https://www.wpahockey.net/index.php?/discover/Western PA Youth Hockey Forum PIHL PAHL - All ActivityThanks for your support 😀Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:58:43 +0000If only there was a sub-forum for tournaments.Sat, 30 May 2026 20:09:06 +0000Larry, Moe, Curly and ShempSat, 30 May 2026 20:04:53 +0000Hey 4 of the original 6!!Sat, 30 May 2026 18:50:01 +0000Ø National Invitational Scholastic Showcase – Jamestown (December 4-6, 2026) - Northwest Arena Registered and Committed (14) 14 - PRE-Registered – CAN (1) CONN (1) ILL (2) MD (1) NY (2) OHIO (4) WPA (4) Ø Bethel Park – WPA - 5 Time Pennsylvania Champions Ø Buffalo St Francis NY- - 2006 Governor’s Cup Champions Ø DeMatha Catholic MD – 10 Time Maryland Ø Glenbrook South ILL – 2024 Governor’s Cup Champions Ø Lake Forest Scouts ILL – Illinois State Champion Ø North Allegheny Tigers – WPA – 2025 Hoosier Cup Champion Ø Norwich Free Academy-Connecticut --2025 Governor’s Cup Finalists Ø Ontario Hockey Academy CAN – 3 Time Governor’s Cup Champions Ø Padua OHIO - 2025 OHIO Buckeye Cup Cha,pions Ø Peters Twp – WPA - 5 Time Pennsylvania Champions Ø St Charles OHIO St Joseph – NY - 10 Time New York State Champions Ø Team OHIO - 2025 PA Directors Cup Finalists Ø University School – OHIO - 2023 Governors Cup Champions Ø Upper St Clair – WPA -2024 Governor’s Cup Finalists and 3 Time Pennsylvania Champions Note: Pre-Registered Schools MUST Commit with Deposit to be Registered and includes the following School (we will take 16-18 Schools) 17 - PRE-Registered – CAN (1) CONN (1) ILL (2) MD (1) NY (2) OHIO (4) WPA (5) Ø Norwich Free Academy-Connecticut --2025 Governor’s Cup Finalists Ø Seneca Valley WPA – 2026 and 2025 Pennsylvania Champions Ø South Kent School - -Connecticut --2025 Governor’s Cup Champions Ø OPEN SPOTSat, 30 May 2026 11:13:58 +00002026-2027 Governor’s Cup Events o National Invitational Scholastic Showcase – South Bend (November 14-17, 2026) Registered and Committed (13) Ø Calvert Hall Cardinals MD – Maryland Ø Culver Indiana – IND 33 Time Indiana Champions Ø DeMatha Catholic MD– 10 Time Maryland Champions Ø Jesuit College Prep TEX – 2025 Governors Cup Champions 10 Time Texas Champion Ø North Allegheny Tigers – WPA – 2025 Hoosier Cup Champion Ø Orchard Lake St Marys – MICH - Michigan State Champion Ø Providence Catholic Friars -ILL -Illinois State Champions Ø St Charles OHIO - Ø St Edwards –OHIO-11 Time Ohio Champions Ø St Ignatius – OHIO – 2026 Ohio Finalists and 8- Time Ohio Champions Ø St Josephs Huskies IND – Indiana Ø University School Preppers OHIO – 2023 Governors Cup Champions and Ohio State Champion Ø York Dukes ILL - Illinois Note: Pre-Registered Schools MUST Commit with Deposit to be Registered and includes the following School (we will take 16-18 Schools) 19 - PRE-Registered - MD (3) ILL (3) IND (3) MICH (2) OHIO (4) TEXAS (1) VIRGINIA (1) WPA (2) Ø Bishop O’Connell VA - Ø Carmel Gold IND Ø New Trier Green ILL – 2026 Illinois State Champions and 7 Time Governors Cup Champions Ø Northville High School - MICH – 2026 Michigan State Champion Ø Pine Richland WPA – 2024 and 4 times Pennsylvania Champions Ø St Marys Ryken MDSat, 30 May 2026 11:12:52 +0000Governors Cups - 2026-27 o National Invitational Scholastic Showcase – South Bend (November 14-17, 2026) 19 - PRE-Registered - MD (3) ILL (3)IND (3) MICH (2) OHIO (4) TEXAS (1) WPA (2) VA (1) o National Invtational Scholastic Showcase – Jamestown (December 4-6, 2026) 17 - PRE-Registered - CAN (1) CONN (1) ILL (2) IND (1) MD (1) NY (2) OHIO (4) WPA (5) o National Invtational Scholastic Showcase – Cleveland Ohio (December18-20, 2026) 6 - PRE-Registered - MD (1) OHIO (5) o National Invtational Scholastic Showcase – Pittsburgh PA (December 27-29, 2026) 16 - PRE-Registered - VARSITY (6) - ILL (1) OHIO (2) WPA (6) JUNIOR VARSITY (10) - ILL (2) OHIO (2) WPA (6)Fri, 22 May 2026 11:12:10 +0000This was a very informative post. Need more of these!Tue, 19 May 2026 21:58:44 +0000I believe the first one was Toronto and Chicago. Second one looks like Detroit and Boston.Tue, 19 May 2026 15:56:21 +0000Who were the teams?Tue, 19 May 2026 15:33:20 +0000I bet the parents were all sober too.Mon, 18 May 2026 20:41:33 +0000This past weekend there was not one, but two bench clearing brawls. Nine year-olds. This is learned behavior, and should make everyone feel ill. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1BMjmKd6Wm/?mibextid=wwXIfr https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1GVv9q99wR/?mibextid=wwXIfrMon, 18 May 2026 18:19:56 +0000The meeting minutes from the PAHL meetings provide some insight into the initiatives and trends capturing the attention of the league administrators and member organizations. The 2026 annual meeting was held on May 3. The minutes are at: Draft Minutes Some of interesting notes are: --The 2026/2027 season will still have the same number of games, but the season will end a earlier for most age-groups. Whereas the 2025/2026 regular season ended on 2/15 for girls, 3/1 for 12U-18U coed, and 3/8 for 8U-10U, the season will now end on 2/21 for 12U-19U coed and girls, and 2/28 for 8U-10U. This cuts a little over a week out of the season, but teams will have to play the same number of games. This year's calendar is below, --Will have to play a minimum of 3 games in the first 2 