<p>I've got an 8th grade D who happens to be a pretty decent goalie (understatement). We are geographically challenged (live in the South), so I'm looking for eyes on who will be needing a goalie next year.</p>
<p>Unfortunately many schools don't put their rosters online, so finding out who needs one is difficult.</p>
<p>For those of you that follow high school hockey, not just here in RI:</p>
<p><a href="http://icekingsthemovie.com/%5B/url%5D">http://icekingsthemovie.com/</a></p>
<p>Looks like an upcoming HBO Sports Movie for the spring of 2006.</p>
<p>Come to Michigan, Wisconsin or Minnesota if you really love hockey culture.</p>
<p>University Liggett School in Grosse Pointe, MI (right outside of Detroit) is one of a handful of day schools in the country to have its own ice rink. Also, Cranbrook, Greenhills and Detroit Country Day have very good hockey programs.</p>
<p>Strangely enough my D started playing when we lived in the Detroit suburbs and continued on for 3 years in Wisconsin before we moved south. </p>
<p>Definitely good places to play hockey.</p>
<p>As to boarding prep opportunities in Detroit Cranbrook is a great school, but the girls HS hockey in Michigan (as opposed to club hockey which is excellent) is very weak.</p>
<p>Same can be said for University school in Milwaukee and Lake Forest Academy north of Chicago.</p>
<p>SSM is a hockey team with a prep school attached to it <grin>. Best HS hockey in the world perhaps. They are well stocked in goal.</grin></p>
<p>Culver (Indiana) is another top spot, but they are overstocked with freshman goalies this season (3). I'd send D there in a minute, but too many goalies are too many unhappy goalies.</p>
<p>Unfortunately the South is hockey challenged, so I look where there are opportunities to improve my d's education and hockey opportunities.</p>
<p>At the school referred to in the video clip, Mount Saint Charles, the girls hockey team picked up where the boys team left off. I believe that they have won 3 or 4 state championships in a row. The clip also notes that the program at Mount, under the current coach, has sent 20 players to the pros.</p>
<p>Living in RI and growing up in MA we think that the best HS hockey is here. An interesting note, there are more players in the NHL from New England than from any province in Canada.</p>
<p>OK, Shattuck-St. Mary is not in NE but it has one of the best hockey program in the country. Sidney Crosby spent his sophomore year in 2002-03 at Shattuck-St. Mary where he scored 72 goals in 57 games. There are 6 boy hockey teams in this school. Its U16 team will represent the Minnkota District of USA Hockey at the U16 National Tournament in Rochester, NY in March, 2006. Its prep team will also represent Minnkota District (Minnesota) of USA Hockey at the Tier 1 Midget National Tournament in Rochester, NY in March, 2006.</p>
<p>All of our teams practice every day. Most of the teams practice during the regular school day and others practice in the late afternoon or early evening hours. All teams play a competitive, seven month schedule, with tournament play throughout the U.S. The coaching staff includes former NHL, professional and Division I team coaches. If your goal is to play hockey in prep school, there is no place better than Shattuck-St. Mary.</p>
<p>Living in Michigan and having a son who played hockey at St. Paul's I can attest to the fact that there is no comparison between high school hockey in Michigan and the ISL/Founder's leagues. With rare exception the top hockey players in Michigan do not play high school hockey. They are either playing AAA (Little Caesar's, Compuware, Honeybaked), Juniors, or have gone pro and are playing in the OHL (Ontario Hockey League). As a result high school hockey in Michigan is extremely weak when compared to the New England boarding schools. The top high school teams in Michigan wouldn't win a game in the ISL/Founders leagues.</p>
<p>Not just NE boarding schools. The super 8 in Massachusetts is dominated by catholic high schools like Catholic Memorial (where the Harvard hockey coach went to high school). The boarding schools often have PGs on their teams, the catholic schools do not.</p>
<p>Did some research, the school cited in the video clip, Mount Saint Charles, has sent 20 players to the pros since 1979. Of the 3 americans drafted first in the first round of the NHL draft 2 of them went to Mount (Brian Lawton and Bryan Berard). Of the 20 members of the 1998 US Olympic hockey team 3 of them went to Mount Saint Charles (Garth Snow, Mathieu Schneider and Keith Carney).</p>
<p>Here is an article from my local paper, the Providence Journal Bulletin:</p>
<p>The article is about the program and the book that was just released:</p>
<p>To support browninfall's comment, Brian Berard left Mount Saint Charles after his junior year in hs to go to Michigan for his senior year and play for a junior hockey team.</p>
<p>ISl and The founders League. The founders league student players are on a fast track to Hockey East, Atlantic, CCHA. the best D1 programs in the Nation, and even those that are not top hockey schools, for the most important aspect of development. the education.
Is it worth paying $25,000 plus a year for the educational and athletic advantage? You bet.</p>