Nike Bauer Invitational Tourney

[firestud17 0]

Anyone on here going? Has anyone ever been to this tournament? What is it like?

[Slapshot9123 0]

This tourny is insane, it is held at my rink every year. Very fun fast paced hockey. You will meet a lot of new people.

[Dare to Dream 1980 0]

Yes this is by far the #1 tournament in the nation all year long and possibly world having teams from russia and other places come...I play for Chicago Young Americans midget minor so this is my last year playing in it but theyre a ton of scouts at this tournament and its just amazing playing infront of stands full of people...Anyways this year will be new to me as my family is housing to kids from russia for 8 days so that should be fun... I cant wait for this to get started

[Slapshot9123 0]

Keep an eye on thoes Russians, when we held them they tried to steal sticks and everything from the proshop.

[dw91 0]

Its grown a lot since i played in it but it will be very fun, fast paced hockey. Its amazing playing against the russians, theyre so talented and its harder than hell to knock them off the puck.

[firestud17 0]

ya, our team lost every one of our games. we were one of the few tier II teams invited, but hey? we did better scoring wise than the few tier I teams invited from the south so they are kinda pissed.

went to the blackhawks game on friday night, then watched belle tire midget minor play the chicago fury saturday night.

we played

1) Seacoast Spartans

2)Missasauga Reps

3)Alaska All-Stars

4)Team Arizona

Edit- did not put in from the south :)

[DarkStar50 679]

I heard the Bantam Minor Russian Red Army team was filthy. Afte round robin, 42 goals for, 4 against.

[firestud17 0]

red army team was just absolutley insane, I watched them play the Fire Hockey Club (Wisconsin), who is ranked up high in AAA , yet they treated them like they were a "B" team.

its amazing how tight they can turn, how fast they are, and how hard they are to push off the puck. the red army has a very good program going on.

[kovey10 0]

Yeah, I thought the tournament went great this year. I wasn't in it this year, but my brother was and overall the tournament was great. His team hosted one of the Russian teams so that was a pretty neat experience.