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What teams should be good this year? (besides edina).

up north, i heard east is going with two pee wee A teams

No Duluth Lakers?

Lakers wil have a team & should be solid as last season. With only "B" hockey & approx. 50-55 skaters - East program has a core group pushing what would have to be a A2 team. However, to my knowledge this has not been brought to Duluth board yet.

WoW I forgot there were hockey teams outside of Edina! Thanks for reminding me.

How will the Defending State champs from Roseau do this year?

Woodbury? Finished second in State...

Roseau will struggle to get out of regions - favorite from the North has to be EGF.

Reg7 wrote:Woodbury? Finished second in State...

What about Burnsville?

D3

Wayzata

D6

Edina
Eden Prarie

D8

Woodbury
Rochester
LV South
LV North

D10

Blaine
Centennial
St Cloud

The Woodbury team who took 2nd in state last year lost most of their kids to Bantams, so they aren't projecting to be nearly as good this year.

Look out for Elk River

If I remember correctly, Maple Grove had a pretty solid a squirt A team 2 years ago and so did Stillwater.

Also, look out for White Bear. They have a group of solid returners and were also pretty strong 2 years ago in squirts.

I agree, Elk River will be tough!

Having 2 A teams. Goaltending will struggle.

Northernlaker....
My understanding is that East PWA will be getting goalies from the Lakers this year to help fill out their teams. Not positive on how it will work, but I believe each association will get their top 2 goalies after evaluations, then the rest go in a pool and spots can be offered to them for the 2nd PWA team East is forming. So, they could very well end up with the Lakers 3 and 4 goalies, which will of course hurt the Lakers B1 teams. I know the Lakers have 9 goalies, with 5 being 2nd year players and 2 of those are returners from last year's A team.

Should be interesting to see how it all works out.

goaltending on a second pee-wee a team for duluth east will be just fine, even if it is 2 first year ones, the 2 laker goalies from last year were first year pee-wee and made the team and did a good job for being first year pee-wee

Is Duluth East going with 2 equal A teams or the A1, A2 concept?

CreaseMonkey wrote:Northernlaker....
My understanding is that East PWA will be getting goalies from the Lakers this year to help fill out their teams. Not positive on how it will work, but I believe each association will get their top 2 goalies after evaluations, then the rest go in a pool and spots can be offered to them for the 2nd PWA team East is forming. So, they could very well end up with the Lakers 3 and 4 goalies, which will of course hurt the Lakers B1 teams. I know the Lakers have 9 goalies, with 5 being 2nd year players and 2 of those are returners from last year's A team.

Should be interesting to see how it all works out.

I believe it is just one association with teams being drawn from different parts of the city.

Elliott70...
You are correct, the East and Laker teams are part of DAHA, and technically one. The only place players cross over however is goalies. I know they have also combined up to fill out B2 rosters, but otherwise skaters do not move between the two, no matter how strong or weak a team is. That is what I meant by each association. There are 2 separate hockey boards and they are independent of each other.

While the Lakers have a bunch of goalies at PeeWee, I believe it is the opposite for Bantams, so there will be East goalies coming West to help fill out those roster spots too. Should be fine as long as there are enough teams for all the goalies between the two.

The 2 kids who played on Laker pw A last year are alot stronger than
what is coming up. Daha has a great way of screwing up frozen ice..............

that is still yet to be determine, there is a couple of good goalies coming up, and they will do just fine.

Just a clarification - The idea for (2) A teams did not come from DAHA - To my understanding this is a East End hockey idea in response to the "only B hockey" at peewee & bantams. Seems they don't believe there should be 3 B teams split equally and that is how it will be done in duluth. This idea has also not come to the full DAHA board for approval yet. Also, registration hasn't started and tryouts are still 3+ weeks away - seems like the cart is before the horse on this one. If large associations field one A team with 150+ players, Duluth East having 2 with 55 kids? Looks like a recipe for disaster to me.

maybe these large associations, with 150 plus kids, should be able to feild 2 A teams and be competitive.

I don't think that will be happening anytime soon! Wishful thinking...it is to cool to beat up on all the other teams with half the talent depth on the roster. It makes those adult beverages taste better when teams are on those out of town excursions. javascript:emoticon(':?')

I don't think it's because the large associations think it's too cool, I think it's because they love hearing people bitch about it on the forum on a daily basis. Get over it