Here are the 16 teams who will be taking part in the prestigious Medicine Hat Hockey Hounds tournament. This is the first tournament of the season that will feature teams from the various provinces facing off against each other.
White
POE Kelowna
SSAC Edmonton
Winnipeg Hawks
Airdrie
Red
Burnaby Winter Club
Calgary Bisons
Lloydminister
Kamloops
GreenSemiahmoo
CAC Edmonton
Notre Dame
Calgary Royals
Blue
NSWC Vancouver
Winnipeg Warriors
St. Albert
Medicine Hat
Airdrie, st Albert, royals and Lloyd might get an eye opener as they have strong teams In there Division
ReplyDeleteRoyals are going to struggle, cant compete with those stronger teams!
ReplyDeleteAirdrie probably wont win game.
Bisons should do well, but goaltending will be achilles.
Med Hat will be interesting, as host team and finally a little depth this year, probably still struggle.
Thoughts?
Think NSWC is a lock in their pool.
ReplyDeleteMed hat if they play to their potential. They can challenge nswc
ReplyDeleteInteresting Mix - did Kamloops get in because they won stuff last year? By rights, Okonagan HA or Cloverdale should have got an invite instead. Who knows, maybe they did and didn't care for the challenge ;-)
ReplyDeleteGood mixture of teams.
ReplyDeletethis should prove who the top 4
teams are
Look for the 4 BC teams to win their pools. (Not Kamloops) I expect an all BC Semis and Final. BC dominates the 97 age group. It has been proven over the years in the spring seasons. Strange but it will be the same 4 teams that battled it out in Chilliwack
ReplyDeleteWas the head contact rule brought in to eliminate body checking ? It would seem that is the case in B.C.
ReplyDeleteOfficials are turning any big hit into a 4 minute penalty. I don't think that was the intent of the rule.
Yeah I highly doubt an all bc semi finals lol med hat will make some noise and so will all the teams in this tourney
ReplyDeleteLAA golden hawks should be in med hat
ReplyDeleteI was trying to think of the correct words for the genius who figures it will be the same 4 teams as Chilliwack, ummm, ummm, ummm, its coming to me, ummmm, oh ya, NOT IN A MILLION YEARS.
ReplyDeleteAnd the spring season proves nothing, as an additional insight into who will win their pool in Medicine Hat. When I am proven correct, I can hardly wait to see all the comments with the usual excuses.
ReplyDeleteAgree Med Hat team will be interesting, wide range of possibilties for them. Bison will struggle as they have poor team defence. Royal's balance will surprise people. Airdrie has a long way to go to compete with the big boys. I expect St Albert to do well but not sold on Lloyd yet. Alberta Coaches please prepare your players for "bowing down" to the (not too arrogant, lol) BC teams.
ReplyDeleteBisons are only two players deep,Calgary coach only coaches that way(see 2 previous years),could have secondary scoring but chooses to continue to ride his horses. Royals will surprise but will be outgunned in this one. Edmonton teams will get close but too much depth with Barzal an Co. to do tourney damage(look for CAC/Bison Alta prov title). Sask and Manitoba are outclassed in this Nov. gig. Bwc are too strong, others will learn watching this complete TEAM. Alta teams take some notes. No, I'm not from B.C. I'm a hockey person watching Alta talent. Good luck to all teams involved!
ReplyDeleteOHA would have enjoyed the challenge! You only improve by playing the best teams. We had our chance and lost in OT to Semi, so we can't complain.
ReplyDeleteI can't see a CAC/Bison Alta final. The Edmonton area teams are very competitive, very tough to get out of the division in one piece. Agree the Bison depend on two maybe three to do all the scoring. Bison don't have the goaltending nor the scoring depth they have had in past years when they had 4- 20 goal scorers (last year) and 6- 20 goal scorers (previous year) and stud D-men moving the puck.
ReplyDeleteNSWC has most of their team back from last year and are loaded.
ReplyDeleteNo one in their group pool will trouble them , should cruise into semi final.
NSWC is the top dog out of BC.
ReplyDeleteBisons/ CAC tops Alberta
Look for NSWW to win it all
3:19, you are right about everything except NSWC. How do you figure NSWC will win it all. They might if BWC, POE, Notre Dame, etc. werent there, but unfortunately they are. And CAC and the Bisons arent close to being the same calibre as those 3 teams, or 4 teams if you include NSWC. What number is your kid.
ReplyDeleteNSWC better than the teams in their pool and their cross over pool . So lock for semi. Better team than Poe
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