2011 Minnesota State High School Hockey Tournament

[Bear55]

So who do you like?

Class A

Quarterfinals: Wednesday, March 9

Hermantown vs Alexandria (11 a.m.)

Rochester Lourdes vs Hibbing (1 p.m.)

St. Thomas Academy vs New Ulm (6 p.m.)

Breck vs Thief River Falls (8 p.m.)

Class AA

Quarterfinals: Thursday, March 10

Edina vs Blaine (11 a.m.)

Duluth East vs White Bear Lake (1 p.m.)

Eden Prairie vs Lakeville North (6 p.m.)

Eagan vs Moorhead (8 p.m.)

[jwmiller33]

Hermantown and Eden prairie

[hugoslugger]

White Bear lake if they play complete games instead of only showing up for 2 periods and Hermantown

[Quackaddict9]

I'm excited to see what Kyle Rau has to show for himself for Eden Prairie. They are the favorites to win it but the cake eaters were too in 09 and got beat by the Spuds, so anything can happen.

ok so what channel is the tourney on, its usually on forty5 (45) but I have direct and don't have it. Any help appreciated.

[Bear55]

I'm excited to see what Kyle Rau has to show for himself for Eden Prairie. They are the favorites to win it but the cake eaters were too in 09 and got beat by the Spuds, so anything can happen.

ok so what channel is the tourney on, its usually on forty5 (45) but I have direct and don't have it. Any help appreciated.

I'm also excited to watch Rau play, you could see the talent when they won state when he was a sophmore. Should be fun to watch him this time around, I can't wait to see him in a Gopher uni.

[walleyefisher0990]

I like st. thomas and eden prarie

[Bear55]

I am going to go with Hermantown, Hibbing, STA, and Breck today.

[Shorelunch]

ok so what channel is the tourney on, its usually on forty5 (45) but I have direct and don't have it. Any help appreciated.

In Bji, with an antenna, we do not get channel 45. However, if you go here kstc45.com and scroll down, you'll see a red box to click on to watch the State Tourney online. The direct link is prep45.kstc45.com

[jwmiller33]

Today's Class A semi-final games predictions

Hermantown over Alex

Hibbing pulling the upset over Lourdes (they have always been a playoff team)

STA cruises past New Ulm

Breck over TRF

[cbrooks]

I got to root for section 8 TRF.

[Bear55]

Thanks for the link shorelunch, I can see my production dropping off dramatically around game time today.

[jwmiller33]

CBROOKS-as a former Hermantown Hawk, there's nothing I would love more than for the boys from TRF to hand the private schoolers from Breck their lunch on a platter. I'm still bitter about Breck winning the ship last year

[Shorelunch]

Class A

Quarterfinals: Wednesday, March 9

Hermantown vs Alexandria (11 a.m.) Hermantown should cruise

Rochester Lourdes vs Hibbing (1 p.m.) Let's go with 'da rangers

St. Thomas Academy vs New Ulm (6 p.m.) Go New Ulm, but realistically . . . STA

Breck vs Thief River Falls (8 p.m.) Let's sk8 TRF! Should be a good tilt.

Class AA

Quarterfinals: Thursday, March 10

Edina vs Blaine (11 a.m.) Cake

Duluth East vs White Bear Lake (1 p.m.) DE

Eden Prairie vs Lakeville North (6 p.m.) EP

Eagan vs Moorhead (8 p.m.) Let's go Spuds - make BJI look good in losing.

[cbrooks]

It will be a big upset for TRF to beat Breck. They have some future stars on that team.

I'm also pulling for the Spuds in AA.

[Bear55]

H-town wins 5-1. Alex was up 1-0 early in the 2nd but by the time I checked back (2nd intermission) Hermantown popped in 5.

[cbrooks]

Can anyone tell me what happen to Apple Valley? I thought they where suppose to be one of the top teams. Who did they get upset by?

[PierBridge]

I'll take New Ulm plus the 9 1/2 against STA......

Other than that ...St Thomas wins the class A portion easily.

Class AA

Quarterfinals: Thursday, March 10

Edina vs Blaine (11 a.m.)Blaine wins 4-3 in OT

Duluth East vs White Bear Lake (1 p.m.) I look "hope" for Duluth to choke this one away late.....3-2 WBL....

Eden Prairie vs Lakeville North (6 p.m.) 57 saves won't be enough for the Lakeville goalie "Lingren" in this one....4-1 EP

Eagan vs Moorhead (8 p.m.) Not sure on this one but I'm hoping Eagan can stun the Spuds and send them packing as is the norm for da spudster's : )

[Quackaddict9]

Can anyone tell me what happen to Apple Valley? I thought they where suppose to be one of the top teams. Who did they get upset by?

They lost to Eagan in sectional finals 1-0. They also lost to Eagan twice in the regular season by 1 goal each game. Eagan had the #1 seed so I don't know if there was a upset but two good teams battling for a spot at the Xcel.

[cbrooks]

Thanks Quack.

Tells you how competitive some of those sections are in Minnesota.

[jwmiller33]

Pier, how do you figure St Thomas Academy is going to "easily" take the Class A title? Hermantown has shown they can play with the big dogs, especially when they went into Eden Prairie's (#1 rank in class AA) rink and took them into overtime. If anything, it will be a great game. I don't see any team in class A "easily" taking home the ship.

[Bear55]

Hibbing wins 4-0.

[jwmiller33]

Hibbing wins 4-0.

[HOT SPOT]

Does anyone know what chanel the games are on Direst TV?

Thanks

[Bryce]

45 if your local package is set to the metro. Need to specify area if different so someone can help.

[HOT SPOT]

Thanks, I am not sure where its out of. I am Renting a house so I dont see the bill But I am living in Baudette MN if that would help.

[Quackaddict9]

Thanks, I am not sure where its out of. I am Renting a house so I dont see the bill But I am living in Baudette MN if that would help.

I think we are both SOL, I have direct tv and don't get twin cities channels and they do not have a package for it as we've asked. We like the news channels out of the cities, they do much better job for close captioning compared to Fargo/Grand Forks news.

You can watch the games online though, go back a page in this thread it will help ya.

[Bryce]

Is there a mercy rule? Big ouch for that hockey hot bed of New Ulm.

[cbrooks]

I watch the Hibbing/Rochester game. The goalie for Hibbing Trupp I think... look really good. There was a few shots that would normally go in he stop today. I think they have Hermantown next should be a good game to watch.

13 to 2 in the St Thomas game...they should just get this game over.

Go Prowlers!

Go Spuds!

[lovebigbluegills]

Is there a mercy rule? Big ouch for that hockey hot bed of New Ulm.

Exactly...why didn't the minimum 6 goal lead result in a running time third period?

If I'm not mistaken, it's a rule that applies to all (MN) high school games?

[lovebigbluegills]

How about those Prowlers? A good first and third period, and pulled out the win. The second period scared me a bit though.

They'll have to play a solid game tomorrow if they want to play in the championship game.