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In the Pittsburgh area there are at MOST about 10 good hockey players per birth year. I mean players that have even the SLIGHTEST chance of playing for free in college/juniors let alone earning a professional pay check. Everybody else is just playing for fun. If you have fun playing AAA, AA, A, school, rec, then so be it. It makes very little difference what team or organization you play for. As long as you put in the work the cream is generally going to rise to the top.

Where did anyone here say that PAHL was a powerhouse? There are plenty of AA level players that could make some of the top AAA teams in western PA. Not all of them are kids that got cut at AAA tryouts - I have known many that were exceptional players that decided to play AA and not deal with the significant differences in travel and cost or were playing a secondary sport. And many of those local AA teams that you call mediocre are usually in the top 15 nationally in Tier 2, and most play 20-30+ additional games against non-PAHL nationally ranked teams. As far as your comment on only AAA in PIHL is legit, maybe you should have a word with some of those AAA coaches that lost to AA teams in past St. Margaret’s tournaments.