The now well established "mythical" Taconite Trophy goes to St. Cloud
AGAIN this year. The winner is determined by the best won lost record
among the four D1 teams in Minnesota.  It looks like UMD was AGAIN
the whipping boy of it's instate rivals finishing last in the 4 team
league
 
Taconite Trophy Standings 2000
St. Cloud  7-2-1
UM         5-4-1
MSUM       2-4
UMD        3-7
(BSU 0-6-0  Bemidji State University)
 
(courier or fixed font for the below box)
               UM        MSUM      StCloud   UMD
StCloud       WTWW      WW        x         LLWW
UM            x         WL        LTLL      WWWW
MSUM          LW        x         LL        LW
UMD           LLLL      WL        WWLL      x
 
Notes
(St Cloud 2-1 playoffs vs UMD)
(BSU 0-6-0 lost 2 games to St. Cloud, UMD and Mankato State
University of Minnesota)
 
 
 
 
History:  Back when there was a chance that UMD might beat the
Gophers once in awhile there was a trophy that went to the series
winner, basically for bragging rights for Minnesota.  Rumor has it
that one winter Jeff Fieblekorn and Jesse Bergliot used it as a goal
marker on a frozen Minnesota lake.  The trophy, won for so many
seasons by Minnesota, was lost through the ice.  (For those of you
who don't know, taconite is a form of iron mined in Northern
Minnesota, and it resembles rabbit droppings.)
 
Taconite Trophy Standings  1999
St. Cloud  7-1-2
UM           4-1-5
MSUM      0-2-2
UMD        0-7-1
 
 
Taconite Trophy Standings  1998
Minnesota    7-3
UM-Duluth    5-5
St. Cloud     4-5-1
Mankato St. 1-4-1
 
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