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  1. Pittsburgh Huskies, though they are all 07 BY kids, were put into the potential 16UAA division. Will be interesting to see how they do in their placement games.
  2. Well ChiefKeek I do know why not one player from Armstrong NB 18UAA team last year returned. I was told 8 kids could have returned, not one did. Why? Well, I can only think that it may have something to do with the person in charge of their national bound program, even though he was not supposed to be the head coach, he made the call to not give the kid (a goalie) one game. Didn't even give the kid 1 minute of playing time. From what I heard the kid was supposed to get at least one game, that was made clear to the family before leaving. They could have played him the last game since it was a meaningless game but still didn't. Imagine, spending thousands of dollars to go to California for however many days they were there. I'm assuming 4 to 5 days, and not getting any playing time when he was told he would at least get one game. The kid was a goalie, not to mention this was his last year in Amateurs. Pretty sad and deplorable, IMO. I mean, let's face it- politics are in all associations, all sports but to do what this association did to a kid and family is truly disgusting.
  3. Renegades just like the majority of these local associations are 100% political. They never pick the best kids, dad's have so much to do with it. Matter of fact, one kid made the U18 Renegades team who has no business being on that team but because his dad went to high school with the Renegades head coach and played hockey together the son made the team. Such a shame what this sport any many others have become.
  4. 14U to 18U Esmark teams, plan on spending easily over $20,000/yr. And true, they will almost never play a top 20 ranked team. If they do, they will lose significantly. Just look at the previous years in My Hockey.
  5. I also believe the reason Esmark will never content for a National title is because majority of their kids have no speed. Esmark likes size but not speed. If you look at a typical PPE roster, majority of their kids are not big but are fast and can skate.
  6. Actually have to agree. Rarely do you find ethics pretty much in most sports today. I do know some of the board member there are definitely unhinged and the few that weren't, well left because of this. Sad because they could have been a solid organization. We started out playing there for 2 years but then left. When you have a coach that doesn't know the game at all and can't skate you know it's time to go, especially when the organization tells you that they are going to send their "skills" coach to help out. Well, he showed up ONCE during the season and was appalled at how the practice was ran. Well, they never sent him back and things went back to how they were. The coach was a good person just unfortunately didn't know hockey. The board on the other hand or President at the time, did listen then never acted except the one time. Sad. These families pay a lot of money so their kids can learn the game and end up learning nothing. Now, I do know that it is hard to find volunteer coaches that have actually played the game for B/A Level Hockey. This is a big problem. But if you have the board promising to have the PAID guy on staff, Skills Guy, to visit practices until things get better and have him only show up once, that's bad business practice. Eventually everything comes back to bite you. Just like it did for the Armstrong Arrows 18U NB team last season. I think only 1 kid (and not even sure about him) out of 7 that could have returned there this season went back. The kids had enough of the political crap. I just checked and the 1 kid that I thought returned didn't even go back. They have a whole new roster.
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