Minnesota Girls High School Hockey III

[joehockey]

You're right we shouldn't look past the first round, but each of these teams wants it so bad I don't think they will let anything get in the way of Tuesday. But yes, I should have waited.

By the way, anybody who is free Friday night should make an attempt to go see the HM-Tartan game if they have never seen Kait Rolando play. This will likely be her last HS game. I think she's among the best I've ever seen. A couple other senior goalies who are considered 'special' had uneven seasons--but not her. From all reports she has been stellar all year.

And CDH two years ago should never have been considered a surprise. They had 3 D1 seniors and a near-D1 goalie. Their record wasn't great only because Wild was off playing with the US 18 team quite a bit and Jondal could only join the squad in January. Their isn't anything going on like that this year.

Agree on Rolando she is very good well deserving of Ms Goalie finalist and always plays HM tough - game between Tartan and HM is actual on the 10th at St. Croix not Friday:

WB versus CDH @ StillwaterArena Wednesday Feb. 10, 2010...5:30 PM
HM versus Tartan @ Stilwater Arena Wednesday Feb. 10, 2010...7:30 PM

[ARM]

SECTION 7A
Thursday’s Quarterfinals
At 7 p.m.
No. 8 Babbitt-Embarrass (7-14) at No. 1 Eveleth-Gilbert Area (20-4-1)
No. 5 Moose Lake Area (11-13) at No. 4 Hibbing-Chisholm (4-20-1)
No. 7 Silver Bay Area (7-17-1) at No. 2 Chisago Lakes Area (9-13-3)
No. 6 International Falls (11-11-3) at No. 3 Princeton (6-11-7)

I'd heard that this section was down this year, but 4 wins is enough to get a home quarter? Ouch.

[AncientOne]

I'd heard that this section was down this year, but 4 wins is enough to get a home quarter? Ouch.

Thanks ARM -- I didn't notice it until you pointed it out. Hard to believe! Checked their record on the MSHSL web site and it's true! See below:

Schedule
11/17/2009 Proctor/Hermantown/Marshallsch 1 - 11 L
11/20/2009 Roseville Area 0 - 10 L
11/21/2009 White Bear Lake Area 0 - 5 L
11/27/2009 Blaine High School 0 - 6 L
11/28/2009 Alexandria 2 - 2 T
12/1/2009 Duluth Northern Stars 2 - 1 W
12/4/2009 Babbitt-Embarrass Knights 5 - 1 W
12/8/2009 C-E-C Lumberjacks 1 - 4 L
12/10/2009 Eveleth-Gilbert 1 - 2 L
12/15/2009 International Falls H.S. 1 - 2 L
12/19/2009 Chisago Lakes Area 2 - 3 L
12/22/2009 Bemidji 1 - 3 L
12/31/2009 South Saint Paul 0 - 5 L
1/1/2010 Eastview 0 - 2 L
1/2/2010 Crookston High School Pirates 1 - 5 L
1/5/2010 Grand Rapids-Greenway 0 - 9 L
1/8/2010 Eveleth-Gilbert 2 - 3 L
1/12/2010 Duluth Northern Stars 2 - 4 L
1/15/2010 Roseau 1 - 6 L
1/16/2010 Crookston High School Pirates 2 - 5 L
1/21/2010 Proctor/Hermantown/Marshallsch 0 - 7 L
1/26/2010 SilverB/Two H/Cook Cty 4 - 2 W
1/28/2010 International Falls H.S. 3 - 1 W
2/1/2010 C-E-C Lumberjacks 0 - 1 L
2/5/2010 Grand Rapids-Greenway 1 - 2 L

Must have been an interesting Section meeting to decide the seedings!

[joehockey]

Section 4AA - St Croix Tonight

White Bear 3-Cretin Derham Hall 2 (WB came from behind to win)
Hill Murray 11 - Tartan 2

[brookyone]

Grand Rapids-Greenway/Forest Lake winner vs. Proctor-Hermantown

I thought I heard Dana Gallop suffered an injury recently. Hope that's not true...or if true, she mends quickly.

