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People thought they folded but they ended up moving their tryouts to later in the week to pick up the scraps.

Thought someone in here said 09 vengeance folded? Or do you mean AA new vengeance?

How was '09 Vengeance last night?

so are you saying the euros will get most of the playing time?

Would rather drive the hour for the Nailers (who have decent food/drink options)than to drive 5 minutes to watch men's league.

That’s IF Mr/Miss Strawman makes a ‘no pay to play’ team/league. If, mr Strawman really wants to get looked at by the legitimate Tier 1 organizations, then they are going to have to make that difficult decision to leave all of their friends and family at a young age in order to focus on their hockey progression. There’s big-time costs that start to get involved. Mix that in with increased stress of moving away for the first time; the school and grades will probably slip a bit at first just because of the entirety of everything else involved and slight lack of focus that is expected.and having ups, then they are and The price for everything starts to peak right around midget

There is some solid men's league games most Saturdays as well.

Don't care for pitt. Rmu team is done for the season and I'm not driving an hour to watch the nailers.

They also have Euros coming……….stay tuned player depth may not be an issue coupled with their coaching staff

Nothing to do on a Saturday? You have Pitt, Robert Morris, and the Nailers playing on Saturdays.

From what I heard the coach was getting backlash from players who thought they were superstars and thought they should have been out there everywhere shift which you guys might have had 2 lines that could actually do that. Who cares if the coach brought in other players. I also know other players who wouldn't play since he got let go. One guy was a huge ringer. So because a few players were grumpy over ice time they fired a coach who had a winning record and a successful running at the rink and crowd. If you noticed the crowd got smaller and smaller since he got canned. But hey I'm just friends with the coach and his wife. We got their story and know some of the players personally and they said something completely different than what you're saying. I'm not here to start drama. I was really rooting for a team in our county as there is really nothing to do on a Saturday night here. It was refreshing walking into a game seeing 400-500 people in the stands. And the fact the the coach got zookys to sponsor and have beer sales at the rink and the owner took credit from the league saying he got it. We will definitely miss going down to watch the games. It was seriously a fun environment. Best of luck to you and your teammates for whatever you guys do in the future.

from what I heard it’s about half AA and one goalie AA and the other half AAA and the other goalie is from vengeance AAA

It’s brutal but they had to start somewhere and at least make a team. It doesn’t have the depth of even most AA teams.

Not sure how any goalies made it for shaha since tonight was their final night of tryouts from 8-9 but I can take your word for it. Unless the coach called those who made it and preds had a tryout within 20 minutes I don't know how that would happen.

Wonder if they got some AAA players or if it is mostly AA as what was showing up to the open skates

Yep, tryouts done and offers made today

Well one of the goalies that just made it for Shaha is at Preds tonight.

For an extra "A"??? Worth every penny!!

The 5100 does not include team fee which can vary, but In past one was 750 one year and 850 another so over 6k in end.

Are the tournaments included?

We only paid $350 to play organized hockey and play 20 games. A tad bit more then playing 2 “sessions” of 10 adult league games. The league promised to have the players paid. No team in the league were paying players. We actually could have been paid but then we would have had to pay for practice and travel on our own. The players elected to not get paid and have everything else paid for (practices and travel, hotels) At the end of every game we really only made $1000 profit after paying for the ice, refs, EMTs, security, etc. That profit paid for the travel expenses mostly.

someone was saying at the hockey store today that this team is going to try and field a team next season too......HOW?

Paid coaches, skills/goalie training, dryland, 12-15 summer practices, 2-3 weekly practices in season, 50-55 game schedule, 4-6 showcases, HUDL video, nicer locker room for Frozen Pond, THF schedule, feeling of superiority over Tier 2 Icemen and Yetis.

Bigger question is what does that include? It is hard to compare apples to apples on a lot of the posted prices

It’s $5100 for next year