Skaters enter 2016-17 with experience beyond their years
The girls hockey team has already begun play, earning a 2-2 tie at fifth-ranked Minnetonka and a 6-0 win over the Duluth co-op team at home. In those games, third-year head coach Todd Gutterman said, “we showed our youth. We have a lot of things to work out still.”broadstreet.zone(48036);
There is no dissonance to be discerned between those early results and Gutterman’s analysis – no more than can be found in the fact that the 2016-17 hockey squad is both young and experienced at the same time. Of 31 players listed on the varsity roster, there are four seniors and three juniors. Only three players graduated from last year’s team, which won the Section 7AA tournament and went to the state tournament.
That means there were not many spots to fill with new players, and many of the freshmen and sophomores bring extensive varsity experience.
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