasted.

I didn't see the game yesterday, but

In general, if your teamates don't play well, you are not going to play well either. In Edina's game throughout the year, if Lee does not play well, Everson usually struggles, also, and vice versa.

Hanowski would certainly have been a first liner at Edina or is good enough to be and put on the second line because of fit. He was the leading scorer at the model camp and was pretty high in scoring in the Elite League, where he played injured for quite a while.

Hanowski is a very skilled player. I've seen him play 5-6 times this year, and it was always the same, he doesn't miss when he has the chance, and he is an excellent passer. To me, however, he is a one-way player. I've rarely seen him playing defense, and he is almost always waiting for his teammates to get him the puck.

You can say all you want about him and his 400+ points against weak competition, the fact of the matter is when LF did play good competition, Hanowski was all over the stat sheet then, just as he was when they played weak competition. He is an elite MN high school player anyway you look at it. That doesn't necessarily mean he will have success at the next level, as we've seen many, many times.

Personally, I believe that he is better suited for the NHL style of game, than he is the college game. Only time will tell where he end up, I wish him luck and I hope he has a great college career leading the Huskies to runner up finishes in every possible aspect(behind the Goph's of course).

bender0905 wrote:There's no doubt about it putting up 100+ pts in one season for four seasons against any schedule is tough to do..it takes a lot of skill to complete a task like that. However, against this good city school he did disappear which is a little disheartening to see. The real test is going to be tomorrow because the Flyers will take on another tough team in SCC.

Ben Hanowski is a GREAT player, bottom line, end of story.
I'll give this to the haters though...and am very surprised few have brought it up..possibly proving that most are just spouting off..: "Big Ben" scored a TON of points in Little Falls' blowouts this season, starting with the one against Greenway(where he figured into a lot of goals on the near side of the end score)...that's all..do with it what you will.

Gopher Blog wrote:

Stitch Lips wrote:He needs to hide behind a pseudonym.

Oh... is Stitch Lips your real name? If so, your parents must not have liked you very much.

I'd say anything you wish to Couture's face. I think he is a jerk. He was so busy padding stats for his boy all season long that he seemed to lose sight of the fact that there are more important things. I saw a number of teams this year refuse to put their top line out in the 3rd period of games (or not play their top guys on the PP) because the game was already well at hand. They were more interested in giving other players a chance. It wasn't about padding stats against overmatched competition. He could learn some lessons from some of his more classy coaching brethren. He deserved to lose after the lack of respect he seemed to show for other teams.

As far as not respecting outstate hockey, it is quite the opposite. My family background is Iron Range. But that doesn't stop me from seeing reality on the quality of play.

Nothing better than an IRON RANGE boy who makes his way down to the big city and doesn't realize that his head is as far up his butt as anybody. Can you seriously sleep well at night knowing that you are slamming on a kid who will be forever in the same conversation as Mariucci, Spehar, and Pohl? You probably can knowing he isn't wearing maroon and gold. I totally agree, that if he was a gopher, you would be on the opposite side of this argument. Are there any gopher recruits in the dance today????

Jbone wrote:Can you seriously sleep well at night knowing that you are slamming on a kid who will be forever in the same conversation as Mariucci, Spehar, and Pohl?

I am more slamming on his coach than anything. I am glad they got their doors blown off yesterday.

I have nothing against Hanowski. He did what he was asked to do. I am sure he is a good kid.

But some people (mainly Little Frauds fans) seem to have an issue if anybody doesn't kiss the kid's ass too. Sorry but many people don't think he is close to rating among the greats of HS hockey. Heck, it won't be shocking if he doesn't even win Mr. Hockey tomorrow.

As far as Spehar and Pohl... they led their teams to a championship. The highest in individual AND team team success. Which is ultimately what it is about. Team.

Are there any gopher recruits in the dance today????

Nick Leddy.

Gopher Blog wrote:

Stitch Lips wrote:He needs to hide behind a pseudonym.

Oh... is Stitch Lips your real name? If so, your parents must not have liked you very much.

I'd say anything you wish to Couture's face. I think he is a jerk. He was so busy padding stats for his boy all season long that he seemed to lose sight of the fact that there are more important things. I saw a number of teams this year refuse to put their top line out in the 3rd period of games (or not play their top guys on the PP) because the game was already well at hand. They were more interested in giving other players a chance. It wasn't about padding stats against overmatched competition. He could learn some lessons from some of his more classy coaching brethren. He deserved to lose after the lack of respect he seemed to show for other teams.

As far as not respecting outstate hockey, it is quite the opposite. My family background is Iron Range. But that doesn't stop me from seeing reality on the quality of play.

What a clown Blog is. His lack of hockey intelligence shows with every post. Hanowski is a talented player who will do fine @ the next level. Biggest adjustment he will have to make is how to come to terms with the fact that he will merely be a cog in the machine as opposed to the machine. He comes back to play his Senior season as opposed to taking the Jrs route and deserved all the playing time he could get. Look back over 5 years ago and you'll see the Flyers and Couture were on the opposite side of some lopsided games, that's the way it goes in sports. Go back to the Range, Blog - I'm sure they would love to have you.

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