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Post by Reaper on Mar 16, 2020 16:03:31 GMT -6
Yes, pistol, it's better to be last to be first,
but deadly to any program trying to take a title away from the reigning CHAMPIONEERS.
Blake was the first to prevent Hill from 3 more prep titles prior to the MSHSL days, then what happened?
There was a rumor that Blake baby blue bears finally made it back to the big-time State tourney this year, but EYE never spied them.
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Post by Creeper on Mar 16, 2020 16:25:58 GMT -6
Very true, Reaper! YOU don't want to be the program that tempts the fates by getting in Hill's way.
Don't forget the Duluth Cathedral Hilltoppers who took a couple of Catholic State Titles from Hill ...
although most people may soon forget the Duluth Marshall Hilltoppers next year if they fail (as rumored) to field enough players for a varsity team.
Hill finally wresting the title from the Hilltoppers in 1969/70 still gives Randolph nightmares, replaying Hill's overtime victory his senior year as he watched as a player from the bench.
This is the reason YOU never see Duluth East schedule either Hill or the Hilltoppers in any regular season game: bad memories ... and might be the reason DuLEAST doesn't fair well against Hill-Murray when forced into any tourney match-up.
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Post by Peeper on Mar 16, 2020 16:33:10 GMT -6
SPA was the first varsity team in the State of Hockey to start it all in 1905 ...
SPA also took a title away from Hill-Murray in 1974 ...
not a peep from SPA since (o)(o)
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Post by Jeepers on Mar 16, 2020 17:07:08 GMT -6
Jeepers Creepers, Peepers, Eye hope those (o)(o) aren't boobs.
Which got me thinking about Grand Rapids.
Grand Rapids used to put on the Greatest Show on Earth when they were the Indians.
Hill had its beloved band, directed by the A+ Mr. A, who wrote and gave Hill its own and only school to have an original written fight song, not set like other schools' to the music of some college fight song or other plagiarized jingle.
But Grand Rapids filled half the arena with its band and rattled the whole arena with the booming sound of brass and base drums from the old Hamms Bear song.
And the beautiful girls ... actually women performing on ice ... enough to fill every face-off circle plus ring the entire boards holding hands as they literally streaked past ... bigger than any Superbowl halftime show ... and hundredfold the wardrobe malfunctions....
Okay, back to the hockey games, but YOU can see how the Hill boys might have been distracted in five meetings with the mostly naked Indian Squaws in the CHAMPIONEERS first six straight MSHSL tourney appearances.
Grand Rapids and Jon Casey upset the undefeated Hill-Murray Hyphen-Nation CHAMPIONEERS in the 1980 tile game, but nobody has seen the Indians' spectacle since.
Grand Rapids, minus the Indian Squaws, finally won their next title in 2017 ...
Do YOU really want to get in Hill's way to a title only to lose YOUR school's whole identity and have to wait another 37 years or more for YOUR next fleeting glory?
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Post by Ankles Pierre, Jr. on Mar 16, 2020 17:58:17 GMT -6
Johnson stole previous JV players from the defending undefeated 1983 Hill-Murray World CHAMPIONEERS program in order to get in the way of a Hyphen-Nation repeat in the Orwellian year of 1984.... One requires a VCR to remember the Johnson Governors in any Big-Time State Tournament since.
The Burnsville Braves did the right thing by losing to Hill in 1983 ... and were rewarded with a title of their own in 1985 ... but the Braves got greedy in 1986 and, like Grand Rapids, lost the school's identity ... and have suffered a nearly equally long drought which is likely to continue.
Jefferson of '93 ... oh, how the mighty have fallen ... defeated Hill-Murray, the last all-school single combined class CHAMPIONEERS of all-time since 1991 ... yet Jefferson couldn't get back to the title game again since the early Nineties ... unless you count the Jefferson kids who defected to Holy High Sticking Angels in 2002.
H-M Hyphen-Nation
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Post by pistol on Mar 16, 2020 18:20:57 GMT -6
Let this be a warning to any hockey program thinking of getting in the way of a Hill-Murray World CHAMPIONEER Hyphen-Nation repeat:
Eden Pr'AREA dashed the 2008 Hill-Murray World CHAMPIONEER Hyphen-Nation repeat hopes in 2009 in overtime with the dastardly help of a corrupt sudden death replay review call, then backed into a 2011 title thanks to the absence of the #1 ranked Pioneers, only to be saddled ever since with as many Runners-Up trophies as Hill and Moorhead combined in that time period.
Eden Pr'AREA is welcome to all the Runners-Up trophies it desires. Go ahead and break those records that belong to Moorhead or Hill. Can't speak for Moorhead, but the 2020 plus Vision Eye can spy clearly now Hill-Murray Hyphen-Nation World CHAMPIONEERS have their sights set on records currently held by Roseau and Edina.
