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“For anyone crying foul on the whole process, throw out some specific ways it could be improved. What are your ideas?” You can start with independent evaluators that have zero interest in their former players advancing. The fact that PPE coaches dominate this process is a joke. I’ve seen it multiple times at the U14, U15 and U16 levels. Get these “evaluators” to swap districts or bring in those that are not tied to any of the organizations. Everything looks fair when the cuts go from 100+ to 60. When it gets really fun is seeing the list of kids that advance to natty camp and see the sea of yellow buckets. I will stick by what I said - it is a sham.

For ease of reference, I started a new topic for teams to post supplemental tryouts. SCIR will have the following supplemental tryouts at Alpha Ice Complex: 12U Mixed Year Thursday 5/11/2023 - 6:00 PM We have room on our mixed year rosters for additional skaters and goalies 16U A Major and A Minor Thursday 5/11/2023 - 8:00 PM We have openings on both of our 16U Mixed Year teams including one goalie position 18U Mixed Year Monday 5/15/2023 - 6:00 PM We have player positions available on our 18u Mixed Year 1 team Please contact coaching@scirhockey.org for all of the above or fill out the player inquiry form

This^^^^^ PPE coaches have been included in the evaluation process and lo and behold, many gold buckets always seem to advance ahead of those that were more deserving. I think MidAms are a sham and a complete waste.

That kid was fun to watch when I went out to Johnstown with my brother. He's got too much personality to be a hockey player 😂 In all seriousness talking to his dad I think they have multi-kids in multi-sports. Might not be something he would be interested in anyway.

He did say varsity and JV and... I would expect AAA players to be worse at checking from my own experience. They seem to be soft and expect not to be hit because they are used to being in games where the physical game is undervalued.

I don't know much about this, and really don't care to. What I will tell you is that I know some kids on those lists who were made to look stupid against some A Major and AA kids when they played against each other at Varsity/JV/Middle School this past season. I saw the shaming occur live with my own eyes, so that makes me question the whole process/purpose.

This is the kind of thing that devalues this board. You make a statement like this as if you know it to be fact and it's 100% false. Tier 1 coaches are allowed to evaluate the kids they have just finished coaching, but not allowed to evaluate kids they will be coaching next season. They know the tier 1 kids better than anybody.

There are usually 7+ evaluators over the course of the weekend. And the evaluators don't know the kids. It's a good process.

I heard that Tier 1 coaches are the evaluators and it is pretty much of a predetermined list. Everyone wears their colors and are easily tied to their organizations. But it is a good chance for some kids to be seen.

I heard from a reliable source that only children born in a UPMC hospital will be considered for the Pens Elite Learn to Skate Academy.