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Drop kicking to January will be a debacle. Yolo. 

Just now, Jack Handey said:

How is it that state mandates apply to Baierl and Mt Lebo but not Alpha or Ice Castle?  Apparently some rinks have seceded from the commonwealth.

I wish it was that simple. Gotta feel for Morgantown, Wheeling and Youngstown. 

5 minutes ago, sarampage said:

I've been to Baierl many times over the last few months.  NP has been following the Baierl guidelines which is what the current state regulations are - 25 person max per sheet.

As a parent, I could care less if I get to attend a game.  I just want the kids to play normal hockey.

I’m the opposite but respect your viewpoint when it comes to watching them play. If that continues to be the case I really can’t justify playing. 
 

Sports are our family time and bonding time. It’ll be more baseball and something else to fill the void. 

Anything over 25 people on the ice or arena will be a pipe dream.  It’ll get reported and shut down ASAP. 

At this point I’m more concerned with being allowed to watch games than the style of hockey. I just enjoy watching my son play. It’s the highlight of my days. Rather watch him win or lose than any pro. 
 

Really not fond of driving 2-3 hours for the outlying pahl games just to sit in the parking lot. 

I’ll preface this by stating that if it becomes a limited roster game, it’s not my cup of tea...but...maybe this will give a paradigm shift from 4-5:1 game to practice ratio to something more reasonable. 

1 minute ago, beans said:

What's to stop teams from foregoing PAHL and going independent, scheduling games against others who choose to do the same? 

Nothing, other than they’ll probably have to do a lot of traveling to play full roster games. Problem is going to be finding rinks locally that’ll allow it. 

39 minutes ago, Quinlan2020 said:

“It’s a community event. It’s more than a sporting event. It’s more than football. It’s really where the communities come together. There’s a lot of pride — a lot of tradition,” says North Allegheny athletic director Bob Bozutto.

Uhh... You're making the case for those that do not want it to happen. We actually do not want people to come together. We want them to stay apart. Especially those from separate communities.

What he should have said:

High school sports are a very important to these kids. They provide life lessons and physical & mental well-being...yada...yada. We are also committed to providing a safe environment for these athletes and protecting the community against the spread of Covid-19. We are willing to work with county health officials to put the proper protocols in place to make this happen.

What case is there to making with the people who don’t want it to happen?  Their stance is pretty well set. 

7 hours ago, Quinlan2020 said:

I just don't understand the "This is good news" part. I say maybe it is but maybe it's not. To me... So many of these decisions are just a guess as far as the common citizen is concerned. Freedom is fantastic and I have always been so happy to live in a country that has more of it than any other country. I just feel that so many of us think that there is no way any government official should ever tell us what to do. In other words... Govern. Getting back to the subject of whether hockey will be postponed... I don't know if it will be & I don't know if it should be. It's hardly a black & white issue. It's complicated. I respect arguments on both sides, but I'm sick of the "better not take away any of my freedoms" stance. We have had many  a crisis where we had to give up things. We had wars where we made our young people not just give up their favorite activity... But forced them to fight and risk & give up their lives to save us all as a nation. I like hearing what people think will happen and hear input on possible solutions but can we just get past this hard-line freedom to take whatever risks we want stance?

There is never a reason to give up one’s freedoms.

1 hour ago, hockeyisgreat said:

Does any district fully fund the hockey program?  I'm not talking prep schools like Shady Side.

There’s a few.  I know of some that get $25-30k a year. 

21 minutes ago, hockeyisgreat said:

Wow I'm so confused. I can understand if a school or PIAA shut down all fall sports. It sounds like you folks are saying that they will shut down only hockey.  Doesn't make sense as at best the hockey program gets a small amount of money from the school.  Am I missing the ulterior motive?

Trust me, there are some districts and private schools that get more than a small amount of money from the schools. 

2 hours ago, carroll81 said:

No they don't understand the risks.  If they did, they wouldn't sue because they stuck a knife in the toaster and electrocuted themselves, or spilled their hot coffee on themselves in the McDonalds drive through, and the don't understand the difference between walking past someone with Covid in the grocery store vs. sitting near them in restaurant for an hour and a half.