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Post by Video Scout, Jr. on Mar 21, 2020 21:31:58 GMT -6
Eye can't wait to spy the latest 2020 video releases coming soon to quarantined computer screens all over Hyphen-Nation: hmpioneers.net/hockey/video/video.htmLook for one coming soon with a certain surprise ending miracle guest
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Post by Ankles Pierre, Jr. on Apr 7, 2020 21:17:28 GMT -6
On Ye Olde Bored 'podcast turning points' thread, even some Hill-Murray alumni claim not to know the secret behind 60 years of Hill CHAMPIONEER success.
The simple answer is coaching.
Ankles Pierre, Jr. could stop right there ... but won't.
Both Hill and Edina first came to the attention of sportswriters around 1969/70 while both had great coaches.
Hill's coach later was given a run as coach of the North Stars, and more than half the credit to developing good hockey players was (and is) coaching.
The attitude of the players had something to do with it, too. Back in the late Sixties and early Seventies, and maybe beyond, good hockey players did not want to go to Hill for hockey. Boys went to Hill ... because their strict Catholic parents forced them! If the Hill boys really wanted to be noticed for hockey, they certainly would have stayed at nearby publik skols like Johnson if they could, where they would have a chance to play in the big televised state tournament, not the non-televised private tourneys that Hill boys had to accept.
One might forgive the boys for playing with a chip on their shoulders. Hill boys unfairly were accused of betraying their publik skol friends by going to Hill just for the hockey ... despite: 1. publik skols like Johnson received more hockey attention than Hill in those early days; 2. their parents cared more about sending their boys to a good Catholic school than the almost exclusive statewide hockey attention that publik skols got in those days.
To add even more insult to insult, Catholic boys being accused of leaving for greener hockey pastures were derided by the publik skols for playing "inferior" hockey. That's right. Often in the same argument, the Hill boys would be accused of both being "unfairly too good" and playing "vastly inferior" hockey at the same time. When scrimmaging a publik skol, the Hill boys might have heard jeers implying they were Catholic Church choir boys, too soft for hockey as the entered the arena; only to be followed with accusations as they left of having recruited too well and playing with an unfair advantage. Being unjustly and irrationally hated in such a damned-if-you-DO/damned-if-you-DO-better manner can be a great motivator.
Just ask Edina ... for both different and similar reasons....
Which brings AP back to great coaching, Both teams, Edina and Hill, were drawing a lot of press all of a sudden in 1969/70 ... though the Hornets had the bigger stage the Hill CHAMPIONERS had forgone. Many Hill boys then, like now, thought they could be better than Edina ... yet thought they were being denied the chance to prove it. Chip ... meet Shoulder ... once again.
Sportswriters at the time, especially Don Riley in St. Paul, liked to stir up "what if" controversies regarding Hill and Edina: Who would be the 'Imaginary State Champion' if the then separate publik and private leagues let their top teams face each other for all the medals? The weeks of pre-game newspaper hype, plus both team's loyal following, meant the annual Hill/Edina, Edina/Hill home and home series would fill both arenas to the rafters ... for a couple of scrimmages!
In closing, the Hill program kept improving every year due mostly to great coaches but also due to the Hill boys who always were being made by outside forces to feel like they had something to prove ... which led to a style of play that gained the attention of Herb Brooks and others ... and the sportswriters' "what if" imaginations ... which led to Hill and other private schools being let into the MSHSL, in part, "to settle the question of who really was the best," as Lou Nanne admitted at the time. Though, despite gaining some measure of acceptance in the MSHSL, even if only in the rules if not spirit, two things never left Hill: 1. great coaches; 2. kids who play with something to prove.
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Post by Ankles Pierre, Jr. on Apr 12, 2020 18:42:59 GMT -6
At least 21 players from alumni and multiple-student Hill-Murray families played hockey for Hill-Murray this year.
Even with seniors, Quast, Regan, Strobel, etc., graduating this year,
Hill-Murray will return AT LEAST 19 players from this year's varsity and JV
who are Alumni children or CHAMPIONEER hockey Siblings ...
this does not even include players whose relatives attended Hill but did not play varsity hockey ...
also not including offspring or siblings who did not play this year but may roster next year.
Hill-Murray HYPHEN-NATION CHAMPIONEER hockey ... it's not community ... it's family.
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Post by President Donald J. Trump, Jr. on May 15, 2020 21:47:33 GMT -6
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Post by pistol on Jun 12, 2020 23:46:13 GMT -6
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Post by hackerboy on Jun 17, 2020 13:10:52 GMT -6
Yes we should be so proud of our leadership. Its nice to know that nobody doing anything destructive was from Minnesota. Its also nice to know that we can loot burn and vandalize as long as our cause is just and right with the mushbrains.
God Bless America. But say it ain't so Joe.
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