Rep Retirement Lodge #158: Lodge Member's Habits

[MinnesotaNorthStar]

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For the most part school hockey in MN starts with JV and ends with Varsity. Unfortunately since he carries half his genes from me, he is unlikely to ever make either of those - although he'll try out for JV next year as a soph. Doubt he'll play hockey for BSM. He will try out for golf in the spring and soccer in the fall and because they aren't limited in numbers, he will probably play both. Or he may go out for the sailing club in the spring and I think he'll be great at that if he does. He's a natural sailor.

Do they not have a Bantam team anymore? I remember there being one when I played JV as a freshman, and I know my brother played Bantam for BSM as a freshman...

 

[goldy_331]

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Do they not have a Bantam team anymore? I remember there being one when I played JV as a freshman, and I know my brother played Bantam for BSM as a freshman...

Nope. I don't know what it was like when you were a kid, but from 6 years ago until 2 years ago, MN hockey association play was by home address only. Two years ago they started allowing players to play where they live, or where they attend school. So then Blake students could play in Hopkins and OLG students in Edina, etc.

 

[leswp1]

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Right, but he plays for Edina and his teammates are all Edina. If they cause trouble, it'll be on Edina. They'll be running around the hotel with their green sweatshirts on. Yeah, if I thought the BSM girls were going to cause trouble, I would be less concerned. I think they'll be on a shorter leash than our boys will be, plus we have some kids that can get in trouble anywhere, anytime.

I think this is the time I become thankful all over again that I don't need to go to a tournament for hockey ever again~ The kids were hooligans and the parents thought the hotels should just get over it.

The youth associations are entirely funded by the players' families. No public funds go into them. I grew up in Apple Valley, but was in the Rosemount High School district. Because of that, I played in the Rosemount Area Athletics Association. A guy who lived a few blocks away from me also attended Rosemount, his parents had him play in the Apple Valley association until we got into high school and then he switched to the Rosemount association. The schools can't dictate who's allowed into the various youth programs, no matter how much the high school coaches would prefer otherwise.

We have the same rules here. The HS coaches all threaten the kids if they don't play for X select team then they won't be on the school team. Pretty much an illegal way for them all to play on the same team yr round. So now league teams are pretty much a joke at Midget level.

 

[UncleRay]

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I'm in the Pole! Guess I haven't checked in for quite a while. And the Margaritas! have been flowing of late. Mrs. UncleRay gets Mexican Chicken for her birthday dinner - because it goes well with Margaritas! And there's always some for leftovers. I made some a few weeks before her Thanksgiving birthday, too. And my brothers wanted it for a post-Thanksgiving extravaganza. So, Margaritas! for the house. 'Cept for les, who gets Chocolate Milk.

 

[MinnesotaNorthStar]

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Nope. I don't know what it was like when you were a kid, but from 6 years ago until 2 years ago, MN hockey association play was by home address only. Two years ago they started allowing players to play where they live, or where they attend school. So then Blake students could play in Hopkins and OLG students in Edina, etc.

Address when I was growing up. Supposedly, I could have played for Edina instead of St. Louis Park since I live in the small SLP no man's land in an Edina ZIP code that doesn't seem to exist on paper. GoogleMaps can find it, but USPS? FedEx? UPS? Not in their system...

Either way, when I started playing the only other person in my OLG class that played hockey also played for SLP...

 

[leswp1]

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I'm in the Pole! Guess I haven't checked in for quite a while. And the Margaritas! have been flowing of late. Mrs. UncleRay gets Mexican Chicken for her birthday dinner - because it goes well with Margaritas! And there's always some for leftovers. I made some a few weeks before her Thanksgiving birthday, too. And my brothers wanted it for a post-Thanksgiving extravaganza. So, Margaritas! for the house. 'Cept for les, who gets Chocolate Milk.

Yum!

 

[hockeyplayer1015]

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Howdy. Back to work tomorrow, probably flying to Nashville or Birmingham. Ugh.

 

[Hammer]

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Life is good.

For a moment, anyway.

 

[MavHockey14]

Private schools don't often have a youth program. It's one of the things that irks the public school coaches.

Rosemount's coach must go absolutely insane.

 

[St. Clown]

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Rosemount's coach must go absolutely insane.

There were many reasons why we were rarely a good hockey school. This was one of them.