Keep an eye on JC of ER/Zimmerman!

[brookyone]

Section 4AA - St Croix Tonight

White Bear 3-Cretin Derham Hall 2 (WB came from behind to win)
Hill Murray 11 - Tartan 2

I think we're gonna see some barn burning tilts in 4AA in the next round...and the final obviously.

Most brackets are being updated in a timely manner:

http://www.mshsl.org/mshsl/activitypage.asp?actnum=460

[capitalist]

Sorry about the false advertising concerning Kaitlyn Rolando. I didn't realize she was out the last couple of games and didn't play last night.

[joehockey]

Sorry about the false advertising concerning Kaitlyn Rolando. I didn't realize she was out the last couple of games and didn't play last night.

The 8th grade goalie last night for Tartan played very well - HM came hard in the first and thrid and Tartan's speed didn't match up. I was sorry for all that Rolando had to finish her HS carreer in street sweats on the bench she is truly one of the best goalies in MN and one that to few have seen or know about.

[GoGoGophers]

Here are your top 5 for Senior Goalie.
http://www.letsplayhockey.com/2010seniorgoalie5.html

[brookyone]

Here are your top 5 for Senior Goalie.
http://www.letsplayhockey.com/2010seniorgoalie5.html

With pictures:

http://www.letsplayhockey.com/1004cover.pdf

[brookyone]

Hey anyone know why the MN Girls HS Forum is down?

Still unable to access...

[capitalist]

Here are your top 5 for Senior Goalie.
http://www.letsplayhockey.com/2010seniorgoalie5.html

So the lowest GPA among the 5 is 3.77, it looks like a couple of them will be valedictorians, one sings the National Anthem before home games (a Stillwater player does the same, are there more out there?), and a couple of them want to be doctors. And people wonder why we're fans of girls/women's hockey.....

[Hux]

I notice in the player bios that they have Miss Bonapace-Potvin headed to North Dakota (UND). Could this be a typo since she was supposedly committed to UMD?

[joehockey]

I notice in the player bios that they have Miss Bonapace-Potvin headed to North Dakota (UND). Could this be a typo since she was supposedly committed to UMD?

Hux she is UND bound not UMD

[Hux]

Hux she is UND bound not UMD

Ok, well that settles the "oh, what will they do with all the goalies in Duluth? conundrum. I'll update "the List"

[joehockey]

So Minn Hock Girls Hockey Forum looks like it has either crashed or is no more?

[dhmn]

Since USHSHO seems to have gone belly up (or maybe didn't renew their domain in time and hopefully will be back..)

Duluth knocked off CEC 2-1 tonight...2-0 well into the third when Courtney Esse finally got CEC on the board with 5 minutes left.

The Lumberjacks were without Jessie Ryan who injured an elbow in Bemidji in the final game of the regular season. At times, both teams struggled to get the puck out of their own zone once the offense got it in, but without Ryan the Jacks had more of those problems. Both CEC goaltenders got time in what turned out to be the final games of their high school careers.

Paige Turner played well for Duluth whether getting faceoffs by directing shots over the glass into the netting, or by covering the puck.

Duluth gets Elk River on Saturday at noon...until this season the section semi-finals were a doubleheader on Saturday but I guess that was changed for Elk River? They don't do high seed site for the boys, or section 7A so it's hard to know exactly why they are doing it this way.

Got a few hours of picture editing to do.. but will post a link here sometime in the middle of the night I guess

[hawkhockey]

recently heard that a defensewoman from Minn. is heading to NH to play for Saint Anselm.Anyone know who this might be and her skill level?

[capitalist]

First of all you can drop the PC lingo. This is Minnesota and she's a defenseman. She won't be a 'defensewoman' until she reaches the East Coast.

[AncientOne]

Links to the 7AA & 7A brackets with 1st Round results:
7AA: http://www.mshsl.org/mshsl/showbrackets.asp?tournid=474
Duluth & PHM win.
7A: http://www.mshsl.org/mshsl/showbrackets.asp?tournid=645