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Let's get it started who wins this quarterfinal. Will the Bears finally break their first round curse just like they finally broke their curse against Hill-Murray. Or will the Hounds dash the bears hopes again just as they did the last time these two teams met in the state tourney.

My Prediction
White Bear 4
Duluth East 3

White bears Jansen wahlin and birki against Duluths Defense should be a great matchup...
WBL6
Duluth East 4

EastMetro Hockey10 wrote:Let's get it started who wins this quarterfinal. Will the Bears finally break their first round curse just like they finally broke their curse against Hill-Murray. Or will the Hounds dash the bears hopes again just as they did the last time these two teams met in the state tourney.

My Prediction
White Bear 4
Duluth East 3

This is the year the Bears break through. Should be very entertaining, may even be the best game of the quarters.

WBL 3 - East 2 OT

Goldfishdude will be doing some number-crunching in the next 96 hours and will give his much anticipated prediction on Game Day..

I will be putting my incredible 4-478 prediction record on the line.

You know... I actually sit and laugh at myself (along with everyone else laughing AT me), because I have not watched one game in person all year, and WBL makes State.

Is that a coincidence or is it a correlation between Cause and Effect?

Goldfishdude wrote:Goldfishdude will be doing some number-crunching in the next 96 hours and will give his much anticipated prediction on Game Day..

I will be putting my incredible 4-478 prediction record on the line.

One of those 4 correct preditions come on the hill como game?

Fan#8.... ahhhh.. you know me too well..

A classic matchup, and incidentally a repeat of the last state tourney WBL made, which was also the last time East won a first round game. They both are making their 18th state tourney appearance--that means they're tied for 4th-most appearances among active AA programs. One of these two teams has had a little more success once there, though.

The attention heading in will probably be on the first lines, and rightfully so; both have achieved a lot this year. But, who gets better play out of their lower lines? Who can get the most out of the first line without wearing the other out? Which coach does a better job of making those adjustments? By the end of the game I suspect some other name--be it Morrisette or David, or Lundgren or Valesano, will end up playing an important role.

Certainly East has the edge on paper, and in part due to that December win. But we have to look at the intangibles...and that really doesn't help us make a call, either. WBL had their miracle, but East's win over Grand Rapids inspired some similar emotions up in Duluth. Both these teams have that sense of being teams of destiny; it's too bad they had to meet in the first round. I'll be pulling for the winner of this one on Friday regardless.

That's been the beauty of this Forum, Karl.. The faceless friendships that have been bound by many of us that we can honestly root for each other.. Yes, sad our home team lost, but happy it was to a team we can respect due to it's loyal followers.

East - 4
WBL - 2

I think im going to say that the top line of the hounds is yet again too much for the bears. along with the goal tending of Jeanetta.

Hounds- 3
Bears- 1

Boy, this is going to be a real tough game for the Bears. They looked great against Hill-Murray and really impressed me with their depth. But I dunno.. they might be a little shaky playing in the Tournament, whereas the Hounds are there almost every year - so they have a lot more experience.

I'd really like to see the Bears tear the Hounds a new one though.

Not going to make any score predictions. I just want to enjoy the game

I would love for the hometown bears to pull this one off, and if they stick to the game plan the beat hill with, they could. This should be a great game, I can see OT for sure.

Not a chance White Bear breaks their tradition of losing the opening game, its in their blood, tiger blood for that matter. Ive got East winning 4-1.

This has the making to be an entertaining game. Looking forward to watching it.

East 3
WBL 1

Bears 4-2

Duluth East overpowers WBL 4-1

I see a close one. When East beat them 5-2 earlier this year it was Jordan in net, if Schletty plays solid I can see the bears rolling. That team is going in with a ton of confidence.

White Bear Lake-3
Duluth East-2

Goldfishdude wrote:That's been the beauty of this Forum, Karl.. The faceless friendships that have been bound by many of us that we can honestly root for each other.. Yes, sad our home team lost, but happy it was to a team we can respect due to it's loyal followers.

Yep, that's part of what makes this place so great...we may yell all sorts of crazy things at one another, but at the end of the day, we're all united by this crazy game, and we come to respect that. It's fun to watch it all play out.

Dammit, the state final is still a week away and I'm already going all sentimental.

karl(east) wrote:

Goldfishdude wrote:That's been the beauty of this Forum, Karl.. The faceless friendships that have been bound by many of us that we can honestly root for each other.. Yes, sad our home team lost, but happy it was to a team we can respect due to it's loyal followers.

Yep, that's part of what makes this place so great...we may yell all sorts of crazy things at one another, but at the end of the day, we're all united by this crazy game, and we come to respect that. It's fun to watch it all play out.

Dammit, the state final is still a week away and I'm already going all sentimental.

I need something good to root for, after tUMD crapped all over themselves tonight.

Lee

This will not by any means be an easy game for the bears, they have to make sure to FORECHECK the whole game this time, the only reason theat game was close last night is because they fell back and waited for hill to come at them, until eventually it got tied, but then a strange thing happened they started putting offensive pressure on and they scored in the second OT.

So with that said, if they play defensively its gonna be DE 5-2

If they play hard and fight for every loose puck
Da Bears- 4
Da hounds- 2

So go out there and break the curse!!!!!

East won't be suiting up #33, nor will he be giving a pep talk this year. I am going WBL 4-2. Please Bears for my father can you make it out of the first round?

#33??

Saintpaulhockey1 wrote:East won't be suiting up #33, nor will he be giving a pep talk this year. I am going WBL 4-2. Please Bears for my father can you make it out of the first round?

iLLuminati_666 wrote:#33??

Saintpaulhockey1 wrote:East won't be suiting up #33, nor will he be giving a pep talk this year. I am going WBL 4-2. Please Bears for my father can you make it out of the first round?

Dave Spehar.

Lee

Im from the cities not to familiar with duluth east... care to give fill me in about this kid ?

east hockey wrote:

iLLuminati_666 wrote:#33??

Saintpaulhockey1 wrote:East won't be suiting up #33, nor will he be giving a pep talk this year. I am going WBL 4-2. Please Bears for my father can you make it out of the first round?

Dave Spehar.

Lee