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About 50 skaters and 11 goalies for 09 Renegades/Vengeance AA tonight
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32 minutes ago, TeamRamRod said:
I'll be interested to see who they're able to get. I've heard of 5 of their better players that made Predators. Some others I know were at Esmark tryouts and I assume made it. It looks like they switched up coaches. The guy from last year that came in from Michigan isn't listed anymore, instead it's the father/son duo that coached their younger ages.
Heard like 10 skaters and a few goalies. Criminal they didn’t cancel tryouts and took their tryout fee
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22 hours ago, Woo Letang Clan said:
Website has Esmark as having complete for 09 tryouts?
Wonder if they got some AAA players or if it is mostly AA as what was showing up to the open skates
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9 hours ago, Spear and Magic Helmet said:
Was NHAHA doing well at PIA?? I don't really remember. The rink has struggled for years and some of the maintenance issues and other problems there might have given people a bad impression of the facility. I haven't been there in years, so I don't know if those issues have been resolved. I sort of assume they have fixed some of the more obvious and uglier issues, but people might be cautious of that as well.
esmark 2008-09 skate tonight-2 goalies and 20 or so skaters for 2 teams? Are their tryouts this weekend
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4 hours ago, Saucey said:
I mean, how can you tell for sure? You don't know if players that already have a spot came. Because I can't think of any organization that doesn't already have a good idea of who they want at the older ages.
Maybe it is more of if they have a team it will be more like a high level AA team/low AAA filled with mostly AA players
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1 hour ago, RJUSHL said:
Particularly the Esmark skates. I wonder if they can pull this off. They need to be working the phones hard to start again from scratch. It won’t work if they just rely on some gravitational pull to get kids back in the door and overcome the lost momentum from last year. But at the same time it wouldn’t surprise me if they end up with the second best 09 team in the region when all is said and done.
apparently they are having u16 players come to the u14 (will be u15 kids) skates so then it looks like more kids are showing up. mostly aa players at the esmark skates so far
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On 3/15/2024 at 10:05 PM, HockeyFan6687 said:
Allegheny just posted its coaches. No 08 or 09 just a 16uAA National Bound team.
Surprised to see the 2010 listed being that there was mass exodus from there Last year.Interesting and no info on website if it will be PAHL, Independent, AHF, etc.
No mention of what tournaments or leagues.
Really confusing and heard from a dad on 09s the team wasn’t even informed of the changes and were blindsided.
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On 3/16/2024 at 9:07 AM, aaaahockey said:
Hard question because it also depends on if any other 08s show up that would knock them out of spots. Maybe this is where the Esmark team gets their 09s
But esmark tryouts are before allegheny
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1 hour ago, Carl Racki said:
It's funny, you are mostly spot on in my opinion. I also thought it was a shame the Preds and SHAHA wouldn't combine and make a legit top team IF WELL COACHED. I can't believe guys would drive across town again to pay a ton of money to play for the 2009 Esmark team. I thought the reason everyone left was they finally figured out that the 2009 Esmark team was no better than SHAHA , PREDS,..... and why the hell are we driving/paying all this money? My guess is it will just be a long drive and a lor of money for a similar team. Makes no sense.
And doesn’t Esmark do 2-3 tournaments that require air travel? minnesota/texas?
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6 hours ago, JohanHedberg1 said:
This won't stick, foxes 09's (division 3) beat yetis (division 1) 6-1 in a scrimmage this weekend.
Is this Yetis team 2 09?
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Is there a good AA group of kids in Johnstown now for 14u?
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sad because the viper stars 09s won the 14uaa minor and then had to fold and the huskies doesn’t even have a 14u team. Looks like just 16u, 13u, and 12u
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2 hours ago, Godzilla said:
Can someone explain how PAHL does the rankings at the beginning of the season? For instance there was a club that was advertising a AA team at a certain level. The year prior they weren't AA. Does PAHL take a look at the roster for the current year and then place them accordingly? I just want to get a better understanding of the process.
