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Isn't Bazooka Training 101 a course at STA?goldy313 wrote:Get rid of the individual preplanned goal celebration, it's getting ridiculous and it's even a penalty in the NFL now. I'm all for emotion but when the goal scorer skates away from his team and pretends to shoot a bazooka? Throw him in the box.
Just wondering, what coaches in the state tournament this year are teachers? How about other top publics (is Curt Giles teaching)? I know Lee Smith teaches 6th grade in EP but I'm unsure about everyone else. Who has info on this?PoniesDad45 wrote:Change the State Tourney back to one class but have 16 teams going in. One section for private schools and the winner of that section has to face a large city section school in round #1.
Varsity coaches have to be teachers at their respective high schools. This is a school activity, too many people have forgotten that. Too many ignorant, small minded people ruining too many kids hockey experiences.
Team average GPA should have some bearing in the standings, kind of like fair play points.
Fighting or throwing a punch should be a 3 game minimum suspension.
Bruce Plante P.E. teacherHockeyMN1 wrote:Just wondering, what coaches in the state tournament this year are teachers? How about other top publics (is Curt Giles teaching)? I know Lee Smith teaches 6th grade in EP but I'm unsure about everyone else. Who has info on this?PoniesDad45 wrote:Change the State Tourney back to one class but have 16 teams going in. One section for private schools and the winner of that section has to face a large city section school in round #1.
Varsity coaches have to be teachers at their respective high schools. This is a school activity, too many people have forgotten that. Too many ignorant, small minded people ruining too many kids hockey experiences.
Team average GPA should have some bearing in the standings, kind of like fair play points.
Fighting or throwing a punch should be a 3 game minimum suspension.
a NCAA basketball style tournament would be the bestpaulsonj72 wrote:Because Edina is assigned to that section by the MSHSL. They don'y just jump out of the lake for section play. In all seriousness there is NEVER going to be a method to satisfy everybody.tonkafan77 wrote:Why does Edina hop out of the Lake conference area for sections then? Why can't Tonka or Benilde just hop over to a different area after regular season?
Randolph teaches 4th grade, unless he's moved to a different position recently.2good4u wrote:Bruce Plante P.E. teacherHockeyMN1 wrote:Just wondering, what coaches in the state tournament this year are teachers? How about other top publics (is Curt Giles teaching)? I know Lee Smith teaches 6th grade in EP but I'm unsure about everyone else. Who has info on this?PoniesDad45 wrote:Change the State Tourney back to one class but have 16 teams going in. One section for private schools and the winner of that section has to face a large city section school in round #1.
Varsity coaches have to be teachers at their respective high schools. This is a school activity, too many people have forgotten that. Too many ignorant, small minded people ruining too many kids hockey experiences.
Team average GPA should have some bearing in the standings, kind of like fair play points.
Fighting or throwing a punch should be a 3 game minimum suspension.
Mike Randolph Math teacher???? east guys correct me if im wrong, just heard it from somebody that he was a middle school math teacher
A ton of coaches are teachers.. because that's the only job that can really do it. unless a coach is retired like an EX-NHL guy or something.HockeyMN1 wrote:Just wondering, what coaches in the state tournament this year are teachers? How about other top publics (is Curt Giles teaching)? I know Lee Smith teaches 6th grade in EP but I'm unsure about everyone else. Who has info on this?PoniesDad45 wrote:Change the State Tourney back to one class but have 16 teams going in. One section for private schools and the winner of that section has to face a large city section school in round #1.
Varsity coaches have to be teachers at their respective high schools. This is a school activity, too many people have forgotten that. Too many ignorant, small minded people ruining too many kids hockey experiences.
Team average GPA should have some bearing in the standings, kind of like fair play points.
Fighting or throwing a punch should be a 3 game minimum suspension.
I like 16 teams at State. We already have that. Only now we have two tournements. Let's have a 16 team tournement, only based on 16 sections. I would also be cool with 8 section champs and 8 at large ins....Oldtimehockeyguy23 wrote:okay I HAVE A SOLUTION.
Do the thing exactly like NCAA hockey. 16 teams in the tourny. Teams are ranked and selected by a committee by the MSHSL. Teams that are not in the top 16 in the rankings have a chance to make the tourny by winning their section. Pretty sure this system works well in college hockey. you have a equal representation of every section, and have the top teams.. Have the first round not at the Xcel to get down to 8. then 8 team tourny at the Xcel like normal. Could also go to a frozen four format as well. But the bottom line is they should have 16 teams in the tourny
Also.... 8 Min OT's during regular season, but instead of ties.. shootouts and shootouts losses. still counts as a tie like in the NHL but exciting because of the 3-man shootout. WHO WOULDN'T LOVE THAT?
FSN should broadcast games again too.
students should get in free at every game.
Parents should only be allowed to go to 8 regular season games.
1 tourney 16 teams. 8 section winners in seeded 1-8. All section runner-ups host a 1 game play in with the 8 highest ranked teams that are left.defense wrote:I like 16 teams at State. We already have that. Only now we have two tournements. Let's have a 16 team tournement, only based on 16 sections. I would also be cool with 8 section champs and 8 at large ins....Oldtimehockeyguy23 wrote:okay I HAVE A SOLUTION.
Do the thing exactly like NCAA hockey. 16 teams in the tourny. Teams are ranked and selected by a committee by the MSHSL. Teams that are not in the top 16 in the rankings have a chance to make the tourny by winning their section. Pretty sure this system works well in college hockey. you have a equal representation of every section, and have the top teams.. Have the first round not at the Xcel to get down to 8. then 8 team tourny at the Xcel like normal. Could also go to a frozen four format as well. But the bottom line is they should have 16 teams in the tourny
Also.... 8 Min OT's during regular season, but instead of ties.. shootouts and shootouts losses. still counts as a tie like in the NHL but exciting because of the 3-man shootout. WHO WOULDN'T LOVE THAT?
FSN should broadcast games again too.
students should get in free at every game.
Parents should only be allowed to go to 8 regular season games.
I actually am likely in a minority, but do enjoy watching high school hockey more than the NHL or college. It seems like the purtiy of the game is at a much higher level in high school. So yes, televise more HS games.
I am not a fan of shootouts. Possibly entertaining, but, really??? I always thought it ridiculous that a game should be decided in such a controlled situation. I would be more in favor of no ties with unlimited OT's. Maybe even dropping players after a few to go 4 on 4 and 3 on 3... now that is entertaining hockey.
Agreed - some smaller schools have trouble finding qualified coaches, much less qualified coaches who are teachers. As long as the coach has the proper credentials for coaching high school, so be it. But "dad" coaches should be held to a minimum, if at all allowed, at the high school level. Too many politics involved with this scenario. Most folks had enough of this at association level.paulsonj72 wrote:The law changed back in the early 90's when a person needed to have a teaching LICENSE to be a head coach. Now they need to pass a fundamentals of coaching course that is a certain number of hours including treatment of injuries, etc. And I believe hockey was one of the sports that was behind this change. Not that they pushed it but because a good number of schools that had hockey programs, mainly smaller schools could not find people with teaching licenses that had the ability and want to coach hockey.