If you think it’s too dangerous, don’t do it ??‍♂️ 

https://globalnews.ca/news/7281777/coronavirus-wuhan-water-park-china/

This is too cryptic

Hey at least there’s an opportunity for mid-state to save face if they shut down the season, after getting stomped by Allegheny 8-2 ish and 60-15 shots. 

Did anyone hear PAHL is axing the pre-season/placement games?  

Season isn’t going to happen. Just accept it or recall the Governor. 

6 hours ago, Danner27 said:

The Big 10 canceled football for the season - not even on hold, CANCELED! One of the biggest money making FPS conferences. 

Delaying til spring so they can be top dog on the ratings. 

2 hours ago, Danner27 said:

What about 18u & 16u kids ? ?

Instant death

13 hours ago, ctil20 said:

This is precisely why youth sports is at risk. 
 

Because there is a large segment of society who are not intelligent enough to “do the small stuff” (I.e. wear a mask, social distance, look like you are trying). 

Wherever you stand on the issue, your personal belief is your personal belief. However, you are a gigantic douche nozzle if you are a football coach, or any other coach, and you are not following protocol. 

This is equivalent to resisting the police. We all know the power trip some of those guys get on. So you play it cool and follow along, don’t escalate the situation with Officer Beatsmywife. Same premise. 

I digress, there are just too many low IQ delinquents out there to not draw attention to youth sports. They do not step back and think, if we stay out of the limelight and follow protocol... we could fair a lot better than running around the AstroTurf making out with each other every time someone catches the ball. 
 

Parents can’t help themselves. They see Joe and Mitch partying in the parking lot... we’ll we are going to be cool too. 
 

No way, these coaches need to be bad asses. And they’re going to show everyone how badass they are. Resisting the government, getting youth sports cancelled for the direction of this and by proxy turning our kids into a bunch of video game e-sports stars. 
 

 

48 minutes ago, PeterThePuck said:

August 24th will be the day when PIAA votes to decides  Wolf recommendation to move sports to first of the year.

With Wolf recommendation I can’t see how the School Boards allowing Fall sports there is  to much liability and High School Hockey will fall under this even though it’s PIHL.

 

 

 

Yeah you’re absolutely right. Even though school’s usually heisman their hockey teams, they’ll include them in something like this. 

I having a feeling this along with PSU’s stance on no fans for football will pretty much knock the State College market out of hockey this year.

Government owned/funded facilities like Kirk Nevin, Ebensburg, Beaver, Hess, Indiana, Johnstown etc immediately come into jeopardy (given the response given to uncooperative officials in Lebanon county). 
 

Just my guesses.  I’m a lot more pessimistic than optimistic right now. 

I hope I’m wrong but I just don’t see it happening start to finish for a variety of reasons. The least of which is that with the large portion of PAHL, PIHL and various tier teams coming from Allegheny county, I can definitely see them being on the chopping block for color code retrograding.  Even if that doesn’t happen and rinks remain open, it’s going to be an uphill battle.

....Im going to try to make this post as my theory as to why as possible, not what I want or support happening....
 

Second, I’m not sure either league (as an entity) will be very bold in their stances along with Mid-Am and USA Hockey.  We’re hours away from August, no further ahead than we were 6 months ago with these agencies. 
 

Third, although PIHL is club, many of the schools still have influence on their hockey teams and will either put rules into place that will outright ban competition if their district chooses to or make it extremely challenging to both comply with and compete. 
 

Further, it’s bound to happen where a team gets “decimated” by Covid/Corona/Chicom etc.  Real, Imagined, Cooked Numbers whatever.  There was an article on here earlier about a team. Once that happens.  I can really see a lot of knee jerk reactions happening. 
 

I think...the Tier I programs will probably be the safest to make it happen, between financial resources and the drive to get through it.  They might have to play an all road all the time schedule to do it. But they’re the mostly likely to imho.

Scholastic programs are probably the greatest at risk.  I guess we can only wait and see at this point. 

If we’re being honest here, there’s hardly enough to field a few legitimate tier II teams, and of those, some even can’t field teams at each level each year. 

I think when parents realize they’ll be making the 2-3 hour commute to the outer lying rinks to sit in parking lot and watch on livebarn if they’re lucky, they’ll be issues.