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7 WDA member hockey schools: BHS, Century, Minot, Mandan, Dickinson, Williston, Jamestown. 8 EDC member hockey schools: North, South/Shanley, Davies, WF, Sheyenne, Red River, Central, Devils Lake. None of these schools will ever be Class B or whatever you call the lower division, unless there enrollment drops below the Class A minimum. The AD's would never go along with it because then you have to create a lower division in every sport so the bottom teams could be competitive. Bismarck Legacy will add hockey in the next couple years bringing the total to 16 Class A schools playing hockey. Wahpeton-Breckenridge, another Class A school, has played as an independent in Minnesota for almost a decade. That leaves four current teams for Class B, G-PR, Bottineau, Hazen, and Mayville, so even if you add Watford City, Langdon, and Crosby you don't have enough for a Class B league to be sanctioned, plus it's wrong to even list Grafton-Park River they would choose to play up. Minnesota Section 8A is always won by EGF, TRF, or Warroad, how is that fair to Bagley-Fosston, LOW or Kittson Central? 8AA is Moorhead's to lose every year, where are the change.org petitions for Minnesota?

That "Freeman" guy from Friday night was ok, but Hunt was as worthless as they come. He was officiating for 1) a split and 2) a brawl.

That's definitely it, thank you very much.

It's definitely not that, its nothing really main stream.

Does anybody know the song that they play at REA either right before the Sioux come out for warm ups or for the start of the game? It kind of sounds like chanting or something like that.

It's good to see a Central fan calling someone else chippy. GFC has been a complete embarassment to the Redskin tradition the last couple of years. Its one thing to be down but have some class. I think they broke the all time record for misconducts last year. Hopefully this years crew will be better.

1. Red River 2. South 3. Grafton 4. DL 5. North 6. Bismarck 7. West Fargo 8. Jamestown 9. GFC 10. Minot

"We played a terrible game. We're a very selfish team, we're not very disciplined and we don't work very hard. We have the most talented team in the state and we play as 20 individuals." Dean Wilson in todays Fargo Forum.

I think they have to be counted towards the 21 game schedule. Red River and Central did not play in holiday tournaments last year so they probably had room in their schedules.

Bismarck Century beat Fargo North in the first round in 2001.

I would say more like Red River 6 Jamestown 1

I know that DL graduated two defensemen that are playing junior A hockey. Alex Olsen is with Bismarck and Kenny Lybeck is with Dubuque. I would not trade Red Rivers D or Fargo Souths D for what DL has left on the blueline. If Jamestown can get 5 against DL, I bet South, Red River, and Grafton can too. We all know DL has talent but the other teams practice to.

You give up 5 at home to Jtown and you think your D are the best. When is the last time Jtown scored 5 in a EDC game that wasn't against Wahpteton? 5 or 6 years ago? DL will finish 5th or 6th.

A few more from tonight. Dickinson 4 Wahpeton 3, Red River 13 Shanley 0, and Williston 6 Jamestown 4

Did you attend the North-Century game? How did the refs call it? Lots of Penalties? I heard the Shanley-GFC game had about 30 penalties.

If you honestly believe that Jamestown was the only team playing JV players I feel sorry for you. I'm sure that the other teams were playing it like the Stanley Cup finals. I bet every team in ND and Mn that scrimaged last weekend played jv players that is why they don't count.

I wouldn't count out Century or Williston, I think those five teams will be very evenly matched.

If you live in towns like Watford City, Sidney, Rugby, Langdon, or Mayville, Junior Gold is High School hockey. They don't have a choice. Bismarck, Minot, and West Fargo no longer field teams. The majority of the kids that play JG in Fargo or Grand Forks do so because they have been cut, would be cut, don't like the coach, or are ineligible to play high school. There are some good players but the bottom ends of most teams are closer to Bantam B than high school.

ND Pride did a nice job last year. Hopefully he will go for it again. I think the Bruins will win the EDC by at least three points. GPR and RR will battle for 2nd. The real mess will be spots 4 through 7. North, DL, GFC and WF all have a chance at fourth place. It will probably come down to tie breakers to determine those spots. Shanley 8th, Wahpeton 9th. As far as the tourneys go any thing can happen.

Monday 11/20/06 Jamestown at DL. Tuesday 11/21/06 GFC at Shanley. RR, GFC, DL, WF, and Wahp have their schedules up on their school websites. Couldn't find FN, FS, GPR, or Shanley.

Red River will have an outstanding power play with Galbraith, Ladoucer, Meland, and Vigen. I think Meland will get his share of points. If your going to post about individual high school players try to be positive, the South defensemen mentioned above and a couple of guys from North took more than their share of abuse on this site last year.

All three will be all conference along with Tyler Swanson. They are all very good. We will see over the next couple of years who continues to develope.

I think we are getting a little trigger-happy thinking that Williston is suddenly going to be competitive year in and year out in the west region, much less the state. Williston has had a couple good groups of players, most every school has experienced a year or two in which they succeed, but in most cases it is not very long lived. Maybe last year williston beating the bismarcks and minots would not be concidered as much of an upset, but to say that this trend is going to continue and the gap will continue to close is a little premature. When was the last time you remember saying that central beating west fargo was an upset? I cant remember the last time that was the case, and i dont think it will happen again for a long time. This is just an example of how some things change every year and some things, (such as red river, fargo south, grafton, bismarck and minot being in the state tournament) are more likely to happen than the sun rising each morning. However, a change in the standings from year to year is fun to see and keeps us guessing.

I never said Devils Lake was bad or that they would get throttled. My only point is that DL could finish 7th just as easily as they could finish 4th. Sorry If I offended you. I hope your team does well.