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I think a lot of families use a tryout this way. It isn't always easy to keep their feet moving before the program that they want tries out.

Can we get back to talking about hockey conspiracies? There are lots of other venues to discuss mask and pandemic conspiracies. This thread was for discussion about tryouts.

That maybe explains why I saw kids in Michigan team gear coming out of Lemiuex last night. Is anyone hearing anything from Mid Am on playing guidelines?

We were pretty lucky around here. Hope it stays that way.

Hockey tournaments will be quite the crap shoot as well. Hockey time still hasn't fully refunded ones they cancelled.

I didn't personally go after anyone with my comment, jagoff. What is the matter with you? Oh no, I offered a different viewpoint. You are a bully, nothing more, nothing less. You do ok for a while then revert to infantile behavior again.

Dude, get a life. I know who you are and I have no interest in your 'advice'. I post an innocuous comment and you are all over me. Pretty sure there are plenty of people in this area mocking you. If you moved, you have no connection to the sport here so pipe down and move on. Better yet, get a job as a Russian bot because that would fit you well. Dear lord, got nothing better to do but stir trouble.

The State College teams have low numbers. Their PW team barely had 12 players two years ago. I am guessing that they are struggling to form teams of like skill. When you have that situation, you see all kinds of formats tinkered with, none of which end up being good for all kids. That is not unusual in a smaller market. But this Board always assumed the worse. With PSU's hockey team having success, I would think that might change over the next few years. Hope to see growth there, because games at Pegula are so much fun for the visiting teams.

Most policies have clauses to deny coverage when engaged in illegal activity. So don't count on your own insurance, either.

Not only that, your private insurer may not cover you. So if a customer falls down on the mom and pop premises and breaks a bone, needs surgery, hope that mom and pop has ten to fifteen grand to cover the medical bills when the carrier refuses to extend coverage because the business wasn't supposed to be open..

I mean really. Old people die every day. We have plenty of beds and ventilators for all those old people. Let's get to playing hockey already!

That rink is so disgusting, they probably figure the kids already have immunity built up over the years of playing there. All kidding aside, if true, you would have to be nuts to go there. They can't handle being clean in normal circumstances, you're gonna trust them to sanitize during a pandemic? No thanks.

Yes, this.

Mid Am is supposed to issue something for all levels of hockey and try outs. I hope we get to a point where this will still matter soon. Every day you hear something where the amount of time gets longer. Now we are into summer, with school districts seeming to start to gear up for closing for the rest of the year. Maybe the next time I invite my kid out to skate with me and I warn him it might be the last for a while, he will listen and join me. Keep healthy, everyone,

Seriously. It isn't that hard to do.

Don't you guys have anything better to do? Danner27 and The King (think it is the same guy) love it when someone takes their bait. Just move on.

I think there are a lot of people who believe this it has been blown out of proportion. I pray it is.

We now have AA and AA squared. ? 'High level AA' team = marketing ploy to charge more. This AA squared team is so much better than playing in a PAHL AA because it is high performing! What? If they are similar in compete level to a AA PAHL team, guess what...you are not higher performing. Parents caught on to the faux AAA so now they are AA squared. Somewhere in between AA and AAA, I guess. Same old with a new label.

That last line exemplifies one of many reasons teams like the Icemen are ridiculed so much. The superior attitude exuded by the parents and kids, when they aren't doing anything better than playing AA hockey. But 'High performance' is the sales pitch to justify the higher price tag. And the ridicule my kid receives from them to stay in PAHL. Too many crazies in the stands turning their noses up at the plebes. On the other hand, maybe it is good to have a place for these folks to land so they AREN'T on my kid's team. The PAHL team that just handily beat one of those high performance AA teams to win the MidAm is a good example of what RegDunlop7 is talking about. I hate them because they water down PAHL and they are driving up the cost of playing hockey without any discernible benefit to development that is superior to a PAHL team that I've been able to see. As all the AA kids leave, PAHL play is more uneven, and I start having to think about going to keep the play level correct for my kid, and I hate it. But I don't want to travel every weekend or pay more than I already do. Or be at Ice Connection, which is still not a great rink. Good ice times? That's not the word I've heard about practice times on one sheet. Offering things parents want that you can't find in PAHL? Please.

Yetis are meant to play in PAHL, yes? PAHL does not support BY except at Bantam AA minor, which has its own problems as noted in other threads. What are these organizations selling parents currently to promote BY in a market that can't properly support BY at the moment, anyone know?

Agree wholeheartedly. There are a lot of teams with mixed BYs in AA minor because, again, this market can't adequately support BY with its numbers. Also makes no sense why only one division gets a minor age group while all other kids playing at the lower BY will play mixed BY. Only AA kids need to be protected, I guess. My opinion, there were other reasons for doing it. What they were, I don't know. And that 'AA' minor hockey BY is not as good as the A Major hockey mixed teams. You have a kid moving up to bantam who played AA the year before, I would want them to be on the A major team and not the AA minor. Makes it odd when you are trying to go to tournaments I bet. Guess where the tournament directors are going to want to put you....AA, where you are likely to play against AA major BY teams. It's just goofy to me. We've had two seasons of it now. Anyone have a kid who played in it that thought it was good/bad and want to chime in?

Yes! I've been thinking that too, same person.

Agreed. And I find it ironic that many of the people who crap all over the AA kids with comments like this are the same ones trying to form AAA teams outside of Pens Elite, whose market and audience are AA kids for the most part. This is what they really think of your player, folks.

Tier II Renegades 14u won, no surprise there. Looked bored and like they weren't even trying as they toyed with the Icemen in that Championship game.

Yes, first year of checking. The thought was it is safer to introduce the concept in the younger year rather than having all the expert second year Bantams blowing the beginners up. We didn't play in it, so not sure how that worked out....but because some years and some programs can't put together an entire BY together, some of the teams still ended up mixed level. Kind of defeating the purpose a bit. Gonna get my first exposure to it this year I guess. Can't wait.