sadday4hockey

He failed crayons in Elementary school.

Really showing strong support for the current Coaches down the stretch here, eehh?

Hockey across the country has suffered a huge setback in hockey IQ due the overwhelming focus on skills, skills and more skills. Players need to be taught the basic concepts even at the youngest ages. Otherwise it's bee-hive hockey until well......... the beer league.

Another of the ill-informed masses. In the last 10 years of competition. 2019 - Burrell HS - Runner-up 2018 - SHAHA 14's - Champion 2016 - Armstrong 16's - Runner-up 2015 - SCIR 14's - Runner-up 2014 - Mid-State Mustang 18's - Champion 2014 - Bethel Park - Champion 2011 - Mid-State 16's - Champion 2011 - Allegheny 18's - Runner-up

The curmudgeons say that. The nice thing is that these are all local kids. No imports like the Tier 1 teams.

Oh, and when I went to close the Yahoo article, they had locked article comments. I guess they need to protect the sick bastard's feelings.

When an entity whether it be a governing body like USA Hockey or a private company is a monopoly, there will always be problems like this. Protect the entity at any cost. Sort of like the CCP.

Yes, Kudos to him and those who he empowered to help grow the sport.

Conscious bias.

If your 12U or younger team has a set group of players for the PP, you should ask the Coach, why? Roll your lines, teach them all PP and SH situations and you will be surprised at who are some of the more capable players in these situations. PK requires a lot of thinking and desire. PP requires an understanding of spacing and puck movement. Nowadays, all of these traits can be difficult to find in players.

Did Cummings turn 30 yet?

Why didn't you include the top 20 which adds one more?

It's real simple. Just follow the money. In the end, the Western PA taxpayers will have paid and the machine will have somehow bled another rock dry. Think...... URA purchased the building. Where doe the URA get their funding? Penguins Foundation, where do they get their funding?

High level pedigree is much more of a prerequisite for skills instructors as opposed to team Coaches.

That's one of the perils with non-parent coaches, they often times regard it as "their" team and make decisions based upon their own personal agenda. It's incumbent upon the organizations to keep them in line.

Right, that's it. The "crowd" is 2 sections. And that's the issue. They can't make enough money to justify it. They used to do it..... and then the $ became far more important than the game or the players or the fans.

So, with all of the effort that has been put forth for this to happen is it safe to assume that the recent news of the Penguins sale was an impulse move? It seems like Burkle and 66 must have been sitting there recently and said to each other....... well, the team sucks right now and we can't sell tickets to anyone. Time to sell and let it be someone else's problem. Oh..... and just to belabor another point, I guess this group will go down in history of having completely failed the very community that they promised a complete redevelopment of their neighborhood.

Priority list for the Penguins 1. Make as much money as possible by any means possible That's it. That's the list.

That he is and it's a strong possibility that he will be shearing the beard in the spring.

And that's the problem.

The Armstrong players were not the problem here. Poorly-parented students, adults in the stands, security, the Riverhawk board members and Coaches all have some responsibility that they failed to act upon. The players were/are to do what to satisfy you, Sutton. This is going affect them for a long time both on and off the ice. Maybe, just maybe it's time to stop the rhetoric and start the healing process? Not saying forget it and move on, saying find ways to bring the game back to together.

Sutton, I don't think anyone is treating it as eh, just Armstrong. It's just that it's a behavior that has gone on there since the 80's and possibly longer. Something definitely needs done. It will be interesting to see how it is handled at a variety of levels from the Arrows Hockey program to the School District to the PIHL and MidAm. It's difficult for me to say at what level the officials are culpable, but one thing is for sure and that is that incidents like this that will continue to cause officials to stop skating games.

This is even hard to believe for Armstrong. Every year they have multiple incidents there that make you scratch your head, but this is really BAD!!!

And there it is, the "fake news". They left because one of the main driving forces behind the move has an older kid there and has his deals in place. They left because a move to Esmark was going to catapult them into the top 30. Check the rankings from last year #60 to this year #64, and what do you know you are who you are. Jersey change and non-parent Coach and still the same results. You want to talk about a group who think they all have the next NHL player, that's the group.

I'm not sure how much D1 hockey schools are scouting any Jr League other than USHL and the majority of those players are already committed. They are committing players so young now (although I think they finally addressed that recently) or there are some players who develop later that they are just watching those few. What will be interesting is to see how the many commitments of recent local players actually pan out. PE had quite a few at the 02 and 03 levels and some of those have already not panned out.