There’s a new No. 1 in the Top 25. After you read the rankings, scroll down to see Jim Paulsen’s prediction of how section tournament top seeds are shaping up.

Six teams make their Top 25 debut this week, three of them from the small-school classification.

Five more teams, unranked a week ago, found their way into the statewide Minnesota Top 25.

Moorhead, winner of the Class 2A title last season, begins 2025-26 ranked first after regaining several standouts.

If this is the State of Hockey and the Land of 10,000 Lakes, can’t we have a State of 10,000 Dream Team Hockey Players? We could, but the list is confined to 15.

Every game has one or more, from the first of Wednesday’s Class 1A quarterfinals (St. Cloud Cathedral’s John Hirschfeld) to the last in Thursday’s Class 2A first round (Rogers’ Parker Deschene and Nolen Geerdes, Edina’s Sam Peckham).