ND Hockey wrote:Bottineau has some legit offense.
Top Shelf wrote:ND Hockey wrote:Bottineau has some legit offense.
It also looks like Bottineau rotates goalies but Cody Brooks is one of the 2 best goalies in the west with the other being meddler from Minot.
oly2 wrote:Bhs has god awfull everything. They tied hazen!!
ih8gophers wrote:oly2 wrote:Bhs has god awfull everything. They tied hazen!!
So does Century have awfull everything too? They did lose to BHS once this year so far.
Top Shelf wrote:ih8gophers wrote:oly2 wrote:Bhs has god awfull everything. They tied hazen!!
So does Century have awfull everything too? They did lose to BHS once this year so far.
I'm actually wondering if century is really that good. bis high beat them once and played them close along with minot. i think the century-bottineau game will be good. bottineau was still able to beat high after losing one of the top scorers in the state over the holiday tournaments.
oly2 wrote:Bhs beat century in the StadStad Classic with century clearly outplaying them, Chs just had their backup golie. And ih8gophers, Bhs tied hazen and your trying to say that they are good?
oly2 wrote:Bhs beat century in the StadStad Classic with century clearly outplaying them, Chs just had their backup golie. And ih8gophers, Bhs tied hazen and your trying to say that they are good?
Metal Edge wrote:i always here that century has a great coach, but why can't he get his team over the hump? good coaches win during the regular season, great coaches get there kids ready and win the post season. century has more
talent than bis high at times but when the games are on the line, bis high always seems to win.
Metal Edge wrote:i would agree with metal edge, that the century coach is not that great. look at least year with all the talent
that century had compared to bis highs talent. both williston and century had better hockey clubs than high, but look who was in the championship game.
i think century's biggest challenge is themselves. when you think you are better than other teams (and i'm not talking about hockey) or that hazen, bottineau, dickinson, etc. shouldn't even have high school hockey than there are issues. i have heard numerous comments throughout the years from the century kids that are disrespectful to the other teams. don't get me wrong, i have no problem with kids being cocky. however, the century players seem to take that to a different level.
i ask the question, why doesn't century win against the east teams. why don't they bury the dickinsons, hazen, bottineau every time. i don't think bottineau even has 200 kids in high school, but yet they are still able to knock off bis high, minot, etc. the above mention teams cycle through good years and bad years but minot and both bismarcks should be able to compete year in and year out with the fargos and grand forks. minot has the biggest high school in the state and they can't even make state some years.
anyways to get back to the main point, maybe it's our youth coaches in the state and not the high school coaches. i've watched both bismarck and minot enough to know that when they are given good kids at the high school level, they compete at a higher level. it's funny when they get to high school and they blame the coaches for losing, like last year in minot. those kids weren't any good in youth hockey, why whould they be any good during high school. anyways we will see if coach pleosi can make the less talented bismarck team win when it counts.
Saucesauer wrote:Metal Edge wrote:i would agree with metal edge, that the century coach is not that great. look at least year with all the talent
that century had compared to bis highs talent. both williston and century had better hockey clubs than high, but look who was in the championship game.
i think century's biggest challenge is themselves. when you think you are better than other teams (and i'm not talking about hockey) or that hazen, bottineau, dickinson, etc. shouldn't even have high school hockey than there are issues. i have heard numerous comments throughout the years from the century kids that are disrespectful to the other teams. don't get me wrong, i have no problem with kids being cocky. however, the century players seem to take that to a different level.
i ask the question, why doesn't century win against the east teams. why don't they bury the dickinsons, hazen, bottineau every time. i don't think bottineau even has 200 kids in high school, but yet they are still able to knock off bis high, minot, etc. the above mention teams cycle through good years and bad years but minot and both bismarcks should be able to compete year in and year out with the fargos and grand forks. minot has the biggest high school in the state and they can't even make state some years.
anyways to get back to the main point, maybe it's our youth coaches in the state and not the high school coaches. i've watched both bismarck and minot enough to know that when they are given good kids at the high school level, they compete at a higher level. it's funny when they get to high school and they blame the coaches for losing, like last year in minot. those kids weren't any good in youth hockey, why whould they be any good during high school. anyways we will see if coach pleosi can make the less talented bismarck team win when it counts.
Thats great that you would agree with metal edge...next time sign into your other account insted of agreeing with yourself. So anyway have you ever heard teams play down to other teams level? Maybe the west doesn't compete at state because they arn't use to playing at the same level as the east. The good east teams play good minn teams when they get a chance occasionally a east team will play minot, chs, or bhs but that is once or twice a season. while the west is concerned about stat games aginst bad canadian teams which makes no one better. Look at this
CHS has played FN, WF, GFC, Princton minn, and will play FS
BHS has played FN, WF, GFRR, GPR will play FS
Bott has played DL, morris manatoba twice, CNMPM, college louis riel, glenboro charburry
Dicky has played davies twice and DL will play rapid city twice
HB has played CNMPM and glenboro charburry will play whap
Jtown has played GPR DL and whap they will play FN, WF
Mandan has played roseau, alexandria, and Lake of the woods will play whap, WF
Minot has played GFC and DL will play davies, GFRR, FN
Willy has played mountain
Notice CHS, BHS, Jtown, Mandan, and Minot are trying to schedual tougher games aginst alot better competition than Bott, Dicky, HB, and Willy. Now with the exception of Bott the other 3 teams are currently the 7, 8, and 9 spots in the West standings. and just by looking at the sched most of the east teams are playing minn teams if they are not playing a decent team from the west.
Gr8HockeyMind wrote:No one is saying Bottineau is not legit. It's hard to argue against 14-2 and an 11 game win streak. They have the pieces in place for this year and next and will contend for the next 2 years. Enjoy the peak because the valley is low. Just ask Williston.
ND Hockey wrote:It seems to me that when bottineau wins people look for excuses like bottineau is a hard rink to play in or the opposing team is down players or something. I don't think people give enough credit to the hard work that bottineau players have put in. They are a town of about roughly 2500 compared to bismarck's roughly 100,000, probably more. Or even MInot's 50,000 give or take.
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