09/01/2026
MINNESOTA SENTINELS: CHAPTER 4
The Chapter Where Somehow, Against All Better Judgment, We Kept Going
Narrated by Sentinel 6
And just like that…
Chapter Four comes to an end.
Another page filled. Another season in the books. Another year of Minnesota Sentinels hockey that, depending on who you ask, was either a tremendous success or compelling evidence that adult supervision should have been required.
Chapter Four had a little bit of everything.
Hockey.
Tournaments.
Team dinners.
New faces.
Old friends.
Great memories.
Terrible ideas.
And enough questionable decisions to make you wonder how this organization has survived four chapters in the first place.
There were even rumors of our demise.
Turns out…
those rumors were greatly exaggerated.
Because if four years have taught us anything, it's that the Minnesota Sentinels are remarkably difficult to get rid of.
We kept showing up.
We kept putting on the sweater.
We kept finding reasons to get together and play this ridiculous game we love.
And somewhere along the way, a simple Player of the Game tradition continued spiraling beautifully out of control.
We Battled for an AXE!
We played out side... Some would say it was brisk.
We became the Pink Pony Sentinels.
We went back to the glory days with the Old Time Hockey Sentinels.
We protected Minnesota's highways as the Super Trooper Sentinels.
And in perhaps the strongest argument against giving Mike PowerSerge creative freedom…
We became the Big Dill Sentinels.
What started as simple event tags—a little something to commemorate a game and thank the our players who showed up—has become something much bigger.
They're snapshots of Chapter Four.
Little pieces of plastic representing people, places, games, inside jokes and stories that will probably get increasingly inaccurate every time they're told.
And that's really what this chapter was about.
The memories.
Because years from now, nobody is going to remember the final score of some random Thursday-night skate.
But somebody will remember the locker room afterward.
The tournament.
The ridiculous theme.
The chirps.
The guy who forgot something important.
The save nobody expected.
The goal that gets better every time the person who scored it tells the story.
And the people standing beside them when it happened.
That's the Minnesota Sentinels.
And now…
it's time to turn the page.
Chapter Five is waiting.
And our fifth chapter begins with something that means considerably more than wins, losses or whatever nonsense we dream up next.
September 11, 2026.
Twenty-five years after a day that changed our country forever, we'll take the ice for our annual Honor & Remember Game.
We'll remember those who went to work that morning and never came home.
We'll honor those who ran toward danger when everyone else was running away.
We'll remember those who answered the call in the years that followed.
And we'll stand beside those who continue to serve today.
Because some things will always be bigger than hockey.
But hockey has a remarkable way of bringing people together.
And that's exactly what we intend to do.
To every player who pulled on a Sentinels sweater during Chapter Four…
To our families who continue tolerating this nonsense…
To our friends, opponents, partners, supporters and everyone who has followed along…
THANK YOU.
Thank you for giving us another chapter worth remembering.
Four chapters are now behind us.
The fifth is sitting there, waiting to be written.
There will be hockey.
There will be tournaments.
There will be new faces and familiar ones.
There will be memories we don't even know we're about to make.
There will absolutely be shenanigans.
And, despite numerous opportunities to learn from our mistakes, there will almost certainly be another completely ridiculous theme.
At some point, somebody will inevitably look around and ask:
"Who the hell thought this was a good idea?"
Don't worry.
We'll find someone to blame.
So close the book on 2025–26.
Put Chapter Four on the shelf.
And get ready.
Because it's time to turn the page.
MINNESOTA SENTINELS: CHAPTER 5
2026–27
The story isn't over.
In fact…
we're just getting started.
KEEP THE WATCH.
— Sentinel 6