HereWithPopcorn

What is appalling is the lack of visibility from the league announcing there was an issue to the associations in a formalized manner. So far it has all still been rumor and hearsay of people finding out.

People have too much time on their hands

Do people realize that with the PAHL, it is mainly the associations themselves that help to drive things. While the Board may have some ideas, everything needs to be voted on. And as Associations bring forward ideas, those get voted on as well. What happens more times than not is that things get shot down because it is run like the Senate. Every Association has two votes, but all Associations are created equally. So an idea that may benefit larger organizations (Foxes, Allegheny, SHAHA, NP), gets shot down by the smaller ones (Wheeling, Indiana, Youngstown, etc). And vice versa. The PAHL is intended to be a facilitator of the league. So if anyone here does have ideas for change besides running for a Board position, have you Association President raise the idea at a meeting.

It was released last year on August 6th, so the team is definitely behind getting it out this season

Bingo. And what team does the son of the Rebellion's President play on? Oh yeah, Lebo. There is your smoking gun folks explaining the situation.

Lets also not overinflate the meaning of a state title because it really is meaningless in hockey. Its not like PIAA football or basketball where you play your league playoffs and then have a whole other series of playoffs to win the title and truly be declared the best. In hockey it is literally one game of east vs west.

This right here. They are driven by three players and that is it.

Each year associations that are going to lose their ice put in requests for PAHL to provide approval for early tryouts.

I don't mind as much when there are the obscure weekends that you can work around for amateurs, however Meadville having their tournament over MLK weekend is a crock as that is one of the main 2-3 amateur tournament weekends during the entire season.

Each season, the PAHL shares a budget that is approved by the associations which spells out all of the money coming in from advertising and player fees, and where the expenditures are paid out. There is a small threshold that PAHL can spend without an approval from the membership so there are definitely checks and balances there.

Actually, not very interesting at all. The higher skilled AA is focused on playing the game while the lower levels result in neanderthal type players running around with violent or lazy penalties because they can't keep up.

That has changed starting last season. It is now the top 8 teams in Tier 2 National Bound MyHockey rankings as of mid-February

Oh it was impactful. It destroyed the older 16U and 19U levels at PAHL as the Pens and Steel City started grabbing a bunch of players that didn't belong at those levels to fill out rosters. And since there isn't a strong base of girls continuing to play at that level, you get divisions with 3-4 teams or no division at all.

Hot take...Nobody cares

Its still technically Tier 3 junior hockey. They tried to go to Tier 2 and USA Hockey said no because of the NAHL, so they basically gave themselves the extra A to call themselves Tier 2 and be unsanctioned hockey.