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  1. This is obviously not a real person, but someone trying to stir the pot. What a way to live your life, creating fake scenarios on a message board to see the reactions. GAL!
  2. Just to reiterate, the other goalie was 6-0 playing against the bottom 3 teams and 1-3 in his other four starts. He had an .835 save percentage and gave up 9 goals in his two starts vs Wheeling Park, or about 30% of the goals they scored in 20 games. Without the out of town goalie, they don’t sniff the playoffs.
  3. If this kind of athlete addition were attempted within the WPIAL or PIAA, not only WOULD it be an issue, but there would be a highly publicized hearing. They literally have it on record for everyone to see, with published documents showing which students have transferred and who has been approved or denied, and it’s also covered widely by local media. Google “WPIAL eligibility hearing” and that will be abundantly clear. The PIHL is so behind in this regard. Why is the PIHL like this? Hopefully, whoever gets that Commissioner job will overhaul the system, including the placement into the different classes. The PIHL classifications were created at a time with much lower participation in hockey. Now, schools like QV (14 total skaters in grades 9-12) and Greensburg Salem (16 skaters in grades 9-12) compete with 4A and 5A (WPIAL) schools. These bigger schools get rewarded for not developing a youth program. If they played in a classification with schools their size, they wouldn’t win half their games. That’s why Montour, with more than 30 high school players, should be in AA, along with most of the schools listed below. The PIHL system is antiquated. High school enrollment of Playoff teams remaining in what the PIHL considers “A”: McDowell: 2,194 Norwin: ~1,600 Fox Chapel: 1,317 North Hills: ~1,300 Shaler: ~1,200 Kiski: ~1,200 Greensburg Salem: 820 QV: 623 McDowell has 300 more kids in 9-12 than QV has in K-12.
  4. Not sure how this situation benefited QV. They did beat Indiana, but if they had been the fifth seed, they would’ve played Kiski, who Indiana just beat last week. And now Quaker Valley has to go on the road and play Fox Chapel, rather than play North Hills on the ice surface where Quaker Valley practices twice a week.
  5. 28,000 views of this thread? The moderator should start running ads on here!
  6. With 8 seniors and 5 juniors and a AAA goalie, for sure would have been placed in AA.
  7. THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT DETAIL THAT NO ONE SEEMS TO BE TAKING INTO ACCOUNT. PLEASE READ… This is 100% true. Each team must submit a NEW roster before the start of playoffs. If he was mistakenly allowed to play throughout the season, that paperwork (approved by the PIHL) cannot be challenged or changed. BUT after the regular season ends, the roster has to be signed off again by the league for the playoffs. This is why the argument “Avonworth held this in their back pocket” is somewhat misleading. Maybe they knew about it but couldn’t do anything until/unless they saw that Montour was trying to include him in playoff roster (signed off by each school’s AD or Principal). By the way, that roster does not contain any place to list addresses of the players. It simply has the names, grade level, and school of each player and a spot for a signature “Playoff Roster Sign Off”. Many many times in high school sports have there been teams ruled ineligible for playoffs for using an ineligible player throughout a regular season.
  8. Case dismissed at first glance from a judge. “Hi egg, my name is face. Nice to meet…”. SPLAT!
  9. Escaping Ukraine and Russia billeting is a little different than coming from Ohio.
  10. None of the above scenarios are deemed to be cheating and therefore reported to the league officials. Duh.
  11. Not at all. If it was a common thing, naming just 1 similar situation, approved by PIHL, would be easy. 16 teams made playoffs in A alone. You”d think if it was anything other than a total anomaly, it would be easy to find just 1 other similar situation. But that’s the thing. It isn’t.
  12. Yes, from Europe, and as a result had to move up from A to AA Maybe Montour should have moved up to AAA instead of down to A
  13. Most housing developments in Ohio Township have underground electrical systems and aesthetically pleasing lanterns
  14. Name one other kid in PIHL who is billeting with a family and playing on the high school team. You can’t, because there aren’t any, because it is against the rules. The rules that every org knows all about both in writing and in Team Manager meetings. If this was not a rule, it is true that not many high school teams would recruit kids to billet, although some would, but it also true that this scenario would inevitably take place just as it has unfolded in this case, where the Travel Team teammate (or their parents, talking to one another at AAA practice) suggest it: “hey, you should play on our high school team”. Reply: “doesn’t your high school team have a goalie”. “Yes, but he sucks”. “Oh, there aren’t any rules against that?” “not sure, but we can check and find out” both parties (Montour and those who turned them in) can be deemed to have acted “shady” or “not nice”, but only Montour BROKE THE RULES
  15. About QV: it is totally legal within PA to pay tuition to attend any public or private school. Fact. Like, most of the North Catholic roster!
  16. Sad thing is, if you watched Montour: played as a team moved the puck pretty clean, not too many cheap penalties balanced: 11 players with at least 5 goals, 10 with at least 10 points Also, 8 seniors who have to end their high school careers this way bc adults knowingly tried to deceive the league. Sad, but a good lesson.
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