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I was looking at the teams registered for the Bauer Invite tournament in Chicago Nov. 5-7, 2010. Not surprising, the Fire is bringing the 97,99 and 2000 teams.

What caught my eye was at the 96 Level. There is a team called St. Louis Park, MN. Anyone have any insight as to the makeup of this team? Are they a Blades / Machine contingency?

Anyone know who this team is? Regardless, good luck to them in Chicago!!!

Mpls Park Bantam A

Night Train wrote:Mpls Park Bantam A

Night Train is correct. Team will be hosted by St. Louis Park this year, but it is the Mpls-Park Bantam A team...see slphockey.org and find Bantam A.

It is St Louis Park's Bantam A team, which recently separated from the MPLS-Park Co-op. Although, is should be called the Benilde feeder program now. There will be 75% of the team from Benilde (representing 6 or 7 different associations) and 25% will be St Louis Park players.

Of course the Benilde kids may not choose to leave their own community association in the future, to skate with St. Louis Park where they attend school at Benilde, because the team won't be nearly as strong without the Minneapolis kids that make up half of the team. So, the Benilde pipeline of kids to SLP will end.

observer wrote:Of course the Benilde kids may not choose to leave their own community association in the future, to skate with St. Louis Park where they attend school at Benilde, because the team won't be nearly as strong without the Minneapolis kids that make up half of the team. So, the Benilde pipeline of kids to SLP will end.

That would depend entirely on where the kids live. SLP may still be much stronger than the association in which their house stands.

9 skaters from Benilde, 5 from St Louis Park, and 2 from Washburn all wearing orange & black and skating with SLP on their chest.

HockeySLP wrote:9 skaters from Benilde, 5 from St Louis Park, and 2 from Washburn all wearing orange & black and skating with SLP on their chest.

What associations are the 9 Benilde skaters from?

HockeySLP wrote:9 skaters from Benilde, 5 from St Louis Park, and 2 from Washburn all wearing orange & black and skating with SLP on their chest.

Team has

6 Minneapolis kids (2 attend BSM)
5 SLP kids
5 BSM kids (Hopkins, Fire, Kennedy, Spring Lake Park, 2?)

Good bunch of kids and they will have a great season.

[quote="SWPrez"][quote="HockeySLP"]9 skaters from Benilde, 5 from St Louis Park, and 2 from Washburn all wearing orange & black and skating with SLP on their chest.[/quote]


Team has

6 Minneapolis kids (2 attend BSM)
5 SLP kids
5 BSM kids (Hopkins, Fire, Kennedy, Spring Lake Park, 2?)

Good bunch of kids and they will have a great season.[/quote]


besides the 2 rinks what does the SLP high school hockey have going for itself?

The problem right now for both SLP and Mpls high schools is not talent its depth. Last year SLP was lead predominatly by Tyler Brodersen Nick Gaitan Gaitan Sean Berens and Ryan Nichols, all 4 of these players played Bantam A's for a very good Mpls-Park team. On the other side Mpls West was lead by Newton Fuller and East was led by Alec and Jack Kelly more Storm Bantam A products with talent who were able to produce at a Varsity level. Both programs lose alot after this group and have trouble even fielding teams as seen in the Mpls merger and SLP's "4 period team" from last year. Next year we will see the same again SLP will get 5 from the bantam A team Mpls should get about 3 but then after that they struggle.

I know one of the kids played Bantam B1 for Armstrong/Cooper but they don't even field an A team this year (two Bantams overall), as Cooper needed the 9th graders to at least play JV.

THe other interesting part is the BB1, I believe 6 or 7 other BSM kids.

Begs the question: If BSM could get even more of the Orono, Wayzata, Armstrong, Edina, Mtka kids to play at SLP (BSM starts in 7th grade), they have enough talent to field their own BSM teams in Bantams and probably Pee Wee B1 at least. Might be a good thing for them to build powerful relationships for their own kids before they tryout.

I heard BSM will have 75-85 kids trying out for JV/Varsity and the best that get cut ALSO will help field a Strong Junior Gold A team through SLP. These means that they will have a place to play if they are 10th or 11th and are cut.

Blake has fielded BB1 teams for many years and they have no where the numbers BSM has since the positive move to AA for them several years ago.

besides the 2 rinks what does the SLP high school hockey have going for itself? (quote)

Every few years, SLP gets the top players to stay in the Park, and make a solid run at the state tournament. We have that opportunity again next season (2011/2012), with a very solid class of 2012 and 2014. It is not that there is no talent in SLP, it is just a numbers game, and the numbers only come together with the talent every few years. I would keep an eye on our squad the next couple of years. Plus our goaltending is top notch at the Varsity, JV, and Bantam levels. This season our Bantam A team has 5 solid players, and I know 4 of them for sure are planning on staying and the B1 team has 7 hard working players, 5 of them 2nd years (class of 2014).

This season for the Varsity team will still be a building year, but once again keep an eye on them the following year. They will make some noise.