2024-25 ND High School Hockey

[planetearth]

On 4/2/2025 at 7:18 PM, yzerman19 said:

pretty sure those were the north teams...that would've been Panzer era

Did a little checking, Jay was born in 75 and Jeff in 78, so they would have graduated or been near end of HS in 93 and 95.

[Johnny Five]

14u girls advance out of pool play with a 1-1-1 record.  Play in the quarterfinals today.  I think this is the first time a girls team has advance to the tourney part.  A few ND Girls HS players, and a bunch that should be HS next year before the move lol....

[yzerman19]

32 minutes ago, planetearth said:

Did a little checking, Jay was born in 75 and Jeff in 78, so they would have graduated or been near end of HS in 93 and 95.

The 93 group fits the Jeff Panzer era of North teams.  You are correct that they were too old for the 95 group.  Perhaps 1 was north and 1 was south.

[Ndamukong_sioux]

1 hour ago, yzerman19 said:

The 93 group fits the Jeff Panzer era of North teams.  You are correct that they were too old for the 95 group.  Perhaps 1 was north and 1 was south.

There might be a wall photo of the team still up at Purpur if anyone wants to confirm.

[ChadR]

59 minutes ago, Ndamukong_sioux said:

There might be a wall photo of the team still up at Purpur if anyone wants to confirm.

Jeff was on the 93 National Bantam Champs - Grand Forks North.

 

 

[Benny Baker]

2 hours ago, yzerman19 said:

The 93 group fits the Jeff Panzer era of North teams.  You are correct that they were too old for the 95 group.  Perhaps 1 was north and 1 was south.

Yes; 93 was North, and 95 was South. 

[planetearth]

Thanks all

[ChadR]

On 4/3/2025 at 6:57 AM, planetearth said:

Pretty sure 95 bantams were older Potulny, Johnson, Mcmenamy, and some kid whose head was as big as a pumpkin idk his name, among others. Not sure if Tanabe was still there then or not. 
 

panzers woulda been older right?

Ryan Ronkowski is kid you are talking about.

[planetearth]

3 hours ago, ChadR said:

Ryan Ronkowski is kid you are talking about.

That’s right! Big noggin. Good player

[cberkas]

On 4/2/2025 at 5:44 PM, yzerman19 said:

Team ND not doing very well at Nationals...both teams (13O and 14U) are winless and actually goalless thus far with the the 14U team playing #1 overall Little Caesars tomorrow.  The 14U team will be done tomorrow, as they cannot advance even if they pulled off the modern miracle on ice.  

MN Blue Ox at 14U has won 2 tight games and is in good shape to move on.

SSM is undefeated at 14U and along with Little Caesars have secured #1 seeds in the Quarterfinals.

The 13O Minnesota Lakers are 2-0 and have scored 14 goals in those 2 games.

Nice to see Ryan Kesler lose to MN Blue Ox U14 

That Belle Tire U14 AAA team was 1-47-0 (GF-GA) 27-558 That's a very very bad team. 

 

[SIOUXFAN97]

On 4/5/2025 at 12:46 AM, ChadR said:

Ryan Ronkowski is kid you are talking about.

video of him around trying to fight a spicer in a garage party...didn't end well

[gfhockey]

1 hour ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:

video of him around trying to fight a spicer in a garage party...didn't end well

Epic 

[SIOUXFAN97]

1 minute ago, gfhockey said:

Epic 

i know you have it...post it....

[SIOUXFAN97]

48 minutes ago, gfhockey said:

Epic 

about as close to what happened.....

[brianvf]

20 minutes ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:

about as close to what happened.....

[brianvf]

On 4/3/2025 at 4:57 AM, planetearth said:

Pretty sure 95 bantams were older Potulny, Johnson, Mcmenamy, and some kid whose head was as big as a pumpkin idk his name, among others. Not sure if Tanabe was still there then or not. 

I used to play roller hockey in front of Tanabe's house with those kids back in the day.  He lived right down the street from me.
Man, that was a long time ago.

[sioux rube]

Nobody here saw this coming 

 

 

[Frozen4sioux]

Fargo North - South Boys hockey...

I thought this was a kinda no brainer but the numbers in this article point to a tougher decision...

https://www.inforum.com/sports/prep/potential-boys-hockey-co-op-between-fargo-north-fargo-south-weighed?fbclid=IwY2xjawJtz8lleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHvAF8IXoBgOj9PATpXocfvsWiRHG8qXZeUBDGem22c_VAI8jCXSH4lQ499qu_aem_JHt40_6b1IQYSrgAVTsfwA

[andtheHomeoftheSIOUX!!]

1 hour ago, Frozen4sioux said:

Fargo North - South Boys hockey...

