Hockey

The Hill-Murray girls hockey team is set to make another run at a state championship this week. The Pioneers are in the Class AA state tournament for the fifth consecutive year and sixth in program history.

There’s not much girls hockey playoff history between Mounds View High School and White Bear Lake but they’re making up for it quickly.

When the Mounds View High School boys hockey team opened the season with a 10-6 loss to North St. Paul, it looked like it might be a long winter for the Mustangs.

Hill-Murray and White Bear Lake have long been rivals in boys hockey and have met in the section playoffs numerous times over the years. Many of those post-season meetings have come with the section championship on the line. 

The goal of every boys high school hockey player in Minnesota is to play in the state tournament at the Xcel Energy Center. The road to that goal starts this week as section playoffs begin. 

The goal of every boys high school hockey player in Minnesota is to play in the state tournament at the Xcel Energy Center. The road to that goal starts this week as section playoffs begin. 

The Hill-Murray girls hockey team, as expected, earned the No. 1 seed in the Section 4AA playoffs, which started last weekend and continue this week. 

During the regular season, the Mounds View High School girls hockey team faced Woodbury twice, winning one close contest and taking the other in a blowout.

With the calendar changing over to February, the focus for the Bulletin-area high school girls hockey teams has also changed. The regular season wrapped up last week so now Mounds View and Irondale/St.

The playoffs have arrived for high school girls hockey in Minnesota and the teams from Hill-Murray and North/Tartan have a couple of more days to prepare for their first-round contests. The Section 4AA tournament kicks off on Feb. 11.