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Re: Minnesota Girls High School Hockey IV
Hard if not impossible to measure overall depth of teams. There will always be some excellent squads and others that are quite frankly extremely weak in comparison. When you have well over 100 teams scattered across the State, many in very small communities, it will always be this way.
Then there are a few select teams located primarily in the suburbs of the Twin Cities that truly do stand out, but not necessarily every year consistently. This year's two top-ranked teams are public school Edina at #1 and second-ranked Blake, a private school located just a few miles away. Assuming they both win their section semifinal games against Cretin-Derham Hall and Wayzata respectively tomorrow night, they would face off in an epic section final game on Friday. I was curious so I did a quick count of each team's committed recruits, and found that Edina's roster includes 7, and Blake's 8. By school and upon graduation the combined 15 will be headed to:
Gophers - 5
Harvard - 2
Dartmouth - 2
Cornell - 2
Princeton - 1
Yale - 1
Penn State - 1
Northeastern - 1
(in addition, three other girls are shown to be attending and playing hockey at Middlebury, Williams and Amherst)
So obviously lots of talent (and brainpower!) on the ice should they meet in the section final on Friday night, but too bad only one will make it to the State Tournament which starts in a couple weeks.
Hard if not impossible to measure overall depth of teams. There will always be some excellent squads and others that are quite frankly extremely weak in comparison. When you have well over 100 teams scattered across the State, many in very small communities, it will always be this way.
Then there are a few select teams located primarily in the suburbs of the Twin Cities that truly do stand out, but not necessarily every year consistently. This year's two top-ranked teams are public school Edina at #1 and second-ranked Blake, a private school located just a few miles away. Assuming they both win their section semifinal games against Cretin-Derham Hall and Wayzata respectively tomorrow night, they would face off in an epic section final game on Friday. I was curious so I did a quick count of each team's committed recruits, and found that Edina's roster includes 7, and Blake's 8. By school and upon graduation the combined 15 will be headed to:
Gophers - 5
Harvard - 2
Dartmouth - 2
Cornell - 2
Princeton - 1
Yale - 1
Penn State - 1
Northeastern - 1
(in addition, three other girls are shown to be attending and playing hockey at Middlebury, Williams and Amherst)
So obviously lots of talent (and brainpower!) on the ice should they meet in the section final on Friday night, but too bad only one will make it to the State Tournament which starts in a couple weeks.
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