Paul Baxter

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year to all our members. Thank you for participating in our free forum on Western PA Hockey. I wish everyone nothing but the best in 2023. PB

If you'd like to purchase ad space on this forum, reach out to me. Ads like this aren't permitted for free and you never asked to begin with. PB

@Jack Handey I hadn't thought of that... I was more interested in seeing how many people could follow directions and read my request... ? I could give myself 100,000 points by logging into the admin and changing a setting on my profile (but I won't)... but I enjoyed your comment! PB

OCTOBER NAUGHTY LIST of users that need to fix their email addresses @Salsemotionalfriend

ALL: Once again I am getting emails bounced back to me as a result of email addresses that are on your account, being deactivated or changed. The system generates emails to you when you get direct messaged or you are subscribed to threads, when someone replies to that thread. I am ask everyone to go into their profile RIGHT NOW and check the email address that is on your account. CLICK YOUR NAME CLICK ACCOUNT SETTINGS CHECK YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS When you are done please do a LIKE (pick an emoji) of this thread to acknowledge you've checked your email for me. THANK YOU PB

@Pa Hockey If you all need help with your websites I can give you my POC who does great web work. Just PM Me.

@powderfinger consider this a verbal warning. This isn't needed on the forum.

@Pa Hockey it would save time if you'd list the ages/skill levels for this event.

This is great news!

Sorry about the outage since 6pm last night 6/17. Our hosting provider was upgrading their entire network. We are back online now. The site should be up to 3X as fast now. Thanks all- PB

@fafa fohi no problem at all with this sort of post.

Thanks for the post and thanks @forbin In general I'm not a fan of paywalled sports sites, like The Athletic and DK Pittsburgh Sports. To each their own...

it depends on how you SAY it.

This thread is now locked. We have now set a world record for number of threads locked in a year, and we're only in April. Way too much mud being slung here that is not verifiable by the general public. It's one thing to have an opinion and another to go to the level where @Clonbur has gone. @Clonbur you have been publicly warned and I am DONE with the posts on the Vipers organization. We understand you don't like them. Leave it at that. I have NO PROBLEM with anyone who doesn't like an organization to talk about it, but it needs to be diplomatic and not like this thread has gone. I deleted around 20+ posts here because it was just totally going off the tracks (another record for me). Like I have said before, it is NOT my full time job policing these threads. I am thankful @forbin helps out here, but we cannot verify the accuracy of every thread. So give us moderators a break here. PB

That's the way to step up, @fafa fohi. Love the Shawshank reference!

You tell em, @forbin !!!

This thread has run its course and is now done. PB

@forbin thanks for posting those videos!

Please post a video of both, would like to see the penalty and the winning goal. Thanks PB

It's not you. But thanks for the message. PB

This thread is over and locked. Feel free to start a new thread but I am not having any more of the "so and so is trying out here". I AM TIRED of policing this thread. My patience on this has run out so the next infraction of the rules will get a suspension. I can't be clearer than that. PB

@Danner27 and @Pa Hockey Can I please have a little break here on the back and forth between you both? I don't want to have to send either of you for a timeout to sit in the corner, so can we move past the he-said-she-said stuff please? It's obvious you both think you're correct (or the other one is wrong). So it is what it is, we don't have to rehash the same thing over and over. Thank you for your kind consideration, PB

Where I would likely draw the line here is when posting possible private info about a player, such as a private tryout with PPE (how are we supposed to validate that??), etc. I certainly don't mind discussing how good a particular player is, but you have to be a little more selective about posting info that might be private. I edited @Danner27's post because I didn't feel that some of the info in there was really needed in this post, plus there is no way to validate it. If someone wants to post something like "I talked to #4 after the game and he said...", or "I talked to #4's parents and they told me..." that is (to me) a little more substantial than posting info that we don't know the source of. If a post like that is made, we know the origins of it because you're stating the source. When you post "heard that XYZ is trying out here, etc." I have to decide whether or not to keep that post based on it's merits... which is not a good thing for me. We're on a balance beam here trying to make sure we stay on the beam and not go too far one way or another. Thanks all- PB

This is the LAST time "ROCK" is going to post here with this total lack of respect for the forum rules. I cleaned up this post, and that's my last time for "ROCK". Learn how to make posts without using spicy adjectives or don't post here at all. PB

I received a note about the video link above and how it shows the player (and everyone else) involved in this fracas. My take is since this was already posted publicly - and is available both on Livebarn and this Facebook video, it's in the public domain and it is what it is. It's probably making its rounds on Youtube and Twitter by now, so there is no need in my opinion to suppress the video link here. In fact, I think the more publicity that this incident receives, that hopefully it will serve as a deterrent for this to not happen in the future. In today's world, everyone has to presume that everything you do will be recorded in some fashion. The topic of this incident can certainly be discussed, but we won't discuss specific player names on this thread as per our normal policy. PB