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Speaking it is the star of the show re coach Reed Larson episode 82 we are officially 15 weeks in to the boys high school hockey season we’re officially into playoffs and by the time most of you listen or hear this or watch it we will be one week away from the boy State

High School hockey tournament already yeah we’re grinding we’re we’re deep into it it’s uh it’s the day before or two days before most teams are playing their section final there are a few here tonight or tomorrow that are taking place um that are semifinals and those games then their finals will end

Up being on Friday March 1 all those games have to be completed by March 1 so that the weekend they have for seating and everybody seating for the state tournament then everything is situated for teams to get situated for the state tournament yeah so we’re filming Tuesday

Night uh because we got a game to watch tomorrow uh are you making the trip or are you turning it on the tube got it well I got to turn it on the phone because my daughter has got pulled up to the varsity for playoff basketball so

I’m gonna bead at the gym here just as important but you know what um I will be you GNA head down nope I will be on the couch dialed in to YouTube TV watching uh watching the Hermantown Hibbing game and and uh I I’m not going

To take a side I’m just going to watch for so many years I was involved in section 7A and I had a horse in the race this time I don’t have a horse in the race I I guess maybe I have a little bit of a preference but I’m not going to

Speak that at the moment I’m just G to tell you I’m gonna be excited to watch a team um that can hopefully give Herman toon a run for the mind yeah oh absolutely yeah so yeah we got lots of lots of hockey it’s gonna be fun I said

A week you’re talking about the seatings just a week from today we’ll know the seatings we’ll know before that but I mean it’s just like I said for the state tournament yeah I mean everything is like happening so fast so um but yeah we’ll get into all these games here in

Just a little bit um so uh once again so tell your friends tell your enemies the two show where your source for high school hockey coverage up in Minnesota’s Arrowhead region uh give us a rating on Apple podcast if you can five star wouldn’t hurt right uh we asked for 10

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Might remember bill robc I remember that name very well from high school hockey yeah Hibbing native Hibbing boy uh now wi that a Trojan on a guy my age who if he still had eligibility would be in the lineup still today Chris James and then

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Going to get into our semifinal Saturday thoughts from down at Amsoil uh why don’t we just we’ll just go in the same order as as the games were played so the noon game Grand rers Thunderhawk Rock Ridge Wolverines why don’t I just start and I’ll kind of get your opinion on on

Some stuff uh but I thought and we talked a little bit after the game but I thought both teams started pretty flat uh I was sitting with Gundy and I think about four and a half minutes into that game there was one shot Grand Rapids is

Up one nothing you know guys were just kind of feeling each other out what were your thoughts on the start of that one yeah I think you got to get the nerves out of you in that situation you everybody’s in an unfamiliar building play in amoil you you know a different

Environment you there were a decent amount of fans there but you can’t tell because there’s so much seating in there it’s it’s not we’ll get into that later we will yeah but it but I think both team just is trying to feel it out a little bit maybe a little bit of nerves

On both sides but then I think it was very clear at about maybe about the 10minute mark into the period where it just the control got taken over right well and you’ve talked all year you said you know you know one of our struggles with Grand Rapids is scoring goals not

On Saturday no not and they attacked in that and got a lot of rebound not not than the last two games it hasn’t been a problem so um you know one might say wow were we saving them all for playoffs maybe we were and I’ll be okay with that

If we’re saving them for playoffs uh we had a lot of a lot of games that were one goal games this year a lot of games where you know it was two to one or one to nothing you know like that and and it’s nice back-to-back weeks to have you

Know or back-to-back games one where you scor nine and another one where you scored six so apparently you know the work that we’ve done over the course of the last you know month month and a half of just trying to get guys to the front of the net trying to get shots off

Without dusting it off extra times stick stick we’ve kind try kind of tried to break some of those habits to get shots off quicker and they’ve paid off so uh how can I put this you know I I guess I thought Rock Ridge would be a little looser kind of come and maybe

Embrace the underdog role Embrace this is our first year in daa maybe com in a little hotter just because the pressure was definitely on you versus them you know and and uh I didn’t see that and maybe one reason and and with all your coaching experience not just in hockey

But football but obviously last Tuesday they had a very emotional game going into four overtimes do you think they kind of used up their their emotional capital or just they were just almost wore out maybe emotionally as they came into this one well that could be the

Case I mean they they are kids you’re talking about teenagers who when emotions they might call that kind of an emotional hangover yeah yeah there you go you know it’s kind of like you everything got poured into that the excitement got that could be the case um

And you know when you get into four overtimes like that and I guess it was full overtimes in just about yeah 20 some seconds into the fourth overtime that they scored and won the game over Forest Lake but I’m thinking more so just the mental fatigue probably coming

Into that game like yes you know you come in and it was oh gez am I gonna be ready to get into this again with another team and I I do believe and and do think that they they thought coming in that they they could compete and I

And I think our guys uh our Rapids staff and our players also thought they could compete you know coming in so I think it was just like you said both teams were a little LAX the first 10 minutes uh our guys got settled as soon as they popped the puck

In and sometimes that’s the case it’s like the snowball just continues to roll once you pop one in and snowball pretty soon turns into a boulder by the by by the time you it’s all said and done so the confidence I think our guys got by

