tigermask48
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I don't know about other States but here in Massachusetts High School hockey is very competitive.
Minnesota High School Hockey is probably the most competitive in the country. Large parts of the state and schools close down for the State Tournament games and they get huge crowds at the Excel for those games. It's also super political because it's so popular.
I remember my sophmore year I was brought along with two other sophmore goalies to a pre-season tournament and we were told that "the two best goalies would make the Junior Varsity team." I faced three shots in a period and a half of work in a 12-1 drubbing of the worst team in the league (stopped all 3 shots) and was told on the bus home that I was cut down to the Junior Gold level. Played Junior Gold and led the team to a second place finish in the state tournament. Came back my Junior year got cut to JV, didn't complain, but didn't fit in because I didn't smoke pot, and like listening to Phish and Dave Matthews before games... Tried to stay out of all that stuff which made me an outsider among my teammates.
My senior year I decided to play Junior Gold with my friends instead of dealing with the idiots on the high school team. Meanwhile my brother had come up to high school level as a sophmore. They had one goalie transfer, and the other two got busted for pot and had to serve 3 game suspensions, leaving my brother as the only goalie besides me eligible to play for both the JV and Varsity teams. The head coach called me and told me that this would be my chance to prove I could play at the high school level and that I'd at lest play those first 3 JV games since a high school player can only play 4 periods of hockey in a 24 hour time. I told him to find a shooter tutor for those JV games, and that I didn't like pot so I wouldn't be a good fit on his team of stoners. Ok'd with my brother him being good with playing 4 periods a night those games, showed up at the games with a bunch of my teammates, sat behind the bench and heckled the coach everytime they gave up an empty net goal.