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I see a lot of players at the D2 level from jr's and or high end AAA teams. The competitive teams do a good job of recruiting these young men. It is harder and harder for a kid our of high school to make a college team.

That's 100% correct, but don't tell Danner. Unless they play for Liberty or Adrian they should all quit hockey. Then Liberty and Adrian can play each other 42 times in the regular season, best of 3 in the quarters, best of 5 in the semis and best of seven in the finals. Then, and only then will there be a true Champion. Has anyone heard of FAU? Those kids should have all quit basketball in Danner's world. It must absolutely suck to live in danner's world.

As a parent of an Aviator on the team that won PAHL, this is news to me. As they get ready for tryouts next weekend, I hope the plan is to stay in PAHL. The majority of the team played AA in their first year of peewee against all 09 teams. We got killed all year but it paid off this year when I thought we were stronger physically than most 2010 teams. I would hope the plan is to stay in PAHL and play AA minor. I know that I don’t need my son to be on a “AAA” team to feel validated.

PA HOCKEY - 2022 PENNSYLVANIA CUP PREVIEW 2023 PENNSYLVANIA CUP AAA CHAMPIONSHIPS PETERS TOWNSHIP INDIANS PENNSYLVANIA STATE CHAMPIONS - 2002, 2003 and 2005 AA and 2014 - 2017 - 2022 AAA (6) PENGUINS CUP CHAMPIONS - 2002,2003,2004,2005 AA 2014, 2017, 2022-2023 AAA (8) Pennsylvania Interscholastic Hockey League PA HOCKEY ELITE 8 FINAL RANKING - CLASS AAA: # 1 Team Website Wins Losses Ties League Website Regular Season Record 16 3 1 PIHL (pihlhockey.com) Penguins Cup 3 0 0 Statewide Website TOTALS 19 3 1 www.pahockey.net PENNSYLVANIA CUP PLAYOFFS FIRST ROUND Peters Township 7 Mt Lebanon 1 Head Coach - Rick Tingle PENGUINS CUP SEMI-FINALS Top Players - Kyle Thomas - Ryder Mertins- Coby Ringwald Peters Township 4 North Allegheny 0 William Tomko - Ben Kovac - Austin Malley PENGUINS CUP FINALS Peters Township 8 Upper St Clair 1 PENNSYLVANIA STATE FINAL HISTORY PENGUINS CUP HISTORY PENNSYLVANIA CUP HISTORY Thomas Jefferson 1998 Lost 1-3 AA 1 Indiana 2002 Won 4-2 AA 2 Archbishop Carroll Won 10-3 2002 AA Kittanning 2003 Won 6-3 AA 3 Holy Ghost Prep Won 9-3 2003 AA Indiana 2004 Won 5-4 OT AA 4 Archbishop Carroll Lost 3-6 2004 AA Pine Richland 2005 Won 6-2 AA 5 Haverford High Won 4-0 2005 AA Canevin 2011 Lost 2-5 AA 6 Bethel Park 2012 Lost 1-2 AAA 7 North Allegheny 2013 Lost 0-2 AAA 8 Bethel Park 2014 Won 4-2 AAA 9 LaSalle Won 2-1 2014 AAA Central Catholic 2017 Won 5-2 AAA 10 Holy Ghost Prep Won 2-1 2017 AAA Seneca Valley 2018 Lost 2-4 AAA 11 North Allegheny 2019 Lost 0-3 AAA 12 Seneca Valley 2022 Won 6-2 AAA 13 Malvern Prep Won 5-3 2022 AAA Upper St Clair 2023 Won 8-1 AAA 14 LaSalle 2023 AAA PA HOCKEY - 2023 PENNSYLVANIA CUP PREVIEW 2023 PENNSYLVANIA CUP AA CHAMPIONSHIPS LASALLE EXPLORERS Pennsylvania Cup AAA Champions 1998 + 2008 + 2009 + 2012 + 2016 + 2019 FLYERS CUP AAA CHAMPIONS - AAA - 1996 - 1998 - 2008 - 2009 - 2011 - 2012 - 2013 - 2014 - 2016 - 2019 - 2022 (11) APAC