Popping one in you know at that point in time and then it just and we just started pucks at the net so yeah and it was and it was going for us and needless to say it doesn’t always do that for us so it was nice that the luck was on our

Side a little bit and we were finding a way to get the puck behind Roth for that yeah definitely so six2 win is what ended up right yeah 62 and and uh you know nice little push at the end of the game by Rock Ridge they showed some

Pride they showed some heart they came back out in the third our guys got a little bit comfortable with a six-goal lead and I think again that’s human nature that’s teenagers that’s kids um into their credit we did say you know that we’re going to have to score this

Many goals tonight this is what we want to get to and the number was six that’s what we said we said we want to get to six if we can get to six that that we should get a win and we we ended up getting to that and I think you know

Mentally you’re thinking oh shoot do I do I keep going or what what you know mentally I think you got complacent and that and that happens okay okay anything else on that one no I I just uh wish uh I just want to just a huge congratulations to Rock

Ridge on their season it was a really impressive first year in the section 7aa he had 20 wins in the season six losses in a tie I believe that’s a pretty good year that’s a pretty good record I that’s something to be proud of uh and

And obviously you know made a name for yourself in the section the first year in it to be in the top four seeds and finding yourself in a in a section semifinal at amzo so it’s going to be fun to see where that program ends up

Here over the course of the next four or five years yeah absolutely and it was nice to see like you said you talked about last week three four teams at amzo three were Northern one was Southern so thank you Rock Ridge for that that was

Great all right so then next up uh two o’clock game down there at amzo last weekend theth East and over and over I expected could we sat with each other a little bit on this one so I expected we talked about this last week it was a 4-2

And over win in December expected this one to be pretty tight but as we they went in after the first period hand over about two to one in shots and their transition was just so quick it just there was a lot of life in the building that didn’t help it about 20

Fans from 20 moms and dads from Handover no cheerleaders no student section um not a lot of life in the building I so that one I hate to say but that one got boring fast it was boring from the droing to be honest with you I think

That there there were two players that really stood out uh to me in my mind that for duthy least and and to be dead honest and not negative but I didn’t notice anybody else the only two people that I thought played excellent were brownstead in the between the pipes and

Thomas Gunderson was phenomenal otherwise I didn’t notice any urgency or anything from anybody else I don’t know if it was we’re coming into this game we’re going to go through the motions I don’t know what happened but I was not impressed with duth East um I I thought

That to be quite honestly I thought that if Andover came in uh what they’re capable of they probably could have blown them out of the water I think both teams kind of came in a little relaxed at the beginning of that game and I think if if Anover came in with what

They could have done it could have got really ugly really fast uh it didn’t it it um said it was kind of boring Anover I think scored their first goal in the power play finally got one by him and and then it was just kind of a kind of a

Boat race from point it was just kind of a we you know yeah it wasn’t a real exciting hockey game it wasn’t real physical like you said there wasn’t any energy in the building either the only people that were there there that were were watching as fans were the duth East

Fans there was probably like you said 20 parents and maybe a few students but not not many for Fernando student section or parents yeah the one thing I noticed took away from it was there it was the transition of of uh um Andover and I

Said I’m no Scout I don’t I don’t know much about hockey but I do know those when the forwards knew that Andover was going to get control of that puck they were flying again that guy was at far blo line scar reaming for the puck hey I

Am here give it to well they got some pretty good defenseman and they got two really good defensemen that I can name uh that when they get the puck they know what to do with it so when those guys get control of the puck you got

Fast guys like Bal and and um Cogswell those guys can get out of the Zone really quick and they’ll stretch those D can turn the puck up fast they’re real similar to some of these top end teams that we play they quick on transition yeah they’re similar to Ben turn the

Puck up fast they’re similar to Hermon they turn the puck up fast and teams that can turn it up fast can also enter the Zone quick and that’s what you want to zone speed coming into the Zone yeah and they they like I said they definitely had those was the one thing I

Noticed so hookas contribution to the thunderhawks for the weekend Scouting Report uh they move the puck fast okay yeah I’ll take that like I said I don’t have much to op yeah well like you said the game wasn’t ridiculously exciting um it it could have been six to2 it could

Have been way more right right yeah it uh it uh like said some of it was and so we’ll kind of get into some of that with the building and such but all right any more on that one nope all right let’s talk real quick about the Blandon

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Again applications are due May 1st so don’t delay all right next game up four o’clock Saturday the most well attended game uh and the Rivalry game we talked about last week Proctor rails herbon Hawks uh Proctor actually jumps on them gives the world hope I mean I was I was

Uh pregaming in one of the establishments down in in Canal Park and you bet you were having water I was drinking water of course I was and coffee yeah and uh there were uh several rails parents there and the whole building was let’s go rails let’s go

Rails not just the Proctor uh faithful but the whole building so um so like I said g give the building some energy like I said really good crowd but I guess once Heron got up by a couple I just I never felt like Proctor not that

They were not in the game but I never thought they really had a chance to win no not the only chance they the only time they had a chance was when they really kind of up one to nothing you know you knew that as soon as Hermantown

Tied that game up at one that oh crap here we go that’s just the feeling that I had it didn’t feel the same way although that the the never equipped they never die in the fight fight fight age that Proctor had I’ve got a lot of

