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1 hour ago, Saucey said:

Usually that isn't by design in my experience. 07 is a low birth year and players are scarce, just like 05.

Good point. 

2 hours ago, Ihearthockey said:

Not to mention that it looks like they are under-rostered, if you look at the website.  4 D?  That's going to make it tough to win.  Unless you convert a forward.  But then you're still a player short with only 14 skaters.  

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. 

16 hours ago, Saucey said:

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.

 

 

 

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. 

14 hours ago, hockey57410 said:

Well said.  It is sad to realize that the core of those Cup teams will all be retired before the "redevelopment" is completed.

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.

47 minutes ago, aaaahockey said:

Most of the time these rules fade from play after a few months. 

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

6 hours ago, Ihearthockey said:

I've also watched a couple and, as expected, the checking rules aren't even close to being enforced.  Saw 3 kids engaged at the same time with 1 player.  Saw plenty of hitting well after the puck was gone.  SSDD.

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?

7 hours ago, nemesis8679 said:

Oh, I'm not saying the client's are paying 15 an hour. That'll still be 50 or more. But the perception of value will be there, and people will do it. I guarantee I can find some young guys that just aged out of AAA or ACHA that would take the job, too. 

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

On 8/12/2021 at 10:16 PM, carroll81 said:

It was put in to clarify what they tried to eliminate in the last go around.

Two guys battling in the corner, third guys comes in and checks the opponent off the puck - Penalty.

Two guys battling in the corner, third guys comes makes a play on the puck (can use body positioning)  - No Penalty.

 

They also clarified the body contact while two players are chasing the puck.  Just because there is contact prior to getting to the puck does not mean there is a penalty, even if one player ends up on the ice.  As long as it's a battle for position, no penalty.

Nothing here is really new since the previous rulebook, at least in terms of how they want it called.

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

On 8/13/2021 at 4:40 AM, nemesis8679 said:

I'm guessing here, but they might want to run their own skills sessions, with employees they can pay 15/hr to, instead of outside coaches making all the money. 

$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. 

On 7/21/2021 at 4:34 PM, powderfinger said:

If they had made their beautiful new basketball arena capable of being able to convert to hockey, attendance wouldn't be an issue. But, it is what it is, as they say.

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

1 hour ago, aaaahockey said:

Does this match the dreaded myhockeyrankings placements?

No

On 8/10/2021 at 6:39 PM, PUCKCOVID19 said:

it doesnt even attract the best kids, most of the best kids for west where at the chowder cup 

 

 

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

1 hour ago, GrumpyOldPucker said:

So they are finally making the changes in how to call checking that they should have made back in 2005.....  I applaud the body checking changes.

As always, enforcement will be the most challenging part.  

Id assume either general liability or covid. 

4 hours ago, Saucey said:

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.

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

17 hours ago, nemesis8679 said:

I would imagine county/municipality/school funded rinks will be strict, and for the rest it will be the wild west. 

Things are going to get worse as long as people refuse to be vaccinated. At this point, unless a doctor says someone shouldn't get it (which is why everyone else should), I have no sympathy for anyone who gets sick and/or dies. All they're doing is delaying recovery from this and ruining it for everyone else. 

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. 

45 minutes ago, Saucey said:

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

Week -8 Power Rankings

3 hours ago, forbin said:

Look at 12U and 10U. They are all different. Different birth years, different team numbers, etc. 

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. 

4 hours ago, RJUSHL said:

Does PAHL send data to MyHockeyRankings.com before they even start listing preseason placements on the PAHL website?

For example...

https://myhockeyrankings.com/league_info.php?l=9

Drilling down into some of the divisions, the data seems fairly accurate. For example several former PAHL teams that have decided to go independent this upcoming season not listed in any of the divisions. Other examples make me think this is fairly accurate info.

Maybe it's always been like this, but I haven't noticed it before. 

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?