Girls Select 15′s Halfway Mark

Light Blue and Yellow battled to a 2-2 tie in Tuesday's opening game at the Select 15 Girl's summer camp

Minnesota Hockey’s Girl’s Select 15 Summer Camp passed the halfway point with three games played Tuesday at the Main Rink on the St. Cloud State University campus.  In the third round of games played, the Yellow team tied the Light Blues 2-2, the Red beat the Royals 3-2 and the Kelly Greens beat the Black [...]

The Select 15 Girls Take the Stage

Roster for Girl's Select 15 Opening Round Game between black and yellow teams to be played Sunday in St. Cloud

With the Boy’s Select 15 Summer Camp barely over, the Girls Select 15 Summer Camp kicks in this week.  A 100 or so 15 year old girls from all over the state will converge on the St. Cloud Campus to be evaluated for Minnesota’s Girls 2013 Select 15 team.  Twenty or so players attending the [...]

22 Select 15′s are headed to New York

Mitchell mattsons poke check on white forward shot deflects the puck over the nets crossbar in championship game at select 15

  Friday Minnesota Hockey announced their 2013 Select 15 team that will travel to New York.  Twenty two players (13 forwards, 7 defense, and 2 goalies) were selected from the 100 or so players attending the Select 15 summer camp held this past week in St. Cloud.  Eight alternatives also were selected.  Should any of [...]

Summer Camp is over, on to New York

2013 select 15 summer camp final day 288

Minnesota Hockey’s Select 15 Summer Camp ended Thursday with the six teams playing their final games.  For those who are counting wins and losses; the Red team beat the Lt Blues 8-0 in the fifth place game, the Grey and Royals tied 3-3 in the third place game, and the White team beat the Gold [...]

Halfway through the Boy’s Select 15 Summer Camp

halfway through the 2013 Select 15 Summer Camp

Halfway through the six games played at the St. Cloud Camp, none of the six teams have an unblemished record.  Two of the teams (Gold 1-0-2 and White 2-0-1) are unbeaten, but have been tied.  The Gold played the White Saturday evening and tied each other 2-2.  White beat the Royal team 4-1 on Sunday [...]

Select 15 St. Cloud Camp opens Saturday

Rosters for Saturday's opening game at the Select 15 camp between the Royal team and the Lt. Blue team

The next phase of Minnesota Hockey’s HP-15 (Select 15) program starts next Saturday at St. Cloud State Campus in St. Cloud.  The top 100 or so hockey players aged 15 have been picked as part of the preliminary evaluations and will gather for the next 6 days to be evaluated for placement on Minnesota Hockey’s [...]

USA Hockey

Congratulations to the "Hockey Class of 2013"

Note: It is graduation time for high schools throughout the state, by this coming Friday most seniors will be throwing their caps in the air at their high school’s commencement ceremony.  As this corner of YHH has found out, one of the most often questions posed by a parent at the rinks, “is should a [...]

WMD edges Competitive Edge 2-1 in International Cup

Edge's Jordon Swenson watches he shot rebound wide in the third period

The Wisconsin Michigan Destroyers (WMD) scored an early first period goal and made that one goal stand-up over the next 45 minutes of play to beat the Competitive Edge in Friday’s pool play at the International Cup Tourney being played this weekend at the Super Rink in Blaine MN. The Destroyers win keeps them unbeaten [...]

The Future of Minnesota Youth AA Hockey?

The Future Minnesota Youth AA Hockey

This past month, Minnesota Hockey approved the split of the 2013-2014 Bantam and Peewee A levels into AA and A teams.  Last season’s test of splitting the two A levels was a success.  Now, the associations and districts will have to decide what level teams they field and what level of district play will there [...]

Salt of the Earth

#5 gets the leg pad on a falling # shot attempt to make the save in the the All Star game

Thom Brigl, 14 year owner of the defending North American Hockey League Bismarck Bobcats hockey team, stood in front a group parents at Dakotah Ice Center last Saturday and opened his speech to the parents with a simple statement; it is true that the open tryouts the parent’s son had just skated was a money [...]