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1 month ago | 
legacy.hockey | Loren Nelson |Drew Herron |David La Vaque
ST. PAUL - Luca Pedri's power-play goal 5:11 into the third period proved to be the eventual game-winner as No. 3 seed St. Thomas Academy held on to defeat No. 6 Shakopee 2-1 in a state Class 2A quarterfinal Thursday at Xcel Energy Center.
Mr. Hockey finalist Jackson Rudh scored the other goal for the Cadets (24-5-0), who are making their first state tournament appearance since 2021.
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1 month ago | 
legacy.hockey | Loren Nelson |Drew Herron
ST. PAUL — Greg Zanon is intimately familiar with the Xcel Energy Center, having played 202 NHL games there as a member of the Minnesota Wild.
He returned to his old haunts on Thursday for the state Class 2A quarterfinals as Stillwater’s head coach. So instead of sitting on the bench he was standing behind it. And, oh boy, what a difference a few feet make.
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1 month ago | 
legacy.hockey | Drew Herron |Loren Nelson |David La Vaque
ST. PAUL - Five different players scored as No. 2 Stillwater eased by seventh-seeded Andover 5-0 Thursday in a state Class 2A quarterfinal at the Xcel Energy Center.
Senior goalie Cal Conway backstopped the Ponies with 23 saves, shutting out his former team on the biggest stage. Conway played for Andover last season.
Stillwater struck twice in both the first and second periods.
Brody Dustin opened the scoring just 2:40 into the contest when he swatted a rebound just under the crossbar.
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1 month ago | 
mnhockeycoach.com | Drew Herron |Loren Nelson
Editor's note: This is the fourth in a series of articles highlighting the state's top seniors, players who declined opportunities to play elsewhere in favor of staying home and playing with their childhood buddies as they try to reach the state tournament.
Cooper Simpson is living a winter he won’t forget.
In Shakopee, where the state’s leading goal scorer and Mr. Hockey finalist grew up, there aren’t many hockey fans in town who will forget it either.
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1 month ago | 
legacy.hockey | Loren Nelson |Drew Herron
ST. PAUL - Star power.
St. Cloud Cathedral has it in spades, and that’s never a bad thing at one of the nation's premiere high school events.
Senior forwards Joey Gillespie and John Hirschfeld, twin engines that drove the Crusaders to the state Class 1A championship last season, were up to their usual antics on Wednesday in a 3-0 quarterfinal victory over Mahtomedi at the Xcel Energy Center.
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1 month ago | 
legacy.hockey | Drew Herron |Mark Hvidsten |David La Vaque |Loren Nelson
ST. PAUL - Senior forward Joey Gillespie scored twice, including a shorthanded goal in the third period, to lead No. 2 seed St. Cloud Cathedral to a 3-0 victory over No. 7 seed Mahtomedi on Wednesday in a state Class 1A quarterfinal at the Xcel Energy Center.
Gillespie’s third-period goal put the defending state champion Zephyrs (19-8-2) ahead 3-0 and came off a feed from linemate John Hirschfeld, who alertly grabbed the rebound of his initial shot and fed a wide-open Gillespie in front.
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1 month ago | 
legacy.hockey | Drew Herron |Mark Hvidsten |David La Vaque |Loren Nelson
EDINA - Will Dosan scored with 3:15 remaining in the second overtime to lift No. 1 seed St. Thomas Academy to a 4-3 victory over No. 2 seed Cretin-Derham Hall in the Section 3AA championship game Friday night at Braemar Arena.
The goal, which came off a scramble in front of the crease, was Dosan's second of the game, 24th of the season and most certainly the most important of his career.
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1 month ago | 
legacy.hockey | Drew Herron |Mark Hvidsten |Loren Nelson
MAPLEWOOD - It took a while, but Matthew Volkman completed his hat trick in a most dramatic fashion, scoring 59 seconds into double overtime to lift No. 2 seed Stillwater to a 4-3 victory over No. 1 seed Hill-Murray on Friday in the Section 4AA championship game at Aldrich Arena.
Volkman, on a rush with Trey Fredenberg into the Hill-Murray defensive zone, elected to shoot and whistled a high shot over the shoulder of Pioneers goaltender Grayson Hanggi to end it.
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2 months ago | 
legacy.hockey | Mark Hvidsten |Drew Herron |David La Vaque |Loren Nelson
Hope was perhaps Lakeville North’s biggest weapon on Thursday night in the Section 1AA boys hockey championship game at the Rochester Rec Center. Lakeville South senior forward Brayden Olsen did his best to eliminate that weapon early on, scoring a goal in each of the first two periods as the No. 1-seeded Cougars snuffed out that Panthers’ hope and took home their sixth section championship in seven years with a 5-1 victory.
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2 months ago | 
legacy.hockey | Drew Herron |Loren Nelson
ELK RIVER - Brock Cheslock scored what proved to be the winning goal as No. 1 seed Rogers held on to beat No. 3 seed Champlin Park 4-3 on Thursday in the Section 5AA championship game at the Furniture and Things Community Event Center in Elk River, sending the Royals to the state tournament for the first time in program history.
Cheslock, a junior forward, scored 3:31 into the second period to put Rogers, ranked No. 3 in Class 2A, ahead 4-0.
