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The trashing of organizations that occurs on this board is directly proportional to the number of people that have been spurned by that organization.  The organizations like PPE or Esmark that cut or didn't call back many of your kids face the most ire.  On the other end of the spectrum are Beaver Badgers and Arctic Foxes that take everyone and so everybody is happy. Nobody is coming on here and complaining they got picked for team 4 when they deserved to be on team 3. Thankfully. Lol

"out coached" in high school sports is really funny! You're only as good as the players in your district that come out to play.  And you better hope you have a stud in net every 4 years if you want long term success!

Can anybody point to a local coach that CONSISTENTLY took a bunch of mediocre hockey players and turned them into champions? And I don't mean just a one year overachieving team.

Five Pens Elite players were drafted into the USHL yesterday. Most impressively they are all locals, not the usual out of towners we often see coming in for one or two years of exposure at Penns then leaving.  

Three former Vengeance players were also drafted.  All players who followed their ring leaders out of Alpha last year when things fell apart there. Doesn't appear any of the remaining vengeance players were picked. Would they have been picked if they stayed there, would others have been picked if they left, I guess we will never know.  But I'm sure there are more than a few options on this board.

One of those players counts in both categories, HMMM, so I think a total of 7 local kids picked. Probably a record draft class for the area. Kudos.

15 hours ago, TheRightCall said:

The event was non-USA hockey sanctioned, so no penalties would carry over to anything. Nowhere to file a report because there is no governing body for this tournament.

I get that, I also get they probably weren't in the mood after breaking up fights. But as an official, if a score sheet is being kept, which it obviously was, I would feel obligated to accurately document the game. 

39 minutes ago, dazedandconfused said:

Yesterday at Frozen Pond. Check out livebarn right about the 3:30pm segment. Bench clearing brawl involving 2 local teams.

Thanks for sharing! A real exciting end to a meaningless consolation game. Interesting there don't seem to be any penalties on the score sheet for the little dust up.

https://gamesheetstats.com/seasons/6330/games/1829869

39 minutes ago, nemesis8679 said:

I heard he was booted from his prior organization for not taking a certain kid or kids onto his team. Not sure if that's what happened but I've heard the same story from several unrelated persons.

Yet another egotistical hockey coach. You can spot them a mile away by reading their bios. "Played juniors" means paid to play in some meaningless junior league. "Forgo playing NCAA" means no college program wanted him. 

These type of "coaches" have 2 skills, skating and self promotion. If not for that they would be middle school gym teachers or selling snake oil.  But go ahead and keep giving them 80 bucks an hour to "get you to the next level" Make sure you ask them what the next level is and what percent of their clients made the next level.

On 5/2/2024 at 3:58 PM, Chinstrap said:

…..usually.

Who else would set it? 

Woah, looks like Vengeance has fallen on some hard times ever since the puppet masters left town. Well, since they left that part of town. 

I came here to find out what happened with Vengeance but to my surprise it hasn't been discussed.

I ran into an old Hockey dad friend of mine today, and he said the entire Vengeance Illuminati has suddenly left that organization.  These are the “Five Families” that created that organization back when the 08s and 09s were mites.  They were Never Pens’ers and threw their money at creating a team to compete with PPE.   They hated everything about the Pens.  They didn’t want their kids hockey team being controlled by anybody else but themselves, so they picked who coached the teams and which players made the teams. 

Fast forward to today.  More than half of the 08s after coming off a trip to Nationals and a win over PPE at districts, suddenly left the team.  And wait, where did these 08 and 09 Never Pens’ers go?? You can't make this up! They went to Pens Elite. I really wouldn't have believed it if I didn't see the rosters with my own eyes.

So what happened over there? Sounds like some people lost a power struggle. Did someone with deeper pockets than them come in and build the fancy locker room and force them out?