yzerman19

Yeah...Minny HS hockey you have to take a look at the conference and strength of schedule a kid plays in...then you def need to consider the player's age...freshmen and sophomores who are killing it are different than seniors who are killing it, especially if that senior re-classed to be older.

Nice press on Thompson, who was up in GF last spring.

He got big pretty young...not many 200+ pounders in Bantam let alone PeeWee hockey. He is a nice kid. He plays hard and has that grown man size. He does have a nice nose for offense as well. The key question will be how much of an advantage was his early size and will he continue to grow. I like the player, so I hope he continues to get better. Nice numbers in Elite League and good numbers for Warroad.

Good player...he is a kid who will need some junior time to see what his projection is IMO.

Heyohhhhhhhhhh!

Excellent player. All 3 of those options will likely be on the table for him. He's being smart, as are most of the American early draft picks in the WHL. The ones you haven't seen sign are likely very high on the NTDP list and are being patient.

hahaha did that more than once

pull the red river roughrider red, black and white or Central maroon and gray hat over the eyes

wheelin' around and picking corns until more kids showed up and then the sweet words "wanna get a game going?"....I think coke and mello yello was 35 cents in the machine. XL 93 brings back memories too. We played a lotta of free for all...I remember trying to stick handle a sponge puck on choppy, snowy ice.

The sound of pucks hitting the boards at night echoed half a mile

Pizza in the warming house was a special treat...Remember how cold the water from the fountain was? Also, if it snowed, we didn't wait, we shoveled the ice ourselves.

Viking Elementary!

Gotta say as RR alumni that seeing Central knock off Moorhead made me smile. Minnesota does not have a monopoly on high school hockey....well, they do for day in day out....but a GF school can beat the best of Minny on any given night. GF might not be growing like Fargo, but as long as there is UND hockey, there will be players and teams. Congrats to Central, and congrats to the families and coaches that keep developing these players....not sure if kids still grow up on the ODRs of GF like I did, but I sure hope so...

JT Miller dropped the gloves with the biggest guy on the ice in the Four Nations. He will eat a puck for red, white and blue. He has been a long time captain in the NHL. Perfect 4th line player.

EGF getting smoked last week when moving to play MN teams is a bit of a downer

Joey Cullen (Sophomore 2010) 2.80 points per game and RJ Thompson (Freshman 2010) 2.75 points per game seem to not be having any difficulty transitioning to High School Hockey. Maverick McKinnon 2.33 and Jaxon Cook 2.29 played high school last year and are also 2010's and clearly being big producers for their teams as well. Moorhead and Eden Prairie have had tough schedules thus far with a couple top 10 match-ups each. These kids are pretty fun to watch play.

Joey Cullen is very, very talented, one of the top players in his birth year. The narratives that get thrown around are silly though. He is well positioned to grow and be a great player. I wish him nothing but success...its not the kid's fault when grown ups are the problem.

MNHOCKEYTV carries all the varsity games

Maverick McKinnon hung 7 points on a loaded STA team vs a weak Tartan team last night. He's a strong NTDP candidate and scores a ton. Not sure on how he projects size wise and if he plays Sioux Hockey, but the kid racks up points and is a good kid.

Moorhead vs Edina today in some big action over the border.

bantam AA

My brother's best friend's girlfriend's cousin said she heard him commit at 69 flavors...

people always complain when little johnny doesn't make the team...he waited his turn, so he should get to play...nope...this is big boy/real world...get better at hockey and you won't get cut.

true, but same as the big schools in the cities...lotta good players get cut in Edina, Tonka, EP, etc