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Theres been plenty of changes at IUP All good

I’m pretty sure the rule is from what I heard if they have 3 f1 visa players or more they have to move up a division. So theoretically they could have 2 this year and remain in A.

They haven't had any for a while now. Canevin used to be where all of Yuri's imports went, but they switched to McCort a while back. The problem is, the players visas state that they are coming here for school, not hockey (even though everyone knows they are mainly coming here for hockey). Therefore PIHL can't legally stop them from playing year one like other players who move to the area for hockey. Therefore, the agreement between McCort and PIHL is that as long as they are rostering imports they have to play up a level. McCort by the numbers should be in A for the last handful of years at least, but always end up in AA.

McCourt will do what they’ve done in the past. Wait till October to roster all their international and Michigan players. They don’t do anything by the rules. Check out their out of state wrestlers and how many days of school they actually attend. It’s a joke

No local club hockey players are getting NIL money or athletic scholarship. Also, please don’t pick a WPA college/university based on club hockey programs!

He did deal with it. He has nothing to do with MY post nor did he do anything but accept it. I was providing MY experience with IUP hockey's program staff. Just as others did.

IUP had a coaching staff that won the d3 regular season title and playoff championship, then got rid of them the next year.

And here we have the post from someone who disregards any of the information in a post because its written by a hockey MOM.

Because he knows the books are cooked?

Why?

Nothing official yet, but word around the rink seems to indicate that all Girls PAHL divisions will be much smaller this year. The 12U division was all bunched into one grouping last season after at least 5 seasons of splitting between Major and Minor divisions. This lead to some very lopsided matchups between the top level teams and teams who had thought they were going to be placed in the minor division. As a result, it seems like those organizations are more inclined this season to field girls on their coed rosters at 10U and 12U and put a girls roster together to play a few tournaments together rather than get blown out for 10-12 games of the PAHL mandated regular season. At 14U and 19U the trend continues to be an expanding number of the teams and players going to play independent schedules separate from the PAHL. Last year there were 10 12G teams, 7 G14 teams, and 6 G19 teams. This season I think the numbers will end up more like 6-8 G12 teams, 5 G14 teams, 4 G19 teams. Almost all the remaining teams will probably be based in the greater Pittsburgh area with much less participation from the outlying PAHL clubs like Erie, State College, and the West Virginia teams.