AAA PA HOCKEY ELITE 8 FINAL RANKING - CLASS AAA: # 2 Team Website Wins Losses Ties http://www.lschs.org/page.cfm?p=626 Regular Season Record 7 2 0 League Website Exhibition Record 5 7 1 Atlantic Prep Athletic Conference (theapac.org) Flyers Cup 2 0 0 Statewide Website TOTALS 14 9 1 www.pahockey.net Head Coach: Wally Muehlbronner Top Players: Aries Carangi - Chase Hannon - - Thomas Doucet RYAN DESMOND - JAMES CARPENTER - EVAN GOLATO PENNSYLVANIA CUP PLAYOFFS SECOND ROUND LaSalle Explorers BYE FLYERS CUP SEMI-FINALS LaSalle Explorers 3 Malvern Prep 0 FLYERS CUP FINALS LaSalle Explorers 2 Holy Ghost Prep 1 PENNSYLVANIA STATE FINAL HISTORY FLYERS CUP HISTORY PENNSYLVANIA CUP HISTORY Germantown Academy 1996 Win 4-3 & 12-2 AAA Meadville 1996 Lost 2-3 AAA Germantown Academy 1998 Win 5-4 AAA Central Catholic 1998 Win 2-1 AAA Father Judge 2000 Lost 4-5 AAA Malvern Prep 2003 Lost 1-2 AAA Malvern Prep 2004 Lost 1-5 AAA Holy Ghost Prep 2008 Win 4-1 AAA Pine Richland 2008 Win 9-1 AAA Father Judge 2009 Win 6-2 AAA Shaler 2009 Win 6-4 AAA Malvern Prep 2011 Win 3-2ot AAA Upper St Clair 2011 Lost 3-4 AAA Holy Ghost Prep 2012 Win 6-3 AAA Bethel Park 2012 Win 6-2 AAA Holy Ghost Prep 2013 Win 5-2 AAA North Allegheny 2013 Lost 2-6 AAA St Joseph's Prep 2014 Win 5-4 AAA Peters Township 2014 Lost 1-2 AAA Holy Ghost Prep 2015 Lost 3-6 AAA Holy Ghost Prep 2016 Win 4-1 AAA Cathedral Prep 2016 Win 7-3 AAA Holy Ghost Prep 2017 Lost 3-5 AAA St Joseph's Prep 2019 Win 5-2 AAA North Allegheny 2019 Win 6-3 AAA Holy Ghost Prep 2023 Win 2-1 OT AAA Peters Township 2023 AAA PA HOCKEY - 2023 PENNSYLVANIA CUP PREVIEW 2023 PENNSYLVANIA CUP AAA CHAMPIONSHIPS STATE FINAL OUTLOOK: History is abundant when you speak of two Programs with 12 Pennsylvania State Championships for LaSalle and Peters Township. Coaches Rick Tingle and Wally Muehlbronner continue to write history and this matchup is a great testimony to two of Pennsylvnia's finest. Peters has made easy work of it opponents while LaSalle followed suit to win their record 11th Flyers Cup. Both teams have depth with the edge in goaltending going to the Explorers. I think Peters is riding a wave of experience and confidence and will have their hands full with LaSalle. The Indians will have a wild card in this one and pull out a 4-3 epic win in front of a sellout crowd at RMU.

Actually, Perk Valley played in the AAA Flyers Cup this year because they were not pure but were strong enough to compete (i.e. they had 2 players from another school district that did not have a team). I don't think they played any AAA teams during the regular season. The other thing to note is that teams here in the East are not in leagues broken down by AAA/AA/A, at least in the Inter-County. For the most part they are broken into conferences that are based on their PIAA leagues, regardless of school size. For example, ChesMont is the West Chester schools, the Downingtown schools, Unionville and Avon Grove. Some of those schools are A and some are AA. They play each other, as well as non-conference games. Then they get placed for Flyers Cup based on their AA or A size.