I thought this was a kinda no brainer but the numbers in this article point to a tougher decision...

https://www.inforum.com/sports/prep/potential-boys-hockey-co-op-between-fargo-north-fargo-south-weighed?fbclid=IwY2xjawJtz8lleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHvAF8IXoBgOj9PATpXocfvsWiRHG8qXZeUBDGem22c_VAI8jCXSH4lQ499qu_aem_JHt40_6b1IQYSrgAVTsfwA

It is nice that the news has a long, level headed, informative article on the issue.  Minot is going through a lot of turmoil with this decision and the media has barely covered it. 

[siouxweet]

1 hour ago, Frozen4sioux said:

Fargo North - South Boys hockey...

I thought this was a kinda no brainer but the numbers in this article point to a tougher decision...

https://www.inforum.com/sports/prep/potential-boys-hockey-co-op-between-fargo-north-fargo-south-weighed?fbclid=IwY2xjawJtz8lleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHvAF8IXoBgOj9PATpXocfvsWiRHG8qXZeUBDGem22c_VAI8jCXSH4lQ499qu_aem_JHt40_6b1IQYSrgAVTsfwA

How many kids were from Shanley in the South-Shanley co-op?

[Brim006]

That's a tough situation due to the lop-sided numbers. It appears there are only 3 likely possibilities....with a pipe dream 4th. 

1. They co-op and have to cut roughly 15 kids - seems like the worst option IMO due to NDHSH needing all the teams and kids they can get but is probably the most likely option at this point. 

2. Keep North and South separate, and if South can find a goalie they field only a varsity team that runs a season similar to what Mayport does.

3. Keep North and South separate, but South taps out and South kids are allowed to join or try out for the North team. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. They co-op but they create 2 North-South varsity teams and 2 North-South JV teams to maximize the 65 available kids, and to avoid having to cut players. Maybe they split the kids up evenly by some sort of hockey-only district line. Seems too far outside of the box and too messy for long term but would be cool to see something happen to avoid the EDC losing a team and kids having to be cut. 

[Brim006]

54 minutes ago, siouxweet said:

How many kids were from Shanley in the South-Shanley co-op?

This past season I continually heard it was about 3/4 or more of the varsity. Which essentially means just a couple south kids on varsity, but I can't confirm. 

[Brim006]

I just read a story about Grafton Park River area youth hockey numbers growing back to their historically strong water marks. They have 175 in youth hockey and see strong varsity+JV numbers for the foreseeable future. That's encouraging to see and hear, especially if you look at the steady population decline of that area of the state. Anyone know how hockey participation is doing in some of the other "smaller" schools/programs around the state? Bottineau+Rugby, HB, DL+Cando, Mayport, Jamestown+VC? It seems like HB has been hanging on by a thread for years now, and Mayport youth numbers look pretty thin, so I'm wondering if they will be able to continue fielding a varsity team or not. It would be great if Wahp would come back to ND, but I doubt that will happen due to having FAR more success playing in MN than in the EDC since they moved. 

[Frozen4sioux]

2 hours ago, andtheHomeoftheSIOUX!! said:

It is nice that the news has a long, level headed, informative article on the issue.  Minot is going through a lot of turmoil with this decision and the media has barely covered it. 

It was a good article, it also point out the assumption of the numbers of sophomores, indicating 10 of the 15 could potentially still play bantams.   

If that was the case, and also acknowledging the Jr gold option in Fargo, a Co-op is much more likely of a resolution for a period of time.

 

[Frozen4sioux]

1 hour ago, Brim006 said:

I just read a story about Grafton Park River area youth hockey numbers growing back to their historically strong water marks. They have 175 in youth hockey and see strong varsity+JV numbers for the foreseeable future. That's encouraging to see and hear, especially if you look at the steady population decline of that area of the state. Anyone know how hockey participation is doing in some of the other "smaller" schools/programs around the state? Bottineau+Rugby, HB, DL+Cando, Mayport, Jamestown+VC? It seems like HB has been hanging on by a thread for years now, and Mayport youth numbers look pretty thin, so I'm wondering if they will be able to continue fielding a varsity team or not. It would be great if Wahp would come back to ND, but I doubt that will happen due to having FAR more success playing in MN than in the EDC since they moved. 

The numbers at the youth level exiting bantams and into these programs seem to indicate a "holding serve" level of participation going into next season, with a possibility for some of them to be more competitive regionally.  Most are going to be in the net (-2/+2) player participation unless something drastic changes.

In comparison to the declining numbers of some of the traditional "big city" programs due largely to demographic shifts.   i.e South as discussed, but also in Bismarck with Bismarck High/St. Mary's and to a degree Century going into the next year or two as well.....   and also like the Fargo Davies projections... large numbers at Legacy High.

Combined numbers would be similar if not less than the Fargo North-South numbers it appears, with the major differences both Bis programs have goalie stables as opposed to the South situation, but the similarities are interesting.

Fargo at least appears to be taking a balanced approach to the issue of participation vs competativeness

Bismarck has unwaveringly sided on the opportunity side... 

.....and then there's Minot who has spinelessly caved to the competitive faction and invented numbers fuzzier than moldy bread to justify the capitulation.