High School Hockey Season Starts

As the prep football season closed out at the Metrodome, high school hockey got underway. It really gets going this week, as pretty much everyone we cover will have a game under their belt by Saturday. Most will have played earlier than that, and some have already gotten in a game or two.

Similar to football, I have set up a Google spreadsheet to keep track of the teams in our three area sections in Minnesota (Sections 5A, 7A, and 7AA), as well as the two that cover northern Wisconsin (Section 1 and Section 2). As we speak, all Minnesota teams are in, and I am working to get all the Wisconsin teams done as the season starts. Please e-mail me with any information you believe to be incorrect, or if you can help provide anything we are missing.

Ahead of that, here are my snap judgment rankings for each of the sections.

MINNESOTA SECTION 5A
1. St. Cloud Cathedral
2. Hermantown
3. Duluth Denfeld
4. Sauk Rapids-Rice
5. Rogers
6. Proctor
7. Mora/Hinckley-Finlayson
8. St. Michael-Albertville
9. Pine City/Rush City
10. Moose Lake Area
11. Meadow Creek Christian
12. North Branch

MINNESOTA SECTION 7A
1. Virginia/MIB
2. Duluth Marshall
3. Hibbing
4. International Falls
5. Two Harbors
6. Eveleth-Gilbert
7. Duluth Central
8. Greenway
9. Silver Bay
10. Ely

MINNESOTA SECTION 7AA
1. Duluth East
2. Elk River
3. Grand Rapids
4. Andover
5. Cloquet/Esko/Carlton
6. St. Francis
7. Cambridge-Isanti
8. Forest Lake
9. Princeton

WISCONSIN SECTION 1
1. Superior
2. Hudson
3. New Richmond
4. River Falls
5. Somerset
6. Menomonie
7. Burnett
8. Spooner
9. Amery
10. Baldwin-Woodville
11. Barron/Chetek

WISCONSIN SECTION 2
1. Eau Claire Memorial
2. Hayward
3. Eau Claire North
4. Rice Lake
5. Chippewa Falls
6. Marshfield
7. Ashland
8. Medford
9. Chequamegon/Phillips
10. Altoona
11. McDonell Central