Warroad boys hockey team takes top 1A ranking into Hockey Day Minnesota

This year’s host of the annual event, Warroad will play rival Roseau on Saturday.

The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 24, 2024 at 8:39PM
Against the backdrop of the Minneapolis skyline, players from Warroad and Minneapolis played a Hockey Day Minnesota game at Parade Stadium in 2020.

Apropos of the three-day “Hockey Day Minnesota” celebration that starts Thursday, host Warroad (15-3) maintains its top Class 1A ranking in this week’s poll released by Let’s Play Hockey.

The Warriors take it outside against rival Roseau at 4:30 p.m. Saturday in the second boys high school game of the day. First up at 1 p.m. is Wayzata (No. 2, Class 2A) against Moorhead.

Boys hockey state rankings

By Let’s Play Hockey

Class 2A

1. Minnetonka (15-0-2); 2. Wayzata (14-1-2); 3. Edina (15-2-1); 4. Chanhassen (15-4); 5. Maple Grove (12-4); 6. Eden Prairie (10-5-1); 7. Benilde-St. Margaret’s (11-4-1); 8. St. Thomas Academy (11-5-2); Rogers (11-5-2); 10. Shakopee (13-3-1).

Class 1A

1. Warroad (15-3); 2. Hermantown (11-4-2); 3. St. Cloud Cathedral (13-4-1); 4. East Grand Forks (12-5-1); 5. Mahtomedi (7-9); 6. Northfield (12-1-2); 7. Orono (12-5); 8. Monticello (14-2); 9. Delano (10-6-1); 10. Proctor (12-6).

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David La Vaque

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David La Vaque is a high school sports reporter who has been the lead high school hockey writer for the Minnesota Star Tribune since 2010. He is co-author of “Tourney Time,” a book about the history of Minnesota’s boys hockey state tournament published in 2020 and updated in 2024.

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