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Posted: **Wed Dec 24, 2008 10:38 am**

Looks like a pretty high powered tournament this year East obviously has to be the favorite right now but does anybody have a different opinion on this?

Posted: **Fri Dec 26, 2008 2:31 pm**

The field looks very strong.....not as good as the E.P Tournament but very close. The one CO team is an All Star team and could be a force. All the teams are very talented and it should be some great fast paced hockey.

Posted: **Fri Dec 26, 2008 2:52 pm**

Which CO team

Posted: **Fri Dec 26, 2008 3:19 pm**

Littleton

Posted: **Fri Dec 26, 2008 5:11 pm**

Their not an all-star team, their a AA team

Posted: **Fri Dec 26, 2008 5:23 pm**

Wow either way that is a stacked pool East, Woodbury, Mpls/Park, and Littleton should be alot of fun to watch.

Posted: **Fri Dec 26, 2008 10:44 pm**

i'm sure Edina will have the easiest bracket like always, they should at least make it look a little more balanced

Posted: **Fri Dec 26, 2008 10:54 pm**

wtbearlk1111 wrote:i'm sure Edina will have the easiest bracket like always, they should at least make it look a little more balanced

I dunno. What do you propose. These are the pools:

Edina (#10 in recent mnhockeyrankings.com), Eagan (#7), Rogers (#5), Marquette

Woodbury (#18), Minneapolis (#24), Duluth (#2), Littleton

Roseau (#27), Chaska (#20), Stillwater (#28), Arvada

Anxious to hear your response.

Posted: **Sat Dec 27, 2008 8:08 am**

O-TownGuy,

Are the CO teams comparable to the Minnesota A bantam teams.... or are the All Star teams?

The brackets look O.K. I don't think Edina has a big advantage....other than it's their home rink.

Posted: **Sat Dec 27, 2008 11:18 am**

Littelton will be good two years ago they came to the Bemidiji International Pee Wee tournament and made it all the ways to the finals and lost i believe dont quote me on that but i am pretty sure.

Posted: **Sat Dec 27, 2008 11:22 am**

hockeysuburb wrote:O-TownGuy,

Are the CO teams comparable to the Minnesota A bantam teams.... or are the All Star teams?

The brackets look O.K. I don't think Edina has a big advantage....other than it's their home rink.

I believe these are Tier II (AA) teams coming from the other states. I don't see any of them winning the tournament, but Arvada might be able to take their pool. (Just guessing. They could go 0-3.)

So you don't think Edina has a big advantage? They sure look to be at a disadvantage versus forming a pool with them and some of the lesser teams, as they were accused of doing. Three teams in the field are ahead of them in the mnhockey ranking and they pool with two of them. Looks pretty stout to me.

Posted: **Sun Dec 28, 2008 7:01 pm**

The Littleton Bantam's are a league team playing Tier II this year. Littleton traditionally has strong teams. This year's team is a good young "AA" team. Ten 95's and Nine 94's. The team is from the Denver Metro Area, Littleton is a suburb.

MBG

Posted: **Mon Dec 29, 2008 6:51 am**

Where is Wayzata?

Posted: **Mon Dec 29, 2008 7:10 am**

southernhockey1 wrote:Where is Wayzata?

just west of mpls.....

- actually, I was wondering the same thing.
??

Posted: **Thu Jan 01, 2009 9:34 pm**

hockeyman84 wrote:Wow either way that is a stacked pool East, Woodbury, Mpls/Park, and Littleton should be alot of fun to watch.

Woodbury 5 Mpls/Park 0. Woodbury completely controlled this game.

Posted: **Thu Jan 01, 2009 10:21 pm**

Any ohter scores to report ?

Posted: **Thu Jan 01, 2009 11:59 pm**

slaphound- what were the shots?

Posted: **Fri Jan 02, 2009 12:24 am**

edina 2, marquette 1

Posted: **Fri Jan 02, 2009 12:51 am**

Roseau - 4
Arvada (CO) - 3

Posted: **Fri Jan 02, 2009 5:10 am**

blainehockeymom wrote:slaphound- what were the shots?

Reported as 27 Woodbury 18 Mpls but I think the MPLS| shots were generous

Posted: **Fri Jan 02, 2009 8:41 am**

They announced the shots 26-24 Woodbury but yes very generous to Mpls they did not come to play at all and Woodbury made them pay.

Posted: **Fri Jan 02, 2009 9:05 am**

Anyone know the score to the East Vs. littleton game?

Posted: **Fri Jan 02, 2009 9:56 am**

hockeyman84 wrote:They announced the shots 26-24 Woodbury but yes very generous to Mpls they did not come to play at all and Woodbury made them pay.

My counter had them at 29-14 Woodbury. I got the other shot info second hand so I stand corrected. Mpls/Park beat Woodbury 4-1 in a VFW game so I don't think they gave them any credit. Woodbury can play with the best but have some consistency issues.

Posted: **Fri Jan 02, 2009 1:34 pm**

I agree with that and have to say Mpls has the same issues
East-6
Mpls/Park-1
alot closer than the score indicated Mpls needs to put full games together they dominated for about 7 min and were up 1-0 then let down and east scored 3 in a minute and a half after that it was pretty even untill the middle of the 3rd east scored 2 goals in 2 min to put it out of reach. East was by far the best team in the state by my account but need to stay out of the box.

East-9
Littleton-0

Posted: **Fri Jan 02, 2009 5:22 pm**

hockeyman84 wrote:I agree with that and have to say Mpls has the same issues
East-6
Mpls/Park-1
alot closer than the score indicated Mpls needs to put full games together they dominated for about 7 min and were up 1-0 then let down and east scored 3 in a minute and a half after that it was pretty even untill the middle of the 3rd east scored 2 goals in 2 min to put it out of reach. East was by far the best team in the state by my account but need to stay out of the box.

East-9
Littleton-0

Woodbury 3
Littleton 1
Shots 32-17 Woodbury
Littleton goal in the last minute on a power play with their goalie pulled(6 on 4), faceoff in front of the Woodbury net. Woodbury scored again on an empty netter.

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