2024-25 ND High School Hockey

[Walsh Hall]

5 hours ago, siouxweet said:

Or why do they have to meet at bar at 10 am to have 5 beers before an 11 am game?  

It seemed like there was more time to kill for hockey related activities, but as a parent of pretty much every traveling sport, hockey definitely had the most drinking…by far.

[sioux rube]

WF goes up 1-0 with 3 minutes left 

[sioux rube]

Make that 2-0 WF

[sioux rube]

West Fargo 2 Grand Forks 0. Shots 43-8 GF

[NCsiouxfan1733]

12 minutes ago, sioux rube said:

West Fargo 2 Grand Forks 0. Shots 43-8 GF

Over half of GF shots were on ice or had no pace. Not great, but WF goalie played incredible.

[yzerman19]

There's a buzz right now coming out of Michigan.  Top ranked Little Caesars Bantam team won their first game in the MI State Tournament over Belle Tire 43-0.  Not a typo.  Not exactly relevant to ND high school, but local bantam has been discussed on this thread.

[NoiseInsideMyHead]

54 minutes ago, yzerman19 said:

There's a buzz right now coming out of Michigan.  Top ranked Little Caesars Bantam team won their first game in the MI State Tournament over Belle Tire 43-0.  Not a typo.  Not exactly relevant to ND high school, but local bantam has been discussed on this thread.

So, Belle Tire came out a little flat?

[Oxbow6]

If you're a dad of a player that got curb stomped 43-0 two things needed to happen. 1...your child immediately needs to switch sports to tennis and 2...now it is completely ok to get @gfhockey wasted.

[Clark17]

4 hours ago, Frozen4sioux said:

Tells you everything you need to know.

Oh my.....  Travel ball parents outside Left Field fence on line 1.

 

But to be fair.... we're all the same crew of parents... 🤣

Been there done that 🤣

[UNDMOORHEAD]

2 hours ago, yzerman19 said:

There's a buzz right now coming out of Michigan.  Top ranked Little Caesars Bantam team won their first game in the MI State Tournament over Belle Tire 43-0.  Not a typo.  Not exactly relevant to ND high school, but local bantam has been discussed on this thread.

There is something wrong when two teams that far apart in talent play each other in any sport. It also seems pretty low class to score 43 goals. Gambucci would've never let that happen when he was coaching.

[sioux rube]

1 minute ago, UNDMOORHEAD said:

There is something wrong when two teams that far apart in talent play each other in any sport. It also seems pretty low class to score 43 goals. Gambucci would've never let that happen when he was coaching.

43 is way out of bounds. I thought Belle Tire always had a pretty decent program 

[brianvf]

Also, can you imagine how long that game took just due to the goal announcements? 
Announcing another goal every 1.5 minutes or so.  Dang, it would have just dragged on.

[Frozen4sioux]

3 hours ago, yzerman19 said:

There's a buzz right now coming out of Michigan.  Top ranked Little Caesars Bantam team won their first game in the MI State Tournament over Belle Tire 43-0.  Not a typo.  Not exactly relevant to ND high school, but local bantam has been discussed on this thread.

""  AAA  ""     

43 goals 18k per year

  0 goals 18k per year

[yzerman19]

That 43 donut game is an indictment of youth sports on so many levels:  pay to play, chasing status and tier, greedy programs, chasing enrollment numbers, parents keeping up with the Jones' etc.  If a game is 43-0, then one team is playing the wrong level and the powers that be that run the State need to address that.  The programs that are built to win on the national and international stage shouldn't play teams that are just trying to compete locally.  The top US programs Shattuck, Mount, BK, MIssion, Caesars, Honeybaked types and the Top GTHL teams (Mississauga, Markham, JRC, Marlies, Don Mills, Vaughan) and top Western Canada Teams (NAX, Edge, Delta) heck even throw in some from Quebec should just play each other. 

[gfhockey]

First round state hockey

 

where the west hates the east and everyone hates the grand forks schools

[yzerman19]

Let's go Red River!!!

Is there a link to a webcast of the tourney?

[Frozen4sioux]

1 hour ago, yzerman19 said:

That 43 donut game is an indictment of youth sports on so many levels:  pay to play, chasing status and tier, greedy programs, chasing enrollment numbers, parents keeping up with the Jones' etc.  If a game is 43-0, then one team is playing the wrong level and the powers that be that run the State need to address that.  The programs that are built to win on the national and international stage shouldn't play teams that are just trying to compete locally.  The top US programs Shattuck, Mount, BK, MIssion, Caesars, Honeybaked types and the Top GTHL teams (Mississauga, Markham, JRC, Marlies, Don Mills, Vaughan) and top Western Canada Teams (NAX, Edge, Delta) heck even throw in some from Quebec should just play each other. 

They seem to be always trying to align in different ways with different "leagues or ways to organize"  Tier 1 Elite - T1ER - 4 Clubs - THF - 

But at the end of the day those organizations are just there for their own best interests.... that interest being the bottom-line dollars, certainly not the kids

and then always operating in and around the biggest money grabbing profit first gangster organization of them all - USA Hockey

[yzerman19]

The other question is at what age does it move from recreational child's play to vocation development...I mean the top 16 year olds in the world are playing junior hockey in N/A or pro in parts of Europe, so if one program is built of and working towards putting bantam players into junior hockey in the next year or two and another program is just "playing" you have a huge disconnect.  

[Wilbur]

Boys tournament kicks off today at REA.  The first and last games probably not much to write home about, but the 2:30 and 5:30 games have the opportunity to be good games. 

Not so difficult prediction for Saturday night......We will have the Roughriders playing the Knights.  

[siouxweet]

8 minutes ago, Wilbur said:

Boys tournament kicks off today at REA.  The first and last games probably not much to write home about, but the 2:30 and 5:30 games have the opportunity to be good games. 

Not so difficult prediction for Saturday night......We will have the Roughriders playing the Knights.  

GFC, WF, Minot and RR advance 

GFC over WF

Minot over RR

RR over WF for third 

GFC over Minot for title.

[Oxbow6]

What's the Vegas line on the GFC game? If GFC only plays 10 skaters all game i still want that action. 

[Oxbow6]

Congratulations to the Spuds boys. Heading to state.  Assume they will be the #1 or #2 seed. 

[gfhockey]

34 minutes ago, Wilbur said:

Boys tournament kicks off today at REA.  The first and last games probably not much to write home about, but the 2:30 and 5:30 games have the opportunity to be good games. 

Not so difficult prediction for Saturday night......We will have the Roughriders playing the Knights.  

That’s the plan but we all know how plans are

 

i just hope minot looses so all the minot lovas can shut up

[MoSiouxFan]

13 hours ago, yzerman19 said:

There's a buzz right now coming out of Michigan.  Top ranked Little Caesars Bantam team won their first game in the MI State Tournament over Belle Tire 43-0.  Not a typo.  Not exactly relevant to ND high school, but local bantam has been discussed on this thread.

That's a disgrace to the "winning" coach.

[Wilbur]

47 minutes ago, gfhockey said:

That’s the plan but we all know how plans are

 

i just hope minot looses so all the minot lovas can shut up

Would likewise love anybody but a GF school to win the championship.