Christian Gaffy (G) Forest Lake - UMD bound

money · Post by **money** » Sun Jul 25, 2010 8:47 pm

Good evening,

http://forestlaketimes.com/content/view/5288/31/

Not big news but, I thought I would share it. Will be red-shirted most likely. Will play behind Reiter and Crandall.

FYI...any other UMD recruiting news to mention? It has been a slow summer for news.

Regards,

$$

old goalie85 · Post by **old goalie85** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 9:08 am

Great kid!!! Way to go. Two Rangers going D1 from last years team. { so far}

BodyShots · Post by **BodyShots** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 10:04 am

Congratulations Christian!

BTW, what ever happened to the previous Flake goalie Moberg? Where is he playing now?

MrBoDangles · Post by **MrBoDangles** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 2:22 pm

The strength in hockey is moving north on 35W/35E! Keep looking for great things from this program.

mulefarm · Post by **mulefarm** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 2:31 pm

Each player is different,but why wouldn't he want to play a season of juniors instead of just being a practice goalie? Is he a walk on or scholarship player?

old goalie85 · Post by **old goalie85** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 3:34 pm

Paul played at N. Iowa last season.

Pioneerprideguy · Post by **Pioneerprideguy** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 5:14 pm

MrBoDangles wrote:The strength in hockey is moving north on 35W/35E! Keep looking for great things from this program.

MrBoDangles · Post by **MrBoDangles** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 5:40 pm

Pioneerprideguy wrote:
MrBoDangles wrote:The strength in hockey is moving north on 35W/35E! Keep looking for great things from this program.

Pretty funny being that you're from a plastic program.

Must be a little out of range for recruiting.

Pioneerprideguy · Post by **Pioneerprideguy** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 8:39 pm

MrBoDangles wrote:The strength in hockey is moving north on 35W/35E! Keep looking for great things from this program.

What has this program accomplished? They tied for a title of a conference that was down last year. They got blown out in the section semis by a team that got blown out in the finals. How many of their youth teams went to state last year?

Flake is a middle of a road program. I guess if you wanna call that great, go for it. The talent moved north on Hwy 35 alright, right past FL and stopped in Duluth!

MrBoDangles · Post by **MrBoDangles** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 9:02 pm

Pioneerprideguy wrote:
MrBoDangles wrote:The strength in hockey is moving north on 35W/35E! Keep looking for great things from this program.
What has this program accomplished? They tied for a title of a conference that was down last year. They got blown out in the section semis by a team that got blown out in the finals. How many of their youth teams went to state last year?

Flake is a middle of a road program. I guess if you wanna call that great, go for it. The talent moved north on Hwy 35 alright, right past FL and stopped in Duluth!

2 D-1'S from last years team
Conference champions
1 goal away 2 years ago
Beautiful new arena- Hockey families are starting to bypass Blaine, Centennial, White Bear.
The tide is turning with White Bear.
Like I said...... They are making great strides.

Hill Murray has to be the most underachieving program lately for putting out D-1 talent, considering they recruit.

Pioneerprideguy · Post by **Pioneerprideguy** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 6:50 am

MrBoDangles wrote:
Pioneerprideguy wrote:
MrBoDangles wrote:The strength in hockey is moving north on 35W/35E! Keep looking for great things from this program.
What has this program accomplished? They tied for a title of a conference that was down last year. They got blown out in the section semis by a team that got blown out in the finals. How many of their youth teams went to state last year?

Flake is a middle of a road program. I guess if you wanna call that great, go for it. The talent moved north on Hwy 35 alright, right past FL and stopped in Duluth!
2 D-1'S from last years team
Conference champions
1 goal away 2 years ago
Beautiful new arena- Hockey families are starting to bypass Blaine, Centennial, White Bear.
The tide is turning with White Bear.
Like I said...... They are making great strides.

Hill Murray has to be the most underachieving program lately for putting out D-1 talent, considering they recruit.

What you just described is an average program. How many state tourney appearances? FL had 2 D1 players and still got blown out in sections?...ouch!

"The tide is turning with White Bear"? That's the program you are chasing?

We've lost track how many straight games we've beaten them.

Flake was a nice little story during the regular season last year but got exposed in sections. They have a solid group of athletes who will be Jrs this year but their talent pool behind them is not very deep/strong. Aaron is a good guy/coach and gets the most out of his kids. They are an overall middle of the road hockey program in the state of Minnesota....and have been for quite some time.

MrBoDangles · Post by **MrBoDangles** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 8:28 am

Pioneerprideguy wrote:
MrBoDangles wrote:
Pioneerprideguy wrote: What has this program accomplished? They tied for a title of a conference that was down last year. They got blown out in the section semis by a team that got blown out in the finals. How many of their youth teams went to state last year?

