Great High School Hockey Moments on Youtube

[jason]

Okay, where were you when this happened: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl6MFmkU-EE

[alignrock]

I was about 8-10 rows off the glass in the zone where the goals took place. My cousin played for Blaine at the time...while it was tremendous punch in the gut to those of us in the Blaine cheering section.....I couldn't help but get excited knowing that Taffe and Welch were likely to wear the maroon and gold.

[gator]

I was at home wathing it on the tube. The very next night Hastings won their Semi Final game in OT.

[Gopherguy05]

I was about 8-10 rows off the glass in the zone where the goals took place. My cousin played for Blaine at the time...while it was tremendous punch in the gut to those of us in the Blaine cheering section.....I couldn't help but get excited knowing that Taffe and Welch were likely to wear the maroon and gold.

Well...one of the two worked out.....

[go4hcky]

I was about 8-10 rows off the glass in the zone where the goals took place. My cousin played for Blaine at the time...while it was tremendous punch in the gut to those of us in the Blaine cheering section.....I couldn't help but get excited knowing that Taffe and Welch were likely to wear the maroon and gold.

Well...one of the two worked out.....

Welch has a ring. I would say it worked out for both.

[gopherguy06]

I never knew that happen. I went to Blaine and didn't start following hockey until the following season when we beat Duluth East to win state. But I remember that as a start to my love of hockey, college and HS both.

[gator]

Ben Tharp (Gopher Hockey) and Ben Utecht (Gopher Football) also played on that Hasings team.

[alignrock]

Utecht was the goalie, no?

[baseball20]

I think the Blaine goalie at the time also was Justin Johnson too

[Snowcool08]

I was at the game for the first 2 periods. It was a blowout so my dad, uncle, and cousin decided to leave the Target Center early so I missed the entire comeback by Blaine (but heard it on the radio!) and got home just in time to see the tying goal and game-winning goal on TV.

[trixR4kids]

On Roman's blog it talks about how Columbia heights upset Edina. Anyone know the details of this?

I'm relatively new to this state but I've reffed soccer at Columbia heights before and that sounds like quite the upset.

[Greyeagle]

On Roman's blog it talks about how Columbia heights upset Edina. Anyone know the details of this?

I'm relatively new to this state but I've reffed soccer at Columbia heights before and that sounds like quite the upset.

1983 IIRC and Edina had just merged back from being east & west and was #1 or #2 in the state. Columbia Heights, behind goalie Reggie Miracle, shut out Edina 2-0. The chic pick that year (IIRC) was a HM-Edina final.....

1984 was fun too when St. Paul Johnson shocked defending champion Hill-Murray in the first round.

Probably the two of the most electric games I remember from the old Civic Center. If the arena sat ~18K about 16.5 K were cheering for Heights & Johnson.

http://www.minnhock.com/state-tournament-1980.htm

[Iceburg]

Heights beat a great Cloquet team in double overtime at the Coliseum to get to state. It is still the greatest high school game I've ever seen. The place was packed and there was no conservative play at all in the overtimes. Many great chances for each team before Heights scored a short handed goal to win. I didn't have a rooting interest in the game either way and I was drained walking out of the place. I can imagine what the players and fans must have felt like.

[trixR4kids]

I didn't even know heights could field a hockey team. They barely field a soccer team and soccer is a much more accessible sport.

[Gopherguy05]

I didn't even know heights could field a hockey team. They barely field a soccer team and soccer is a much more accessible sport.

It was also 25 years ago....the demographics of the enrollment of that school amongst others has changed greatly since then. St Paul used to have 5 hockey teams back then instead of just the 2 they have now....

[Iceburg]

I didn't even know heights could field a hockey team. They barely field a soccer team and soccer is a much more accessible sport.

Heights had won the state bantam title a couple of years before, so it wasn't unexpected that they would have a nice run for a couple of years. The program was never strong before or after, they just happened to have a nice group of rink rat types that came along at the same time. The best player they had was a small forward named Tom Peterson who was a magician with the puck. Unfortunately he had some off-ice issues and never played beyond high school, I don't believe. His younger brother Billy was very good also. He went somewhere (D-1, can't remember where), but didn't last. The third forward on the big line was Tom Palkowski, who went to Illinois-Chicago when they were in the CCHA, but had limited success and wound up having a very nice career at St. Thomas. They also had one very nice defenseman named D.J. Haller. I don't recall what he did following high school. The goalie, Reggie Miracle, walked on at the "U", but never played any varsity, I don't believe.

[Greyeagle]

Heights beat a great Cloquet team in double overtime at the Coliseum to get to state. It is still the greatest high school game I've ever seen. The place was packed and there was no conservative play at all in the overtimes. Many great chances for each team before Heights scored a short handed goal to win. I didn't have a rooting interest in the game either way and I was drained walking out of the place. I can imagine what the players and fans must have felt like.

Ahh the days of crazy region two, shaped like a "capital I" and the alternated the finals alternated yearly between the DECC & Fairgrounds. Wasn't Millen a Jr on that Cloquet team? IIRC Cloquet on its section the next year but he broke his leg during the game and never got a chance to wow the HS tourney. I seem to remember him walking by us (team seats near the ice) on his way to the bench wearing a cast and looking madder than hell.

EDIT: Nevermind, I think Millen would have been a Sr. on the 82 Cloquet team that made the tourney.

[sunbone]

Heights beat a great Cloquet team in double overtime at the Coliseum to get to state. It is still the greatest high school game I've ever seen. The place was packed and there was no conservative play at all in the overtimes. Many great chances for each team before Heights scored a short handed goal to win. I didn't have a rooting interest in the game either way and I was drained walking out of the place. I can imagine what the players and fans must have felt like.

Ahh the days of crazy region two, shaped like a "capital I" and the alternated the finals alternated yearly between the DECC & Fairgrounds. Wasn't Millen a Jr on that Cloquet team? IIRC Cloquet on its section the next year but he broke his leg during the game and never got a chance to wow the HS tourney. I seem to remember him walking by us (team seats near the ice) on his way to the bench wearing a cast and looking madder than hell.

EDIT: Nevermind, I think Millen would have been a Sr. on the 82 Cloquet team that made the tourney.

Yes, '82 was the year Millen broke his leg in the section semi-final. Then Cloquet beat Coon Rapids in the section finals at the DECC without him. And that wasn't a typo, Coon Rapids was in the section finals. And Reg Miracle, what a blast from the past. He should have walked on at North Dakota. Nobody could make a routine save look more dramatic than ol' Reg.

[Iceburg]

1984 was fun too when St. Paul Johnson shocked defending champion Hill-Murray in the first round.

[dxmnkd316]

1984 was fun too when St. Paul Johnson shocked defending champion Hill-Murray in the first round.

look at those "breezers"

[Chris83]

1984 was fun too when St. Paul Johnson shocked defending champion Hill-Murray in the first round.

look at those "breezers"

Ahh, the days of the Cooperalls