With tryouts for many teams this week, I was wondering how the numbers are for everyone, how many teams are growing, that kind of thing.

Our tryouts started on Monday, we have 42 skaters and 8 goalies.

3 players from our Gold team will not be returning this year.

Had 39 Total for our GOLD Team tryouts last night.
4 G 9 D 26 F Going to keep 22.
We are expecting another 18 plus the majority of the players who do not make GOLD to tryout for BLACK.
About what we expected. A little light defensively.
Overall we are pleased that our numbers continue to grow.

I just looked at Iowas roster and couldn't believe two things. Number one, they are essentially a team from the state of Illinois. Number two, they won the league last year and they have alot of returning players who are young. The staff up there deserves alot of credit for what they have accomplished. They truely have put themselves in a position to win the league. They knocked off Missouri State last year. Can they do it again, and can they make regionals?

We still have a few more players we are looking at for both teams.
Iowa City is really just a FAR west suburb of Chicago.
Can't seem to get more Iowa kids to come here. They play at that other Iowa school for some reason. If we can keep playing Iowa State like our last game against them, maybe we can snag one here and there.
Thanks for the compliment. Good Luck everyone. See you all soon.