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Here is something funny, I heard that same Minnesota HS story about 15 years ago. I’d bet it has happened but it’s folk lore. look at the kid who’s parents sold their house and lived on a house boat on Lake Erie so their kid could play junior hockey.

...and that's we we have high tryout fees. Tryouts are not an intentional money maker as some have speculated. Most youth orgs are 501(c)3s and aren't in place to make money. Tryouts HAVE to be painfully expensive to prevent the tune up mentality and the constant shopping that goes on. It also wastes of a lot of people's time when you do this.

KDKA reports 2 North Hills school players are positive for Covid-19. They allege it may have spread at the school's tryout. https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2020/07/02/two-north-hills-students-test-positive-for-coronavirus-after-attending-unsanctioned-hockey-tryouts-families-warned-of-potential-outbreak/ One question: why is the tryout on June 27 considered to be "unsanctioned"?

Irresponsible posting is saying that two kids contracted COVID at IC and siting a text message as fact.

Dude - if you know it’s a fact, you can make millions and save the world.

Don’t disagree at all. How long have I been saying something like this would happen, March ? Well here it is! I’m not trying to pat myself on the back, it’s just common sense! Where are The folks that wanted to tell me I was crazy, didn’t know what I was talking about. I don’t care what your political views are or what you really think about this virus. The fact is - it’s spread at travel hockey tryout out, now those kids brought it into their own community via the school club hockey team. Don’t make your first payments!

Most schools have done their tryouts, the wording just means “club” sport. Get ready folks! I’ve been saying it for months, no travel hockey this season, now I am even questioning school hockey.

For anyone requesting to see their org's income statement, be sure to check in with the board members who set pricing, and ask them why tryouts are so high. Most orgs will be honest and set the record straight. Prices are inflated to right size the candidate pool. This is Econ 101 and a technique that most boards use to ensure high acceptance rates of placements. It will be up to you to judge the character in their response. And by the way, yes, the tryout fees get chalked up on the balance sheet as revenue. Is the intent to gouge their own members or fundraise? No. It's a weed-out play, plain and simple. I'll go ahead and predict the king will come back with the same old song and dance and say that you can't trust board members because they are lying and covering up some payoff or immoral behavior. Does it happen? Yes. Is it typical? No. But it is clearly the king's anecdotal experience, and it has poisoned him. That and/or he's feeling the sting from a hand slap by some regional affiliate. Whatever. Spare us your overdone broken record response.

You'd really get a kick out of when they show up for dek hockey and get smoked.

Wow, $20 for a tryout? Maybe my kid should have played in Pittsburgh. I had no idea the costs were so low. Where we lived I don't ever remember paying less than $100 and that was over 8 years ago. I would have thought tryout fees were close to $200 by now.

This "was their mantra" as the original news release attached states. However, it wasn't long after that first season that people in charge realized that their was a shit-ton of $$$$$ to be made, but I digress. The big point that I want make is this, the PPE also claim to be this bastion of player development and they convince all the Little Super 66'er "Elite mites" that they have to play there if they want any chance of becoming the next star 12U player. Then came 2020 and the elimination of the 14U Major and Minor BY Black teams as well as the 12U Major Black team. So, now you have 15 skaters and 2 goalies who have been "trained by the best staff anywhere" for 5 years(06) 4 years(07) and 3 years (08) being dumped back into the AA and Faux AAA tryout pool participants. I don't know what the results are officially, but I have heard stories and they don't back up the development theory. I've also seen some of the on-ice sessions and the only thing that makes most (not all) stand out are their beautiful yellow buckets along with the fact that they never pass the puck to anyone without the same helmet and even then a pass is rare. But they're determined to show their superiority over these vagrants from AA PAHL teams, or worse yet (gasp) an A player. I'm so superior to this peasant, mom told me so. So' I'll continue to make bad plays and turn the puck over to these lowly players because this yellow helmet is on my head. And because of it, I am destined for greatness on my new mPens Team With Pittsburgh Hornets.docixed year A-Major team.

I personally don't believe that the masks are going to help us average citizens. I try to avoid wearing them as much as possible. Also with the huge amount of testing going on it's no surprise "new" cases continue to show up.

I guess I'm just one of the jerks who thinks this whole thing is a load of garbage. Up until 2020 every article on the spread of diseases and viruses said masks didn't work. Go look it up if you don't believe me. Plus take a look at some of the new packaging that is coming out, where it says right on the box, does not protect against the spread of COVID-19. Then, we were told, "this is going to kill you"! Now you have all these people telling me I could have it and don't even know it, and I could be infecting people without realizing it. Then, they could get it (and not know it) and spread it to others. So what. To tell you the truth, I really don't care if I get it or not anymore. I guess it's because I don't know of anyone who has gotten it, nor do I know someone who knows someone who has gotten it (please don't tell me you stories about your mother or uncle who has it and had rough time, I don't "know" any of you, and can guarantee I have never met any of you either). Now we have to "rush" to get a vaccine, and just wait until a year or so from now, when they find out that there is some side effect to this, and every ambulance chaser in the business will have ads during Wheel of Fortune saying, "did you wear a mask during COVID-19 now have this issue"? "Do you get a COVID-19 vaccine, now your pee is green"? Quick call our law offices now and we'll get money for you! Or, the next great pandemic that the oh so trustworthy news will come up with. I think I am just going to but stock in the mask companies, Lexan barrier builders and retire. I guess in the end we'll just agree to disagree. I haven't been in an ice rink in close to 2 years and to tell you the truth I couldn't be happier. I'll just stay in my house, send the wife to the store and not have to put up with any of this nonsense. I will however respect y'alls opinions. Hopefully, one day things will get back to normal, but I have little faith in that.

Yeah - a text from a parent doesn’t prove much to me either. The reality is 5-6 days after exposure is an average. Nothing is set in stone with this virus. People can begin experiencing symptoms in as little as 3 days and up to 13. To be able to definitely say when and where these kids were exposed is impossible.

Panicked response after a long absence? What has there been to respond to? To answer your question, you are not close at all. But thanks for proving my point - that you do spend far too much time online bashing youth hockey. You actually looked up prior comments I posted. If you looked close enough, you’d see I created my account prior to the string you are referring to. And since you are interested so much, no, my kid didn’t play for Bush last year. As far as the greater good for the community as it relates to my family’s part, my kid drove himself to Tryouts and I stayed home. He’s 17 and has played for 10 years. We know the process and don’t need to be there. Do you intentionally miss the point of other people’s posts? Wait - don’t answer that.

It’s not a rumor, it’s fact.