Respect for those kids and and how they battled um th this is really the first year in some time that that Proctor has um put up a fight uh you know at any level whether that be in the sections or throughout the course of the season this

Is a very special team and they and they’ve talked about that in the Proctor Community they’ve talked about their coaching staff I’ve got friends that are there my wife is from there and old people from Proctor they they’re pretty excited about this group of kids and they’re going to really miss the senior

Class that’s graduating this year a couple those guys obviously AJ Rials is a finalist for the Frank brimsek award one of the top three goalies in the state um you know he he was a big part of their success they had a couple other guys on that team too like Tanana Ross

Uh that are excellent hockey players and Pavo as well back on defense that are really good players so they’re gonna miss those guys a lot and it’s been it’s actually been a blessing and uh an absolute gas watching that group play over the course and playing against you because I’ve I’ve actually coached

Against that group a lot of times when I coached bantams those guys were in the Pro Bama a team let’s coach to JV some of those guys are in the JV team the last two years they’ve been on the varsity it’s been uh it’s been a lot of

Fun coaching against those guys you been a they’ve been you brought some pride back to Proctor rail hockey so it’s it’s been fun but yeah like you mentioned there was really only a couple minutes there where I thought ah they got a chance and that was when they were up on

Enough and as soon as Herman Herman town uh started you know shifting into third gear it was like you know they still got fourth gear and fifth gear left and I hate to say unfortunately but unfortunately for those that were rooting for it and you said it earlier I

Didn’t say it uh there might have been a handful of people in that building with all the excitement during that game that were cheering for Herman most people wanted to see I hate to say it pat I’ll tell you what as a coach I wish

That I had it set up in a program Like Pat Andrews does right now where you know you’re doing something right when everybody hates your right right you know you are because you you’ve got a well oiled machine so that’s uh the best way I can say that is the high level of

Respect that I give that program is nobody likes you because you always win sure right and there weren’t very many people there that were cheering for them to win except for their parents and the the fans they had there but most people everyone was Proctor and then anybody

That was from other towns they watching they were Ching for pro and like you said despite I mean they they kept up until about the 10 Man mark of the third shots were pretty close to you know and then and then Proctor kind of or Herman

Kind of started rolling and one thing I noticed about about Hermantown it almost seems like the worst thing you can do is go on the power play against teron this is a lot of the single a teams I know was because it doesn’t seem like a

Single A Team really get in the zone let alone get a shot so then it just when the penalty ends it’s like all this momentum for Hermon hey we just we just killed off and I kept seeing that happen against Proctor where Proctor would get

A get a power play and they could get in the zone well honestly honestly Hermon is just a deeper team than most of the teams they play So if you think about what they’re doing when they’re killing a penalty they’re going with two three sets of killers and then they come back

After their third set of killers with a fresh set of the Topline guys that started off their kill yeah now the power play unit I’m sure they’re running one power play unit for Proctor maybe they’ve got kind of a put together with tape and a Band-Aid a second power play

Unit but not one that stays out there for very long then they have to come back to their first line players right afterward so they’re coming out of that power play not giving very many shots not scoring a goal and tired coming back out with a very fresh first flying

Against sermon so not only they got momentum but they’re fresh yeah yeah yeah because that just seemed like it was it was worst thing that could happen was was uh getting the power play for Proctor but like I said good season for Proctor said I

Think I had the stat last week I think they went nine and three or nine and four here in 2024 you know to to cap out the year so uh you know second half really good for him pretty awesome yeah yeah you know good uh and like I said

Six to three game went that went ended up by the way the East we didn’t mention the East Andover game that ended up four to one correct four to one in favor of Andover does that sound right yeah is it four to one or four to2 I thought it was

Four2 okay could have been four to2 and then 63 was the Hermon win over Proctor all right then the the finale of the night the game that kind of saved the ratings I think for WDIO did bring some energy to the building uh was chisam iing up against the clo Esco Carlton how

Many of they got clo Esco they got they got a lot at one time they had St Peter versus Russia when they had sge pet anyway um so CH B yeah CL Esco Carlton um CL the favorite um I in that one it was it was a two and three game

And I think Hibbing Hibbing kind of came out the way I thought and I wasn’t expecting this Hibbing came out the way I thought Rock Ridge would have like I said pretty loose we’re the underdog we got nothing to lose here uh we’re going to roll with it it’s our first time here

Where I thought clo with the veterans more experience was really going to jump on Hibbing but that ended up being complete opposite I mean Hibbing kind of took it to him I think something I saw was cloting get their first shot to like five minutes to go in the first period

Yeah you know I I kind of and I don’t know exactly I don’t don’t know what to attribute it to but I I don’t think clo got into their style until about halfway through the game and their style is kind of what in between periods what coach Shay Walters said in between periods

Like yeah you know style is to play gritty and to play tough and and be hard to play against and I don’t think in the first period in the half I don’t think they were very hard to play against you know the style that they need to play

And you saw Shay did some line shuffling he shuffled things up he had what did he yeah he had their top line which is all Juniors and they’re coming back next year with uh I can’t remember all their names but that’s the Gentilini line and that’s the

