Minnesota High School Boys Hockey
Playoff Scores by Year

The link below produces a table showing the number of times each school has advanced to each round of the MSHSL playoffs. One can customize the range of years in the URL after the page loads. For example, enter https://www.hmpioneers.net/hockey/teamplayoff.php?StartYear=1975&EndYear=1991 for the one-class era. By default, the table includes all school seasons from 1975 until each school's completion of their current or most recent season.

School Playoff Performance since 1975

The playoff performance table does not include years prior to 1975. Partly this is because there were separate private and public tournaments, but the bigger reason is the existence of "backdoor" regions, in which regional second place teams would play for another region's championship. This would make the table tricky to interpret. Also, getting complete results for the early years would be a challenge; those are the main reasons I started with 1975. Apologies to Johnson, Eveleth, International Falls and other schools that had a lot of success from 1945-1974.

The remainder of this page has links to game scores for each season.

Independent Tournaments, 1949-1974

[ 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 ]

[ 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 ]

Private schools hosted their own state tournaments for 26 years prior to joining the high school league in 1974. Formats and venues changed several times. The Minnesota Prep School Tournament was held for the first time in 1949, four years after the inaugural public school tournament. It matched the top four teams from the Central Catholic Conference against the top four teams from the Minnesota Independent School League. In its first 12 years, Cretin won the championship ten times and St. Thomas Academy two times.

The State Catholic Tournament was held from 1965 through 1969. The top six teams from the Central Catholic Conference made the field. Duluth Cathedral and Crookston Cathedral were automatically entered. Duluth Cathedral was the champion all five years.

The Catholic Tournament was replaced by the State Independent Tournament which also ran five years. Initially, the eight team field included four schools from the CCC, two from the MISL, plus Duluth Cathedral and Crookston Cathedral. Beginning in 1971, playoffs were introduced to determine the teams from the St. Paul and Minneapolis regions. In 1974, all entries were determined by playoffs.

Independent tournament data is courtesy Jim Just. Jim has also provided the Section 3 scores up to 1979 and verified scores for other years. Primary sources for all information here are newspaper accounts and playoff/tournament programs.

Minnesota State High School League, 1975-Present

[1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980]
[1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990]
[1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000]
[2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010]
[2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020]
[2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029 2030]

In 1975, private schools were admitted to the MSHSL and the playoffs produced a single state champion. The one-class format lasted thru 1991, when it was replaced by a two-tier system with the first 8 seeds in each section playing Tier I and the remainder Tier II. In 1994, a two class system based on enrollment was instituted. Schools in the smaller (Class A) classification could opt up to Class AA.

From 1975 to 1999, 3765 total games are listed. Scores are known for all but 16 of them. An additional 22 teams were listed by the MSHSL as participating schools in a given year, but I have not been able to find a scheduled playoff game for the school. 8 of those 22 almost certainly played a game (all in 1978-1979 Sections 7 and 8). The remaining 14 were usually programs in their infancy and may or may not have actually played out the season or participated in playoffs.

Full Brackets

2000

[ State AA 1AA 2AA 3AA 4AA 5AA 6AA 7AA 8AA ]
[ State A    1A   2A   3A   4A   5A   6AA  7A   8A   ]

2001

[ State AA 1AA 2AA 3AA 4AA 5AA 6AA 7AA 8AA ]
[ State A     1A   2A   3A   4A   5A   6A   7A   8A   ]

2002

[ State AA 1AA 2AA 3AA 4AA 5AA 6AA 7AA 8AA ]
[ State A     1A   2A   3A   4A   5A   6A   7A   8A   ]

2003

[ State AA 1AA 2AA 3AA 4AA 5AA 6AA 7AA 8AA ]
[ State A     1A   2A   3A   4A   5A   6A   7A   8A   ]

2004

[ State AA 1AA 2AA 3AA 4AA 5AA 6AA 7AA 8AA ]
[ State A     1A   2A   3A   4A   5A   6A   7A   8A   ]

2005

[ State AA 1AA 2AA 3AA 4AA 5AA 6AA 7AA 8AA ]
[ State A     1A   2A   3A   4A   5A   6A   7A   8A   ]

2006

[ State AA 1AA 2AA 3AA 4AA 5AA 6AA 7AA 8AA ]
[ State A     1A   2A   3A   4A   5A   6A   7A   8A   ]

2007

[ State AA 1AA 2AA 3AA 4AA 5AA 6AA 7AA 8AA ]
[ State A     1A   2A   3A   4A   5A   6A   7A   8A   ]

2008

[ State AA 1AA 2AA 3AA 4AA 5AA 6AA 7AA 8AA ]
[ State A     1A   2A   3A   4A   5A   6A   7A   8A   ]

2009

[ State AA 1AA 2AA 3AA 4AA 5AA 6AA 7AA 8AA ]
[ State A     1A   2A   3A   4A   5A   6A   7A   8A   ]

2010

[ State AA 1AA 2AA 3AA 4AA 5AA 6AA 7AA 8AA ]
[ State A     1A   2A   3A   4A   5A   6A   7A   8A   ]

2011

[ State AA 1AA 2AA 3AA 4AA 5AA 6AA 7AA 8AA ]
[ State A     1A   2A   3A   4A   5A   6A   7A   8A   ]

2012

[ State AA 1AA 2AA 3AA 4AA 5AA 6AA 7AA 8AA ]
[ State A     1A   2A   3A   4A   5A   6A   7A   8A   ]

2013

[ State AA 1AA 2AA 3AA 4AA 5AA 6AA 7AA 8AA ]
[ State A     1A   2A   3A   4A   5A   6A   7A   8A   ]

2014

[ State AA 1AA 2AA 3AA 4AA 5AA 6AA 7AA 8AA ]
[ State A     1A   2A   3A   4A   5A   6A   7A   8A   ]

2015

[ State AA 1AA 2AA 3AA 4AA 5AA 6AA 7AA 8AA ]
[ State A     1A   2A   3A   4A   5A   6A   7A   8A   ]

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