Paul Baxter

The new forum has advanced capabilities of tagging someone (or several) people within a post. If you know their username, all you need to do is type the "@" symbol followed by their username. As you start to type the username it will do an "AJAX" lookup and show you all the usernames that start with those letters. Select one of those usernames and keep typing your post. The person (or people) that you tagged will get a notification that you tagged them when you make the post. I find this a very handy feature. Check it out!

@Polar Great idea! Thanks for the thank you as well.

@champeen the numbers you are quoting in TX are far more expensive than any AAA team (or any other PAHL team for that matter)... AA costs in the PAHL are roughly $1400 to $2500, with most under $2000. The other thing you have to consider is that there are likely less players at high levels in TX so when you come here you may find it a bit more competitive to make a good AA team. At some of the larger orgs you may find a lot of players trying out for AA teams. Some orgs do their AA tryouts a week ahead of the standard tryouts. All the tryouts start right after nationals.

As an FYI, there is a new VIP forum for posters who have posted a total of more than 100 posts/comments/likes. When you hit the threshold, it will appear under YOUTH HOCKEY. This forum is not visible to anyone under 100 content items.

Today I deployed a brand new, robust theme which is now set as the forum default. This them is call ORTEM. It has the ability to show lots of forum statistics and is much more robust than the built-in theme that came with the software.

Just as an FYI, the new forum has a fully optimized mobile browser version. No app needed...

Hello Everyone! I am pleased to welcome you to the brand-new Western PA Hockey forum. The new forum has 100x the features of the old forum but best of all we are free of the restrictions placed on us by the former "free" forum provider. I can speak from experience the old forum setup was sub-par both in terms of technology and the way they treated their forum clients. I couldn't wait to get off that platform and this new forum took lots of time and planning to implement, plus the software is not free (I went with a proven, robust forum platform). As I had previously noted, the prior forum provider claimed full ownership of all the forum content, so we were not able to migrate any content to this forum. So we're starting fresh for this upcoming 2018-19 season. Take a spin around the forum and let's get it started! Let me know what you think. PB