Thorton line um that line he ended up taking one guy off that and moving another guy from that other line in there um but you know that’s the type of game where if you want to set the tone you needed to play the style of hockey that Joey an tonti plays that’s their

Top their one of their big bruisers on the team number nice effort in him for that second goal without a doubt but he’s but he’s the the guy that should take the team and put them on their back and play that way and and you didn’t see

That until later so they could have really set the tone this is a kid that’s playing college football next year he’s an Esco kid but he’s an animal he’s a lib backer on the ASA Football team I think and just an absolute Beast yeah and out there and he just he just knocks

People over like I didn’t see it right away um later on in the game then they started started to make it make it well known and I think that’s when Co K started to kind of come back in the game and and make it a better game yeah oh

For sure yeah I mean ended up being an excellent game um about 10 minutes to go on the third gamees tied I I noticed that at that point Hibbing Chisum still had a a two to one advantage on shots but then um you know Hing pop that one

Go up three to two and then it gets you know obviously then you start playing a little bit of pre-and defense and then you know the shots tightened up in hurry and of course they pulled the goalie and such um but uh my other com oh the hits there were

End up a couple nasty centerz hits in that one yeah you know so so the roughness and toughness came but yeah there were there were a couple of uh maybe this will develop into a rivalry maybe maybe Rapids Rock Ridge will you know I was thinking about that too maybe

Rapids Rock Ridge will develop more of a rivalry because when I was a kid Rapids was our rival in Hibbing then it changed to Virginia because of the the single a you know um and now that K and Hibbing will see each other hug Rock Ridge you

Know maybe maybe maybe we saw the dawn of some new some new rivalries yeah maybe I hope so it’d be nice to have a rivalry uh Grand Rapids with somebody that’s close by there there hasn’t been in a long time you know the Rivalry now has in recent times has been

Duth East you know and then you know it’s back when I played it was Hibbing and Greenway you know th those teams and exactly you don’t get that as much anymore because there aren’t as many bigger schools and now that you know Rock Ridge is in the able a maybe

There’ll be a better battle between teams where it Bec comes back and forth and right end up doing that yeah yeah so so but but just looking at that game you know you’re talking about how the physicality picked up um you you did see in that when when the hits started

Coming how that created more for for clo right um they they have a little bit more senior and Veteran you know players on their team that kind of push the pace for them there’s a little bit more you youth on that Hibbing team and you could

See where the youth came out when some of those hits came and this is the only thing I’ll say I’m not going to say that those hits didn’t hurt they looked like they hurt but I would be really irritated if within a 10-minute span if my team had guys that were rolling

Around on the ice three shifts in a row that’s the one thing I will say if you’re hurt you’re hurt stay down if you’re hurt if you’re not get up and go to the bench because there’s one thing as a coach and and I’m sure there’s parents out there too there’s

One thing that irritates you the most is if you lay down on the ice and then the whistle blows because you’re hurt and then you pop right up and go right to the bench what are you doing you either hurt or you’re not if you’re hurt stay

Down there get some be attended to if you’re not get up and get back to the bench quit rolling around on the ice yeah that’s the only thing that irritated me that Hibbing did all night long otherwise I loved everything that they did out there in that game and I

Got the utmost respect but I I believe that’s a little bit of the youth yeah sure right there that’s just a a different way of looking at things and maybe you know I don’t want to say this as something to be negative but maybe maybe the immaturity level of some of

The younger guys there that is that fair to say I don’t I don’t want to be mean about it because I think they played an excellent game yeah but I but don’t roll around in the ice right so chising ends up with a four- to win with an empty net

By Benny alley so it was it was what two nothing at one point Hing then 22 and then 3-2 and then of course it got the empty at the end all right anything else on that one no that kind of wraps up semifinal Saturday as far as

The games I did want to talk a little bit about the venue this is the first time I had done a semifinal um at I’ve been to two finals I think the two in Rapid 16 and 177 I believe I was at both yes um so

Like I said the best crowd ends up being the locals the Proctor Hermantown game but what amzo does is they close the concession stand on one side so the line so the lines are pretty big in the Rapids Rock Ridge you know the two daa

Games earlier in the day now the line is out of control because they close the uh so you know boo on you uh of course $10 to park no re-entry so I met that youngster that subscribed to the show I’m standing at the Minnesota power charging station because I can’t go back

Out to my car so I forgot my charger because they going to charge me 10 bucks to get back in uh pretty much you could pretty much get anywhere there was a serious serious lack of energy the the single a games were better you know I would say as the Hibbing especially when

Hibbing clo tied it up then there was a lot of energy but up until that point there was there was spotty energy it wasn’t it was good but it wasn’t great um you know student sections you know I’d say Rapids got about three qus Rock Ridge I’d only about half my niece was

Down there I’d say JM maying about three quarters CL had a little bit more they probably had one and a half you just talking the lower ball yeah yeah yeah just yeah the yeah yeah right they don’t even up yeah so it just you know the student section is not

A lot of energy bands I hermon’s the only one that had a band um so in my opinion if it’s really about the kids you know and not just the players but the you know the cheerleaders the the you know said bands bring the bands back

Even just the students that want to go watch their peers you know loud barns packed all that energy I mean that’s why I went I wanted to soak in the environment I really think some some changes you know need to be made so section seven just you can bring the

