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.

State champions and former Ms. and Mr. Hockey winners are on the list. The highest picks were Logan Hensler of Hill-Murray and Rory Guilday of Minnetonka.

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).

Sixteen teams have a chance to win a state title. But first they must get past the quarterfinals.

Longtime Star Tribune writers David La Vaque and Jim Paulsen offer their predictions on which boys hockey teams take home the Class 2A and Class 1A titles.

The Class 2A and 1A brackets will come out Saturday, and the games will start Wednesday.