The Polar (Small) Preview

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Cromwell-Wright won the league last season with just one loss. A nice showing by them. Can they repeat? Can any of the teams in the conference have an overall record above .500 this year? We jump into the Polar (small) today!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Conference Commentary</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Top Contenders: </strong>Carlton-Wrenshall, Cromwell-Wright</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Based on all the returning players from Carlton and Wrenshall, and of course the schools combining, Carlton-Wrenshall should be very good assuming the chemistry comes together well. They have last year's league MVP, two first team players and a second team player all joining together. That's going to be tough to beat. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Cromwell-Wright doesn't have quite that type of firepower but in some ways what they have might be better: they have five of their top seven players (two of which were all league) returning with a chemistry that is set. Carlton-Wrenshall has the bigger upside with returning talent but Cromwell-Wright's players have been through things together already.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Compete with Most</strong>:&nbsp;Floodwood, McGregor</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Floodwood was somewhat of an up and comer last year. They have some good young players and I would expect them to be a bit better. McGregor was hit the hardest by graduation although they do have a couple rotation guys back. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>23-24 Polar (Small) Conference Predictions</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"ordered":true} --> <ol><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Carlton-Wrenshall</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Cromwell-Wright</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Floodwood</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>McGregor</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ol> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Preseason All Polar (Small) Conference</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><em>First Team</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Luuke Korpella of Carlton-Wrenshall (sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Carter Woodall of Carlton-Wrenshall (sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Sam Ojibway of Carlton-Wrenshall (sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2109919' first='Dylan' last='Nyberg'] of Cromwell-Wright (sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2620268' first='Brady' last='Dahl'] of Cromwell-Wright (jr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Uriah Loucks of Carlton-Wresnshall (sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><em>Second Team</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Tanner Collman of Cromwell-Wright (sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Jonah Spindler of Floodwood (soph)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Kaiden Kellermann of McGregor (jr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Sam Metzen of McGregor (jr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Deacon Laine of Floodwood (sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->