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No New Prague, so who wins?

Albert Lea High School
La Crescent High School
Mankato West High School
Northfield High School
Red Wing High School
Rochester Lourdes High School
Austin H.S.
Faribauly
LSHSPTCUC Bulldogs - Cleveland, LeSueur-Henderson, St. Peter, Tri-City
Mankato East/Loyola
Waseca Blue Jays
Winona/Cotter

Not enough room on poll for all of them.
Took Winona and Austin off just randomly.

With New Prague leaving section 1A, I believe this section is up for grabs for whoever comes ready to play come playoff time. Northfield is my favorite to make the trip to the X, but they also lost a goalie to Lakeville North which may hurt them a little bit.

Mankato East returns one of the top point leaders in the state, as well as a solid goalie, but you may need more than one line to make it into March. Their schedule is much stronger this year I believe which should be a good thing come sections for them, but I don't think they have the defense either.

Lourdes lost a great goalie, as well as some great senior talent. Although they have a couple young guns, who's going to keep the puck out of the net?

Albert Lea lost a lot of talent as well, don't know much about them besides they return Jack Pully who will need to lead the way for the Tigers.

Mankato West is most damaged in the loss of their goalie Wollenzein, as well as some forward talent in Langworthy and Klemme. They still have some top returners, but I haven't heard if Loe and Looft are returning to the Scarlets this year. If not, that's a huge loss and I don't see them making any sort of run. On the other hand though, them returning sets West up nice except for the same question as Lourdes, who's gonna keep the puck out of the net?

Just a couple thoughts on the top teams in the section.. Should be a fun year of Section 1A hockey. November can't come soon enough!

I'm putting my money on one of the Mankato schools this year. With New Prague now in section 2, I don't think there is any clear cut winner just going with a gut feeling. Northfield could challenge but with the loss of their goaltender to Lakeville they will be taking a tough blow. The Lourdes could make some noise as well but they'll need some help in net to get back to the X.

CornerBar wrote:I'm putting my money on one of the Mankato schools this year. With New Prague now in section 2, I don't think there is any clear cut winner just going with a gut feeling. Northfield could challenge but with the loss of their goaltender to Lakeville they will be taking a tough blow. The Lourdes could make some noise as well but they'll need some help in net to get back to the X.

Do you think Red Wing could potentially surprise some people this year? They always seem to be tough and hard working regardless of who they play.

BulldogNative wrote:

CornerBar wrote:I'm putting my money on one of the Mankato schools this year. With New Prague now in section 2, I don't think there is any clear cut winner just going with a gut feeling. Northfield could challenge but with the loss of their goaltender to Lakeville they will be taking a tough blow. The Lourdes could make some noise as well but they'll need some help in net to get back to the X.

Do you think Red Wing could potentially surprise some people this year? They always seem to be tough and hard working regardless of who they play.

Red Wing will be in the middle of the pack. Lost a couple players on the offensive end. They'll likely have a new goalie; I doubt that the backups from last year will be starting. The program has lacked depth for the past few years. They'll be hardworking, but I'd be surprised if they're in contention at the end of the season.

After a couple days of thinking hard I'm putting my money on Northfield to take it all this year.

Is anyone surprised by the 7-2 Albert Lea over Mankato East score? Just want to hear some thoughts

Tight section early on . Lourdes hockey is out, that I know. Given up six goals or more in every game. Goalie graduated last year and now have two terrible goalies fighting for job, both have save percentage below .800. No big time goal scorers. Every other team looks like they have a shot.

Lourdes is certainly not the team to beat this year. I think we are looking at a Mankato west team to take the section. Going to see northfield for the first time this year tonight and see how they measure up.

Tower power93 wrote:Lourdes is certainly not the team to beat this year. I think we are looking at a Mankato west team to take the section. Going to see northfield for the first time this year tonight and see how they measure up.

West will get a tough test this weekend when they head up to St. Cloud to take on #3 Apollo and #9 Cathedral. We should know a lot more about this team next week.

Any upsets tonight?

Class A - Section 1 Boys Hockey
La Crescent (9) vs Austin ( 8 )
at Austin 7:00 PM

Class A - Section 1 Boys Hockey
Winona (12) vs Red Wing (5)
at Red Wing 7:00 PM

Class A - Section 1 Boys Hockey
Faribault (10) vs Albert Lea (7)
at Albert Lea 7:00 PM

Class A - Section 1 Boys Hockey
Waseca (11) vs LSHSPTCUC (6)
at LeSueur 7:00 PM

My cousin's grandson plays for LSHSPTCUCDEFGHIJKLMNOP, so I hope they win a couple in the section at least.

C-dad wrote:My cousin's grandson plays for LSHSPTCUCDEFGHIJKLMNOP, so I hope they win a couple in the section at least.

LSHSPTCUC

Is this Ojibway or Sioux?

Jim9000 wrote:Any upsets tonight?

I think the high seed will win all the games tonight. That said though, I wouldn't be surprised if all the games - minus Red Wing vs Winona - are at fairly competitive. But I guess they're now rivals too... So who knows.

Only 1 minor upset in round 1....

Qtrs have any possible surprises?

Could be some good games tonight.

I'm interested to see how LSP does against Lourdes. The Red Wing - Mankato East game should be good as well.

Saturday Feb 20th
11:30
#1 Northfield vs #4 Mankato East

2:00
#2 Mankato West vs #6 LSHSPTCUC

5:30
#1 Lakeville North vs #4 John Marshall

8:00
#2 Farmington vs #3 Lakeville South

There is a massive construction project going on at the Rec Center and there is very little on site parking, maybe 300 spots, get there early. At least there is no swim meet this year.

goldy313 wrote:Saturday Feb 20th
11:30
#1 Northfield vs #4 Mankato East

2:00
#2 Mankato West vs #6 LSHSPTCUC

5:30
#1 Lakeville North vs #4 John Marshall

8:00
#2 Farmington vs #3 Lakeville South

There is a massive construction project going on at the Rec Center and there is very little on site parking, maybe 300 spots, get there early. At least there is no swim meet this year.

Maybe they could add a little Bernie Sanders or Mrs Clinton rally in the lot. It is to be balmy. Time to move this section semi and final.

I'm somewhat surprised at how far apart the scores have been so far... I figured the seeds 5-12 would play each other closer. Apparently there's a huge disparity.

C-dad wrote:My cousin's grandson plays for LSHSPTCUCDEFGHIJKLMNOP, so I hope they win a couple in the section at least.

Hey, they're still going! Good luck to the Bulldogs Saturday!

Goldy, good luck to Farmington tomorrow!!!

GO PANTHERS!!

Where's SATs?!!!!

2 fairly one sided games as was kind of expected. Nice crowd, West had a good number of students snd cheered throughout, LSH et.al. had a good number of fans as well. The Bulldogs just didn't have the legs and left their goalie, who is very good, out to dry a few too many times in the second period with the long change. Northfield is solid up and down the roster. Schulz had a few opportunities but they were few and far between. Judd had nice career at East and will be moving up the ladder I would assume. He's always been a player you look forward to seeing.

It should be a good final on Wednesday, with the two best teams.