BeaverFalls

Good point.

Could be by design to add players as they go along. Not necessarily a bad plan rather than locking in kids that shouldn’t be there, IF that is indeed the plan.

A good thing also to do is look up some of the basic off ice body contact/balance drills. That will go a long way to help as well if you can’t find a camp or clinic just to help them get used to getting bumped as well as getting used to using the proper stance, and parts of body to receive and initiate contact.

Maybe the redevelopment plan is to use the site for the successor to PPG Arena? At this rate the time frame works out ?

the terminology is awful. If the puck leaves a reasonable area around my body I’m no longer in possession. I can’t possess something I no longer have (see where the difficulty is going to be in explaining to the average Joe and kid?). I get what USA hockey is trying to do. I don’t necessarily agree with the way they are going about it. I mean nobody wants to see a kid get seriously injured that can’t defend themselves. But this all goes back to having interference, charging, boarding, head contact etc enforced to standard. Officiating is difficult enough as it is and the pool of available and willing officials gets smaller every to just keep redefining the rules etc to add to the confusion. Of course if you’ve ever been to any of the officiating seminars, the some of the guys running it are often the smartest in the room and make sure everyone knows it, and thrive of delving into minutia instead of focusing on the basics for these guys.

Celebrating 25 years of “this is the year we crack down on head contact.”

The whole checking rules are a mess. A player can be in possession and still not allowed to be checked. The hell does that mean. I’m not talking about incidental where it’s in their skates and they don’t have the puck. The verbage from USA Hockey is intentionally ambiguous and confusing. I think, maybe, I know what their intent is but it’s too vaguely worded for the average person and kid to understand.

Didn’t take long for national politics to take the stage. Can’t believe you people still think any of these politicians “feel your pain” or have your best interests in heart.

Nice work! I believe Cambria and Westmoreland joined PAHL similar to CP, Eastern and Butler?

Yeah sorry didn’t mean to implicate that’s what you meant…Oh I know on all accounts.

That’s always been a penalty. Just never called.

$15 an hour for skills session instructors. Lmao. Okay. Maybe when Brent gets off his shift flipping burgers he will come over and show your kid how to dangle. But idiots out there will do it.

Which leads us back into how this mess started where the bball boosters did NOT want hockey there.

No

Which definitely wasn’t the case in the early to mid 90s.

As always, enforcement will be the most challenging part.

Id assume either general liability or covid.

I agree. That’s a real pandemic rn. People treating each other like ?.

We can all pontificate about who, what or how everyone is to blame, but the reality for everyone involved regardless of political allegiance and vaccination status is we are heading towards another interrupted hockey season in the area and the smart prepare for that… unfortunately I see it becoming another reactionary event which doesn’t help local hockey.

Week -8 Power Rankings

i think they are using them as a placeholder. This years registered teams under last year’s placement.

The divisions I’m familiar with are the exact same as what they were last year; to include teams that played in an age group last year that aren’t even fielding a team in that age group this year.

this is last season’s placements.

Idk off hand anyone who has openings but here is the pahl contact link that may help you out: https://www.pahockey.com/associations

what part of the area?