Wilbur

Anybody at the Red River-Devils Lake game? Looks like a nice showing from the Firebirds against the best team in the state.

Some scores from tonight from Bob Gillen's website: Century 3 Bottineau 1 Williston 3 Hazen 2 Minot 1 Bismarck High 1 If Minot and Bismarck both win out they finish in a tie for the West Region. But Minot holds the tiebreaker because of the head to head records.

Yeah, okay. "Riders06" Still classy though!

Exactly the class I expect from a Grand Forks citizen.

Yep, that post made you look like the true dope you are! You could have saved it with saying Friday, but you tried to cover your mistake with something that makes no sense. My answer: I know its the Thursday of the state tournament when others go out of their way to make comments against the quality of hockey in the west region, and the quality of players in the west region. It reminds me a lot of gopher fans. Pretty arrogant... PS: And honestly, if a couple of western teams did manage to win their first round game, what difference would it make? All the bashers would go with, "ohhh, one year, this doesn't mean anything", or come up with some stat about the west's all time record in the first round. Its funny to think this argument started with me complimenting Red River...

Great post.... If it was anyone else I would probably care, but you've proven yourself over and over....

That Broten goal is just stupid. What a great individual play. Although its a gopher goal, thats one I don't mind seeing once in a while.

Holy moly.... Congrats to Red River on winning the EDC. Clearly the best team in the state right now. I'm looking forward to seeing them come to Minot in early February. Hopefully Minot keeps the game kind of close.

Nice post HWSTS. I think I almost 100 percent agree. I could see Central and West Fargo switched around, but more than likely thats the way the region will finish up. If these standings hold true you could have some interesting first round matchups, besides the first game. Red River-Shanley Devils Lake-North Fargo South-GFC Grafton-West Fargo

I'll throw out a score: Red River 4 South 2 (empty netter for Red River) Thus Red River is virtually assured of the EDC crown unless they have some drastic letdown against teams they should beat.

Some scores I've heard from tonight: Minot 11 Mandan 1 Roseau 4 Red River 1 Anybody got a score from the Bismarck-Jamestown game?

Well, if you feel that way then hats off to Minot for working through tough officiating to get a road win. Its getting to a point in the season where region games (especially on the road) are huge for postseason standing, good teams find ways to win when the chips are stacked against them, and getting the win on the road should be a confidence booster for the magi. I guess the paper said that the penalties were 8 for Minot and 7 for Jamestown. I don't know if it was that bad....

Scores that I heard from tonight: Minot 6 Jamestown 3.....Was this game played in Jamestown? Are they still having ice difficulties??? Also heard Bottineau over Dickinson. Its nice to see Bottineau winning some games again. The numbers definately make a difference.

Minot 4 Dickinson 0 Didn't go to the game, but from the sound of it, Minot is starting to play really well in their defensive end.

May as well throw my hat in. 1. Red River 2. Fargo South 3. Grafton Park River 4. Devils Lake 5. Fargo North 6. Jamestown 7. Grand Forks Central 8. Minot 9. Bismarck 10. West Fargo On a side note: Yeah Bismarck only beat Hazen 1-0, but the shots were 73-3. I'd say Bismarck played a pretty good game. As for Hazen, I'm glad that they've got some quality goaltending. Goaltending is the equalizer in hockey.

In West Region play Bismarck High beat Hazen 1-0. The statistic of the night is the goaltender from Hazen being credited with 72 Saves...

Jamestown over Williston tonight in Williston.

Ummm...how so?

Minot 8 Century 2 Didn't go to the game, but heard a little bit on the radio. Minot starting to play a little bit better.

Doesn't that happen all of the time in Grafton? Every time I played at the spoiler dome (do they still call it that?) someone in the crowd usually got hit by a puck or something like that. One time my dad took a puck to the head, and I don't think he's been the same since.

On the website Gillen has RR winning 5-1. Sounds about right. It sounds like the Spoilers are on a bit of a roll to start the season. GPR fans, what makes this team tick? From the website it looks like they are getting pretty good goaltending, and are dominating some pretty good hockey teams of late. They'll probably give the roughriders a run for their money. Anybody at the DL-GPR game, how did Devils Lake look?

I read in the herald today that Jason Stadstad's jersey will be retired tonight at Purpur. Truely a great honor to a great individual whose time on earth was way to short. Question to Central fans, or GF citizens, is this the first jersey to be retired of a Grand Forks high school hockey player? Thanks!

He did what he did to show off. If someone would have come up to me and had me guess which Minot player would do something stupid like autograph a puck, he would be the first kid I picked to do something like that. Last year while I was at college at UND I went to the Minot game against Grafton in Grafton. I got to the rink in about the third period of the JV game, and the same kid goes right up to the Grafton goalie who had just covered the puck, and pretends to slash him while he had a big smile on his face. The reff gave him unsportsmanlike conduct, which I completely agreed with. One example of a stupid penalty.

I guess the place I see the difference is that throwing rabbits on the ice shows team spirit, probably negative team spirit, but team spirit nonetheless. I played for Minot and was on the ice when rabits were thrown on the ice. The rabits came from the crowd, not the players. In this instance it was a Minot player showing up not only the opposing team, but his entire team by failing to celebrate with them, and celebrate in his own STUPID way. Like someone said, his teammates skated away from him....not getting to celebrate a "team" goal.... I'm sorry that this happened. I know you're from Williston, and hopefully when these teams play again nothing happens in regard to a player getting hurt...

So calling Hazen one of the worst teams in the state, and making an entire post out of it is supposed to be funny? Right after the mentor of their program passes away? Okay... I'm laughing...