months of the season and a minimum of 3 games in the last 2 months of the season. --Can only play 1 placement game per day. Some teams took advantage of playing additional placement games. This will be harder now. --Fayette Ice Miners and Vipers organizations formally lose membership status. They have been dormant, so this is more an operation of the bylaws. --several comments in the minutes suggest there is percolating frustrations over tryouts. A committee will be formed to evaluate policy proposals for future consideration. --"The Executive Administrator presented a few topics that will be considered for rules/policy changes in the near future, in advance of tryouts next season: non-PAHL rosters, PAHL AA2 rosters, and the policies recommended by a committee for tryouts, poaching, and recruiting." --Interesting comments from Second VP report on placements for all levels. While claiming overall success, they acknowledge members' initial declarations can be improved. They specifically call attention to a situation in 12B1 division where a player may have been overqualified and raise that a player could be ruled ineligible to a team due to overqualification for a division. They don't identify a team, but a quick look at the 12U-B division shows there was a Huskie with 58 goals and 15 assists in 18 games. Interestingly, there were no higher placed Huskies teams at the 12U level, so it will be interesting to see if they really disqualify a player from the only team in his organization. --May migrate away from SportsEngine as the website provider. Don't anticipate any data loss in a migration. --Took action on several changes to the rules and game manual. All proposals emanated from the league. The proposed rules were at Rule's Proposals The actual new rules are in the minutes. Some were modified from the proposals. --one interesting change is that while a player can still drop to a lower division post-placements if he or she changes organizations, it is impossible to drop to a team in the lower division in the same organization. There were already rules in place requiring a 75% vote of the placement committee to make such a change, an athlete cannot drop to a lower placed team in their organization. I can see issues with this if a team folds during placements, which should be a rare occurrence, but with injuries, it is possible. They may have over-regulated this one, because they will still permit a player to change organizations and play at a lower division with the 75% approval of the placement committee. Given the comment about the 12U-B player, we might see the placement committee actively block more player movement than they have in the past. For the casual observer with no seat at the table, the minutes are helpful to see what's coming down the pipe.Mon, 18 May 2026 15:08:45 +0000Those are great questionsFri, 15 May 2026 06:08:26 +0000Does the cupThu, 14 May 2026 04:21:59 +0000Thank you to each school who have pre-registered for the 2026-2027 Governor’s Cup Events. We currently have 15 Schools for South Bend, 16 Schools for Jamestown 14 for Pittsburgh and 6 for Cleveland. WE WILL HAVE A WAITING LIST FOR SOUTH BEND AND JAMESTOWN All School Teams will be registered when we have the deposit and those are due 5-15-2026. We would like to publish the tournament field on 5-31-26 and finalize at 16 each for South Bend, 16 Schools for Jamestown 20 for Pittsburgh (10 Varsity and 10 JV) and 12 for Cleveland. Many former Champions and State Champions are Pre Registered and wwith our open bracket format we hope to yield lots of one goal games and great competitionTue, 12 May 2026 13:35:33 +0000Legal feesMon, 11 May 2026 23:10:12 +0000Disgusting. I know squirts is very close to that amount as well. For what? Rules? Because outside of the national teams they aren’t doing anything.Mon, 11 May 2026 22:15:32 +0000There it is! $81 USA hockey fee plus $5 Mid Am fee for bantam-midget players in 2026-27. That’s $86 before you even pick an organization, sign up, try out, and then pay their tuition!Mon, 11 May 2026 19:20:12 +0000I don't remember many people taking up for Black Bear.Fri, 08 May 2026 14:02:56 +0000Enforcing anti-trust laws in this country is sooooo 1940's.Fri, 08 May 2026 03:59:38 +0000I hope they have success in breaking up this horrible organization.Thu, 07 May 2026 16:54:31 +0000If you haven't seen this yet, it does appear that the recent publicity/pressure on the Black Bear Group and their wonderful CEO, here is the latest news. Great News for all of youth hockey that these folks are being exposed publicly and forced to try to explain the rationale. But it got me thinking about what happened to all of those BB Cheerleaders lauding what they do and how well they run everything, where are they now? https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2026/05/07/lord-of-the-rinks-black-bear-youth-hockey/89503875007/Thu, 07 May 2026 15:05:44 +0000Wed, 06 May 2026 19:36:09 +0000Skylar Grogan - Chatham D3 Emily Reiner - Milwaukee School of Engineering D3 Kris Albertini - Salve Regina University D3 Sophia Scatena - Lebanon Valley D3 Mya Kearns - RMU D1 Ellie Marcovsky - Princeton D1 / RMU D1 Liviya Rubin - RMU D1 / Elmira College D3 Neely Hawn - Merrimack College D1 Avery Saba - Brown Univeristy D1Wed, 06 May 2026 14:01:11 +0000