1996 US Nationals

The 1995-96 US National Championships were held in Bloomington, Minnesota from April 11-14, 1996. The 1996 USA Hockey Girls' and Women's National Hockey Championship had the Peewee, Midget, Senior A, and Senior B divisions. It was held at the Bloomington Ice Gardens in Bloomington, Minnesota (home of the Mall of America!).

This page contains game result information for the 1996 US Nationals.

Here are the winners in each division:

1996 US National Winners

Category Gold Medal Silver Medal

Senior A MN Northern Lights MN Blue J's

Senior B Michigan Hawks Stoneham

Midget Alaska Firebirds MN Tbreds White

Peewee Conn Polar Bears 5 Assabet Valley 2

1996 US National Winners
Category	Gold Medal	Silver Medal
Senior A	MN Northern Lights	MN Blue J's
Senior B	Michigan Hawks	Stoneham
Midget	Alaska Firebirds	MN Tbreds White
Peewee	Conn Polar Bears 5	Assabet Valley 2

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Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 00:56:36 -0400
From: TJSCANLON@aol.com

The Girls' and Women's US Nationals are being held in 
Bloomington, Minnesota this weekend.  Here are some 
scores for games until about 6:30 on Friday.

Pee Wees
Thurs. April 11

Connecticut Polar Bears 7 - Syracuse Stars 0
Ohio Flames 0 - Assabet Valley 7
MN Thoroughbreds White 0 - Alaska Firebirds 2
Duluth Icebreakers 2 - Wisconsin Challengers 4
Syracuse Stars 2 - Metro Flyers 1
Assabet Valley 4 - New Hampshire Selects 0
MN Thoro. White 9 - Ohio Flames 0
Conn. Polar Bears 12 - Duluth Icebreakers 0

Friday April 12

Metro Flyers 2 - Wisconsin Challengers 3
New Hampshire Selects 1 - Ak Firebirds 4
Assabet Val 3 - MN Thor. White 3
Syracuse Stars 9 - Duluth Icebreakers 1
Wisc. Chal. 0 - Conn. Polar 5
Ak Firebirds 1 - Ohio Flames 2
NH Selects 0 - MN Thor. White 2
Metro Flyers 5 - Duluth Icebreakers 4

Midgets
Thur April 11

Conn Polar Bears 4 - Lake Placid Rockets 4
Ohio Flames 0 - Chelmsford Lions 2
MN Thoroughbreds Red 1 - Alaska Firebirds 2
MN Thoroughbreds White 8 - Wisconsin Challengers 1
Lake Placid Rockets 2 - Little Ceasars 2
Chelmsford Lions 1 - Team California 0
Minnesota Thoroughbreds Red 0 - Ohio Flames 0
Minnesota Thoroughbreds White 3 - Connecticut Polar Bears 1

Friday April 12

Little Ceasars 3 - Wisc Chal. 0
Team Cal 0 - Ak Firebirds 2
Chelm. Lions 6 - MN Thor Red 1
Lk Placid Rkts 1 - MN Thor White2
Wisc. Chal. 0 - Conn. Polar Bears 1

Senior B
Thur. April 11

Rhode Island Panthers 0 - Stoneham Unicorns 5
Seattle Wings 0 - Ultimate Golf (MN) 3
Tonawanda Lady Lightening 0 - Delaware Bobcats 6
Michigan O'Leary Hawks 3 - Chicago Rebel Selects 0

Friday April 12

Del. Bobcats 7 - Chicago Reb. Sel. 3
Mich O'Leary Hawks 6 - Tonawanda 0
Stoneham Unicorns 1 - Ult. Golf 1
Seat. Wings 0 - RI Panthers 4

No Senior A games had been played as of 6:30.  I will try to keep you posted

Tom Scanlon
MGR SharpShooters! ,   Senior C Womens Team

"Where are the Nationals for Senior C?"

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Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 12:45:13 -0400
From: TJSCANLON@aol.com
To: women-in-hockey@plaidworks.com
Subject: Girls and Womens National - USA

Here are the results from Saturday's game in Bloomington MN.

PeeWee
Sat. April 13

Wisc. Chal. 1 - Syracuse Sel. 0
Alaska Firebirds 1 - Assabet Valley 2
Ohio Flames 5 - New Hampshire Sel 3
Conn Polar Bears 4 - Metro Flyers 0

Semi-Finals

Conn Polar Bears 4 - MN TBreds White 1
Assabet Valley 3 - Wisc Chal 1

Sundays Championship will be   Conn Polar Bears vs. Assabet Valley (Mass.)