Speaking of which, when I was a freshman, we're the reason that the MSHSL dropped the horrible Tier I and Tier II format that they had originally established and switched to two distinct classes. We'd play our season in the then Lake Conference, going up against Bloomington Jefferson, Burnsville, Apple Valley, Eden Prairie and other big time hockey schools, and end up with a horrible record. So when tourney time came, we got dropped into the Tier II that first year it was around. Well, when we started playing the small schools and other schools with bad records we started mopping the floor with them. We ended up losing to Greenway (a small school) in the championship game 6-1. Greenway was a team that had beaten Cloquet earlier that year, who had taken Bloomington Jefferson into OT during the semifinal game in Tier I. After the tournament ended, our season record was 6-21-1. We hadn't won a single game until the tournament that year.

Things have become more stable for Rosemount hockey now, though. The city finally built an ice rink in 1993 with a lot of booster money and the state kicking in so it could build a national guard armory. Before that, we had to go all over the southern metro for youth hockey ice. Add to that, the high school had to split a rink with Apple Valley (AV and Rosemount are part of the same Independent School District 196, and the rink is attached to their school no less) as our home ice. My senior year (class of 95) we got a new coach and had a good team, losing to Apple Valley into overtime in the section semifinals. That AV team had Karl Goehring, Erik Westrum, Brad DaFoe, and a few other future D-I players on it, all juniors except DaFoe, I think. The next year AV won it all with a 26-1 record, including that 5OT game against Duluth East in the state semifinals.

 

[melmac]

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There were many reasons why we were rarely a good hockey school. This was one of them.

Speaking of which, when I was a freshman, we're the reason that the MSHSL dropped the horrible Tier I and Tier II format that they had originally established and switched to two distinct classes. We'd play our season in the then Lake Conference, going up against Bloomington Jefferson, Burnsville, Apple Valley, Eden Prairie and other big time hockey schools, and end up with a horrible record. So when tourney time came, we got dropped into the Tier II that first year it was around. Well, when we started playing the small schools and other schools with bad records we started mopping the floor with them. We ended up losing to Greenway (a small school) in the championship game 6-1. Greenway was a team that had beaten Cloquet earlier that year, who had taken Bloomington Jefferson into OT during the semifinal game in Tier I. After the tournament ended, our season record was 6-21-1. We hadn't won a single game until the tournament that year.

Things have become more stable for Rosemount hockey now, though. The city finally built an ice rink in 1993 with a lot of booster money and the state kicking in so it could build a national guard armory. Before that, we had to go all over the southern metro for youth hockey ice. Add to that, the high school had to split a rink with Apple Valley (AV and Rosemount are part of the same Independent School District 196, and the rink is attached to their school no less) as our home ice. My senior year (class of 95) we got a new coach and had a good team, losing to Apple Valley into overtime in the section semifinals. That AV team had Karl Goehring, Erik Westrum, Brad DaFoe, and a few other future D-I players on it, all juniors except DaFoe, I think. The next year AV won it all with a 26-1 record, including that 5OT game against Duluth East in the state semifinals.

That Rosemount team beat my Roosevelt team in the quarters. I think that was my first hockey game ever.

 

[MarkEagleUSA]

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Good morning to tLodge!

 

[Ralph Baer]

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Good Morning, MEUSA!


Good Morning to the rest of tLodge!

 

[Ralph Baer]

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That Rosemount team beat my Roosevelt team in the quarters. I think that was my first hockey game ever.

An interesting pole question might be did your team win or lose (or tie or eat bacon or ... ) the first game that you attended.

 

[gmann]

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Good morning Lodge.

 

[goldy_331]

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Good Morning Lodge.

 

[bigblue_dl]

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An interting pole question might be did your team win or lose (or tie or eat bacon or ... ) the first game that you attended.

I don't think I'd remember. I went to a North Stars game when I was really young, and I have no idea if they won or lost. If we're talking Tech, surprisingly, they won, it was THAT game. (Tech fans know which one I'm talking about)

 

[leswp1]

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I don't know. I was working the bar under the stands. I could have cared less about who won, only if we would make enough money to go to FLA. I think they won the D !! championship that yr.

 

[JF_Gophers]

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Gophers won the first game I attended, but I don't recall the opponent. It was at Williams arena.

 

[Lady wore Black]

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Good Morning, Lodge!