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And while I am complaining about the MidAm why can't they post schedules for the District tournaments? Is it a secret? They do NOTHING to promote the sport. I know the schedules are out already! Just try to find them! At least PAHL has schedules up for playoffs!

Makes sense if you have the right evaluators with no ties to the MidAm. Bring them in from other Districts! Make the kids all wear black or white helmets with no stickers. There is a fair way to do it and it's not what is going on right now!

HAHA, try to find some stats! Especially in the PAHL. Kids nominated by Coaches! Teams can make up whatever stats they want for independent team players! MidAm tryouts a total joke! Coaches kids nominated most often!

Get Reps from the National Camp to run it! Not allow any identifying equipment! All the way down to Gloves and Socks! But it will never happen! Politics in Youth Sports is everywhere! Hockey is no different!

OK, so who are the Crimson Hawks?

When you were officiating did you ever get an evaluation? Just curious?

Care to share where you found the info you were looking for?

I see PAHL is having a meeting on February 20th. They are going over rules for next year. Maybe this would be a good time to ask why they have no Player Stats! At least for 14U and above. They use the same platform as PIHL so I see no reason why they couldn't do the same! Once again the lack of recognition for players in PAHL is very sad! I see no excuse as to why it isn't being done already.

So when will the actual schedules be put on the website? Would be nice to do some advanced planning! Does any Mid Am Rep visit this site?

When will the schedules come out? What about host sites?

Does anyone know when the selections will be made public? Or will the MidAm make you wait and search to find the information. I believe they use MHR to determine who makes the field. Is there a cut off date or do they go up to 2 weeks before the Tournament? AA MidAms are scheduled for March 7 to 10. Do we know where yet by age group?

You are asking PAHL to be forward thinking! I would be shocked if that happens!

Welcome to the board! I hope you are right! It's silly for these teams not to play each other! Could save a whole lot of travel costs. But I do understand that they don't want to chance getting beat by what they consider a lesser team. After all especially in the Faux AAA they are all fighting for the same $$$$ from the crazy parents!

I must be looking in the wrong places! We should start a thread for orgs to post their tryout info!

Oighir, welcome to the forum. You bring a lot of great points into the discussion. We need more new voices around here to share their experiences and opinions. Looks like the landscape of youth hockey around here will be changing greatly this year. So far the only tryouts I have seen are for the Huskies. I bet we see them all coming out within the next few weeks. Can't wait to see the official word from the Renegades and Vengeance.

River Monsters playing this weekend! 4-0 to start the season. Playing the Sun Praire Killer Bees. Anybody see any games so far? Were the home games well attended? At least the league got off the ground! Hopefully the guys playing are having fun!

Read the PAHL Pulse for January 18th 2024. It trys to explain their rationale for shutting off all access to the Stats. Very sad that they don't have their act together enough and are blaming the individual teams for this mess! I guess they can't even get the standings correct because of Fair Play Points! Black Bear is looking better and better!

And that is why their Hockey should always be better than ours!

Does anybody here know how many kids NA has tryout for the Varsity team? Do they have the most Players tryout? 165 kids would be good for 8 teams! Wow, that seems a little hard to believe! I wonder how many kids tryout for Edinas Football team!

Might want to look at it before they shut it down also! Haha

Rewster, you can see the goalie leader and goals leader for a team by clicking on the game time in the schedule. Better than nothing I guess. I tried for 18UAA and 14UAA and got that info.

Rewster, great job! According to some on here Western Pa hockey is awful! The PAHL's lack of promotion does nothing to change that image. They need to use the tools they already have to promote the league particularly at the U18AA and U16AA levels. I have to believe that officers within the organizations in PAHL look at this website. Would sure be nice to get this on their meeting agenda. Open up the stats and recognize your top players PAHL. Quit sticking your head in the sand and trying to please everyone! If PAHL did more for 18U and 16U AA players maybe you wouldn't see so many Faux AAA teams! Just a thought!

They can look at the game sheets after the games now! Assists and shots are a whole different story. The scorer can only write down what the ref tells them and shots are never accurate. Being afraid of hurting Chad and Karens feelings is not a good reason to shut off the stats. Don't even get me started about participation trophies! PIHL has it turned on for everyone! All the way down to Middle School! No good reason why PAHL can't and won't.

So far this year you can see the gamesheet data! They just don't have the Player Stats and Team stats sections turned on. I'm sure it is as simple as turning on the access! I think they are afraid of hurting peoples feelings! Maybe it's an all or none type thing! Who knows but the dinosaurs need to wake up before they become extinct!

PAHL Meeting on January 16th would be a good time to bring the issue of Stats up. If enough Associations question them maybe we can find out why they choose not to let the public have access. Or maybe someone from the PAHL board who sees this message board could respond to why the PAHL chooses not to show individual and team stats.