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Yeah I don’t know his father personally but I’ve heard the way they talk about him. Like he was the problem. If I were him I’d be sending the director cease and desist letters on using his child’s likeness to promote the program. Then we all found out what a bunch of thunder cunts they are. So again, that guy deserves a statue for going against the machine. Right down on 5th Ave.

LOL I knew the chum I threw out there was good but underestimated how many would be circling to feed. Oh, and yesterday at UPMC I saw a Chevy Suburban with a Lil 66'ers Elite sticker on the back window. Yikes.

My buddy said Conway still doing skills with Cliff Loya and the birthyear SHAHA teams.

Sounds like exact thing that little Jaxton’s mom would make on her cricut machine

Ray is a very good person. Seems to be a very good coach too. I actually had him as coach waaaaaay back. Early in his coaching career for sure. I hope he wasn’t forced out. Hopefully he ended his career as a coach on his terms.

I saw one that said "My kid is Elite. Pittsburgh Penguins Elite". On A first year squirt dad's car. Spewed my coffee.

Wasn’t good enough to be moved up 16U ? had to play 15’s. you and I had a long conversation on here one night we ended up deleting ?

Yeah and honestly, every other birthyear after has felt the pain of the methods it took to create the 2003 saga. They’re still pulling the same shit. Because they’re on easy street with not having to work to develop kids and the model allows them to just bring good players in when necessary to replace their lack of effort in the locals. THE GRIFT

That rule (only 3 out of towners) bit the dust around 2015-2016. All of a sudden the PPE girls teams started being >66% out of town girls, and routinely only around 5-7 in total would be at practices. My daughter got a TON out of those workout practices (couldn't do any teamwork stuff), but it was a joke. Girls would fly in to wherever that weekend's tourney was, and would play only those games together. Little cohesiveness as a unit and not much bonding as they were never together more than a few hours. My daughter switched to D2 AA hockey and had WAY MORE fun and made much more progress than on the PPE. On PPE she was 4th line. On AA she was first line, PP, and PK and got recruited to play college hockey. So, no I don't feel like PPE does much of anything for local kids.

This was the alleged plan "to make Tier 1 Hockey more affordable to everyone". And then the mastermind realized not only could he bulldoze a path for his kid but he could also make a S**T ton of money in the process. And then local hockey became a battle of who could spend more money.

Ok , I stand corrected, a handful of people still REALLY care about PPE. ?

And over and over and over. ‘but but I’m just a guy who had a kid there… I don’t care about them but you better realize that there are so many recruitment years and you’re just jealous and there are kids I know in juniors who have commitments and I know for a fact that the list on the pens website is not accurate because there are more kids who aren’t on there. I only pop up here when the they are the topic and I want to explain my masturbatory excellent experience with them. I don’t work for the them’. Got it BUD

A lot of it is because kids/parents that have been at PPE through squirts and peewee start to wise up. If they are still in the bottom half they intelligently decide to go play somewhere else where they will get an opportunity on the top line, power play, ..... Other people decide they do not want their kids going to North Catholic and doing excel. It is SOOOOO much money to play for PPE, do excel, and go to North Catholic. They have to find new people that are willing to pay all that money and a lot of those people do not live in this area. If the goal is to make as much money as possible at the Pens rink, they have done a good job maximizing profits. Hard to argue that. If the goal was to have a local top 30 team that is affordable then they certainly failed. The sad reality of hockey is it is getting insanely expensive pushing more and more people out of the sport. Look at how many less teams there are at the midget age levels. Just my thoughts