Flake is a middle of a road program. I guess if you wanna call that great, go for it. The talent moved north on Hwy 35 alright, right past FL and stopped in Duluth!
2 D-1'S from last years team
Conference champions
1 goal away 2 years ago
Beautiful new arena- Hockey families are starting to bypass Blaine, Centennial, White Bear.
The tide is turning with White Bear.
Like I said...... They are making great strides.

Hill Murray has to be the most underachieving program lately for putting out D-1 talent, considering they recruit.
What you just described is an average program. How many state tourney appearances? FL had 2 D1 players and still got blown out in sections?...ouch!

"The tide is turning with White Bear"? That's the program you are chasing? We've lost track how many straight games we've beaten them.

Flake was a nice little story during the regular season last year but got exposed in sections. They have a solid group of athletes who will be Jrs this year but their talent pool behind them is not very deep/strong. Aaron is a good guy/coach and gets the most out of his kids. They are an overall middle of the road hockey program in the state of Minnesota....and have been for quite some time.

I guess you are blinded then..... Great changes the last few years.

I will leave the evening news to degrade haunted Hill.

old goalie85 · Post by **old goalie85** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 11:39 am

the kids look pretty good. Working hard in the weight room, and on the ice this summer. Not a top program yet. We have moved up from where this town was for many years!!! Hoops went to state last year, so we have to battle that progam for kids. The arm-pit sniffers always put out a good team, but hockey is starting to find it's own identity.[ 86 pee-wees this year] signed up so far.

funmom · Post by **funmom** » Sun Aug 01, 2010 1:17 pm

Their are some good players and great kids in forest lake, but their hockey programs are not getting any better. My advise for anyone looking to move and have good sports programs for their kids should just skip forest lake and look somewhere else . forest lake does have a very nice new arena ,but the guy that runs it is a idiot and their hockey program is getting worse not better!

MrBoDangles · Post by **MrBoDangles** » Sun Aug 01, 2010 6:37 pm

funmom wrote:Their are some good players and great kids in forest lake, but their hockey programs are not getting any better. My advise for anyone looking to move and have good sports programs for their kids should just skip forest lake and look somewhere else . forest lake does have a very nice new arena ,but the guy that runs it is a idiot and their hockey program is getting worse not better!

Goldy Gopher · Post by **Goldy Gopher** » Mon Aug 02, 2010 3:06 pm

MrBoDangles wrote:
Pioneerprideguy wrote:
MrBoDangles wrote: 2 D-1'S from last years team
Conference champions
1 goal away 2 years ago
Beautiful new arena- Hockey families are starting to bypass Blaine, Centennial, White Bear.
The tide is turning with White Bear.
Like I said...... They are making great strides.

Hill Murray has to be the most underachieving program lately for putting out D-1 talent, considering they recruit.
What you just described is an average program. How many state tourney appearances? FL had 2 D1 players and still got blown out in sections?...ouch!

"The tide is turning with White Bear"? That's the program you are chasing? We've lost track how many straight games we've beaten them.

Flake was a nice little story during the regular season last year but got exposed in sections. They have a solid group of athletes who will be Jrs this year but their talent pool behind them is not very deep/strong. Aaron is a good guy/coach and gets the most out of his kids. They are an overall middle of the road hockey program in the state of Minnesota....and have been for quite some time.
I guess you are blinded then..... Great changes the last few years.

I will leave the evening news to degrade haunted Hill.

if he's blinded, you're delusional.

MrBoDangles · Post by **MrBoDangles** » Mon Aug 02, 2010 10:44 pm

Goldy Gopher wrote:
MrBoDangles wrote:
Pioneerprideguy wrote: What you just described is an average program. How many state tourney appearances? FL had 2 D1 players and still got blown out in sections?...ouch!

"The tide is turning with White Bear"? That's the program you are chasing? We've lost track how many straight games we've beaten them.

Flake was a nice little story during the regular season last year but got exposed in sections. They have a solid group of athletes who will be Jrs this year but their talent pool behind them is not very deep/strong. Aaron is a good guy/coach and gets the most out of his kids. They are an overall middle of the road hockey program in the state of Minnesota....and have been for quite some time.
I guess you are blinded then..... Great changes the last few years.

I will leave the evening news to degrade haunted Hill.
if he's blinded, you're delusional.

You guys must smoke from the same pipe.

Rodents

old goalie85 · Post by **old goalie85** » Mon Aug 02, 2010 11:17 pm

Wow fun mom, Lets see hockey team has one of the top young coaches in the STATE!!! Won conference last year.Baseball team goes to state regularly. Hoops went to state last year. Arm pit sniffers are always top ten. And have been for forty years. Softball team went to state last three years. Football team plays 500 in best football conference in the state. What in the Sam h-ll are you talking about.

funmom · Post by **funmom** » Mon Aug 02, 2010 11:31 pm

Well the last time I read lets play hockey forest lake didn't have one team in the top ten ranked teams!!!!! some programs have teams listed in every level boys and girls. I never said forest lake didn't have any talent. They just run their sports programs at the younger ages very badly and at some point those kids will be playing at the highschool level ,and things need to change.