powderfinger

Were has anyone here said to open up “life as usual”? Nobody is suggesting to go back to normal with no safeguards. This level of lockdown doesn’t make sense in western PA. Let us open up more stuff and see what happens. If we see a severe uptick then lock it down again. Wear masks, try to keep away from close contact, use common sense.

When this whole business started, what were we told by Dr. Fauci and all the doctors?? Flatten the curve! And why do this? So our healthcare system doesn't get overrun. NOTHING, and I mean NOTHING in their initial comments about this said anything about reducing deaths. Even Gov. Cuomo in one of his first pressers gave a condescending talk about what flattening the curve meant with infantile pictures of a wave crashing into a hospital. When you flatten a curve, you don't reduce the number of instances, you just spread them over a longer period. Well, we've done what they asked and still they ask for more. Hospitals are not being overrun. Yes, some places are hit harder, but people aren't waiting in hallways to get put on vents. It's getting ridiculous and people are already starting to move about more. I know this virus isn't the flu, I get it can be serious, especially for people at risk. Some people will act like idiots when we open back up, but the vast majority will be careful, wear masks, social distance, etc, etc. The economic impact is obviously a disaster. But so too is the fact that people aren't able to get routine screening for problems they are having. My wife had her regular mammogram that had been scheduled for April moved until August. I'm sorry, that's 4 months she has to wait....what if something could have been caught now, does her life not matter too? And what, did people all of a sudden stop having heart attacks and strokes? Because everything you read says the numbers coming into the hospitals are way down. It's time to open things back up....cautiously!

I had the same thought, however, since every kid would be in the same boat, it should even out. What I think will make a bigger difference is that you will see which kids have used this time to work out and try to stay in shape vs. those that sat around playing video games the entire time.

I've always thought tryouts shouldn't be held until August anyway. I get the reasons why they aren't, but kids change so fast over just a couple months that it really does make more sense to have them later.

Delmont (center Ice) has a Livebarn feed.

No dog in this fight but this is not true, they have updated rosters for all teams for 2019-20.

I get parents are a huge problem. However, call me naive but, people claiming these coaches that got suspended for a year simply because a parent complained? Come on, I have to believe that these matters are taken seriously and that a suspension of that magnitude isn't going to be given out just because some parent doesn't like the fact their kid isn't getting playing time.

To be fair to the refs, they weren't exactly give a lot of time to learn about these new "guidelines". On top of that, if you watch USA Hockey's official video about said guidelines, you are often left scratching your head as the examples they show don't match the rule they are talking about. Unfortunately, it's going to be very inconsistent from game to game.

Been involved in four 16U scrimmages/placement games so far and I have to say the officiating has been quite good. Parents have been well behaved as well. It's pretty refreshing actually. A small sample I know, fingers crossed it will last.

Placements should come out this week. If teams want to appeal, they have this weekend to schedule additional games to provide proof in appeal process.

Yeah, they updated it long after the games were over. On Wednesday they didn’t even have results from all the pool games listed yet even though the playoffs were that night. They finally got around to updating it sometime late yesterday. The point is, maybe they should have promoted it a bit better.

All of this is absolutely true about youth hockey and statistics. Glossing over the fact that the original comment was that the PIHL can't even give some attention on their website, Twitter feed or Facebook, to a tournament that essentially is the kickoff to their season. How hard would it have been for them to update these things with current SCORES, forget individual stats?? BurghHockey.com was updating twitter in real-time....nobody from PIHL could do the same?

Just looked at old PointStreak site from 2017-18, there were 58 MS teams then.

I think this is what he's looking for... PRESEASON 1920 Groups_Game Slotting 12U_14U_16U_18U.xlsx

Because most of the board (since changed) didn’t have players in that birth year?

QV has never had a JV team. On their website they list a roster for MS so that leads one to wonder if they just went independent instead of being in PIHL. Looks like Hampton has no JV team this season which seems to make sense since they graduated a ton and had low MS numbers last year.

To be clear though, this 25% rule is not a USA Hockey rule, this is strictly Mid-Am doing this. Other districts do not implement this policy. We had families recently move in from other districts that couldn't believe there was such a rule because we were unable to take their 2007 because we had hit the limit....we will have a short bench because of this and next year, maybe no team at all in PIHL.

PAHL AA is beneath them but PIHL is not?? Seems like an odd conclusion for them to come to.

Didn't make huge improvements??? You couldn't even drink the water there before MF and DW bought the place. Complain about them all you want, but if those guys hadn't stepped in there would be one less rink in WPa today.

This is great, a development program is a great way to get the kids into the program. However, not all programs have the volunteers or the resources to do this and rely on the middle school program to be the developmental program. After all, that's what Mid-Am claims, that MS should be developmental and then proceeds to hamper programs that are trying to develop by limiting the number of younger players. I'm not exactly sure why Mid-Am has made this rule. Dropping it from 9 players to 25% of the total roster is a pretty dramatic change. Maybe this is their way of getting leagues like PIHL to drop the MS level and just have MS be truly developmental only?

I'm pretty sure it excludes goalies from that number but yeah, it's a terrible rule hurting a lot of programs.

Hey GoldenHorshoe, how about instead of spamming every thread with the same crap you read what the OP was asking for first. Can you not read that he is looking for a place less than 2 hours away??

The team is the 4th ranked '04 Tier 2 team in the country, outscored opponents 323-85 but they cheated all season? How'd they ever manage to win all those games away from the cheaters at the Mt. Lebo rink?

If parent doing the clock was a parent on the team playing in that game then that is wrong. Leads to parent being too invested in the game to remember to start the clock or worse, purposely not starting it. As I said, our organization would not even let parents do the clock/scoresheet if they had a player playing at that level (in other words, if you had a bantam age player, you couldn't do the clock for any bantam playoff game, you had to volunteer for a completely different age group).

Granted it's bad that the clock was not started right away but....there are 11.6 seconds on the clock at the start of this video and the goal was scored with 5 seconds left. Using a stopwatch, there are 5 seconds before the clock begins to run. So even if it had been started at the drop of the puck, there still would have been 1+ seconds left.