I mean it benefits the ND kids for sure. Look at EGF's schedule. They played Detroit Lakes, TRF and Warroad from section 8 during the regular season and thats it. It would help out Moorhead/Bemidji/St. Cloud from having to go to the cities for better competition during the regular season. Would've been fun to see what a kid like Mattern could do against Moorhead.
They need to move the A Championship to after the third place game of AA. Not sure why that hasn't been done yet. So it would be a 4 o'clock game instead of noon.
The sequence where he dropped his stick (which I thought he broke it) lead to the 2 on 1.5, where Stenehjem had to bail them out. He just wasn't involved offensively as much either. If they play anywhere close to that tonight, it's going to get ugly.
My AA Predictions
Stillwater over Andover
Shakopee over STA
Moorhead over Lakeville South
Rogers over Edina
Shakopee over Stillwater
Moorhead over Rogers
Moorhead beats Shakopee to win first state championship.
Grayden Peterson on West Fargo should be on people’s radar, he’s an 09 (same birth year as Marto). Very good skater and has size. Been very impressed by his game.
Moorhead has lost 3 times at the Bantam AA level, two of them to GF...GF essentially plays a MN AA schedule, they are ranked #2 on YHH rankings. You could argue that about Moorhead too, take Joey Cullen off their roster and it's an "A" level team.