Annie Lund

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[MNHockeyLife @MNHockeyLife]

🏆 Warroad are your Bantam A State Champions ➡️Vicente Green: 3 goals, 1 assist in the championship game

[YHH @YouthHockeyHub]

Bantam A State
Final

FINAL
Warroad > Thief River Falls (7-2)

WAR: Green (3), Daoheuang, Lee, P. Marvin, Maleport
TRF: Peralta, Hanson

SOG: 41-29

Warroad is your 2026 Bantam A STATE CHAMPION!

[Warroad Girls Hockey @Lady_Warriors00]

Championship game for the 12U!! #ItsFunToWin

[KVRR Sports @KVRRSports]

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[Austin Bruins @theaustinbruins]

The return of Ryan Lund. The Debut of Cater McKay.

Tonight's shaping up to be a good one

Starting Lines are presented by Potach, Mitchell and Prouty Dental Clinic

#BearWitness

[YHH @YouthHockeyHub]

2026 Bantam Player of the Year Finalists

Six players, including five forwards and a defenseman, make up this year's group of finalists.

STORY LINK: https://t.co/YTEyX1b49B

[Strib Varsity @StribVarsity]

Ayla Caskey, Gavin Andersen, Kylee Binkley, Chloe Johnson, Brandon Mickelson, Trey Parker and Ethan Sonju earned the honors. https://t.co/fWTA4Cyofh

[Austin Bruins @theaustinbruins]

When the air chills and the water freezes…

the most dangerous ice is the kind you never see coming.

Black Ice has arrived at Riverside Arena.

Visitors, be warned.

#BlackIce #BearWitness

[Annie Lund @AnnieLund25]

@Hardo27 @MNHockeyStar So cool !

[Legacy Hockey @Legacy_Hockey]

Photos, Recap, Key Moment, Three Stars, By the Numbers, They Said It and more from Warroad's Class 1A state championship game victory over Hibbing/Chisholm. https://t.co/SHVEgzEicJ
@HockeyHibbing @WarroadHShockey

[Chris Long @ChrisLongKSTP]

This isn’t the first time Hibbing/Chisholm and Warroad have played for a state championship.

They met in the very first Class A title game back in 1994… and some sons and nephews are on the ice today.

That was Warroad’s first state title.

[YHH @YouthHockeyHub]

BHS Class AA State
Final thoughts   

Minnetonka's decision not to attend a postgame press conference was disappointing, yes. 

Often, the losing team (it's okay to say "lose", I promise) has insight into the game (obviously), but also on the journey the team has embarked on together, how unheralded players showed up in the season's biggest game, and a perspective on the season as a whole.  

There were also questions YHH had for the Minnetonka coaching staff: who runs the program's strength and conditioning? How has the youth system prepared this team to become such a well-oiled machine? How did you get every player to buy in while running four lines every game and ignoring point totals? Among others. 

Hibbing/Chisholm lost in overtime, too. They showed up in that little room next to the Grand Casino Arena cafeteria, with harsh lighting and TV cameras lined against the back wall. 

Head Coach Aaron Jamnick and three players. Gavin Lamphere, Tate Swanson, and Hunter Gustavsson. 

They answered questions from local and statewide media. 

The best part? 

Senior goaltender Gavin Lamphere sat there, clear-eyed, and answered every question posed to him. He talked about what he said to his distraught teammates after the game. About how the underclassmen had great careers in front of them. About how he told them this loss wasn't the end of the world. 

His most poignant comments were about Warroad, the team that had just ripped his heart out in overtime. He tipped his cap to the Warriors. He said their team had a great story. He mentioned Warrior goaltender Patrick Kennedy, and his rise from backup to the Class A All-Tournament Team. 

And, yes, he wore his silver medal. 

Medals, man. 

Some people spend way too much time thinking about what kids (KIDS) are doing with a ribbon and a metal disc, moments after their season ends. Some kids wear them. Some take them off. Some throw them in the garbage before heading down the tunnel. 

The time to remind them that the medal is a symbol of all the work they've put in, and that every other team but one would kill to be in their place, likely isn't on the ice in front of cameras and a crowd. Teaching those life lessons should not come at the cost of embarrassing an emotionally vulnerable teenager.   

But I'm glad Gavin Lamphere wore his. Hopefully, he'll cherish it for the rest of his life. 

Hopefully, the Minnetonka boys will eventually cherish theirs, too. 

Thanks for following along this week. Being able to cover the boys' and girls' high school seasons is truly, sincerely, an honor. 

See you next year.

[Warroad Schools @WarroadS]

WELCOME HOME CHAMPIONS!!!! 🏒🖤💛🥇

[ClassAGuy @ClassAHockeyGuy]

BHS Class A State Tourney History
DYK that the 1st ever Class A Tourney featured a Title Game of Hibbing vs Warroad. Even way back in 94 there was a Lund on the Warriors and Sampairs on the Zephyrs and many familiar teams!

Check out Class A History at https://t.co/7n4UabVGLR

[ClassAGuy @ClassAHockeyGuy]

Way Too Early BHS Class A Ranking 26-27
As always, this assumes everyone returns to their teams. Next year could be the best Class A field in a long time. If the graphic is hard to read, check out the Way Too Early Ranking at-
https://t.co/n0QXKlfj9m

[Annie Lund @AnnieLund25]

“To all the guys who fell short”
They felt that and I felt that as a parent!

[Charlie Yaeger @ShotOfYaegerIV]

"This win goes out to all those guys who fell short."

After netting the game winning goal in Overtime, Mooney Shaugabay dedicates the win to all @WarroadHShockey Warriors that wore the jersey before him!

[YHH @YouthHockeyHub]

BHS
Class A State Final

Warroad > Hibbing/Chisholm (1-0, early 1P)

Conner Lund puts the Warriors on top just 74 seconds into the game!

[YHH @YouthHockeyHub]

BHS Class A State Final

End 1
Warroad > Hibbing/Chisholm (1-0)

WAR: Lund

Conner Lund puts Warroad ahead after one, Patrick Kennedy a perfect 12/12 so far

[YHH @YouthHockeyHub]

BHS Class A State Final

FINAL: Warroad > Hibbing/Chisholm (5-4 OT)

WAR: Andersen (2), Lund, A. Hontvet, Shaugabay
HC: Rewertz (2), Hildenbrand, Galli

SOG: 47-33 H/C

[Annie Lund @AnnieLund25]

Dang right!!!

[Charlie Yaeger @ShotOfYaegerIV]

"I got two of the red ones and a white one. And it feels awfully good to have a blue one now."

Jay Hardwick on winning his first state title as the @WarroadHShockey head coach!