sadday4hockey

I think the majority of folks would dispute this. And that does not just include the Shaler people.

Dystopian? Yes Draconian? Yes Surprising? No Just be glad we aren't in Michigan. That crazy b@#$% may not allow hockey until she's voted out.

Sorry, I didn't mean to insinuate specific dates. They don't have an actual tryout listed for 07 and 08. They do for 18, 16, 15 and 14. They'll be fine at 18, but this year may be a tough one for Yuri. The 04's are spread out everywhere and 15's, they're spread out even more. If they have a 15 team, it will be BAD.

I visited the Esmark website yesterday (yes, I'm that bored). There is a "State of the Union" message from them, a video message. One of the interesting things I found was that they are claiming that they will have at the 06, 07 and 08 BY's. To begin with, they don't even have tryout dates listed for 07 or 08 nor do they have coaches listed for any of them including 06. Do they just throw as much shit as possible against the wall and see what will stick?

Refunds?? Yeah, right. They'll hold that money as long as possible. Some tournaments have been cancelled, some postponed to later dates. The city of Toronto has banned public events through the end of June and yet some of these companies are still saying their event in May is still on. Just another chapter in this mess.

Two rinks would never go for that, PIA and Ice Castle. Both of those rinks rely heavily on tournament revenue albeit in two very different ways. PIA uses it to stay afloat while Ice Castle uses it to fill the coffers

Dick's Sporting Goods began layoffs and furloughs yesterday. How will this affect their sponsorship of the PPE or will it not have any effect?

I believe that's being misinterpreted. I think that is specific to the National Team program and it's feeder systems. With that said, tryouts for and possibly even an actual season for 2020-21 seem to be in more peril with each and every passing day. Keeping my fingers crossed that one of these days soon, one of the biotech companies is going to figure out how to cure the virus and the nightmare will begin to end.

Where did you see this? Their website has their last update being made on 3/20.

So if they go to Esmark, they will be no different than what they were at PPE which were over-priced AA teams.

This is assuming that everything post-virus is status quo. I just don't see that being the case. Starting at the Tier 1 level, PPE and Esmark mainly, are people going to be so quick to make that huge financial commitment? For some, and maybe many, there is the reality that hockey gets axed from the family budget. I definitely see this having a major impact on the sport both Nationally and locally alike. Perhaps it will help to fix a few things and keep more teams playing more local hockey instead of the independent Tier 2 and faux AAA schedules. Unfortunately, it's also going to create a decrease in the number of participants next season. You will also see a lot more "choices" being made between School hockey and amateur hockey. No longer will there be as many players able to make the financial commitment to both teams.

Welcome to Arizona, Jack. I've got 3 lovely properties to show you today and all 3 are Oceanfront.

So, since it's sort of an added cost to play I just posted here in lieu of starting another thread. It was nice to see an email yesterday that in the midst of all of this you could count on Posey to make sure that you knew he and PIA were still open to accept your money for his tune-up camps. Damn the Covid-19, full speed ahead.

If you think for one second that this hasn't been considered..................... I would rethink it.

Having a tough time digesting the fervor behind this mindset. Is it ignorance towards the severity of this health crisis or is it the ignorance of the "bulldozer parents" who shall let nothing stand in the path of what Jimmy deserves? I mean, I get it. It sucks. It sucks bad, but to have such tunnel vision is hard to understand.

I can think of one specifically. Keep an eye out for an 8 team 16U event in April right here in Pittsburgh. No other age groups, just 16's.

This is a present tense statement and then you do a 180 and include 15-20 years. Are you trying to tell us that these teams were developed within the Armstrong organization? If so, I'm afraid I've got some bad news.

I would qualify "plenty" as 6-8. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and ask you to name 3.

I'm going to give this props before it gets removed.

They won't. They'll just throw everything against the wall and hope a few things stick.

Right, it's all out of the goodness of his heart. https://www.ispot.tv/ad/ZErL/discover-card-super-bowl-2020-no-we-dont-charge-annual-fees

So PPE goes 1/4 in a District as weak as MidAm is? In a District where they have done everything that they can to eliminate any and all possible competition? This is an organization that, and I quote they themselves "has the best coaches, the best facilities and the best players". If this is true, this can only be construed as one thing. A colossal failure at their home rink.

At the start of the season, the Preds "AA" team #1 parents were on here letting everyone know that they were better than the "AAA" team that folded before season's end. Now this happens and I guess it means that the AA #2 team was the best of the 3? I believe that if you use the transitive property AA#2>AA#1 and AA#1>AAA then AA#2>AAA this is confirmed. It certainly does not lend much credibility to the tryout evaluators and/or process out there at Ice Castle.

Right. Here's a little equation "18U Prep" minus an actual Prep School (with room and board) = Nothing different than current 18U team It's just like the "faux AAA" teams referenced on here, you can call things whatever you want to call them and people will believe you.