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obviously a spot in the press box is long overdue

Minot has a dreamers chance Legacy chance is even slimmer. I predict running clocks in the other two games unfortunately.

Yes.

There will be a mass exodus from the west of the parentally delusional again this off season.

Not bad for picks... WDA Saturday picks Mandan 4-2 over Jamestown Century 5-2 over BHS Minot 8-3 over Legacy

Bismarck High 3 Legacy 3 headed to OT.... a brief OT Legacy wins it

Farmers Rink will be VFW Part Duex again.

Legacy didn't exactly instill a ton of confidence and hasn't all year that they can be competitive vs the east. But kids being kids you never know, But for legacy or Minot to get a 1st round state win this year its going to take some luck and the right situation. They are all kids and it wouldn't be the first time a group of overly confident kids got shocked by a determined underdog in their semifinal. My pics for today Willy @ Century Century 5-1 Bott/Rug @ Jtown JTown 4-2 Mandan @ Minot Minot 5-3 BHS @ Legacy TBD

Annual... Why in Gawds name doesn't WDA do the 1st round the same as the EDC. Teams and fans are cheated out of some great games, and the teams are more tired the next week at state having to win 6 games in 9 days or so. #4 Mandan robbed of a home rink playoff game vs #5 Century... Instead, Century gets a "home Game" #3 Jamestown robbed of a home rink playoff game vs #6 BHS... again BHS getting basically a "home Game. EDC can figure it out.... is the intellectual ability to put this together outlawed west of Cass County?

Another first class human

This announcer's tears are delicious. I'm thinking 1 more goal and his mom's basement hollow core door is going to be soooo destroyed

Which UMD players dad and uncle are calling this game?!

Correct, it's fun to play at but no, nothing will ever happen for the betterment of ND high school hockey or for the kids. Way too many egos in ADs offices to ever come up with a solution, and if they did the parents would crucify them, and the supers would shriek at the budgets. And even if they did someone would have to go and explain what hockey is to the basketball has-been-heroes in their own mind at NDHSAA, and beg to do the right thing.

EDC - GFC, RR, Shanley, F North, F Davies, F South, WFS, WF, Horace, Jamestown ( 5 spots at State ) EDC Top 2 teams auto bids to state, remaining 8 play 1st round at top seeds arena, 2nd round in Fargo. WDA - BHS, Century, Legacy, Mandan, Dickinson, Williston, Minot, Minot North (3 spots at State) WDA Tourney, 1st round at home of higher seed, Top 4 at tourney rotated BIS/Minot as it is now, with a meaningful 3rd Place Game North Star Hockey Championship Subdivision....- Bott, DL, Langdon, GPR, HB, Watford City, Crosby, Wahp, MP (8 teams at their championship tourney, Played at the ralph in GF... or Minot.... play in for the 8th seed at home of higher seed) *Name works as then nobody's mom will complain they are labeled Division 2, or Class B.... It worked for the fools who think Football is really D1, It oughta work in Hockey too.

Almost...too crazy.... A crazy game heavily influenced by calls, national audience in a specialty outdoor game in a non traditional market, massive comeback, showcasing lots of goals... goalie fights.... 3on3 OT... shootout... right before the Olympics?..... I'm not saying it was a complete scripted thing like the NFL, WWF. or MLB for Jeter's last at bat rigged.... but?.....

If this was forced to happen you would find the same scenario of what Peluso used to do to Hazen back in the day, but I'm guessing GF coaches wouldn't stop at 26-1 or whatever it was. Making kids give up games vs Warroad or Moorhead to play Mayport would be met with fury and the appropriate level of example setting I imagine. or would they just play it with JV as a non-contest like Century and Minot does with Hazen... who knows it's so wildly inconsistent from WDA to EDC processes and details.

The hockey advisory committee has suggested that games be added every year for the mast 19? now or is it 20? The NDHSAA rules committee of ADs has then voted it down UNANIMOUSLY for the exact same 19 or 20 years.... and that just goes back to as far as the meetings and minutes went back on their site so who knows how long that has been happening. And that is your answer why. But just because you give the option to play 2 more games doesn't mean the MUST play 2 more games... no district left behind though right... If one doesn't want to make the investment in the kids, nobody else is allowed to. Great lesson

If Watford city goes varsity I could see it as a balancing out so to say, maybe just have to have Mayport and 10th place do a play in to go to the play in... would be even more attractive for jamestown if state tourney goes back to an at large8 teams vs 4 and 4.

No joking, but the Bye weekend aint undefeated. Stay out of trouble kids.

Who's players Dad's are calling this game?

Nailed it.

Some of the best memories of childhood.... A firetruck flooded rink the size of a half football field .... frozen toes & nose... friends in the warming shack... XL 93 bumpin 80's greatness out of the speakers strung up in the trees... the sound of wooden sticks sailing pucks into the chicken wire nets. No helmets.... no pads...... no parents...... no problems.......

This convo has happened so many times.... It's usually in the Lobby right before the desk gal says "final warning or I'm calling the cops."

It ALL comes down to how long ND hockey can keep North Dakota Hockey players ... playing in ND. NDHSAA will need a major reversal of attitude before NDAHA can work on tuning things even more to do what can be done. The coming massive changes to "tier 1" nationwide will have a massive effect as well. The developing USA Hockey tier 1 league will leave vacancies in the old guard of Tier 1 programs.... Lots of ND families will be hell bent to rip those checks off to help backfill the voids. I don't have the answers and frankly just too exhausted to give a rats patoot about it all anymore but its going to be a complete roller coaster.

This is very accurate, the trajectory was going to end up with many more shots at a banner. It's going to take a loooooooooooong time for that to ever be something even remotely possible again. Most likely would require the contraction back to two teams. But hopefully youth numbers rebound on the south side enough to eventually compete He knew exactly what what coming.