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the Irondale knights came off a very dismall performance this last season. with high hopes of ever reaching the tournament will it be accomplished in this up coming season? some may have heard of the knights some may have not. you may know 6'7 275 Jimmy Gjere, gameplay (questionable). or primetime GAA 4.2 . . . . oh boy. all tho the knghts have a descent senior class for next year and good chemistry, but how far does good chemistry get you? does it take you to the state tournament? probably not. . . but i have watched a couple games of the knights this past season and seem to have played well agianst good teams, BSM 4 Knights 3, and held benik to only one goal in the second meeting. returning to the ice Jack healy (good goal scorer), Luke Debruzzi (ofensive defensemen), Jimmy Gjere (Huge), Lance Bortot ( fast in the net), jake Dalnes may return but has recieved offers from the bass master classic to head down south and compete in the junior division. i have high hopes for this team and they have some what strong history . . . BJUGSTAD, Richard, Bayer. so lets see if the Knights can bring back some tradition.

The glory days are over kid.

The "nights" have been dark since the late 70's with no sign of awakening.

i think that there are many signs of awakening. and they may make a state run next year.

Jugslover... I would like to re-kindle the old glory days of Scotty Bjugstad and watching the Knights in those ugly Cooperalls as well. With St. Francis doing better and Spring Lake Park it would tough to crack the top four in the North Suburban, let alone make a run at the state tourney. Good luck though. It really would be nice to see. I like you am sick of seeing the same teams in the big tourney every year.

I see Irondale sitting at 6th in the north suburban conference, which everybody is always talking about how weak of a conference it is. The team will be very average, and all of the players that you listed are very average especially Gjere and Bortot. It doesn't matter how big Gjere is, fact of the matter is that he can't skate, and Bortot is terribly inconsistent.

i see them finishing 3rd or 4th in the conference just ahead of SLP

Yeah, st. louis park should finish around that spot Jugslover.

um nope they lost like ton of seniors so probly i was thinking
SPRING LAKE PARK, i bet the rest of the conference would agree also.

JUGlover wrote:um nope they lost like ton of seniors so probly i was thinking
SPRING LAKE PARK, i bet the rest of the conference would agree also.

Besides the first contest, SLP owned Irondale both two regular season games. Im not sure how many kids irondale is losing but, SLP loses two players. And have a lot of good returning players. They are going to be very talented defensively. Sorry JUGlover but you guys will probably finish worse than you did this year. Which was to be honest horrible. Good Luck though.

They will pretty similar teams next year...both will have returning starting goalies..both return their top two defensmen..both lost their top scorer(slp top 2...it will be the depth..no idea about their jv teams? but they should be similar teams..

JUGlover wrote:i think that there are many signs of awakening. and they may make a state run next year.

Yep. Then again they may not.

irondale has no present, nor a future.... they arent good.

For a team that is no good, they can claim as recent grads: a final four Bemidji beavers captain, an Army hockey captain, NAHL North Iowa player, recently graduated MSU-Mankato player, future UofM football lineman, UofM track miler...

Not so bad for kids from a program labeled, "they arent good". Players do come out of there.

glovesoff wrote:For a team that is no good, they can claim as recent grads: a final four Bemidji beavers captain, an Army hockey captain, NAHL North Iowa player, recently graduated MSU-Mankato player, future UofM football lineman, UofM track miler...

Not so bad for kids from a program labeled, "they arent good". Players do come out of there.

good point. i take back my earlier remark

glovesoff wrote:For a team that is no good, they can claim as recent grads: a final four Bemidji beavers captain, an Army hockey captain, NAHL North Iowa player, recently graduated MSU-Mankato player, future UofM football lineman, UofM track miler...

Not so bad for kids from a program labeled, "they arent good". Players do come out of there.

It takes more than one or two good players to make a "good" team.

The problem with Irondale is that they have been losing too many players to Totino-Grace in recent years. I know that is a problem for a lot of high school teams, but if affects Irondale even more because of their already low numbers.