puckMAN
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The High school hockey season kicks off tonight.Lets get some picks for state champions going here.
AA - EP over Rosemount
A - Hermantown over EGF
AA - EP over Rosemount
A - Hermantown over EGF
Eden Prairie sophomore Jackson Blake is ineligible to play varsity hockey for the Eagles until Jan. 28, 2020.
The ruling from the Minnesota State High School League maintains that Blake did not enroll at Eden Prairie High School until the second semester after withdrawing from Shattuck-St. Mary's in December of 2018.
"Jackson wants to play hockey with the guys he grew up with," Jason said. "We will explore all options before we decide what's best."
Among those options is skating for the Eagles' junior varsity until he is eligible for varsity action.
The Chicago Steel hold Blake's USHL rights after drafting the forward in the second round of the USHL Phase I Draft last spring.
"If the powers that be in Minnesota would allow it, the Chicago Steel would certainly love to have an elite talent like Jackson Blake join us for some games during this period of time that he is ineligible," Steel General Manager Ryan Hardy said.
"We are heartbroken for him that he won't have a full season to experience playing with his friends and representing his community," Hardy continued. "As an organization, we always try and make decisions through the lens of the player. As such, we are committed to doing whatever is best for Jackson and his long-term development. We certainly don't believe that him playing JV for the next 7-8 weeks is it."
He left the MSHSL and wanted to go back home. This isn't at all close to the scenario you describe as possible. Each case is different and should be treated as such. If it's obvious that someone is jumping to jump, then yes, don't allow it. If a kid is just going back home to the program he left, I don't see the point.Those are the rules. Commonly known and abided by. If they didn't have them, you'd have players jumping between privates and publics mid season, which would invite all sorts of recruiting violations.
He left the MSHSL and wanted to go back home. This isn't at all close to the scenario you describe as possible. Each case is different and should be treated as such. If it's obvious that someone is jumping to jump, then yes, don't allow it. If a kid is just going back home to the program he left, I don't see the point.
This is punishing a kid for being a kid.
No, make an exception for kids returning home. It's one thing if a kid is clearly trying to be a mercenary. That's what the rules are there to prevent. This clearly isn't that.Different rules for different kids/schools? Madness.
So, allow any high school player to try out for one of the higher end schools knowing that they can "return home" if they get cut? Yeah, that wouldn't lead to any trouble.No, make an exception for kids returning home. It's one thing if a kid is clearly trying to be a mercenary. That's what the rules are there to prevent. This clearly isn't that.
From my understanding, he wasn't cut.So, allow any high school player to try out for one of the higher end schools knowing that they can "return home" if they get cut? Yeah, that wouldn't lead to any trouble.
does that make a difference in your argument?From my understanding, he wasn't cut.
To me? Yes. I don't like seeing kids punished for first trying listening to his dad's advice, then deciding he enjoys playing with his friends more.does that make a difference in your argument?
I agree, it shouldn't be a huge problem in the long run. I just disagree with the ruling in this case.He’s a sophomore. He can sit 16 games and then play the next two and a half years with his friends.
Shouldn’t be a problem.
There are way to many tiers of suburbs these days. The big boys (Edina/Minnetonka/Woodbury) have priced themselves out of a lot of people looking to move from the cities. That and there is only so much space to go around. They are running out of farm plots to sell to developers in Woodbury so Cottage Grove has been taking a lot of the overflow with the same gigantic houses.Strange seeing Andover and Rosement in the top-3 (AA).
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I guess that "white flight" thing could have these sorts of programs on the up-and-up as the inner-city folks flee further and further outside of the immediate suburbs.
There are way to many tiers of suburbs these days. The big boys (Edina/Minnetonka/Woodbury) have priced themselves out of a lot of people looking to move from the cities. That and there is only so much space to go around. They are running out of farm plots to sell to developers in Woodbury so Cottage Grove has been taking a lot of the overflow with the same gigantic houses.