Doua to Hibbing bring the double A to Hibbing at that noon game every Hing player would have been there to watch right what else would they have been doing they would Greenway kids would have been there uh you know they just you know I talked to a couple of retires

They said if that game was in town of course I would have wenton because I would have nothing else to do parking’s free you can re-enter that kind of thing um get that doublea up to the mech at least for the semi-finals maybe the finals is too much I understand that but

Like you said the lower bowl I I just I have to say I was I was disappointed I better I’m talking too much I better let you get a chance to comment here yeah I I don’t disagree with you I I think where where am oil is is a good spot is

For the section final yeah because you’re gonna actually get a lot of fans come in there like the section final here for Wednesday night I think is going to be well attended for Hibbing uh in Hermantown I think the the section final for Grand Rapids and Andover is be

Well attended by Rapids fans I I don’t know what Anover is going to bring up they brought mean 12 fans up probably just but it’s here’s why it’s an Amsoil it’s at Amsoil for the semifinals because it’s easier for the city schools to get there yeah you know and you’re looking at well

Okay the only city team that’s made it in the last few years to the semifinals was Elk River and Andover when Elk River was in the section now they’re not in the section anymore so the only cities team that makes to that right now is is

And over uh I guess last year I think Force Lake made it so it’s an easier trip for those guys so catering to those teams I guess is is why it’s there because it’s a less of it’s less of a drive it it’s a neutral site um I I

Would think that if and I don’t want to talk for those teams but I’d much rather have a game where I go to a neutral site but at a smaller venue like the memorial building or the Mec and Virginia for the doublea games because you’re going to

Pack people in there it’s going to be a loaded environment in there um maybe you have the double a the doublea games over there on the Range or in clo or Proctor and then you have the single a games right here at Yanmar yeah yeah

They do it’s an easy switch but I think it’s an no-brainer to have it the if you make it to the finals to have the finals uh there at AMS o because you you are watch it’s going to be they’ll be opening up the top section at least

Thursday night they will I don’t know if they will for the Hermantown Hibbing game depends on I guess how many people decide to come out I think there’s going to be a large community of people from Hibbing coming yeah you know and of course all of the the the Good Time

Charlie’s from the Hermantown area have everyone from Hermantown and then as well as everyone that decides they want to jump on the bandwagon at the last minute they’ll jump on to so they’ll have they’ll they’ll go and you’ll have people from the area and I think that’s

What the draw is there is oh if we have it a a semifinal Saturday at ano maybe all of the teams from the area will bring their families there and they’re all thinking the same thing like I I don’t care that a C team here playing

Right most of them don’t even want to go there to watch a city’s team there because a lot of people that like hockey around here when they think of section seven they think of northern Minnesota yeah you all well and I’ve seen El River play 99 play a section 7aa semifinal fin

Game at the memorial building you know so it’s not like they haven’t been up there and like I said yeah I mean double A can go to the memorial building single a can now go to the mech I think it’d be great here or yeah or even here said

Yeah you pack the place here yeah I can’t argue with you I do like the idea of having the final the right there at am I think it’s a great spot for it no one thing I heard and you saw the movie um Wolf of Wall Street where Jordan or

Uh decaprio plays Jordan bord and he says there’s a line in the movie Money talks walks so I just heard from a guy who just got off the seven section s committee that they just did like a five-year TV deal and streaming deal with WDIO so odds are hopefully

This I’m incorrect but odds are I think it might stay at Amo because that’s where all the TV stuff is set up now they have I mean they could move it right mean you guys do it you go town to town WDIO came here when it was Co oh

Yeah back to 2021 yeah um every one of these TV stations has has a remote camera so they could if they wanted to bring the camera right into the building and they could you know obviously I do this stuff I do it for right that’s I

Mean you know but but they bring a camera they can bring a camera in the building and and have the camera doing the plays and they could even have play byplay in a completely different spot sure right we did that yeah we did that before it was a few years back during Co

Kelly hinseth and I called the game from amso in the booth but it was actually Luth East versus Hermantown in Hermantown yeah so they can do those things just depending on what they got it doesn’t have to be at amoil I would venture to believe that wdi is just as

Mobile as we are with my9 and Babi Community television all you have to do is have a van with all the equipment in it and you know all the fiber cables to be able to come into the building sure it’s not hard to do okay however they probably like the idea because their

Booth is right there and that’s not a wdi booth that’s just the booth they have through the media that AMS oil and UMD so they can tap right into that yeah right with all of their stuff from the truck or the van right okay all right

Anything else on that no all right so section seven uh if like said if it’s about the kids you want them to play in a loud fun Barn um we gave you some great suggestions follow them today all right P the like button we want to get

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Wednesday night the 1988 Chism Hibbing Blue Jackets facing off against the 17 and 178 and2 Hermantown Hawks these two last met January 16th it was an 8-1 drubbing Hermantown pulls out the victory how do you see this one playing out I I don’t think it’s going to be any

Different than it’s been it’s been since 2019 uh the reason why Greenway was able to do it is because they were in that section finals they had played against Herman toown either in the finals two years previous or before that they had played and lost to him in a semifinal so

They they had been prepared uh with the same group of kids back to back to back years to be able to beat them um and had a plan and were able to do it I I I don’t think it’s going to be we come in for the first first time and we’re going