Midgets
Friday April 12

Alaska Firebirds 5 - Ohio Flames 0
Team Cal. 1 - MN Tbreds Red 4
Little Ceasars 0 - MN Tbreds White 1

Sat. April 13

Wisc Chal. 1 - Lake Placid Rockets 5
Alaska Firebirds 4 - Chelmsford Lions 3
Ohio Flames 0 - Team Cal. 1
Conn Polar Bears 2 - Little Ceasars 0

Semi Finals

MN Tbreds White 3 - Chelmsford Lions 1
Alaska Firebirds 2 - Conn Polar Bears 1

Sunday's Championship game will feature MN Tbreds vs. Alaska Firebirds

Senior B
Sat. April 13

Stoneham Unicorns 6 - Seattle Wings 1
Ult. Golf 2 - RI panthers 3
Del Bobcats 0 - Mich O'Leary Hawks 5
Chic. rebel Sel. 2 - Tonawanda Lady Lightening 5

Semi-Finals

Stoneham 6 - Tonawanda L.L. 2
Michigan O'Leary ? - RI Panthers ?

Sun Champ will be Stoneham vs. ?

Senior A
Friday

Madison Edge 1 - MN Northern Lights 8
MN Blue J's 4 - Mich Chiefs 1

Sat

Mich Chiefs 6 - Madison Edge 0
MN Northern Lights 2 - MN Blue J's 1
Madison Edge 2 - Blue J's 10
Northern Lights ? - Michigan Chiefs ?

Sundays Champ to be determined.

As an interesting side note, one of the Madison players streaked around the
rink at the conclusion of their game.  Nicely attired in a white helmet with
a full cage.  It was reminiscent of the scene from "Slapshot".  This just
further contributes to the Nationals mystique and lore.  Anyway hats off to
that gutsy, albiet, demented hockey player.

Tom Scanlon

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Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 11:40:00 -0400
From: TJSCANLON@aol.com
Subject: National's Scores

Here are the final scores for Nationals in Bloomington MN.

Senior A
Sat.

MN Blue J's 10 - Madison Edge 2
MN Northern Lights 1 - Michigan Chiefs 1

Final
MN Blue J's 1 - MN Northern Lights 6
This game had a couple of empty net goals and a back-up goalie for the Blue
J's. It was an evenly matched game, more so than the score would indicate.

Senior B
Sat

Mich O'Leary Hawks 6 - RI Panthers 1

Final
Mich Hawks 5 - Stoneham 1

Midgets
Final
MN Tbreds White 0 - Alaska Firebirds 1, 3 OT's
This was an outstanding game with plenty of chances for both teams, on
balance the MN Tbreds had the edge, outshooting Alaska 52 to 18, but Alaska
kept countering and finally put in the gam winner.  Both teams play very
well.

PeeWees
Final

Conn Polar Bears 5 - Assabet Valley 2

All in all a great tournament!!!

Tom Scanlon

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Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 10:32:32 -0600
Subject: US Nationals

It was a great tournament - from streakers to skaters!  I'm exhausted
today, but then I didn't expect not to be!

Tom, you go ahead and put the scores on from where you left off...I
don't have all of them and in a foggy mind I've actually forgotten
some of them!  But in case he doesn't...low and behold, they are in
the paper this a.m.

Senior Women B Championship;  Michigan O'Leary Hawks 5 - stoneham
Unicorns 1

Senior Women A Championship:  Northern Lights (MN) 6 - Blue J's (MN)
1.  Blue J's goalie got injured and a substitute goalie went in for
the Blue J's.

Peewee Championship:  Connecticut Polar Bears 5 - Assabet Valley 2

Midget Championship:  Alaska Firebirds 1, Minnesota Thoroughbreds
White 0 - 3 overtimes - GREAT GAME.  Shots on goal for MN
Thoroughbreds 52 - Alaska 18.

Some comments:  During the Midget Championship some spectators
(interested people from the community I believe) at one point made a
comment telling the player on the ice to do something and he made the
comment saying something about "him"....in other words he forgot he
was watching a girls game and thought it was a guys game.  I
commented after everyone laughed..."that's okay...it only goes to
show you how great girls hockey is when you are watching a great game
and you do forget they are girls out there...goes to prove they are
good!"  Everyone around us agreed.

Also, general comment to some messages that have been on as of late:
I believe the girl the NHL is thinking of drafting is Tara Mounsey.

Well, that's it from me...have a great day.  DP

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Date:   Tue, 16 Apr 1996 21:14:54 -0400
From:   TJSCANLON@aol.com
To:     andria@sys.toronto.edu
Subject: Re: 1996 US Nationals

Hi Andria,

The order is as follows for the Senior A division.

1. Northern Lights (MN)
2. Blue J's (MN)
3. Michigan Chiefs (MI)
4. Madisson Edge (WI) - this was an all-star team from Madisson 
                        to fill the fourth berth in Nationals.  
                        Apparently a Mass. team declined to come.

There is a problem with the number of "A" level teams in the US.  It would
appear that not many areas could support more than one team, consequently the
players disperse to different "B" teams.  I think that will change as more
girls play the game earlier.

Tom Scanlon

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1996 US Nationals

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