Congratulations to Jaxson Perron and Jakob Bodin on being selected to the District 6 Spring High Performance 14 team! Good luck in Duluth next weekend! Way to go LAKERS!!
Wiz Wyatt Award
2024
Congrats to the 4 finalists chosen from dozens of entries submitted by teams from all over MN. Two from the east metro and two from the west.
Finalists all are multi-sport student athletes and leaders on their team.
Finalists: https://t.co/oujcU4LQXC
5-3 loss ends our season. Congratulations to @SLP_PWAA on their win and best of luck to them as they move on!
Scoring
🚨🍎Volp
🚨 Lesnar
🚨 Bodin
🍎🍎 Markwell
🍎 Ulrich
🍎 Kopas
🥅Evanson/Pickens🥅
Game Day! It’s must-win hockey from here on out! We’re back to Maple Grove for an early morning tilt vs @SLP_PWAA. One game at a time, survive and advance! Let’s go LAKERS!!
It took double overtime to decide, but the Lakers fall 3-2 to White Bear. Great game, and congratulations to White Bear on the hard fought victory. We’re back tomorrow morning in must-win game against @SLP_PWAA
Not done yet!
Scoring
🚨 Ulrich
🚨 Bodin
🍎 Didion
🥅Pickens🥅
Game Day! It’s Regional playoff time! We’re heading to Maple Grove for a first round matchup against White Bear Lake. Puck drops at 4! If you want to be the best you have to beat the best! Let’s go LAKERS!!
Minnesota Regional Playoffs start today!
Here are your Week 23 Minn-Kota Peewee AA Top 10 rankings presented by @GameSheetInc 🇺🇸 🏒 🥅 🚨 🇺🇸
https://t.co/n9nGeQZI8C
KIDS: Every level you go up, the less likely you are to see a player try to beat a defender 1v1.
Why?
The higher the level you play, the less likely you are to beat a defender 1v1.
Defensemen are too good. They are faster, smarter, close quicker, and there’s less time and space to even try to attempt it.
If you want to play at higher levels of hockey, beating defenders down the ice 1v1 is not what is going to get you there.
Developing your hockey sense by using your teammates and understanding how plays develop…that’s what translates to the next level.
Check out Matt Barzal on this play. It’s 3v3 overtime so he has plenty of time and space to beat the defender up the ice 1v1, especially with his elite skillset.
But no.
He brings the puck to the middle, uses his situational skating to protect it, and bides time for his teammates to get open.
And once Horvat does get open – he hits him for the overtime winner.
1v1 hockey does not translate to the next level. Hockey sense and awareness does.
I’ve seen so many kids that were bigger and faster than everyone at young ages be rewarded for taking the puck end to end and scoring. That gets you wins at young ages, but it does not make smart hockey players.
Because when everyone else catches up physically, if that player wasn’t taught the right way to play…they will get passed by.
Smart hockey players make it to higher levels. Fast players who do not know how to use their teammates do not.
Coaches, please coach accordingly.
The NCHC leader in goals for February takes home the Rookie of the Month award! In six games, Alex Bump tallied nine points on five goals and four assists!
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#BroncosReign
Youth - Toughest Region
Source: YHH Staff Rankings
PeeWee AA (West)
4 top-10 teams (#7 OMG, #10 Andover) + a an eye popping 1st rounder between #8 PL and #6 WBL.
To see all Region seeds, sites and 1st Rd matchups go to our Youth Region Guide
YRG: https://t.co/tmC35o2Jgn