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What happened to this team? Isn't this the group of bantams that was so succsessful?

Successful at the "B" level. Didn't have an "A" team. I think.

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Did the goalie that finished last year graduate? I know they were doing poorly last year, switched goalies and then finished the season well.

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What was his record before the switch? Who is the other goalie?

Farmland wrote:
With goalies, imho, you choose a top and run with it good or bad. The E/O game format only messes up their mental game big time and lacks the consistency of getting into a groove and staying there.

None of us parents know why coach choose to go this route, but it is a mystery to us.

not sure if it is first year head coaching mistakes or what it is...we just don't know (but let me tell you highly frustrating).

BRING BACK WESTON!!!

"None of us parents know why coach choose to go this route, but it is a mystery to us."

I would be scared to be that coach!!! Parents doubting him already!!!! He must be the goalies dad!!!!

Shortshift wrote:What was his record before the switch? Who is the other goalie?

I don't know exactly when the shift happened, but they started the season 1-7-1 then followed that up with a 10-1 run. Last year people were saying it was because of the goalie switch. Lost to Little Falls in OT then 4 games later beat them 5-1.

Shortshift wrote:"None of us parents know why coach choose to go this route, but it is a mystery to us."

I would be scared to be that coach!!! Parents doubting him already!!!! He must be the goalies dad!!!!

And less than a year after parents ran the last coach from town...I'd be looking for an assistant job at a nearby school already if I was McCormack.

So Farmland rips the coach... And now post disappeared??? What a chicken!!! I see they got smoked by sartell last night.... Which goalie played?

Shortshift wrote:So Farmland rips the coach... And now post disappeared??? What a chicken!!! I see they got smoked by sartell last night.... Which goalie played?

I agree about the KFC...and both goalies played (Clafton started). Neither one of them played their best game, I'm guessing.

Aaron Clafton 8 svs/4 ga | Loss
Erik Johsnon 9 svs/3 ga

HShockeywatcher wrote:Did the goalie that finished last year graduate? I know they were doing poorly last year, switched goalies and then finished the season well.

No Erik is still the goaltender, I believe he is just a junior too.

fivehole628 wrote:

HShockeywatcher wrote:Did the goalie that finished last year graduate? I know they were doing poorly last year, switched goalies and then finished the season well.

No Erik is still the goaltender, I believe he is just a junior too.

So what's the situation then? Did a bunch of seniors graduate? How did they seem to get worse?

HShockeywatcher wrote:

fivehole628 wrote:

HShockeywatcher wrote:Did the goalie that finished last year graduate? I know they were doing poorly last year, switched goalies and then finished the season well.

No Erik is still the goaltender, I believe he is just a junior too.

So what's the situation then? Did a bunch of seniors graduate? How did they seem to get worse?

I'm sure it is all about Johnny, Bobby and Billy not being used properly! It's got to to be the coaching, just I'm sure it wouldn't be lack of talent.

As a parent, I often found little value in expecting to know what the coach was thinking ~ more often than not the attempt just makes the situation worse.

Last year the weak AD listened to the parents and dismissed a long time coach. Glad to see things have really improved. What will the AD do this year?

Now a loss to Procter over the weekend??? Can you say "One and done Boy's"!!!! Start the rebuilding... or interviewing!!!

I think they are right here:

Shortshift wrote:Now a loss to Procter over the weekend??? Can you say "One and done Boy's"!!!! Start the rebuilding... or interviewing!!!

Proctor isn't a bad team... They've cracked the top 20 a couple times this season.

EREmpireStrikesBack wrote:I think they are right here:

Looks about right.

mulefarm wrote:Last year the weak AD listened to the parents and dismissed a long time coach. Glad to see things have really improved. What will the AD do this year?

Maybe it's the AD that should really be looking for an assistant job at a nearby school...boot the AD and the coach. Boot everyone. Lack of success is never attributable to lack of talent/effort.

[rant] In reality, the parents in these situations are always right. There should really be 45-75 co-head coaches, all parents, because they all know so much about hockey. Yeahhhh, boot the guy with the actual coaching/playing experience and look for someone like Jimmy's dad, who wrestled in high school. He sure seems to know a ton about the game, because he's always yelling at the coach and the refs, and telling the kids where to be on the ice or when to pass and shoot.

Seriously, hockey parents (God love 'em) have no business being involved in any decisions made at the high school level. I understand that they paid for the travel, equipment, association fees, etc. for 8-10 years leading up to high school and they feel completely invested in their child's hockey "career," but now it's time to remove the blindfold and see the big picture. Their success/failure is not dependent on the instruction Dad gives at the dinner table or yells from the stands at the game.

You telling your child that the coach is wrong for not playing him or coach is the reason the team is struggling, only re-enforces the message that they shouldn't respect other adults, but only you. Good luck to that kid in the future, because the world views they've developed over the past 16 years are going to be difficult to overcome in order to be successful in life.

Instead, I wish there were more parents (there are some, thankfully) who left coaching to the coaches, officiating to the officials, and dreams of college/pro hockey to the kids. This is not your career, the one that didn't go anywhere because your coach didn't play you enough in high school. This is what should be a positive experience for your child; An experience full of learning, social bonding, and fun.

For 95+ percent of kids, high school hockey is not a springboard to junior/college hockey, but a springboard to college or the real world. We should be teaching kids life skills and discipline, trying to make them better people. Instead, as has happened in Sauk Rapids, we are teaching them that they need not take responsibility for the failures they experience in life, because it's always someone else's fault. [/rant.]

Very well put Wolfpack!.... Amazing how nobody ever responds to the reality of truth. Good luck farmland and the Storm on finishing .500!!!

Very well put Wolfpack!.... Amazing how nobody ever responds to the reality of truth. Good luck farmland and the Storm on finishing .500!!!

Shortshift wrote:Very well put Wolfpack!.... Amazing how nobody ever responds to the reality of truth.

kind of crazy, isn't it?