2025-2026 ND High School Hockey Thread

[yzerman19]

In fact, I bet 3/4 of the 49 man invite list plays 15O AAA

[Wilbur]

Red River to the final winning 5-1. Put up 53 shots on Sheyenne. 

Central-Legacy underway.

[SiouxperDave]

Wow

[UND1983]

Attendance is abysmal at this tournament.  The state basketball tournaments draw 5x as many people as this.  

[gfhockey]

17 minutes ago, UND1983 said:

Attendance is abysmal at this tournament.  The state basketball tournaments draw 5x as many people as this.  

Gotta move it outta Fargo to a town that supports it

[planetearth]

23 hours ago, Frozen4sioux said:

 

Now do Bismarck..... 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.

My question is if they’d stayed would it make a HS difference? Did these minot/bismarck kids from pw to ban win at AA on the way up? 
 

and I’m not arguing that leaving early for the pay to play AAA is smart. I agree that’s a poor decision, especially given Canadian juniors can play NCAA now. 

[gfhockey]

Has there ever been a year where one town wins all the top tier titles?

 

boys hockey girls hockey bantam aa peewee aa 

[Frozen4sioux]

9 hours ago, gfhockey said:

Gotta move it outta Fargo to a town that supports it

Like Minot.

[gfhockey]

Just now, Frozen4sioux said:

Like Minot.

The mesa is crap

 

lastbyear in forks we had to open up the upper deck meaning over 6k fans!

[Wilbur]

Hats off to the Legacy goaltender.  68 saves, three off Walski's state tournament record.  

Best two teams in the ship should be a battle.  I'll pick RR.

[The Sicatoka]

Walski was multiple overtime.

[VC Sioux Fan]

State should be in GF every year. 

[SiouxperDave]

14 minutes ago, Wilbur said:

Hats off to the Legacy goaltender.  68 saves, three off Walski's state tournament record.  

Best two teams in the ship should be a battle.  I'll pick RR.

I think he would’ve easily broken the record if GFC didn’t have to kill that 5 minute penalty towards the end of the 3rd.

[Oxbow6]

20 minutes ago, VC Sioux Fan said:

State should be in GF every year. 

So 800 fans can squeeze into a 11600+ arena? 

There was lots empty seats for the semis at Scheels last night.

[gfhockey]

1 hour ago, VC Sioux Fan said:

State should be in GF every year. 

Agreed. There’s just something in the water over there where they produce 

[gfhockey]

45 minutes ago, Oxbow6 said:

So 800 fans can squeeze into a 11600+ arena? 

There was lots empty seats for the semis at Scheels last night.

Last time at Ralph they had to open up the top for the game

[Oxbow6]

39 minutes ago, gfhockey said:

Last time at Ralph they had to open up the top for the game

Considering it is usually both GF schools in the finals I can see that.

[siouxweet]

4 hours ago, gfhockey said:

Has there ever been a year where one town wins all the top tier titles?

 

boys hockey girls hockey bantam aa peewee aa 

Two years ago RR, BAA, BA, PWAA all won.

[gfhockey]

5 minutes ago, siouxweet said:

Two years ago RR, BAA, BA, PWAA all won.

No girls tho

[Ronix]

3 hours ago, VC Sioux Fan said:

State should be in GF every year. 

If we want to watch competitive hockey in the state they need to treat hockey the same as they do football.
 

Quarterfinals and semifinals should be at the home rink of the higher seed.
 

I am sure most of of here have played high school sports and when you travel to a tournament or out of town game that requires you to stay overnight and play in an empty facility is a lot different than having your entire fan base in buzzing facility for both the home and away teams. 
 

You could do the same as football and alternate between Grand Forks and Fargo for the finals. 
 

edit: I should note, a 10-1 drubbing is a 10-1 drubbing. But at least more of your fan base can watch than the 50 parents and the few kids that are there just because they don’t want to be in school. 

[siouxweet]

59 minutes ago, gfhockey said:

No girls tho

Correct 

[Wilbur]

Someone mentioned it earlier, and it shocked me was that you only had one Bantam team from GF qualify for the state tournament.

Watched a bit of the AA this morning.  Good game between WF and GF.  Bismarck hockey cam on YouTube if anyone interested. 

[siouxweet]

Central 6-3 tonight

[JakeLove]

1 hour ago, Ronix said:

If we want to watch competitive hockey in the state they need to treat hockey the same as they do football.

And volleyball, and basketball, and baseball, and wrestling, and probably speech, band, orchestra etc. - more than one level of play. 

[Wilbur]

Sheyenne ends up 3rd.  Good showing by Legacy, Sheyenne's goalie was good again today.

One more game and we officially get to early defection season.