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Minnesota Girls High School Hockey IV

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ne7minder said:
We saw it live and in person. The first 2 periods were brutal for Blake. They looked a little better in the 3rd which I think was Edina letting up a little & the Bears turning it up a notch. 5-2 final, Blake is not going to be #1 next week.
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Did see the stream eventually and like you said it wasn't the best game for Blake...
 
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KTDC said:
I was looking at Edina's player stats at the Hockey Hub and the whole team has a shooting percentage of 100% except Loli Fidler. Fidler is only shooting at 94% which I assume means Fidler isn't a very good player:)
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She missed on a penalty shot against Grand Rapids-Greenway.
 
Re: Minnesota Girls High School Hockey IV

KTDC said:
Taylor Heise had 7 goals and 2 assists yesterday.
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She is obviously an amazing player, maybe the best forward in the state, but I am anxious to see how she does when the competition ramps up. The teams Red Wing has played in their last half-dozen games or so have all been terrible.
 
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D2D said:
She is obviously an amazing player, maybe the best forward in the state, but I am anxious to see how she does when the competition ramps up. The teams Red Wing has played in their last half-dozen games or so have all been terrible.
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She captained and was stellar on the U18 team that just won the world championship. I think she might limp by.
 
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ne7minder said:
She captained and was stellar on the U18 team that just won the world championship. I think she might limp by.
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Well aware of her U18 team exploits! But at the high school level, opponents can afford to focus almost all of their attention on stopping her, although her section in Class A is so weak that tactic probably would never work. But I think it very well could once they get to the State Tournament, where the competition - and the ability to limit her offense - will ramp up considerably.

No matter what happens she's had an incredible year. In her 25 games played thus far she's scored 65 goals. That's just three shy of the rest of her team's 68! But to keep things in perspective you do have to consider that Red Wing has played a very soft schedule - per KRACH it ranked #83 out of 117 teams in the State.
 
I only mentioned it because 7 goals and 2 assists seemed like a lot for one game.

It was just intended as a fun fact.
 
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D2D said:
She is obviously an amazing player, maybe the best forward in the state, but I am anxious to see how she does when the competition ramps up. The teams Red Wing has played in their last half-dozen games or so have all been terrible.
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Not sure it will "Ramp up much". 5 good teams in AA & A is just flat out bad hockey. Sad where MN Girls Hockey is right now & I hope it rebounds over the next few years.
 
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GopherBadger said:
Not sure it will "Ramp up much". 5 good teams in AA & A is just flat out bad hockey. Sad where MN Girls Hockey is right now & I hope it rebounds over the next few years.
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There's a combined 21 IIHF gold medals playing in MN HS this year. If you count players not yet in college, the rest of the world has 20, and eight of them are at Shattuck. It seems like they're doing fine.
 
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MaizeRage said:
There's a combined 21 IIHF gold medals playing in MN HS this year. If you count players not yet in college, the rest of the world has 20, and eight of them are at Shattuck. It seems like they're doing fine.
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A. It's all relative
B. Well aware of good players in MN this year. I was referring to TEAMS...that is depth, goaltending, defense. Some ugly hockey.
 
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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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