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Can you put it in context? Who did they play?

Too early to ask that. Most rinks run clinics in the spring and some over the summer. His last year of peewee, about Feb look into that. In the meantime, just see that his coaches are developing confidence with appropriate contact.

Totally. USA Hockey training is fabulous at making hockey boring. Add in teenagers with short attention spans and it is a recipe for disaster. They need a mentoring system for new refs. They learn more by doing.

Nope

Also explained that they have to because they don't want legislatures or doctors taking all contact out like you are seeing in youth tackle football. Now you need the refs to call it consistently...did not happen much at all last year. Lots and lots of checks away from the puck, late hits (some very late) and checks with zero attempt to make a play for the puck. Last season felt like the wild west, I am guessing because of COVID and all organizations being told not to complain about reffing. Year before that I saw the refs making an effort to call those things.

It was explained to me as an update to language only. Body contact and checking were being used interchangeably. So now body contact is competitive contact. Competitive contact should happen at all levels, checking at 14u up.

It happens. Not available for the one in their district, perhaps.

Dude, I am vaxxed. I am tired of people being crappy to each other, however, and wishing death on someone falls into that category. Tired of it all.

Welcome! Turned out not to mean too much as it did not seem to be applied very often.

You exclude the children under 12 who aren't allowed to get vaxxed from that sentiment I hope?

What happened at the MidAm camp?

Oh my god. ? Regardless, it doesn't mean anything at this stage in the game.

One last time...PAHL did not send data because there is none to send. Placement games haven't happened, the PAHL placement committee has not met. People are guessing or other people are reporting it. For instance, I am not aware that the Pittsburgh Vipers are fielding a 16u AA team this year yet they are in there. You sound like a new squirt parent, squirts get placed later than all the other ages, too. You can relax, nothing has happened yet.

No. There are more teams listed for 16uAA than played last year, for instance. I doubt PAHL sent any thing, divisions haven't been set. My guess is self reporting or people looking at organization websites.

Dad is an excellent skater and skills coach. I am glad for Ty, but we all know how hard it is to make it when you aren't big. I thought the NHL was trending towards skill and speed for a while, but not the last two seasons. I would prefer that game over 'grit' and 'goons' as defined by the Canadians...

What commentators have said is true about AA. But goalies are always worth placing somewhere. Try North Pittsburgh Director of Hockey Ops and RMU Foxes. Similar in size to Renegades so may be able to help. Also....go with school district over hockey for location of your home. There are a lot of rinks around here.

Not to say that parking couldn't be added later. Johnstown's rink doesn't have much parking, either.

The link to the presentation indicates other uses in addition to it. It doesn't have much seating for an audience, so maybe not much parking is anticipated. I think it is a very exciting development.

They announced the roster the Friday before the MidAm tryout.

Why was it changed from this to begin with? Does anyone know if anyone compared stats of injuries from before pushing checking to older ages to after? Because quite frankly, all of our observations from individual experience really doesn't mean anything, it's all just conjecture.

Sometimes by 'not being properly placed' the child works more where they do land. My kid was put on a waiting list one season and never had a crappy try out after that again. Once was enough, that lesson was learned. It's not always a bad thing to be cut or whatever. Sometimes you do a child more harm than good by not letting them figure out how to come back from a 'fail'. Some of them need that kick in the pants. And if you are a bubble player, those are always harder to place. Anyway, sounds like it worked out for him in the long run.

That's my point. Don't do AAA at those ages.

, some AAA talent is hiding in the South Hills, especially in the younger (2011, 2010, 2009, 2008) birth years I don't think we should be overly worried about young birth years. Technically there is no AAA at those levels. Just get good coaching and privates, then worry about AAA at bantams. That's the way it used to be.

Sigh. Most likely just adds to the alphabet soup. Do people really think AAA talent is hiding in the South Hills because of an willingness to travel north that is not already playing as high as they could? But not surprising, Blackbear has their AAA options....

That is true. They dominated their division but would have struggled a bit at AA. That is a good little team. I heard they are playing independent this year. Anyone know if they are trying AAA? I hope not. But how many times have we seen the BY team of rising players have an abysmal season playing up in AA? Probably because lower skilled players are playing on the team who aren't AAA Then you risk losing those kids the next season. I've definitely seen that. Again, because PAHL is not set up for BY and again, not having the numbers and the smaller rural areas who can't field that kind of team. I don't know what the solution is. It's hard for organizations to navigate it and I still think it hurts this area's development. I don't think a push for more travel and more expense grows the game overall. But parents want it. Maybe regional AA BY teams that play a shortened season in PAHL against each other? East, west etc, they play each other twice and add teams from other areas/states. Where you live dictates which team you try out for. Name good coaches for each. Give that 'AAA' travel experience and other perks. Rural players can travel in to play if they make a team, so those kids get a chance to play on a true AA team and go to Nationals. MidAm remains the same, any team who wants can enter so if there is a ton of talent, those other kids can compete nationally. Add more teams if there is enough by talent to play. Would that entice back the faux AAA players? We may see that model anyway if Blackbear has its way. All they need is a rink that lets them access players in the north. They sure did their best to pick up RMU.