sadday4hockey

PB, did Merrick Garland just tell you that the PPE discussion had to be shut down? Not more Russian disinformation. Say it ain't so, Joe!!

Nothing like driving from Erie to South Bend so you can play the other team from Erie. SMFH

I think the word "allegedly" needs placed in this sentence

Let's just call it another "Posey Project". It was his way of getting the many sheep out there to pay an extra 1K per player so they could be called Viper Stars and not Vipers.

https://www.midamhockey.com/page/show/5022993-board-contacts Here are the board members and their contacts. Of course there are like 9 DEI administrators but where are the the player development people? Everyone should take the time to contact some of them although don't hold your breath waiting for a response. They are only active when suspending players and Coaches. MidAm somehow is actually worse than DC when it comes to being a swamp. Switaj has been the Coach in Chief for at least 25 years. The top 3 lines of members probably have a combined tenure of over 200 years and with what to show for it? Add in Switaj, Santora, Colligan and Borkowski and you have 3 Centuries of failures. The problem is, they don't hold open and public elections. 5-6 people control EVERYTHING that happens and will continue to until they are ousted.

This is a fact. Dean, do you dispute this? And think about it, they sit on how much $$$$ for 3-5 months collecting interest Dean, another fact. Do you dispute it? This is.... actually incorrect as it is $20+, per game/per official but still based in fact So Dean, you say 70% of that post is not factual when it appears the only thing factual that is in dispute is when, where and how much the evaluators get paid to "evaluate". Now that's a pretty simple equation of 3/4 are factual or 75% and 25% are in question. The reason the organizations "re-up" is because they aren't educated. I'll bet this causes some to give it more in-depth consideration and as someone else stated, yes this was a hostile takeover of WPHOA. Fact!!

Pretty sure PPE uses this PIHO organization as their ref scheduling partner. I wonder how they will react to him littering their rink with sticks and gloves?

This falls on the MidAm hierarchy and like most things in our District, they will sit idly by as he also gives Jim Weaver who is the District Ref-In-Chief all the games he can skate. It's just your garden variety quit pro quo.

Sort of like the Giant Entity named UPMC being a "non-profit" and paying their hospital workers a pittance so they can make billions?

You almost appear to have a quietly vested interest in this AHF takeover. Competition is good, but monopolies are not. Just the way the PPE arrival made the sport far more cut throat and created crazier parents so too will this at the Tier 2 level.

At some point, doesn't it become a violation of anti-trust laws? Not that any politicians anywhere would give two shits since it doesn't help or hinder them to line their own pockets but what an f'd up situation. NHAHA if I'm not mistaken is one of if not the longest existing local organization. And of course you knew the cockroaches would survive, they always have.

It appears that the one team Huskies have outmaneuvered the Vipers as the surviving organization at PIA. Viper board members..... how did you allow this to occur? https://pittsburghicearena.com/

Human Performance Lab.......... sounds like something out of the former Eastern Bloc and current CCP I remember when we played hockey in the street every day after school and I couldn't have had more fun. What happened to the fun part?

Hi daddy of said player.

Sorry I didn't put enough sarcasm in my post. I'll add more in the future.

This guy literally wrote the book on Western PA HS Hockey and has absolutely no bias towards and past or current HS program. How dare you question his rankings?

Competition is never a bad thing for consumers however they need to do sufficient homework in order to make an educated choice.

How many and where? And did they survive the final roster cuts?

Wow!!! That dude didn't even last as long as Liz Truss. Pucks, not sure if it was your doing solely, but Kudos for doing your part. Here's a link to google maps since you are either not from Pittsburgh or failed geography miserably. https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Printscape+Arena+at+Southpointe,+114+Southpointe+Blvd,+Canonsburg,+PA+15317/Palmer+Imaging+Arena,+Center+Ice+Drive,+Delmont,+PA/@40.276463,-80.1488322,10z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x8834543f9ffc979d:0x304d785227507213!2m2!1d-80.1619184!2d40.2776737!1m5!1m1!1s0x8834c5e4035d4a8f:0xe88f71f8cf2eca85!2m2!1d-79.5764089!2d40.4009963!3e0 Let's say I live in Peter's Twp and have a player on the 2010 Rebellion. Next year, BB takes this model and runs with it. I'm thrilled for the opportunity for my kid so close to home. Except, I find out that the 2010 team will practice one day a week at Palmer and one at PIA but the great news is that they'll play 15 games at Printscape!! Which is about the same number of home games every PAHL team plays. And for you, living in Penn Trafford. You get to practice one night at Palmer, but the other night at Youngstown and.......... oh, by the way all of your games are at Printscape. https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Palmer+Imaging+Arena,+Center+Ice+Drive,+Delmont,+PA/Deep+Freeze+Ice+Arena,+McClurg+Road,+Youngstown,+OH/@40.7118709,-80.6794942,9z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x8834c5e4035d4a8f:0xe88f71f8cf2eca85!2m2!1d-79.5764089!2d40.4009963!1m5!1m1!1s0x8833fbae311ff959:0xa57535721674579f!2m2!1d-80.6488194!2d40.996755!3e0 Palmer to Deep Freeze is under 80 miles one way and won't cost you much in TP tolls as long as you have an EZ Pass.

This ^^^^^ I say the only way they add it is for the main tenants to: A) Help finance the initial capital investment and B) Have contracts signed that go out far enough to cover the remaining debt and provide profit It's my understanding that their preferred MO for acquiring facilities is for the owners to basically hold the note and get yearly payments plus a percentage of the "annual profits" which if the property doesn't "show a profit" then no percentage.

Would you get the best kids? Or would you get the ones whom are willing to pay for all "the extra" like the Coaches personal gym and/or private lessons?

What? That's just so false.

No, not at all. If you've coached, you know that one team is hard enough. When you double that, the attention to players gets cut in half. That's a simple math equation. Are we really at the point where we think Coaching 10U hockey should be expected to pay a "livable wage"? I'm not even sure that a USHL Coach makes that kind of dough. https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/USHL-Coaching-Salary

https://atlantichockeyfederation.com/standings/ So....... 12U B and 10U B are traveling from say Ashburn to Long Island on a Saturday for a 2 game set? And we ridicule our local selves for our level of insanity? How is this helping and who is it benefitting? Other than the obvious.

When I went to double-check my information it showed that Sal had been creeping on my profile page. Anyone else? Phony email? Creeper? Cranberry spy?