To knock this team out of here with this group when they haven’t been there before I think they’re they’re I think they’re a year away uh maybe two but they they definitely have a group that’s going to do something special over the course of the next couple years it’s

Just there’s too much experience playing in the tournament there there’s too much I’ve been there before with Hermantown that uh I think it’s gonna be a closer game than than what they’ve seen all year long I think that you know hibbing’s got the fight they’ve got the

Ability to keep it close all I can say is I I think that it’s going to end up the way that it’s been ending up the past few years however I hope that it doesn’t I I want I want to see a good game and I want to see himing fight for

Something that they deserve all right Thursday night in the seven seven contest for the fourth year in a row the 161 Grand Opa thunderhawks will face off against the 188 and one and over Huskies last time these two two teams met February 2nd right here at Yanmar one

Nothing gr win shots in that game 26 to 23 in favor of the thunderhawks so two even teams try yeah like like you said it’s um you know just like when we were just talking about with Hibbing it’s like you you typically don’t just come in and knock a team out after you’ve

Been there just one time against a team that’s been doing it a whole bunch of times usually uh it’s after you’ve done it and done it and done it and and lost and lost and lost and then have a chance to come in after you’ve seen what they

Got three four years in a row uh I I think it’s kind of The Perfect Storm to be able to do something you know it is I’m not going to get on a podcast and give any guarantees I think that um it’s a good opportunity for a northern team to to

Take the ball and run but but you’re gonna have to play You’re gonna have to get out there and play your best game uh don’t think for a second that Andover is going to come up there thinking they’ve got it in the bag and roll over for you

They’re they’re not going to that’s a team that’s got experience uh there’s six seven guys on that team five six seven guys on that team that have played in you know three state tournaments at a row uh they’ve got the experience to do that they they know what they’re doing

They’ve got a coaching staff that’s been there before uh Mark Manny’s an excellent coach he’s GNA be prepared tactically and emotionally and mentally and he’s gonna have his players ready that way um like I said I think I think Grand Rapids is you mentioned it I

Didn’t even know I guess I did but I didn’t think of it that way four years in a row 2021 it was right in this building in the finals and Grand Rapids lost uh to to shiy and Company then the next year in 2022 down at AMS oil that

Was uh the Grand Rapids team that had Del Greco and Easton young red mway and that crew and lost to Thorson and those guys and that one and then last year was a semifinal lost so that there was four years in a row yeah um this is that I

Think this is a really good chance for a northern team to to come in um don’t hang your hat on the idea that they came in here and lost one to nothing earlier in the season because all that’s going to be for end over is pel yeah if you’re

Gonna if if fans are going to lean on that and players are GNA lean on that the only thing that either team should be leaning on right now is how well are you preparing for the team that you’re playing on Thursday night all are you doing everything you possibly can are

You getting enough sleep at night are you eating right are you visualizing and manifesting every play in a positive way um the team that wants it more is gonna win that’s all there is to it plain and simple there isn’t any special potion that Mark Manny is going to be able to

Dump all over his Andover Huskies there isn’t any special potion that Grant Clapton is gonna be able to dump over his Grand Rapids team um it’s going to be both teams are going to be prepared and they’re going to be prepared they’re similar teams they’re similar in their

Ability to score goals uh they’re similar on the back end they’re similar between the pipes um they have Anover has maybe a little bit better record throughout the course of the year but Grand Rapids is Battle tested yeah they beat some teams that they weren’t supposed to beat sure you know they

Rapids was not supposed to beat Maple G they weren’t supposed to beat St Thomas Academy they weren’t supposed to beat Andover earlier in the year right those th those in most people’s minds except for those of us here in Grand Rapids our team parents and coaches everybody else

Didn’t think that was going to happen we we knew that we could do that right so that’s just the way it works it’s you know they’re in a position right now where you you can go out there and play the way you need to in order to win a

Hockey game and you’ve done some special things throughout the course that you’re improved it to yourself and other people yeah so it can’t happen all right good luck coach all right let’s move on scores and more presented by The Ring Sports Bar and gril just on from the oal

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Announced couple Northern boys Carson Pilgrim warro probably heard of them 23 goals 31 assists for 60 points no Ernest Roso 42 goals 39 assists for a whopping eight 81 points these are the two boys from the north on the Block and speaking on the Block we’ve had a lock

On Mr hocky for quite a few years here right beond Pier uh strand from Rosa do you remember his first name can’t remember his first name then shag last year there you go Max strand so we would so we’ve had the last four up north here we get her done

Again I kind of actually heard Carson program is kind of leading the the uh yeah how do you pick the lead candidate you know there’s three of them from minaka how do you give it to one of the minetonka guys if you give it to one

You gotta give it to all three right you know it’s I think Carson Pilgrim would be the guy that I would pick to give it to um he’s got a lot of reasons why um I think noest had a really good season this year I think it was phenomenal I

Think if if he wins if his team wins one more game he might be a isoe into where Pilgrim is right now you know you said you think pilgrims may be leading the charge I think if Roso didn’t lose and get knocked out I think if they’re playing in the section

