98 Machine vs 98 Blades

Sk8 Str8 · Post by **Sk8 Str8** » Thu May 07, 2009 8:39 am

buttend wrote:
imaloserbaby wrote: Who are the Metro Mosquitoes?
Metro Mosquitoes is the name of the MASH team the 98 MN Blades are playing on 5/9. This team is made up of players from the 98 Icemen.

Sorry, I thought it was a made up name.

gilmour · Post by **gilmour** » Thu May 07, 2009 9:56 am

both 98 teams have great kids and great parents - i am sure they will want to beat the other team because they all are competitive but not to the point where they are looking to create atomicity between the friendly relationships.

dreampuck · Post by **dreampuck** » Thu May 07, 2009 1:21 pm

The Metro Mosquitoes (MASH Team Name)... are the 98 Icemen...exact same team, different jerseys. Not sure why?

The 98 Icemen vs. 98 Blades game is this Saturday @ Blake Arena 4:30 PM. This is a rematch from couple weeks ago with the Icemen winning 4-0.

It should be a great game between two of the top AAA teams in the state and I would expect the Blades are looking for some payback.

Just come and enjoy some great hockey...no matter who wins

old goalie85 · Post by **old goalie85** » Tue May 12, 2009 6:23 pm

gdahl wrote:I saw nearly every team at the 98 level play at the meltdown. Most teams had a couple decent players and a few had good goalies. The only team worthy of AAA status was the Northern Wings. They were the only team that I saw that played as a team...that is they passed and passed and passed and scored. O h and they also won every game in running time including the championship. And no my kid does not play on the wings...he played on one of the other teams. In my opinion the wings at the 98 were the only true AAA team...all the others were playing summer Hockey.

Was this the open or invite? ... open generally are not AAA teams... Were the blades, Chicago mission, Detroit Honeybaked, Magicians, Edge, teams of this level present? No this was an open tournament.

noonespecial · Post by **noonespecial** » Tue May 12, 2009 8:16 pm

wings did play in the open tourney. the wings are ready to take on the stars as the top team in the north, they have a solid roster, lost a few replaced them and and really coming together as a team. It would be a good game to see between the 98 wings and 98 stars

silentbutdeadly3139 · Post by **silentbutdeadly3139** » Wed May 13, 2009 9:44 am

noonespecial wrote:wings did play in the open tourney. the wings are ready to take on the stars as the top team in the north, they have a solid roster, lost a few replaced them and and really coming together as a team. It would be a good game to see between the 98 wings and 98 stars

I have to laugh at people coming on this board to tout their kid's teams saying they are great and ready to take on the elite AAA teams ( not he open AAA). People, its easy to do ... ENTER AN INVITE TOURNAMENT !!!!!!!!

I don't know anything about the Wings but from reading other posts on other teams I think the reason many of these teams they don't or can't is because they have players ALREADY on another invite team! If you don't, then enter an invite tournament and let your play prove prove you you have a "solid roster and really coming together as a team". If you are carrying players that play on another invite team that takes precedence are they really on YOUR team and should you be touting your "team"?

seems like a simple solution.

My_Kid_Loves_Hockey · Wed May 13, 2009 11:15 am

If you are carrying players that play on another invite team that takes precedence are they really on YOUR team and should you be touting your "team"?

Silent what if they committed to the "open" team and then were asked to play on the Invite team later in the year. Should they have to quit the Open to play the invite?

noonespecial · Post by **noonespecial** » Wed May 13, 2009 11:55 am

the wings play all year with the roster they have, they do not ask stars players or other players to play on their team during the season. And no, I do not have a kid on the wings team.

JSR · Post by **JSR** » Wed May 13, 2009 12:21 pm

gdahl wrote:I saw nearly every team at the 98 level play at the meltdown. Most teams had a couple decent players and a few had good goalies. The only team worthy of AAA status was the Northern Wings. They were the only team that I saw that played as a team...that is they passed and passed and passed and scored. O h and they also won every game in running time including the championship. And no my kid does not play on the wings...he played on one of the other teams. In my opinion the wings at the 98 were the only true AAA team...all the others were playing summer Hockey.

At the Minnesota Meltodwon Open tournament the 1998 division was split into two different brackets. The Wales divsion bracket and the Campbell division bracket. To my knowledge from what everyone has told me the Wales divison was consdiered the tougher of the two brackets. Some even said the Wales was AAA Open and the Campbell was basically AA. This is not from my own eyes this is what I heard from those supposedly in the knwo about the brackets. Now I did hear several that said the Wings belonged in the Wales bracket with those teams and it would have been interesting to see how they would have done had they been in that side of things. I post this not to start trouble or to say anything negative about any team, it is not a negative, this is just information passed on o me by a friend who's son played in the Open tourney at the 98 level when I asked him why they had two divisions but the divisions were not equally split up number of teams wise. Take it for what it's worth.

noonespecial · Post by **noonespecial** » Wed May 13, 2009 12:28 pm

the wings did play in the open, I do not know how they split up the teams for this tourney, no one will really know how it would of come out if the wings would of been in the other bracket. But I am guessing the wings did not say put us in the weaker AA bracket. hopefully maybe later on this summer the wings will be able to play in an invite or for sure they will have their chance at the lake superior cup to prove themselves

silentbutdeadly3139 · Post by **silentbutdeadly3139** » Wed May 13, 2009 1:37 pm

My_Kid_Loves_Hockey wrote:
If you are carrying players that play on another invite team that takes precedence are they really on YOUR team and should you be touting your "team"?
Silent what if they committed to the "open" team and then were asked to play on the Invite team later in the year. Should they have to quit the Open to play the invite?

