2025-2026 ND High School Hockey Thread

[siouxweet]

13 minutes ago, NDSU grad said:

Is the situation similar in Grand Forks?  I don’t follow high school hockey too closely, but my son GFC had a kid that battled Grubb when they were in bantams and could easily be playing AAA somewhere. 

Sounding more and more like RR's Ulmer going to play juniors next year.

[SiouxperDave]

Gritty win for the Davies girls. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a puck cross the goal line any slower than it did on their game tying goal. The Davies goalie gave her team the chance to steal that one.

[yzerman19]

30 minutes ago, Frozen4sioux said:

 

Now do Biismarck..... you'll have to take your socks off and use your toes as well.

The really sad crap is family's being suckered to leave for a notable programs 15U " AAA " team....     15AAA is 16U tier 2 but hey that extra A gets the checkbook out.

15O is a specific USA designation that has its own national tournament, I would not say the kids playing 15O AAA out of Shattuck or BK or Caesars or Honeybaked are playing AA...

[ChadR]

27 minutes ago, siouxweet said:

Sounding more and more like RR's Ulmer going to play juniors next year.

Is he really good enough though? Where does he think he is going to play.

[sioux rube]

44 minutes ago, Frozen4sioux said:

 

Now do Biismarck..... you'll have to take your socks off and use your toes as well.

The really sad crap is family's being suckered to leave for a notable programs 15U " AAA " team....     15AAA is 16U tier 2 but hey that extra A gets the checkbook out.

Talked to my buddy from Devils Lake who use to be on the NDAHA Board. He said Devils lake has lost 7 players to EGF High School and another 2 to bantams. That is asinine for a small town like DL 

[JacksonW]

15 hours ago, gfhockey said:

I’m a staunch booster of gf hockey 

Also referred to as a front runner

[Brim006]

9 minutes ago, ChadR said:

Is he really good enough though? Where does he think he is going to play.

He's easily good enough for a NAHL team. Better than all these clowns leaving early and paying to play AAA living with random strangers. 

[Brim006]

56 minutes ago, Frozen4sioux said:

 

Now do Biismarck..... you'll have to take your socks off and use your toes as well.

The really sad crap is family's being suckered to leave for a notable programs 15U " AAA " team....     15AAA is 16U tier 2 but hey that extra A gets the checkbook out.

Wow you weren't kidding. Century lost 6, Legacy lost 6 and even BHS lost 6 although it looks like maybe 2 of the BHS 6 just quit. Either way that is 18 kids just in Bismarck alone. No wonder they can't be competitive. 

[Wilbur]

1 hour ago, Frozen4sioux said:

Uffda Shanley looked rough, I caught the later parts of the game, came in right as the slewfoot was somehow called a minor penalty on Legacy.

PxP said Shanley's best player was boarder and hurt? I didn't see any penalties on that either?  I missed it so must not have been as bad as the announcer alluded?

He was boarded and broke his collar bone.  I was hoping a west team got through, but the officials missed that one.

[Brim006]

11 minutes ago, sioux rube said:

Talked to my buddy from Devils Lake who use to be on the NDAHA Board. He said Devils lake has lost 7 players to EGF High School and another 2 to bantams. That is asinine for a small town like DL 

Yeah, I don’t know the full backstory, but the way it’s been described to me is that when Panzer got run out of town for allegedly running some shady business practices for years, he made it his mission to destroy DL hockey after that...and he has been pretty successful. He’s managed to convince four different strong hockey families to move to EGF over the past few years, adding up to nine kids by my count. From what I can tell this year, that’s two now for EGF High School, two in bantams, and five in peewees.

It’s a pretty strange ordeal. Panzer has never really come across as especially sharp or personable to me, yet he somehow talked respectable families who I always thought were smart, loyal hockey people into uprooting their lives for their kids to play a slightly different schedule of teams in youth hockey. A few even sold or walked away from successful family businesses. The whole thing is just bizarre.