Finals he’s probably leaving the charge with those points in the season that he’s had be honest with you he’s had a phenomenal year he’s probably of those teams well I can’t say he’s been more of more of a factor because Carson Pilgrim was a pretty big factor in our in our

Loss to world harness was a pretty darn big factor to when we lost to them up there got swept when we went up north here so it was a big learning curve absolutely yeah I think there’s there’s a nice field this year um and and I

Think it’s about a 7030 chance that Mr Hockey stays up nor oh all right I like those odds just my thought I like those odds I could be wrong I’ve been wrong before are bet odds I like once once once yeah I keep trying to tell my wife

All right world girls got her done uh for the single a state championship did you know who did you see dou a yeah he d one oh he d one okay okay so he got beat Hill Murray all right championship game okay well all I Scott we’re gonna

Mention him here you’ll be happy all right some scores and more from the week that was warro beat Deep River five to do five to two so they’ve got East Grand Forks Thursday night now the rumor is up at the the games up at the gardens the folks over at Marvin have already

Offered the refs new windows new patio doors everything already for that game on Thursday night no that’s from our friend Brett Gaddy so we come in for men’s the other day Brett gadd is a warro guy Travis cool you know Trav our chief our fire chief here in town he’s a

War boy y so right away the they start going in that was a great line from get G Brett Gaddy to um say we are laughing hard is a is uh an understatement as we’re really cracking up so they’re GNA they’re offering all new glass yeah the

The ref have already been offered new new windows sliding doors patio doors anything they need that’s the rumor coming out of the garden so you guys uh they might need them they might need new glass at the gardens after that game is over because I’m gonna tell you

Something right now if there’s a team that’s gonna go into the section finals with an edge and a chip on their shoulders it’s G to be East Grand Forks and East Grand Forks is physical they will knock them around the rink and all I can say is watch yourself in that game

If you’re a war player watch yourself and stay disciplined if you can stay disciplined and get East Grand Forks on the on the penalty kill uh and and keep yourself out of the box and keep yourself safe you got a chance of winning but they are going to come at

You that’s the way they play yeah well it’s kind of been the year of the upset too you know uh so let’s move on here so Rogers number nine Rogers Falls to Centennial five to one you probably saw that one mored of course Falls to Elk River uh 4

To2 um Little Falls well this this one wasn’t an upset because Mella had moved into a higher seed than than Little Falls but Little Falls are kind of used to going out of that section well it wasn’t it wasn’t an upset but it was an overtime game what did you say three

Overtimes and it was actually controversial so I saw a picture and a little clip of the play and it who knows how it would end if it didn’t get counted a goal they might have still won anyways might have still happened later but actually monacello comes into the

Zone off sides and it’s not called and they score jeez always it’s always how it goes right there always something always something yeah so if you know any more upsets uh feel free to throw in the comments we’d appreciate that and of course the Walley Scott cfpa Dino

Hornets update two Unwin winners over benil St Margaret so they will face Yetta uh Thursday night the punch their ticket to the state tournament here we have we have all the games for you here so onea Lakeville South versus Rochester Century John Marshall isn’t that a multile that’s kind of yeah there’s a

Lot um section two TKA Chan Hassen Thursday night section three ceton Durham Hall St Thomas Academy Friday night section four semis are going on in section four we kind of talked about that that one’s still going uh section five Maple Grove Centennial the after mentioned That’s Thursday night section six Wasa Trojans

Be D of hornets like we just talked about and then section eight it will be Elk River and buffalo buffalo squeak by St Cloud by like a gold and St Cloud are the ones that of course upset Ro this is a huge congratulations to Buffalo I

Someone can put this in the comments if they know I don’t know if Buffalo has ever been in the section finals I don’t know maybe they have and it’s just under the radar sometime where I didn’t notice but this is a heck of a climb for that

Program for Pro for Buffalo to be in a su final with a team they’ve already beat this year I think they beat Elk River by a three or four goal margin so they actually beat him during the season so Buffalo can come in with a little bit

Of confidence but not too much because I’ll tell you who’s probably playing some of the best hockey in the state right now versus what they were playing before Christmas is Elk River yeah and you guys saw that Ben guson has got that team playing the way they need to be

Playing he’s a hell of a good coach we had a battle with them at the Adina classic and ended up beating him in overtime I think it was four to three uh they’re doing a hell of a job with that program right now and uh Goen Morhead

And beat him four to two that some fun and exciting to see them back in the section finals uh hopefully hopefully Elk River can move on I’m not saying I’m cheering against Buffalo I’m actually excited about the Cinderella story there a little bit but I I do see the work

Work that Elk River has been doing and they deserve to win it too okay all right we went through Section 8A we went you know we already went through Section 7A section 6A Alex Northern Lakes section five St called Cathedral monacello uh section four mamidi Southwest Christian academy uh section

Three Marshall newal section two Orno Minneapolis would you say Minneapolis Joey dik they got her done over Delano right upset over Delo Joey de Dex got it done with his fedora hat on I love it and then section one Northfield versus Dodge County all right anything

To add to say yeah Dodge County uh they kind of knocked off the Cinderella of L Crescent H hula with the kid that was kind of leading the state I think he ended up tying the alltime goals record really didn’t surpass it so I believe you is tied with benow okay right now

