First thing, teeblah, I vaguely remember you pinning me against the outside of Hollihan's Pub last saturday night. I only remember Joe Cole may or not have been involved. What was going on there?
Second thing, I just came across this article in College Hockey news. I got a little pissed off, so I started looking into it.
I found out that Shattuck St. Mary's (Faribault, MN) is the current #1 AAA Midget team, followed by Dallas and Team Illinois. The highest ranked Mich team, Belle Tire, is 6th. There are no Mich players on Shattuck, and 7 Minnesotans.
Holy Angels beat Shattuck a couple weeks ago.
T.J Hensick, Parse, all those guys can dere-lick my balls. Tell them to play every weekend in the conference that has produced the last five champions and last five Hobey Baker winners.
Notice how he glosses over the strength of conference factor here without actually acknowledging that it is a huge factor:
You could argue that the strength of the WCHA makes it harder for their players to be the top scorers in the country. The first WCHA players don't appear on the list until the 11th spot, where Andrew Gordon, Andreas Nodl,
and Ryan Duncan are all tied with 36 points. Only three teams in the WCHA average over three goals per game in league play, while 7 teams average over three goals per game in CCHA league play.
Here are the past champions from the Nike/Bauer Invitational Tournament for the best of the best high-school aged players from around the country. Minnesota has two teams in the tourney every year, plus Shattuck. Shattuck won this year. Michigan did not make the semifinals. All three Minnesota teams did.
Correct me if I am wrong but don't we also send non-committed seniors to a high school tournament in Chicago every April to take on all star teams from other states? I believe we win or take second every year with the state's second level talent. Ladies and Gentlemen, Chris Dilks, the owner of perhaps the most poorly crafted, published article in the history of the internet. Besides maybe this one. (The actual article is no longer online, so I've found a version that was copied on to a message board.
Second thing, I just came across this article in College Hockey news. I got a little pissed off, so I started looking into it.
I found out that Shattuck St. Mary's (Faribault, MN) is the current #1 AAA Midget team, followed by Dallas and Team Illinois. The highest ranked Mich team, Belle Tire, is 6th. There are no Mich players on Shattuck, and 7 Minnesotans.
Holy Angels beat Shattuck a couple weeks ago.
T.J Hensick, Parse, all those guys can dere-lick my balls. Tell them to play every weekend in the conference that has produced the last five champions and last five Hobey Baker winners.
Notice how he glosses over the strength of conference factor here without actually acknowledging that it is a huge factor:
You could argue that the strength of the WCHA makes it harder for their players to be the top scorers in the country. The first WCHA players don't appear on the list until the 11th spot, where Andrew Gordon, Andreas Nodl,
and Ryan Duncan are all tied with 36 points. Only three teams in the WCHA average over three goals per game in league play, while 7 teams average over three goals per game in CCHA league play.
Here are the past champions from the Nike/Bauer Invitational Tournament for the best of the best high-school aged players from around the country. Minnesota has two teams in the tourney every year, plus Shattuck. Shattuck won this year. Michigan did not make the semifinals. All three Minnesota teams did.
Correct me if I am wrong but don't we also send non-committed seniors to a high school tournament in Chicago every April to take on all star teams from other states? I believe we win or take second every year with the state's second level talent. Ladies and Gentlemen, Chris Dilks, the owner of perhaps the most poorly crafted, published article in the history of the internet. Besides maybe this one. (The actual article is no longer online, so I've found a version that was copied on to a message board.
posted by f theb at 11:39 AM
2 Comments:
You should use the feedback option on the hockey article to let Mr. Dilks (you think he maybe got made fun of growing up - and even as an adult - for that?) that he is the author of what is probably in the top two of worst articles to receive internet publication - which is quite the feat if you want to consider everything on the internet as "published".
I'm still not quite sure what he was even trying to say, so I'm not sure what to argue. On one hand the Minnesota High School players get "gaudy" stats against inferior opponents and on the other hand the WCHA doesn't have any national scoring leaders?
I don't think anyone questions Minnesota's high school dominance. I was about to point out MN's 5 DI college teams when I realized MI's got a few (8!).
Whatever. Hockey Rulez!
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