2024-25 ND High School Hockey

[yzerman19]

11 minutes ago, siouxweet said:

How did he do at the development camp last summer?

had 1 goal according to Elite Prospects

[yzerman19]

35 minutes ago, ChadR said:

He will be in Ann Arbor this fall.

At the University of Michigan?  I am being a smart ass...the program is now out of Plymouth MI

[Frozen4sioux]

5 minutes ago, yzerman19 said:

At the University of Michigan?  I am being a smart ass...the program is now out of Plymouth MI

I'd be shocked if he wasn't in the Dev Program next year

[Clark17]

32 minutes ago, iluvdebbies said:

They can't stop you!

bout time u been under a rock?  

[yzerman19]

36 minutes ago, Frozen4sioux said:

I'd be shocked if he wasn't in the Dev Program next year

I hope he has that opportunity and any opportunity he wishes for.  I feel that way about all the kids.  

[yzerman19]

I feel like playing what if today, so what if and what would you do?  Super high end talent, do you stay local?  do you go to better league?  better team?  play up?  It's the million dollar question plaguing youth hockey right now.  There's no correct answer, but its always interesting discussion.  

[Johnny Five]

Dickinson dominates BHS and Willy dominates Hazen.  Final Bracket for WDA:

TOP

1 Minot v 9 Dickinson: Minot sweeps 3-1 at Home and 6-1 on the road.

4 Mandan v 5 Jamestown: Teams split.  Jamestown wins in Mandan 5-4 in OT, Mandan wins 5-4 in Jamestown in regulation.

BOTTOM

2 CHS v 7 Williston: Century sweeps 7-2 in Bismarck and 4-3 in Willison. 

3 Legacy v 6 Bott: Teams split with the Sabers winning 5-0 at home and getting Lumberdomed 3-2 in Bottineau.

Reminder, Minot hasn't won the post season since 2006, which is wild in itself.  From there?  Hard to see seeds 1-4 advancing, where will the upsets fall?

 

[Johnny Five]

1 hour ago, yzerman19 said:

I feel like playing what if today, so what if and what would you do?  Super high end talent, do you stay local?  do you go to better league?  better team?  play up?  It's the million dollar question plaguing youth hockey right now.  There's no correct answer, but its always interesting discussion.  

Any kid who can make the Development Program should bounce. 

If I lived in Grand Forks, my kid would be staying as long as possible.  Nothing wrong with RR or GFC schedule.  If you have a great SOPH and JR season and have done all you can in the EDC, I'd say the only reason to leave and forego your SR season is if you are Top 6 (maybe 9) NAHL caliber (4-6 Defense).  Development keeps progressing with GF kids who stick it out and make a run at a title to boot.

In the West?  Easier to give up senior season IMO due to strength of schedule.

[Clark17]

47 minutes ago, Johnny Five said:

Any kid who can make the Development Program should bounce. 

If I lived in Grand Forks, my kid would be staying as long as possible.  Nothing wrong with RR or GFC schedule.  If you have a great SOPH and JR season and have done all you can in the EDC, I'd say the only reason to leave and forego your SR season is if you are Top 6 (maybe 9) NAHL caliber (4-6 Defense).  Development keeps progressing with GF kids who stick it out and make a run at a title to boot.

In the West?  Easier to give up senior season IMO due to strength of schedule.

o snd lk u no 

[sioux rube]

1 hour ago, Clark17 said:

o snd lk u no 

Is this gfhockey? 

[gfhockey]

I think anything the East teams can do to free up games to play more Minnesota teams the better

 

the cities teams like coming up to Moorhead and egf on road trips

 

of course you have to go back the next year but still good competition

[yzerman19]

Top 6 or Top 4 in the CHL, USHL, or NTDP you should bounce...agree.  Gotta compare against birth year nationally and internationally too, not the 2 year mid-year school year MN-DAK bands.  

Younger ages, I think that you should play at a level where you are 1.5-2 points per game...enough to be dominant, but not be ridiculous.  If you can rack up 3+ points per game vs your age group or your league you should play up or switch leagues.  I think you should do that vs your birth year ideally and in your town ideally.  

 

 

 

[Blackheart]

2 hours ago, Clark17 said:

o snd lk u no 

So ur 4 chippaz?

[Brim006]

10 hours ago, siouxweet said:

The higher end depth at the youth hockey level is dwindling in ND.  You are down to 4 Bantam AA teams and Minot didn't even field one this season.  Take one kid off of GF and you have an A level team.  The Bantam A level is more or less a glorified B1 level as at least half the teams shouldn't even be at that level.  