I don't know how all this works but if that is the case does the player have to tell the teams who takes precedence when both teams in same tournament or playing same weekend in 2 cities far apart ? I would assume the invite takes precedence ... or they replace him next year.

I got no axe to grind I'm just pointing out they can play in tournaments with those teams if they think they are that good. But perhaps they cant because they cant get in those tournaments ? if not why? is it because they haven't proved they are good enough ?

noonespecial · Post by **noonespecial** » Wed May 13, 2009 2:06 pm

does invite mean you have to be invited, the wings should be invited to next year melt down invite for winning the open, or does it not work like that. And not like some other teams, they skate only with their players, so they would not be short at an invite tourney or have any excuse not to play in it

hockeygirl2 · Post by **hockeygirl2** » Wed May 13, 2009 2:53 pm

By the way some of you are defining AAA on here there are only two teams then in Minnesota that are AAA, and they are the Blades and Machine. There are ocasional upsets but these are the only two true AAA in Minnesota. Each time the Blades and Machine are in the same tourney, the guess is who will win it the Machine or Blades. These teams are good, but they get beat when they go and play around the Country. They do well but they get beat. There is no other team in Minnesota that can beat the top teams throughout the Country other then the Machine and Blades. Hopefully that doesn't deflate all of the parent ego's out there to hear that their kids are AA unless they play for the Machine or Blades.

Penalty Box · Post by **Penalty Box** » Wed May 13, 2009 3:34 pm

hockeygirl2 wrote:By the way some of you are defining AAA on here there are only two teams then in Minnesota that are AAA, and they are the Blades and Machine. There are ocasional upsets but these are the only two true AAA in Minnesota. Each time the Blades and Machine are in the same tourney, the guess is who will win it the Machine or Blades. These teams are good, but they get beat when they go and play around the Country. They do well but they get beat. There is no other team in Minnesota that can beat the top teams throughout the Country other then the Machine and Blades. Hopefully that doesn't deflate all of the parent ego's out there to hear that their kids are AA unless they play for the Machine or Blades.

Do you buy what you smoke or grow it yourself?

gotothenet17 · Post by **gotothenet17** » Wed May 13, 2009 3:37 pm

Penalty Box wrote:
hockeygirl2 wrote:By the way some of you are defining AAA on here there are only two teams then in Minnesota that are AAA, and they are the Blades and Machine. There are ocasional upsets but these are the only two true AAA in Minnesota. Each time the Blades and Machine are in the same tourney, the guess is who will win it the Machine or Blades. These teams are good, but they get beat when they go and play around the Country. They do well but they get beat. There is no other team in Minnesota that can beat the top teams throughout the Country other then the Machine and Blades. Hopefully that doesn't deflate all of the parent ego's out there to hear that their kids are AA unless they play for the Machine or Blades.
Do you buy what you smoke or grow it yourself?

Hockeygirl2 has a qualifying medical condition that allows her to smoke it legally.

hockeygirl2 · Post by **hockeygirl2** » Wed May 13, 2009 4:22 pm

Do you buy what you smoke or grow it yourself?

Sorry I don't mean to make anyone mad. But what is the definition of a AAA team? Is there any other team out there that can consistently compete with the Honeybaked, Honda, etc. . . teams that are out there? If not, why are they called AAA? Why isn't it just the Blades and MAchine?

noonespecial · Post by **noonespecial** » Wed May 13, 2009 7:04 pm

so hockey girl 2, what team do you have someone playing for?

The iceman seem to have a pretty good team? or are they just getting lucky every game

boardmember · Post by **boardmember** » Wed May 13, 2009 7:09 pm

dreampuck wrote:The Metro Mosquitoes (MASH Team Name)... are the 98 Icemen...exact same team, different jerseys. Not sure why?

The 98 Icemen vs. 98 Blades game is this Saturday @ Blake Arena 4:30 PM. This is a rematch from couple weeks ago with the Icemen winning 4-0.

It should be a great game between two of the top AAA teams in the state and I would expect the Blades are looking for some payback.

Just come and enjoy some great hockey...no matter who wins

This thread was started to talk about the game. As usual it has morphed into something ugly.

So who won, Blades or Mosquitoes?

