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31 minutes ago, Spear and Magic Helmet said:

The Lauren Mountain League is mainly co-op teams who are interested in less travel. The level of play is a little under the B division.

Envision 16u B hockey and that’s being generous. 

I’m pretty sure he is from Belarus, which would be somewhat the opposite end of today’s spectrum than Ukraine. 

If co-op hockey could compete, there would be no such thing as the lmhl in Johnstown. There’s definitely some good individual players, but it’s nowhere near the caliber hockey as average and above programs in pihl. 

I’m going contrarian and saying there aren’t nearly enough AAA teams around.

If you have enough kids to field a BY team then have at it. The problem comes from when programs who don’t have nearly enough kids try to force it. And it rarely ever seems to work when that happens. 

12 hours ago, hockeyisgreat said:

Wow, so negative once again!  It's the best we have.  Move to Minnesota if you are not happy with what we have.  I see a lot of kids playing as hard as they can in this club sport and their championship means as much to them as the one that is won in Minnesota.

I’m not being negative. Just responding to the comment that “this is a serious game!” *cue slapshot forfeit victory*

Its totally fine for what we have in the area. People just try to make far too much out of it and turn it into win or die hockey. 

On 2/16/2022 at 3:57 PM, Jack Handey said:

yeah but it's kind of important for people especially those with upcoming 6th graders to know two things.

1. properly structured, MS & JV are prep for varsity.

2. PIHL hockey is not house/rec hockey and winning starts to matter.  

PIHL is the definition of rec hockey. It’s a club sport league that is not acknowledged by their host schools with co-op teams and made up classifications. This isn’t Minnesota.  
 

I have no idea what the OP means by “running lines”.

One game playoffs are a coin flip. 

You can thank usa hockey making small area games the only answer - not just a part of the equation. Majority of these kids aren’t getting any system knowledge all the way through their playing days. 

I can’t believe we are having this discussion about JV hockey.  It’s truly meaningless. 

12 hours ago, hockeyisgreat said:

Of course racism is just plain wrong in any setting. But I 'm not sure of what you are saying about your friends list! What does that mean.  I'm glad you posted it just to show that there are still ignorant people in the world that are teaching their children to be racist.  Maybe in your son's children's lifetimes there will be no racism. We can only hope and pray.

Sorry for lack of fidelity. I was sharing someone else’s post from FB. Not my team nor organization. Just the current state of affairs in hockey in 2022. 

To be clear this isn’t my son nor team nor organization. Just showing the sad state of affairs in youth sports right now. 

On 11/26/2021 at 12:27 AM, Carl Racki said:

The problem is PAHL teams get tired of playing the teams in AA that don't belong.  If all the wanna be AAA and independent teams just played AA PAHL and you lose the bottom couple teams PAHL would be a lot more competitive.  

Unfortunately aforementioned teams exist purely to not intermingle with unwashed masses in AA. 

Being that it’s club hockey (albeit extremely competitive teams) I don’t see the need to force playing juniors of some level.  The ultimate goal here is to find a place that offers the education you need/want.

If you were trying to go NCAA and possibly beyond, then I’d consider a legitimate junior program.  Consider…

A massive Ferris wheel would do wonders. 

10 hours ago, hockeyisgreat said:

Anyone have a positive experience with playing Juniors then going to college?  Is 2 years of juniors what most kids play?  Thanks for any info.

What level/league of juniors? 

Not the first person I’ve heard that the next sanctioned sport will be e-“sports”….it’s been discussed by AD’s…but maybe world of chel will be part of it. 
 

Hockey town is a relative term. 

4 hours ago, aaaahockey said:

Meaning Pens right? Seriously this brings us back to the circle arguments about what is "real" AAA

Idk these programs well enough honestly to say what is real and what isn’t. But legit programs tend to have a history of having kids move on the better programs along with are actively scouted by them. 

Most of these local club teams would actually welcome you being proactive and letting them know you’re interested in playing at that level. There is no recruiting team or budget for them; so if you have a little bit of a playing resume you’ll be welcome. Some of them invite potential freshmen to skate with the team for a practice. 

Things are a little different the NCAA route. You should have a pretty good idea by 15U whether your anywhere near the radar for those programs without paying for “placement” services. (eg already playing legit AAA and being top 1/2 to 1/3 of that lineup as well as developing to at least be able to go tier II junior).  
 

Parents who raise turds also are a large problem in all of this and bear the brunt of the responsibility. 

After 30-50 years a lot of these schools still heisman their hockey programs and act like they don’t exist or are parasites for their other school teams. 
 

Makes you wonder if it would be any different if the sport was sanctioned. 

Unfortunately for many schools, HS hockey has turned into the modern day in-house. The prevalence of AAA and AA programs in the area is correlated to that. I’m not getting into the legitimacy of those AAA/AA teams, but you can’t play a 40-80 game schedule with 2-3 practices a week and then turn around and take seriously another 20 HS games.  It’s overload and why a lot of players either don’t bother playing HS or treat it like in-house. 
 

Problem is because there are so few officials available they take and use anyone. Not the best and brightest. Not saying that’s the case for all of them by far but there so few out there that crews are doing HS games that 30 years ago would’ve been doing peewee games at best. 

20 hours ago, Rock Hard-Pride said:

Mars coach, Steve Meyers (Sutton), was a Slippery Rock Alumni from 2003-2006. Wasn't it YOUR class that started the hazing tradition at SRU 15-18 years ago?! I like how you deleted ALL of your posts on this thread LOL!

You FAILED protecting this young lady as a COACH! As you probably did 15-18 years ago as a SRU player. Take a good look in the mirror, the blame and guild lies with YOU, Sutton, you were there! Why didn't you do anything?! My friend, who will you blame when your team ends up 0-19 this season? Armstrong or PIHL? You got your name out there. Now it is time for you to RESIGN! You should be banned from hockey!

- SRU Rock Hard Pride

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