This is funny to me. Youth hockey numbers are higher than ever across ND. AA is just a new optional label for some A teams and A is a mix of A and B and B is the new C. GF bantam AA prove to be one of the best in the nation by being top 5 year after year in Bantam AA. And they lose to some of the other ND AA teams as often as the MN teams. 

[gfhockey]

29 minutes ago, Brim006 said:

This is funny to me. Youth hockey numbers are higher than ever across ND. AA is just a new optional label for some A teams and A is a mix of A and B and B is the new C. GF bantam AA prove to be one of the best in the nation by being top 5 year after year in Bantam AA. And they lose to some of the other ND AA teams as often as the MN teams. 

I don’t think a single nd has beaten them this year

[Frozen4sioux]

31 minutes ago, Brim006 said:

This is funny to me. Youth hockey numbers are higher than ever across ND. AA is just a new optional label for some A teams and A is a mix of A and B and B is the new C. GF bantam AA prove to be one of the best in the nation by being top 5 year after year in Bantam AA. And they lose to some of the other ND AA teams as often as the MN teams. 

Yeah not sure what ND team has beaten them in the last decade other than a one off here or there. 

I wish that sentiment was true but having been involved in it for the last decade or so, it just isn't the case.   

GF biggest ally is playing two equal top level team in squirts and peewees. By the time those kids funnel down to the Aviators they are better off, the tiipity tops may leave but the rest of the BAA and BA players then seem to compete like hell with something to prove as they enter high school. Add in some really competent and coaching to the multi-generational depth and ..........

That depth they create just laps the rest of the state.   They do it right. IMHO and experiences.

 

 

[yzerman19]

Not asking rhetorically, but how do you think they'd do against the big dogs in national bound AAA, factoring in birth year, so 2009 players would have graduated bantam and be playing 15O or higher. 

[Frozen4sioux]

5 minutes ago, yzerman19 said:

Not asking rhetorically, but how do you think they'd do against the big dogs in national bound AAA, factoring in birth year, so 2009 players would have graduated bantam and be playing 15O or higher. 

Man it depends there is suuuuch a huge variety in  " AAA ".  But in the real big established programs realm I think GF would be to the Chicago Missions as the rest of ND is to the Aviators.   

[gfhockey]

13 minutes ago, Frozen4sioux said:

Yeah not sure what ND team has beaten them in the last decade other than a one off here or there. 

I wish that sentiment was true but having been involved in it for the last decade or so, it just isn't the case.   

GF biggest ally is playing two equal top level team in squirts and peewees. By the time those kids funnel down to the Aviators they are better off, the tiipity tops may leave but the rest of the BAA and BA players then seem to compete like hell with something to prove as they enter high school. Add in some really competent and coaching to the multi-generational depth and ..........

That depth they create just laps the rest of the state.   They do it right. IMHO and experiences.

 

 

GFHOCKEY really does rule

[yzerman19]

2 minutes ago, Frozen4sioux said:

Man it depends there is suuuuch a huge variety in  " AAA ".  But in the real big established programs realm I think GF would be to the Chicago Missions as the rest of ND is to the Aviators.   

Seams reasonable.  Yeah I'm not thinking the AAA in name only.   Thinking Mission, Caesars, Honeybaked,  Shattuck, Mount, BK and the like

[UNDMOORHEAD]

4 minutes ago, yzerman19 said:

Seams reasonable.  Yeah I'm not thinking the AAA in name only.   Thinking Mission, Caesars, Honeybaked,  Shattuck, Mount, BK and the like

Moorhead bantam AA beat Shattuck twice in Moorhead. They go down there to play two more next weekend.

[yzerman19]

1 minute ago, UNDMOORHEAD said:

Moorhead bantam AA beat Shattuck twice in Moorhead. They go down there to play two more next weekend.

They are an excellent bantam team not taking anything away from them, but they also have 2009s on that team.  The Shattuck team they play is all 2010s

[UNDMOORHEAD]

4 minutes ago, yzerman19 said:

They are an excellent bantam team not taking anything away from them, but they also have 2009s on that team.  The Shattuck team they play is all 2010s

I don't think a team of just Moorhead's best 2010s would beat Shattuck. Shattuck has a goalie on that team that is roughly 6ft 5in tall, the other is actually from Moorhead.

[yzerman19]

I think Moorhead has a line and a pairing of 2010s that can play with anybody. Depth would be the issue vs the blue blood AAAs-  I'd think same of all the top Association teams

[UNDMOORHEAD]

1 minute ago, yzerman19 said:

I think Moorhead has a line and a pairing of 2010s that can play with anybody. Depth would be the issue vs the blue blood AAAs-  I'd think same of all the top Association teams

Maybe Moorhead and Grand Fork's best 2010s would make a formidable AAA team.