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Isn't that SunMart arena the one with like 10 foot tall ceilings above the ice? Classic shack!

With that said, I'm pretty confident an all GF team would do more than hold their own in AA MN hockey. But I think other schools in ND bring enough to the table to keep things interesting for the GF schools.

Okay guys, I get that GF is obviously the dominant hockey town in ND, but I think we are a getting A LITTLE excited by saying GF schools should leave ND to play in MN. First off...Grand Forks is in North Dakota! Second off, people were saying the exact opposite thing just last year after the first round when one of the all time best RR teams only beat the #4 team out west 4-1. It looked like the state had hockey skill spreading out a little. Again people were saying the same thing after Minot and BHS went back to back as state champs. I think this game was an outlier. This is one of the all time best GFC teams, and a very poor showing for the 2-4 from the West teams even by the West's standards this season. Lets not get too excited!! I'd be a little more worried if GFC was about to win a 6-7th straight championship by a GF school. Hell Central hasn't won it all in 7 years.

lol that's a random note...but I'll join in and say that the GF Bantam AA team would probably beat them too.

Yeah looks like it. Sad to see! I will be there Saturday.

Central over Dickinson 7-0 Davies over Minot 4-3 BHS over DL 4-2 RR over Century 6-1 Central over Davies 4-1 RR over BHS 5-4 Central over RR 4-2 for the ship

I thought for sure he'd have a ton of offers after the Chicago showcase since he played pretty well there. Maybe he did have them but he didn't pursue them. He was an unreal competitor and true goal scorer. I think he had around 35 goals and 55 points that season in a stacked EDC schedule. Doesn't seem extremely impressive until you realized no one else on the team had more than 10 goals and the second leading scorer had 22 points. To further that realization he fought through a pulled groin the entire year. AND he came from a low income family that struggled to keep him supplied with good equipment that the team didn't provide (skates and sticks). He often used teammates back up sticks mid game when his only stick broke. I'll never forget when he was awarded a penalty shot in OT in Minot. He not only was using someone else's stick but his skate blade broke so he had to borrow someone else's skate to take the shot. He scored it to win the game of course.

Yeah we beat grafton in a close game for 3rd. Grafton lost a heart breaker the night before too in their semi game vs south. Everson tried out for a few USHL teams but didn't actually play for any as far as I know. He was in a bad boating accident on Devils Lake a year and a half ago that left him hospitalized to this day. Really sad deal.

Devils Lake matches up well against them, but I think it'll take a lot for them to beat BHS again. Top D-men and top lines match up evenly, but it drops off sharply after that for DL. They do have them outmatched on tenders though, so maybe that'll be the difference maker! Overall BHS is the better team, and will probably pull away late in the 3rd period. DL will have to keep them off their game again by taking it to them physically but cleanly. The last time these two schools matched up at state was in 2007 when we were the #4 from the east playing the #1 BHS team from the west. We ended up tromping them 6-0 and moved on to the semi's for an all east sweep. Hopefully history repeats itself, but it's not looking likely! This DL team also doesn't have a go to superstar like the 07 team did in Kyle Everson. He was unreal that year as a SR. Back in 66' did your varsity ever play the UND freshman men's team at the Bill in DL? I've heard some recorded broadcasts of those games and I think it was in the 50's and/or 60's. Crazy to think about a game like that happening in that building. DL seems to have a strong team once every 10 years with a few decent ones mixed in between. 96-97 they dominated pretty much everyone in the state and won the West with ease, but choked bad at state. I think they only had 2 loses that season. Then in 06-07 we finished 4th in the EDC and 3rd at state, losing to the champions RR in the semis. Now in 16-17 they are top 5 in the state once again. Cando seems to keep producing a hand full of players that help give the HS teams a boost. Not sure what their programs are looking like, but yes you're correct on DL's youth teams being down. Bantam's and Peewee's both only have 1 team for the first time ever. Not a good sign.

Anywhere that isn't near the visitors section due to the sound system being 800,000 times louder than it should be. Amazing that speaker hasn't blown yet!

Devils Lake from 04-08. During my time I was fortunate enough to play every single varsity team in the state at every single varsity venue in the state. Reason being-- We were in the West my first 2 years and in the East my second two years. Strangely enough, we were actually more successful the 2 years we played in the East. Better competition creates better players I suppose!

Even an uncomfortable packed to the rim purpur arena state championship would be better. But very true, the kids would chose the REA hands down. I know I looked forward to playing there more than anything. So how about we just all get to these games and fill up the scheels this year and fill up the REA next year and we won't have to worry about anything!

Anyone?! I've got cash and coupons!

Looking for 4 tickets grouped together preferably, if not then 2 pairs. No preference on upper or lower bowl.

True, good point. Also, I'll shut my mouth because toews got a hatty with two apples on the side. Schmaltz had a career night with a Gino and two apples. Nice!

I'm betting on Cam getting a full ice open netter before wilkie cashes in.

Very good. But I hope you're including zajac in that comment. He scored tonight as well. Outpacing parise this season. I'm surprised people don't talk about him more often. He's had a solid career and is still only 31. He's a consistent solid player.

Although, I do find it funny that they refer to themselves as "the metro"

Exactly! Might pull in more fans when everyone knows it's only an every other year event. And as cratter said, Fargo has the population to pull in numbers.

At first I didn't like this. It was hard to imagine state hockey not at the REA. But it has grown on me and I think it makes more sense. Spread the love a little bit. GF teams already get home advantage for EDC. Adding home advantage for the state tourney every year seemed a little unfair. Lets be honest, the GF teams don't need anymore advantages.

As long as Bismarck doesn't sleep on DL again they may!

I thought the Minot team the previous year was actually better. But yeah, that central game was unreal. But don't get me wrong, I was happy to see a non-gf team win. Even their win over high was strange compared to the other two times earlier that year. And once again, them beating DL after getting handled by them two times earlier in the season was again kind of strange. I would have slapped a 40:1 odds on them winning it all but they did it and that's all that matters! Hockey is a crazy game.

I think the gods may have made up for this and then some when minot somehow won the state championship when they were probably the 7th best team in the state in 2014-2015. To this day it still baffles me. Haha

What's it matter? If they get in they will get stomped anyway

Wilkie has 0 goals through what 30 games? That's absolutely miserable. ZERO goals. With that much playing time, you should at least have one tip in off your leg or something at least. WOW