Lives-to-play-hockey-06

I'm going to go out on a limb and say this has never happened.

State Rankings 1. Red River- they won, they are the top dogs. 2. South- beat GPR 6-2 3. GPR- They are coming around it appears, goaltending is still suspect. 4. Devils Lake- Someone had to be here. 5. North- Not as good as DL. 6.WF- The old realible WF, alot of very average players and one stud. 7. Central- They just haven't played well this year 8.Jamestown- Wins over minot and Devils lake, still very unpredictable but my pick to win the west this year. 9. Bismarck High- Hillman gives them a shot to win most of their games, not as skilled as past years. 10.Minot- Weakest they have been in a while. 11.Shanely- Rebuilding year or three? 12. Willeston- They would be in the play in game in the east. 13. Bismarck Century- This team could easily be lower. 14.Dickenson- Not to far ahead of Whapeton, but they did beat them 4-3 15.Whapeton- This team might have an outside shot at a state tournament berth if they played in the west. 16.Bottineau- Not quite there, but better than past few years. 17.Mandan- Alot of players with very weak skills. 18.Hazen Buelah- Nothing needs to be said.

One last thing it's not Eric Meland anymore, it's Eric "Couger" Melandcamp.

I wasn't at the game but I am finding some problems with this statement. You said RR got "better" goaltending and "better" scoring oppurtunities. Well to me if a team wins by one and has "better" scoring chances wouldn't the other team have to get equal or better goaltending to keep out those "better" scoring chances and keep it a one goal game?

Big ten VS. SEC Flordia Vs. Ohio State- Florida won big LSU Vs. Michigan - LSU would roll just like USC did. J-Russel is a bus. Arkansas Vs. Wisconsin- Wisc. takes this one Auburn Vs. PSU- I take Auburn and their wins over LSU and Flordia in this one. Tennesee Vs. Purdue- Tennesee would roll in this one. Georgia Vs. Minnesota- Georgia and their D against a streaky Minnesota team. Kentucky Vs. Indiana- Tucky in a close one. South Carolina Vs. Iowa- Tough one too call as both teams are better than their record. I'll go Iowa with a healthy Drew Tate. Alabama Vs. North Western- Bama would run it up in this one. Ole Miss Vs. Michigan State- Schafer and Ellis are great for Ole Miss, but a healthy Stanton would be too much. Mich State in this one. Miss State Vs. Illinois- Both teams are weak. I'll go toss up. 7-3-1 in favor of the SEC

I'm going against my alma mater I'll go 6-1 south.

No he isn't.

Atleast there is no more goalie controversy.

Didn't see the game but from the box score lamaroux played well.

First three games of the year for GFRR: Shanley, Whapeton, and Crookston. It doesn't get much worse than that and the fact that they got all three at home is very lucky. Whapeton is usaully much worse on the road than at home where they can pull their gimmicks, Shanley may have less talent than whap, and Crookston just might be the worst team in minnesota. I expect others to catch up to Meland in points when their teams play these absolutly brutal teams. When he goes out and get 9 against whap 8 against shanley and 7 against Crookston his 27 doesn't look all that impressive to me.

I have to disagree, Look at the Norths, the west fargo's and the jamestowns of past years. These teams would have players that put 30+ points but if they were to have tried out for a team like south or Red River they may or may not have even made the team. My point is 2nd or third line players on the RR or the Souths have less points than first line players on north or WF or James because those first line players play twice the minutes because they are on a poor team, even though they are weaker players than 2nd or third or even 4th line players on the top couple teams in the state. So to say a player from north or Wf last year would have had more points if they had played on RR or South is a joke because I don't know is they would have even made RR or south. I know this because we (RR) had players on 3rd and fourth lines that would have been starting for north wf james and all the weaker teams, and the case is the same this year.

DL is not a contender, they are a far cry from the RR's and the South's.

I haven't heard of all of the players on Canada's roster but some of the guys that got cut would have been on team USA's top two lines. i.e Codi Burki, Ben Maxwell,Mathieu Perreault. Goaltending: Advantage Canada: Frazee is sketchy at times, Price and Irving are much more realible. Defense: Advantage Canada: I like the Johnson's and Chorney for US, but Canada is loaded back there. Offense: Advantage Canada but closer than the other catagories: Muehler maybe the best forward in the tournament, Canada is much deeper than the US. I'm seeing a 7-5 type game tommorow.

Jamestown is a wild card especcially at home, Officiating is usaully suspect. Jamestown is volitile just as in years past, They have the potential to skate with better teams and they have the potential to drop games to teams that they are better than like.

What did the coach do? Lets face it this kid probably carried the sharpie all year, just like a true tool would do.

Sis I think you were thinking of Roseau, Moorhead hasn't played Warroad yet.

I wonder how many games he carried that sharpie until he scored. He must have felt like a complete loser after the games he didn't score.

I completly agree, people don't get kicked off teams for having a mental illness. If this was the case the team/university would have handled the situation differenlty.

I think Warroad is down this year so that win isn't that impressive.

Date Opponent W/L BHS OPP 11-27 at Rivers Collegiate W 8 2 Where is this back woods college at? Bottineau pumps 3 in against Century's JV and rips in 8 on these guys? 12-1 Williston L 1 4 12-2 Jamestown L 2 7 12-8 at Bis. Century JV W 3 2 I bet Century's JV team is really good, I mean their varsity has won all of 2 games this year. 12-9 at Bismarck High L 3 4 12-15 at Hazen-Beulah W 4 1 12-16 at Dickinson L 2 3 12-27 vs Bienfait W 8 2 Wow I'd love to see this team play, Whap could probably wax these dandys. 12-28 vs Central Butte W 6 2 Another worthy opponent. I thought Whap. had a weak non conference schedule but this is absurd. Seriously, I can't respect this team or any of the players when they don't respect themselves.

No offense to bottinaeu but how bad would a team have to be to lose to them by six goals?

For us that don't know what happend can someone explain it? From what i'm gathering some kid autographed a puck and threw it into the stands is that right?

I thought about apoligizing for writing that post, and then I thought about it for a minute or so and came up with this. . . A. Every bit of it was true, can't apoligize for those teams being bad B. If you thought it had to do with Gustafson than your a idiot and I can't apoligize for that, C. The post wasn't exclusivly about hazen anyway, so I can't apoligize for singling out hazen D. I know you agree with every word I said, so I can't apoligize for that.

First of all you would have to be a complete tool to be offended by somthing you read in a chat room. If your offended by me saying Shanley Whapeton and Hazen are the three worst teams in the state then you are very easily offended. And also offended by a true statement. If we go by what your saying we should list scores like this (North-6) only include the winning team as opposed to the old and maybe offensive way of (North-6 over Grafton-5) because some of the Grafton kids/parents/fans maybe offended by us posting them losing a game.

He is an average player on an average team. Since when does grafton play Kitteson Central? I think he lit it up against those dandys. I hear NHL Central Scouting is looking at him pretty closely, I actually heard someone say he got a couple looks at the World Junior team.