Written by March 18, 2025 – 2025 D1 Boys Ice Hockey – NH All-State Teams
Congratulations to each person recognized. There are so many deserving athletes each season.
2025 D1 Boys Ice Hockey – NH All-State Teams
We see youth hockey teams playing 50-75 games per season here in New Hampshire. Then as the kids grow and become young men and women the funnel narrows. Players move on and make their high school hockey teams, and a major shift takes place. Not only does the competition level increase, but far fewer games are played. Before you know it, a high school career has passed and players have played maybe 70-90 games in their entire high school careers.
These are the days of their lives. Playing alongside schoolmates, neighbors, and best friends, it doesn’t get better than that. So, bringing the very best effort every night, lifting up teammates on and off of the ice, and having all the fun you can have along the way is what it’s all about.
Perhaps, you and your mates make a run in the playoffs, or play for a title. Maybe you graduate as one of your school’s all-time great players. Just maybe you exceeded all of your own expectations and had a season or career you never dreamed was possible. There are wins all around us. But most likely, you will graduate with a bunch of players that you will spend the rest of your lives looking forward to the times when you can get together and lace them up for a skate. Or just to sit somewhere together and remember fondly, the bad, the good, the closeness, and the hilarious.
So, to those players who are recognized this season on the 2025 D1 Boys Ice Hockey – NH All-State Teams, my sincerest congratulations. The margins are so thin as to who makes these teams and those who just miss. But none of those factors should take a single thing away from the players contributions on the ice and to their teams. There are so many talented players up and down the lineups in NHIAA hockey.
Congratulations to their teams as well. These awards don’t happen in a vacuum. They are not based on solo efforts in a team environment. These things come as a result of excellence on the ice, nurtured over the years by family sacrifice, player sacrifice, teamwork, connection with coaching, and perseverance. Job well done.
Congratulations to Coach McGinn of Salem on the Coach of the Year honor, and what a tremendous season they had, jumping from a #9 seed last season to a #4 seed in this year’s NHIAA Hockey Tournament.
Congratulations to Concord on winning an instant classic of a Championship Game, 2-1 in 4 OT! Congrats also to the Runner-Up, Bishop Guertin. What a game! I hope all of you walk away from that game with a grateful heart, knowing you were present and participating in the most beautiful level of competition. When you gave your best and you gave all.
To all of the players that make up the teams playing NHIAA Hockey, thank you for another great season of NH high school hockey. New Hampshire High School Hockey is a great place to play.
Maybe it was on a sheet like this where the dream started. May your dreams never cease as their pursuit should know no end. Hockey is a great game, to be respected, enjoyed, and passed on. All the best. (Photo by 1inawesomewonder.com. 2025)
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The thoughts and opinions expressed here are those of the individual contributors, mostly mine. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the leagues, schools, coaches, players, or characters listed in any of these blog posts. Or, maybe they do. Either way, you would have to ask them directly.
Either way I agree with this statement from a great hockey coach, “It’s a great day for hockey” ~ the late “Badger” Bob Johnson.
“We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we’re too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We should always have dreams.” ~ the late Herb Brooks.
“To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our lives. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is think. You should spend some time in thought. Number three is, you should have your emotions moved to tears, could be happiness or joy. But think about it: If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day. That’s a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you’re going to have something special.” ~ the late Jim Valvano on how to live life, during his ESPY speech.
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