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23 hours ago, Lifelongbender said:

Midgets and bantams are definitely not having placements. I thought I had heard that the squirts and peewees might still have some placement games, though.

Source? Coaches are being told the opposite.

15 hours ago, aaaahockey said:

I dunno it's weird. Lacrosse definitely never seems to be that way, parents are 99.9% happy and cheer for the team.  Even individualized sports like wrestling and youth boxing ive seen more collegial environments.  Baseball can vary but I'd say across the board nothing I've experienced comes close to the parent idiocy in hockey. 

I guess you never were around travel baseball, softball or especially football parents. It’s not exclusive to the sport of hockey. At all.

16 hours ago, Quinlan2020 said:

All good points in response to my post. It's very complicated. I'm thinking that a more defined plan to safely play would make it less likely for the governor to get involved. There are many reluctant to play for various reasons but one of them is financial. I don't know what the solution is. Planning without committed funds is very hard, but life, in general, is hard to plan at this point. Many of us don't even know if we'll have jobs that enable us to pay for things such as hockey. As far as safety goes.... I would feel comfortable participating in a phased approach where we were guaranteed a couple of months of individual skills only. We would then decide if circumstances looked good to allow for more team-oriented drills. That seems like a conservative approach that would show local/state officials that youth hockey was conscientious enough to handle this as an organization. 

A couple of months of individual skills? Cmon now. If you are worried about the $1000 or $2000 being lost I would just find another hobby this season. Once you are back at the rink ,multiple times a week, you will see your vision is in the minority in this area.

19 hours ago, Quinlan2020 said:

Yes. Too much uncertainty to be comfortable. I wish USA Hockey would step up and create a more defined approach to staring up. We could start with practices focused on individual skills only, with the hope that they could get into more team oriented practices by mid-fall. It would just depend on local transmission rates being below a certain threshold. Postpone all travel games until the start of 2021. They should be open to participants opting out at any point and receiving a partial refund since some may become uncomfortable about how their organization is following these guidelines.

What rink are you out of? I have been to 4 or 5 already that have all been business as usual with tryouts, teams already practicing, and even summer league games.

board of directors were given the status updates on the season starting and to be in contact with the rinks moving forward. That’s who will be the ones to close things up first.

Things are in place, maybe your organization is not communications like the others are.

They are playing and pens will definitely get the tryouts done in the next week or 3. The vocal minority won’t spoil the soup for the silent majority. 3 players in multiple sports, and ages, cmon.

On 4/21/2020 at 9:21 PM, Birddog said:

The Vengeance will have an 07 team this year.

Esmark usually doesn’t work til Midgets.  The exception was the 03 team which left the Renegades for Esmark at some point.  Was it Bantams?

 

I'm guessing then that the Vengance with just be the SCIR team that played independent this year. Funny that they did not play in PAHL, but were Tier 2. 

Would have been nice to see them and SHAHA  face off against each other.

shaha beat them 2-1 and they also tied 3-3

where will all the pens black kids end up? it sounds like next years teams will be a little different with southpointe, esmark, renegades, etc. all making moves and hoping to get those pens black remnants. 

Travelchamps.com

12u has north Pitt, Allegheny, viper stars and Shaha registered. Philly has not released the teams playing for them yet.

I found that a price of $1500 plus, kept a few kids from playing middle school in addition to their PAHL teams.

thank you for the updates.