With goals put that in the comments if you got that for us folks all right anything to add episode 82 so I think it’s time for playoff hockey I think it’s time for Section finals um be ready flip that on if you’re in the the the Northland Area you

Can flip on the uh the Hibbing Hermantown game tomorrow night starts at 7even it’s on wdo you can catch that uh live stream as well if you have a computer uh but it will be on regular cable television if you can turn it w and then Thursday night 7:00 7:05

Pregame starts at 6:30 for the section 7aa Grand Rapids and AD over at am yeah I think coverage starts tomorrow at 6:30 630 like said I I’ve got other obligations but I will be watching I will be watching Wednesday night from my couch I will be up in the coach’s

Lounge uh watching from the eye in the sky as staff for Grand Rapids on Thursday Thursday okay and I’ll be doing I’ll be on the couch on on Thursday all right good luck all right drawing time for the $50 gift card so here the way we’re get pick you can uh be shuffling

While I’m explaining the rules okay so we are going to pick three names three two one number one is the ultimate winner but one doesn’t want it can’t doesn’t get a hold of us what have you then two’s got this option and if two doesn’t want it can’t get it then it’s

Three okay and we’re gonna go three two one but number one’s the ultimate winner so here’s what we’re going to do read shuffling just a deck of cards Joker are number one aces are 11 Jacks are 12 Queens are 13 kings are 14 first one Reed’s going to pick a card

Whatever number he picks that’s going to be our winner I’ve got a spreadsheet of everybody remember if you did YouTube you had two entries if you did Facebook you had one so you could have got a total of three as a subscriber since January 1 uh pick two is going to be

Pick a card we’re going to take it times two that’s G be the winner and then the third card pick who is our ultimate winner pick two cards add it together time 3 divide by two round up if it’s an odd number and that will be our winner

All right so go spread them out you haven’t been peeking have you not at all all right yeah how am I spreading it over here I don’t remember here let’s do this I’ll cut it once you got cut it because I want you to drop you’re doing the drop okay I’m

Cutting all right you draw a card any card take a card and uh so this is our number three winners so you’re you’re the third option so we will get a hold of you if number one and number two choose not to go ahead and show this all

Right number eight on our screen oh my goodness who is that you read that name py venny Hy V so you are third place so if one or two don’t claim then you are our winner all right so now this one like I said you’re going to back to my rules here

You’re going to pick a card we’re going to take it times two and that will be our winner okay King so earlier I said in the rules kings are back here two lists up here kings are 14 so 14 time two to me is 28 we go

Down on our spreadsheet here to number 28 oh look at that Brie Wagner Brie Wagner oh now you’re number two so if number one doesn’t claim the prize and we will let you guys know this of course so so our ultimate winner is goingon to be

Drawn right now fun so um so anyway uh you know like I said we’ll get a hold of number number one the winner right now get a hold of us or we’re try reading out to you if we know you um and if you don’t want to accept the prize you don’t

Have to and we will move on so okay so let me repeat the rules on the this one so we are going to pick a card pick a card any card pick a card any any card or no pick two cards excuse me last week add them together take it times

Three and then divide by two round up if it’s an odd number pick two cards King 14 14 and seven is 21 right is that sound right we added them together we’re going to take that times three which is 63 63 divided by two is well 31 and a

Half and we said we’d round up so am I doing my math right let’s check the math before we claim a winner you you’re talking to the non-m so 21 make sure we’re doing it here two cards together we got uh 14 and seven it’s 21 yeah you can check me it’s

21 add them together is 42 oh what was I doing no I did make aist it’s good that we checked that no 21 it’s 42 add them together 42 yeah 42 * 3 no that’s where I screwed up 42 * 3 is 123 isn’t it 126 divide that by

Two 63 okay it’s good thing we checked that too busy talking round up if we had not number so number 63 we might have pushed we pushed only have 47 we got to do it over GNA do all over again all right you gotta pick to cards add them together well you sure

So kings are 14 so now we’re at 24 so this isn’t going to work either we’re too it’s gonna be too high right we need smaller numbers smaller numbers okay that’s why we did it in case we ended up with a three and a two you guys are getting more than you

Bargain for on this show queen queen 13 13 what’s Ace and one a no joker one aces are 11 oh still going to be too much y we’re g to push over again am I playing Blackjack here because I’m getting all the face face CS holy mackerel I don’t know that we get

Yeah should have went to casino aces are what we said we said uh Jokers are one excuse me aces are 11 four there now we’re gonna get it 14 okay 18 well let’s work this one so 18 uh so what do we got here so we got 18 uh times three

54 that right 18 time three y 54 54 divide by two 27 27 we’ve got a winner we’ve got a winner so here is our ultimate winner I know we got a 2 Oh Mr Jordan stll Jordy so Jordy get hold of me uh if you

Want the this $50 gift to the driving well not the driving room the simulator Swan Lake simulator golfing club repair $50 if you want this let me know otherwise we’ll get a hold of Bri and if Bri doesn’t want we’ll get a hold of Pokey so thanks for everybody that

Helped us out did some subscribing thanks to our version of Vanna White right here Reed Larson all right let’s wrap this baby up um anything to add nope good to go okay all right so please comment like your comments contact us privately goat Sports Med llc@gmail.com Hammer the follow button Hammer the like

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