OT: MN High School Hockey Thread

[joelef]

Bloomington Kennedy announces this season will be their last - Lets Play Hockey

Program will merge with Bloomington Jefferson for 2025-26 season A trend that began in the inner cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul has reached communities once considered hockey hotbeds in the 80s and 90s. Bloomington Kennedy announced Aug. 29 that after 60 years it will enter its final season...

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Also Burnsville co opted with apple valley. Why Dosent hockey minnesota try to address this rapid decline of urban and suburban hockey ? Seems like there more interested in rich Edina kids paying 5000 dollar for land dry training.

 

[Minnewildsota]

Bloomington Kennedy announces this season will be their last - Lets Play Hockey

Program will merge with Bloomington Jefferson for 2025-26 season A trend that began in the inner cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul has reached communities once considered hockey hotbeds in the 80s and 90s. Bloomington Kennedy announced Aug. 29 that after 60 years it will enter its final season...

letsplayhockey.com

Also Burnsville co opted with apple valley. Why Dosent hockey minnesota try to address this rapid decline of urban and suburban hockey ? Seems like there more interested in rich Edina kids paying 5000 dollar for land dry training.

You seem to be obsessed with how things were. Times change. Hockey programs come and go. Bloomington may have folded but other programs have grown. It happens.

Why dump money into areas that aren’t interested in hockey? Hey, Arizona used to have a team. Why doesn’t the NHL keep putting money into that? Sometimes it’s time to pull the rip cord.

 

[TaLoN]

The people interested in playing live elsewhere... it happens. Other programs have grown to replace then before the plug was ever pulled. It's a free country, let people do what they want. The sport is still healthy.

 

[GordieGallant]

Bloomington Kennedy announces this season will be their last - Lets Play Hockey

Program will merge with Bloomington Jefferson for 2025-26 season A trend that began in the inner cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul has reached communities once considered hockey hotbeds in the 80s and 90s. Bloomington Kennedy announced Aug. 29 that after 60 years it will enter its final season...

letsplayhockey.com

Also Burnsville co opted with apple valley. Why Dosent hockey minnesota try to address this rapid decline of urban and suburban hockey ? Seems like there more interested in rich Edina kids paying 5000 dollar for land dry training.

Changing demographics is the main reason. High school hockey in St. Paul and Minneapolis has been downsized to Co-ops. Can’t see how how any entity can change the fact that you don’t have kids trying out.

Hockey is expensive. Family’s with the money to play in the city opt to play for private schools.