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Whodathunkit.....

The only real potential ? out east is the new Holy 4 team at Shanley? Were they able to recruit or get anyone to enroll in any of those programs to make a difference? And then ow will the combined North-South team look?

Minot's dual school depth will walk away as the WDA champs. The other 3 State runtime qualifiers will just be whichever team has hot goalies (or even just a quasi-capable goalie) at tourney time... Mandan, Jamestown, Century.... who knows. But its GFC - RR for the title and basically pointless to consider another possibility.

Grafton's Larson gone to Northstar I saw they posted Century lost their best returning players, Best forward, Jackson Fylling to Sioux Falls, Best defenseman Eckart won't be back, IMHO. Another Sr D man was likely other sport bound, but they do get back Schlafman from a year of JV purgatory for the unholy sin of playing a year in AAA. Lots of bantam kids left for AAA programs again Legacy lost a Bantam kid for the Clevland AAA program, Hazen lost their up and comer as well I saw. So many others, west and east, it's almost impossible to keep up, but still some in flux, rosters will start popping up of those programs soon. Jr training camps are on, or will start next week as well.

No they haven't..... the MN sports fan base is complaining and posting but they are still in their passive agressive and Minnesota Noce ways still handing over their money to the team. MN sports fans just keep getting exactly what they deserve. And it will work out exactly as the Pohlads and Wilfes want it to.... cash in their pocket and stadiums and upgrades on the taxpayers dime.

At this point anyone still subjecting themselves to this after all these years, is basically getting what they deserve. And to spend a persons hard-earned money supporting the Pholad's grift is insane. I threw out all the Twins stuff the day the Fentynloyd murals went up. That was the last straw for me. This aint Herbie and the boys.

This a dad or a newly anointed advisor with a really small marketing budget? or both?

#PionkAshit

Dickinson has hired Chad Miller to be the new boys Hockey Coach. The once mighty midgets are now the Dickinson Mavericks after the old logo and name succumbed to the pressures of a woke society.

You will hear about them all at some point..... I guess that kinda explains most of that, but it's not doom and gloom, kids are moving on and moving up. Is what it is. Role players and assist points left there (and throughout west) but, Century might have 3 forwards able to play on a 1st line...maybe on a week-to-week basis that produced even a point last year.... But they will field a 2nd 3rd and 4th line that has produced not a single point at the varsity level. Tendy is solid but it will be up to what's in front of him as well, that may not make sense to you now but... oh well Rechecked the numbers, I admit, I made a small mistake I thought the hockey site had 50 players per page on the top scorers, and I just skimmed the info quick off the top of my head on those kids, so the first two pages thought was 100 its not, it's only 30 per page, but after those 60 it gets insignificant quickly. So, I went through "100" as I originally put up. Of last years top 100 scorers 58 were in the East, of the 42 in the west of which 23 graduated leaving 19 potential returners. Of those 19 there are A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER THAT HAVE CONFIRMED THEY ARE LEAVING, and more to come (camps just starting).... the remaining of those 19 were mostly role players and 2nd assist points, and not tremendously notable. It is 4-5 of those top 60 will return, expanding out to the top 100 it will add 7-8 more returners. I won't break those numbers down any further or name names, cause like I said it's not my place to announce them if it hasn't been made public, some have some haven't. Team ND roster public announcements among other things will be telling on final numbers.

Anyone leave HS early? If not I was impressed with some of the younger kids hustle and drive and think they have some decent potential. Could be a really good middle depth team vs other teams maybe 1 line. They have potential IMHO.

uffda...No., Century and Mandan will not be top anything out west it seems You will hear about them all at some point but the exodus continues.... and we haven't even hit jr camp season. The Bottineau goalie Lynnes signed with Wenachee 18U in the CSSHL, they had a chance to contend if he had stayed, bummer. "As of now" the WDA returns only 5 kids that finished in the top 100 in scoring statewide last year, and there isn't a lot of bantams coming up that are anywhere near remarkable. Jamestown is maybe a team I wouldn't sleep on, I would not be surprised at all by a Jamestown WDA championship 1-3 Minot, Jamestown, Legacy, .....roll the dice 4-5 Mandan (2 tendys but nothing else), Century (what will be left by Nov?) another dice roll 6-8 Bottineau or Dickinson or BHS pretty safe bets 9 Williston 10 Hazen. WF, GPR, GF are all losing big pieces but, in a surprise, to absolutely nobody, GF has the depth to reload Picking anything other than a RR GFC Final would be foolhardy.

Men's teams in the east are big on this...

This isn't an "ID" camp its a very quietly held invite only camp that is purposely targeted at specific prospective players. It's not really what you think about in comparison to the old UND hockey school camps or a Jr's or AAA camp

Contrary, I think the experiences within the AAA Tier 1 Yout hockey environment was beneficial in ways but also full well seeing the predatory nature of the vast majority of the AAA world... ..EDIT: But in all retrospect, of all the options out there. If I HAD to leave..... I'd recommend finding a spot in Minnesota in the PW ages and playing the Minnesota Youth Programming and playing MSHSHL, thats just a better option, the BEST option for those that have to "get out of here".