Thanks in advance!
I thought there was a formula for where each kid played previously (AA. a Major, A minor with points for each) and then added together and an average number?
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29 minutes ago, YardSale said:
Are they still AAA players if they got cut?
well the ones from Esmark weren’t cut, their team folded. I think one from Shaha at rebellion left and didn’t even try out
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21 minutes ago, JohanHedberg1 said:
Looks like that’s what they posted, dont know if the 2nd team players actually accepted or went elsewhere. Their top team looks solid with a couple AAA add ons. Same with Allegheny.
did north pittsburgh or rebellion get any aaa players? Or does it seem to be Icemen and Allegheny looking the strongest
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So are all 09 AAA and AA teams done with tryouts? Is it true icemen is having two AA teams?
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11 minutes ago, Hattrick Swayze said:
Yes, they did. Unfortunately for a lot of the kids they did it late enough that they couldn't try out Tier 1 anymore. Tier 2 will be very good in Western Pa this year. I also heard they are not refunding any of their tryout fee's even though they folded the team. Not a great look on their part!
also heard Friday that they deposited the commitment fee checks from parents for the 09s even though team folded.
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12 minutes ago, hockeyisgreat said:
Not the first time they did this. They folded a 15U team of 06's a few years back after tryouts. I'd sure like to hear their rationale for folding a team.
Aren't they supposed to be the good coaches who can coach kids up? Or maybe they couldn't get enough European players to backfill the roster! I guess they have an image to maintain.
they folded a 2004 team years ago too
apparently the coach of esmark already is planning to coach a team somewhere else
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17 minutes ago, RJUSHL said:
I guess we'll see after this week. They'll lose a few players but enough are staying and they are so deep that I still think they'll be better than Preds and SHAHA by a fairly large margin. They should pickup some AA kids that legitimately should've been playing AAA for the past few years. I don't think they are going to fall 40 or so spots in the rankings and be where Esmark, Preds, and SHAHA were last year. Just don't see that happening.
Tonight there are preds goalie ttryouts, Esmark supplemental, and vengeance tryouts all at once
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What’s up with the 14u esmark team only naming 12 players to the team?
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Sounds like what Viper Stars was supposed to be
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On 10/18/2022 at 8:53 AM, Corsi said:
Back to the BB/AHF discussion. Those teams will still be able to do their PAHL schedule, and just schedule around the AHF "Showcase Weekends", which will at least now take place locally. While it might cost more money in fees, it might not be a bad way for some of these teams to not have to travel to Buffalo/Detroit/Cleveland to get games with out of town teams. I'm going to assume that the savings in travel/hotels/food should be able to balance out the additional fees associated with the AHF. My only caveat with that would be that they need to do it like some of the tournaments currently do and when building the schedule, they work to keep teams from the same city from playing each other since there is a chance that they will see them during other parts of the year at some point.
Mad Men Hockey has done a nice job this fall doing the AAA showcase weekends in Ohio. Maybe they could bring that there?
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11 minutes ago, RJUSHL said:
Carl didn't you previously say that it will be interesting when the rankings come out? All people are doing here is getting an initial gauge. Most of these teams have 5-10 games in so there is already some good data. But yes, the rankings will get more accurate over the course of the season.
The interesting thing to me is how often Preds and SHAHA teams are ranked higher than Esmark. I'm not saying anything bad about Esmark, but I think this just shows that the talent/depth in the south hills is way stronger than anywhere else in the city. A tier 1 organization in the south would do ridiculously well.
Half of the Pens, Esmark, and Vengeance teams are south hills kids driving crazy distances. And then there is still enough talent left in the south hills to field Preds and SHAHA teams that rank higher than Esmark.
It looks like every aaa team Shaha has is ranked significantly higher than esmark
What will happen to the good 2009 AA PAHL teams?
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uLooks like 5th. Lost in quarterfinals at playoffs 2-4