My_Kid_Loves_Hockey · Post by **My_Kid_Loves_Hockey** » Thu May 14, 2009 9:28 am

The Blades won by a score of 4-0. They played a good game against us!

My_Kid_Loves_Hockey · Post by **My_Kid_Loves_Hockey** » Thu May 14, 2009 9:30 am

This thread was started to talk about the game. As usual it has morphed into something ugly.

It was started to talk about the Machine/Blades game.....

Very few forums stay on topic around here!

ThePuckStopsHere · Post by **ThePuckStopsHere** » Thu May 14, 2009 11:03 am

hockeygirl2 wrote:Do you buy what you smoke or grow it yourself?

Sorry I don't mean to make anyone mad. But what is the definition of a AAA team? Is there any other team out there that can consistently compete with the Honeybaked, Honda, etc. . . teams that are out there? If not, why are they called AAA? Why isn't it just the Blades and MAchine?

Hockeygirl2 ask "Why isn't just the Blades & Machine?" You are either extremely condescending or just plan stupid.

silentbutdeadly3139 · Thu May 14, 2009 11:32 am

ThePuckStopsHere wrote:
hockeygirl2 wrote:Do you buy what you smoke or grow it yourself?

Sorry I don't mean to make anyone mad. But what is the definition of a AAA team? Is there any other team out there that can consistently compete with the Honeybaked, Honda, etc. . . teams that are out there? If not, why are they called AAA? Why isn't it just the Blades and MAchine?
Hockeygirl2 ask "Why isn't just the Blades & Machine?" You are either extremely condescending or just plan stupid.

I would include the Iceman maybe LSS but they appear to be a little down from last year. But I agree the rest are a tier below. Sorry to hurt your feelings ThePuckStopsHere but who else do you think is in that category?

ThePuckStopsHere · Post by **ThePuckStopsHere** » Thu May 14, 2009 12:18 pm

silentbutdeadly3139 wrote:
ThePuckStopsHere wrote:
hockeygirl2 wrote:Do you buy what you smoke or grow it yourself?

Sorry I don't mean to make anyone mad. But what is the definition of a AAA team? Is there any other team out there that can consistently compete with the Honeybaked, Honda, etc. . . teams that are out there? If not, why are they called AAA? Why isn't it just the Blades and MAchine?
Hockeygirl2 ask "Why isn't just the Blades & Machine?" You are either extremely condescending or just plan stupid.
I would include the Iceman maybe LSS but they appear to be a little down from last year. But I agree the rest are a tier below. Sorry to hurt your feelings ThePuckStopsHere but who else do you think is in that category?

No feelings hurt here, I just get a laugh out of all the self promotion of the Machine & Blades on this board, as I have stated before.

If you really look at summer hockey & the difference in skills and commitment you could break it down to 3 to 4 levels much like winter hockey's A - B1 - B2 & C.

I do agree with you the Iceman and LSS are in the top of the class as well, with a few other teams maybe 3 - 4 players away from knocking on the door.

silentbutdeadly3139 · Fri May 15, 2009 10:37 am

ThePuckStopsHere wrote:
silentbutdeadly3139 wrote:
ThePuckStopsHere wrote: Hockeygirl2 ask "Why isn't just the Blades & Machine?" You are either extremely condescending or just plan stupid.
I would include the Iceman maybe LSS but they appear to be a little down from last year. But I agree the rest are a tier below. Sorry to hurt your feelings ThePuckStopsHere but who else do you think is in that category?
No feelings hurt here, I just get a laugh out of all the self promotion of the Machine & Blades on this board, as I have stated before.

If you really look at summer hockey & the difference in skills and commitment you could break it down to 3 to 4 levels much like winter hockey's A - B1 - B2 & C.

I do agree with you the Iceman and LSS are in the top of the class as well, with a few other teams maybe 3 - 4 players away from knocking on the door.

Your confusing me. You may hate to hear the promotion but the discussion was centered around REAL AAA and someone said Blades and Machine which you thought was way off base ( "smoking something" ). But its true Blades and Machine are only true AAA with Iceman and LSS getting closer ( Iceman) or further (LSS) away by looks of the scores. Needing 3-4 players isn't close ... thats 25% or more of the roster !

Disclaimer: I don't have any kids on any of these teams, my child is too young and"inexperienced" to play for them and doubt she ever will.

muckandgrind · Post by **muckandgrind** » Fri May 15, 2009 11:27 am

hockeygirl2 wrote:Do you buy what you smoke or grow it yourself?

Sorry I don't mean to make anyone mad. But what is the definition of a AAA team? Is there any other team out there that can consistently compete with the Honeybaked, Honda, etc. . . teams that are out there? If not, why are they called AAA? Why isn't it just the Blades and MAchine?

There are lots of true AAA teams around the country that can't compete with Honeybaked, Little Caesars, etc. on a regular basis. That's like saying that the only college football teams that can compete with the top rated teams should have the distinction of being called Div-1. There are over 100 Div-1 college football teams and most of them can't compete with the top few teams.

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