[Wilbur]

Games going on today:

Minot United vs. Jamestown

Shanley vs. Century

Sheyenne vs. Red River

Central vs. Legacy

Girls:

Century vs. Minot United

Legacy/BHS vs. Mandan

WF United vs. North/South

Davies/Shanley vs. Grand Forks Knightriders

 

[Frozen4sioux]

2 hours ago, yzerman19 said:

15O is a specific USA designation that has its own national tournament, I would not say the kids playing 15O AAA out of Shattuck or BK or Caesars or Honeybaked are playing AA...

If the kids legit they play 16U.

The trail of kids who play 15O that never sniff their 16U program is long line.

[Frozen4sioux]

1 hour ago, Brim006 said:

Wow you weren't kidding. Century lost 6, Legacy lost 6 and even BHS lost 6 although it looks like maybe 2 of the BHS 6 just quit. Either way that is 18 kids just in Bismarck alone. No wonder they can't be competitive. 

Yep.

And the lessons of others are not affecting the dreams of the fleeing masses for next year either.

[ChadR]

1 hour ago, Brim006 said:

Yeah, I don’t know the full backstory, but the way it’s been described to me is that when Panzer got run out of town for allegedly running some shady business practices for years, he made it his mission to destroy DL hockey after that...and he has been pretty successful. He’s managed to convince four different strong hockey families to move to EGF over the past few years, adding up to nine kids by my count. From what I can tell this year, that’s two now for EGF High School, two in bantams, and five in peewees.

It’s a pretty strange ordeal. Panzer has never really come across as especially sharp or personable to me, yet he somehow talked respectable families who I always thought were smart, loyal hockey people into uprooting their lives for their kids to play a slightly different schedule of teams in youth hockey. A few even sold or walked away from successful family businesses. The whole thing is just bizarre.

Interesting. Had not heard that story.

[90siouxfan]

17 hours ago, gfhockey said:

I’m a staunch booster of gf hockey 

That is not in doubt....   I find it humorous that your antics likely cause persons with no connections to any program to want GF teams to fail.

[siouxweet]

3 hours ago, Wilbur said:

Games going on today:

Minot United vs. Jamestown

Shanley vs. Century

Sheyenne vs. Red River

Central vs. Legacy

Girls:

Century vs. Minot United

Legacy/BHS vs. Mandan

WF United vs. North/South

Davies/Shanley vs. Grand Forks Knightriders

 

On the girls side WF with the massive upset over North/South.

[Wilbur]

North/South loses in OT back to back years at the state tournament.  You wonder how many kids like Fischer can come through a program.  Soft goal to end the game, but thats OT for ya.  

36 minutes ago, siouxweet said:

On the girls side WF with the massive upset over North/South.

 

[SiouxperDave]

1 hour ago, siouxweet said:

On the girls side WF with the massive upset over North/South.

I feel bad for N/S’s goalie. 

[gfhockey]

Davies goalie having game of her life

 

she has no help yho

[sioux rube]

Jays ended Minots season today and Mandans last Saturday. Oh how that puts a smile on my face 

[Oxbow6]

10 minutes ago, SiouxperDave said:

I feel bad for N/S’s goalie. 

That was brutal.  Misplayed an easy cover up of the puck. Had a Bill Buckner feel to it.

[siouxweet]

The PA announcer is an absolute embarrassment for being a PA announcer.  Horrible pronunciation of names.  Pretty sure there was zero effort to talk to the teams about how names should be announced. 

[JakeLove]

The announcers have mentioned the 2 girls semifinal games many time, BUT HAVE YET TO MENTION THE WINNERS 

[gfhockey]

Lining up really nicely for a Saturday night

too bad it’s not at the best rink in the nationwide 

[yzerman19]

8 hours ago, Frozen4sioux said:

If the kids legit they play 16U.

The trail of kids who play 15O that never sniff their 16U program is long line.

There will be players playing 15O AAA that get invited to NTDP