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Best Bantam A Team of all time

Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 8:22 pm
by Indians forever
who was the best Bantam team and why?

Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 8:04 am
by GR3343
Either GR or Roseau around 87-88. Those two teams met in the Pee Wee A finals, MAHA Bantam, VFW and MSHL. Both very, very good teams. Many of those players from both teams went on to play at the D1 level and professionally.

Best Bantams

Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 12:45 pm
by Knight7
Moundsview 1972-73, I think with McClanahan. National Champions.

Re: Best Bantams

Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 2:48 pm
by wannagototherink
Knight7 wrote:Moundsview 1972-73, I think with McClanahan. National Champions.
Jefferson 89 - 90

Hands down...

Lost one game all year......went on to win 3 consecutive State High School Tournaments...

Crowly, Checko, LaFluer, Pankratz....

Speaking of that team, what ever happened to Matt Jones?

Re: Best Bantams

Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 9:03 am
by Hockeyguy_27
wannagototherink wrote:
Knight7 wrote:Moundsview 1972-73, I think with McClanahan. National Champions.
Jefferson 89 - 90

Hands down...

Lost one game all year......went on to win 3 consecutive State High School Tournaments...

Crowly, Checko, LaFluer, Pankratz....

Speaking of that team, what ever happened to Matt Jones?
I'd agree. I remember seeing them practice one day and asked their coach (Trebil) which high school team this was. I was dumbfounded to find out they were Bantams :oops:

Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 10:15 am
by egf hockey1
That Jefferson team was very good, hard to find a better team than them. They were matched up with a very good Moorhead team in that time frame (Jason Blake, Ryan Kraft, Matt Cullen, all NHL) 7 or 8 players that went on to play D1 college hockey. Moorhead could never get past Jefferson though.

Also, late 70's Roseau, Broten brothers, Butzy Erickson, very strong team.

Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 10:46 am
by sorno82
egf hockey1 wrote: Also, late 70's Roseau, Broten brothers, Butzy Erickson, very strong team.

That must have been a heck of a commute between Roseau bantam games and Gopher hockey games for Neal and Butsy. Did they win the state tourney the same year the gophs won the NCAA's in '78-79 season?

Just poking fun.