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7 minutes ago, Pa Hockey said:

I attended several Mars Games over  the past few years and the had a decent team that could not compete due to lack of goaltending. Mars would out play teams and get beat bad and the players would give up. Tough situation and frustrating for coaches and players and parents as well. Things have changed and its a better situation now 

This we can agree on.

1 hour ago, Pa Hockey said:

so I guess the whole Armstrong situation with the Lack of a decent Goaltender had nothing to do with it ?

Absolutely correct, nothing at all to do with why he left. Those situations were out of his control and everyone knew that. Not going to get in a pissing match with you, you don't know anything about the situation, clearly.

4 minutes ago, Pa Hockey said:

Two Pennsylvania State Titles and 4 Penguins Cups on his resume isn't bad either 

LMAO, you imply by your statement "graduated problems" that he left due to his players being the issue.  He resigned (wink, wink) with 1-2 games left last season and it had ZERO to do with their record over the past couple years. The level of people acting like experts on this forum when they know next to nothing it truly hilarious.

5 hours ago, Pa Hockey said:

...and they graduated some problems from prior years which led to Steve Meyers demise.  

my god, you literally have no f'in clue. He led to his own demise.

Seems he’s got a history…

3 hours ago, Happy Hockey Fan said:

To be honest I am afraid to even watch it. I know that the kids and PIHL and PAHL better show up with their neck guards. It really is such a simple piece of equipment to wear. 

I was the same way but there are videos that just show moment of impact and not result. Given the benefit of doubt on first impact but there is a second “pushing off” contact that is harder to explain as an accident IMO.

17 minutes ago, Ty Tassol said:

Ohhhhh yes so lucky, delusional Armstrong dad....you know what you didn't win?? Pens Cup OR States hahahaha!

The SF defense held your "vaunted offense" to zero goals peckerwood. Beat you the last two years to knock you out of the playoffs, yet you continue to spout your ass piss all over this forum about "owning" SF. Find a new angle douchebag. 

Easy on @PUCKCOVID19 Ty, he's just mad he won't be able to go to states and yell "suck my..." or "she's a wh..." at the Philly team along with the other classy fans from Armstrong.

2 hours ago, Happy Hockey Fan said:

There was a player for NA last night that PIHL shows only played 4 games during regular season. I saw NA 4 games during the regular season and this kid didn’t play in those games. My question is, did PIHL make a mistake and didn’t list all the games he played? Or are the rules different for AAA than they are in AA? 

They allow exceptions for injured players - maybe that was the reason he missed so many games - the team would have to fill out paperwork, doctors notes etc and get approval from the league 

3 hours ago, hockeyisgreat said:

Yes I noticed that the roster I was looking at was 19-20.  I wonder why they quit updating it?  It looked like a really good website.  I also couldn't find this years schedule but I didn't dig too much. Thanks again.  Looks like about a split in players from Juniors and straight out of High School. Interesting to see a couple of 25 year old College Hockey Players.  

Many of these programs have changed their online presence from websites to Twitter and/or Instragram. 

IUP is very active on Twitter ->   IUP Ice Hockey (@IUPIceHockey) / Twitter

IMO it's not so much that a kid coming from high school hasn't played AAA or juniors but that they are in fact competing with grown men. Many of the "freshmen" on these teams over 20 years old.  An 18 year old coming straight from HS still has a lot of physical development left to complete.

Watching Jeopardy and saw commercial for WPXI news at 11.....seems like there is going to be a story tonight.

17 minutes ago, sutton said:

The Mars coaches were going at the officials all game for a variety of reasons, including a student dressed as a ref blowing a whistle during play.  In this scenario and everything that happened documented on this thread, If you think any blame lies there, you need your head checked.

Not blaming the coaches at all. But at some point, you realize no one in "authority" at that rink was doing anything they should have taken it themselves to leave the ice. Imagine the impact that would have made.

Mars coaches should have pulled their team from the ice. Make a statement right then and there instead of letting her get more verbal abuse.

13 hours ago, aaaahockey said:

Anyone ever solve what happened to the blog/news?

They were just at the IUP game Friday...

http://burghhockey.com/chma-returns-iup-defeats-temple-5-3/

2 hours ago, aaaahockey said:

I think it's really hard to find time to go to these games with older kids.  The travel/game/practice schedules suck every second out of our lives during hockey season (true of the Pens too but they are drawing from a much larger probably more casual fan base). Not sure what RMU could do about it - try to feature local clubs with discounted tickets or something?   

If they had made their beautiful new basketball arena capable of being able to convert to hockey, attendance wouldn't be an issue. But, it is what it is, as they say.

32 minutes ago, sarampage said:

If there's one thing I've learned over many years about PAHL, BY teams are a bad idea.  More trouble than they're worth.  With regards to the Icemen, I think only two 06 players are from NP's 14U team.  Not sure where the others went.  NP also had their 16U tryouts in late May which I think was too late.

Many of the 06's from last years 14U AA team made the top team at NP - the others were on the 06BY team along with other 06's that probably played major black last year (or lower). A bunch of those went to Icemen...look at their roster, lots of players never played AA before.

Icemen happened....at 16u, NP created a 06 BY team out of tryouts...but most of those kids left to chase the extra "A".  So NP had to rearrange all the teams, after they'd already been announced. Lots of other kids declined at that point. Total CF.

Does this include their club (ACHA) teams also?

They are back up. Sometimes some rinks are locked but if it's offline, blame LiveBarn not Alpha.

LiveBarn is a piece of sh** and their customer service is so bad. They don't care, they have the only option available and have you by the balls.

4 minutes ago, Wes said:

The PAHL has just sent an email requiring all players to wear face diapers inside their helmets.  I would like to see the State of PA and/or the PAHL show me a study where 1 single player has caught COVID while playing on the ice in a 38 degree building.

what a crock.

This is the problem. We were told this time would be different. Targeted mitigation based on tracking data right??? No evidence of transmissions via sports yet here we are.

Sadly I think you are right @Lifelongbender - these mask mandates aren't enforceable and they even said they won't be able to enforce them in people's homes and enforce that visitors are getting tested. So when cases continue to rise, especially after the holiday they can shut everything down and blame it on "us" because we didn't listen.

I know there have been some complaints from Baierl about spectators hanging around the lobby after games. For the most part, the masks and social distancing aren't an issue it's that loitering around waiting for their kid....just go outside, I don't understand how hard that is for people!

Since NY added Ohio to the list of states that require their residents to quarantine upon return that pretty much screws them from going there. PA isn't on that list yet which is why you see some NY teams coming here. 

1 hour ago, Jack Handey said:

I don't want to see anyone fail but it seems we already have a local 12u league.  Why not just play in the existing league?

What other U12 SCHOOL league is there cause I don't know of one?  It ain't PIHL, that's U14 hence the 25% rule that is killing a lot of clubs.

U14 started, U12 starting next week.

Unfortunately this is how it's gonna be now. The doomsayers that can't wait to shout out .... "[Insert team name] has been shutdown!" Just go away. Hide in your basement until the vaccine is ready.

And if anyone listened to the PIHL call last night, they have plans to rearrange schedules as need be to work around teams being unable to play.