Johnny Five

Park Christian isn't a Catholic school, however.

No Catholic school in Moorhead so they go to Shanley?

Not sure I've ever seen that called before...

Girls side it's looking like: North, GF, CHS, Mandan, L/B, Minot, WFU, Davies. Seeding 2-7 is still sort of a hot mess and some teams have 2 games left...while some have 3, 4, or 5. This state tournament is going to be an absolute crap shoot.

Hard to believe the boys are down to the last week of the regular season. Once that calendar flips, the season flies by. Top 4 in the East are locked: GFC, RR, WF, Davies...just depends on RR and WF for 2/3, and North has the inside track on the 5. One big game out west this week: Mandan at Jamestown. Odds are this will be the 4/5 matchup in the opening round of the WDA as well, so this will determine home game for that one. Looks like the west will shake out as: Minot, CHS, LHS, Mandan/James, Mandan/James, Bottineau, Willy, BHS, Dickinson, Hazen.

Listening to livebarn you can sort of hear what's going on. Not the best audio but it sounds like "go home" followed by a "do your f*&king job." This was with about 3 minutes left in the game and Williston down 5-1 after a blast to a LHS players dome. There was some other heckling going on as well.... They're having a hard time finding ref to work up in Williston for obvious reasons, rumor on the street is Andy Carton will be there Saturday for Willy and Mandan. This should probably get put on PSP hahahaha.

After Jamestown lost to CHS tonight the top 3 appear to be locked: Minot 1 CHS 2 Legacy 3 (assuming 6 point win over Hazen next week) Looking like Mandan/Jamestown will be the 4/5 game and BOTT 6. Legacy at Willy: 5-1 Legacy. 5 Majors, 3 on Willy with 2 ejections, 2 on Legacy and a hometown fan ejected. Gong show.

They've been standing with pitchforks for this job for years over there. Should've let the man resign with grace after the season. Been there since Day 1...perfect time to cut the cord on 2 programs in WF.

He did end up at Crookston, perhaps lasted a year. At the time, had some off ice issues but was extremely talented. Alleged story...he went to pre-season Captains practice at UND. Before the ol' world wide web...nobody knew who he was and just figured it was someone Blais told to show up. Real practices start and Blais is like "who the hell is this kid?" lol.... Irey family that came through Bismarck also with massive Bottineau connections.

East Side East Region Boys Region Games Left TEAMS GP POINTS REGION GAMES LEFT REGION FINISH SEEDS Grand Forks Central 14 36 FN, GPR #1, #2 Grand Forks Red River 14 34 FSS #1, #2, #3 West Fargo Packers 14 30 FSS, WFS #2, #3 Fargo Davies 15 24 GPR #4, #5 Fargo North 14 21 GFC, DL #4, #5, #6, #7, #8 West Fargo Sheyenne 14 17 DL, WFP #5, #6, #7, #8 Fargo South/Shanley 13 14 WFP, RR, DL #5, #6, #7, #8 Devils Lake 13 12 WFS, FN, FSS #5, #6, #7, #8 Grafton/Park River 13 1 FD, GFC #9 Seed May-Port Area 0 0 #10 Seed

West coming down to a wild finish besides Minot a lock. West Region Boys Region Games Left TEAMS GP POINTS REGION GAMES LEFT REGION FINISH SEEDS Minot 13 45 DICK, WIL #1-Seed Bismarck Century 13 36 JAM, BHS, B-R #2, #3, #4, #5 Jamestown 15 30 BC, MAN, BHS #2, #3, #4, #5, #6 Bismarck Legacy 15 28 WILL, H-B [6] #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7 Mandan 15 28 B-R, WIL, JAM #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7 Bottineau/Rugby 15 26 MAN, BC #3, #4, #5, #6, #7 Williston 14 17 LEG, MAN, MIN, DICK #4, #5, #6, #7, #8 Bismarck High 16 12 BC, JAM #7, #8, #9 Dickinson 15 6 MIN, H-B, WIL #8, #9, #10 Hazen-Beulah 11 0 DICK, LEG [6] #9, #10

Yup...I just don't know how the youth is divided geographically between the 3 programs. I used to know that kind of stuff, but this is my last go around. The hope would be for 3 good teams.

Yeah for sure. That is wild. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad there's 3 teams. It's up to the youth program to grow the depth and skill...and hopefully Bismarck keeps recycling through hockey generations, that's where the west is way behind.

IDK all towns lose kids early. I think it's moreso with the 3 HS teams cutting into the depth. For example, had Legacy not started, CHS would've had 2 Vigs, Beasley and Martell on their roster 2 years ago (all left for NAHL their senior seasons) plus Marcus Butts who was getting JR attention but chose baseball instead, in addition to some really players one each teams line 2/3. Instead of one great team, Bismarck had 2 "good" teams. Gonna take awhile for the depth of Bismarck Hockey Boosters to fill 3 lines on 3 HS teams...and by that I mean in order for them to make a serious run at all 3 qualifying.

Another OT win for CHS and they about lock up the 2 seed. Olson has done an amazing job with this team.

They've been missing an impact player for about 2 weeks now. He should be set to return soon. Regardless...seeds 2-6 in the West, on the right weekend....take your pick. All about peaking at the right time.

Devils Lake has a FR goalie on their girls team who is also legit. She's going to be an animal. L/B put up 16 SOG in the first an 21 in the second and trailed 2-1 going into period 3. 25 SOG in period 3 and finally scored 3 times but it took a tip and plenty of net front traffic.

What a great quote from Forsberg in the DL Newspaper: “It gives us a lot of confidence,” Forsberg said. “Down goes No. 1, you know? We had to really push ourselves to win this game. And obviously [the Knights] didn’t come to expect that. They thought they were gonna come here and wipe us clean and beat our ass.”

Keller likely has them all. Perhaps minus the first one, which was tipped. But I agree...take advantage of it, and Mandan did just that.

I think the only illness they had is the backup goaltender plague. And Mandan plugging up the d zone plague.

Minot's goalie situation wasn't good but holding the Magi to 1 is impressive.

I guess the point is to have the 4 best teams playing on Friday night...and eventually into Saturday with 2. Same thing happens in every sport. In MN there's teams from the south who would get their ass tagged by 2,3,4th place teams from Section 8.

Shots fired.

I'll say this knowing both teams. LHS and CHS need to get healthy before the end of the season. Legacy will be down 3 Top 9s (2 top 6) and another depth F against RR on Saturday. It would be an uphill climb with those kids, now they're really digging deep into the roster. CHS also down 2-3 F the last week or so. I know both teams aren't making excuses....next man up mentality. Every team goes through the injury process throughout the season, but both those teams need: 1. to avoid any further injury and 2. to get healthy.

Minot tendy is allegedly out tonight after a collision against North. When he went out last weekend it was 4-0. Ended 4-3.