Bob Loblaw

Rollerblades in the driveway

Anyone know the outcome of the Varsity A, Sewickley Academy/Wheeling Catholic game that was this past Tuesday?

Sometimes games aren't being reported right away on the Pahl and Pihl sites. Please keep this on track and just answer with the score and maybe a brief summary if you happen to know.

There are as many opportunities to prepare as your time and wallet allow.

Because the player amassed two penalties at the same time. You just can't say, "yeah we will play shorthanded until the penalty expires". A player has to physically be in the box. When the 10 minute or misconduct penalty kicks in you are back at 5 on 5.

My son's team played up there on Saturday. The ice was horrible. They still have a ways to go, but it's good to see they are working to improve it

The refs have been consistent in calling roughing on any checks where the hitter isn't going for the puck in the two scrimmages I have watched so far. They warned the boys about banging the boards, but didn't call it.

It has to do with the premise of first year peewees playing up to checking bantam. Since mid-am and USA Hockey don't recognize non-checking middle school hockey, it all falls under the same umbrella as checking hockey.

This is for this season. It was just featured in the Pittsburgh Hockey Digest. I think last time they went to Belarus.

It could be worse, they could be paying to travel to Tartarstan to play a Russian team like the Esmark U16.

Road paved, new bathrooms, new locker rooms, new ice surface, new boards, good food at the concession, water purifier, just basic improvements. It's a good thing that there is so much ice around, these high school teams have so many options.

It does include goalies unfortunately. Organizations now have kids who are able to play hockey in a developmental, nom-checking setting relegated to a practice squad, or even worse turned away because of their birth year.

The team is looking for a handful of 05/06 players to field a second team. At this point, the team, as well as a lot of other teams in pihl, are being handcuffed by the Mid-Am second year peewee rule. They can draw from anywhere, but generally draw from Catholic/private grade schools, and schools and organizations that are unable to field teams. If anyone is interested in playing, or knows anyone who might be, you can message me with questions, or contact NCTROJANHOCKEY@GMAIL.COM

Curious what you mean by "a program that's not building the right way"? The majority of the high school team started as middle school players four years ago when the program started back up. Curious what you consider "the right way"?

Maybe he is the 05 Renegade Coach from a few years back that masqueraded as a hockey mom.

Is it the same coach that screamed for his players to "take off their heads" when he coached for the Renegades 04 last season?

Pahl didn't do the refs any favors by implementing the fair play point. All that did was cause them to be scrutinized even more. Refs are indeed human, and do not have the luxury of video replay. Any wrong or questionable calls are put under the spotlight even more because they have the possibility of affecting a teams post season. It's a flawed system that passes the buck so the league doesn't have to be the bad guy and deal with the repeat offenders who actually are the problem.

Yeah, you don't even want to know what that JV team full of upper-classmen and Excel ringers did against the fifth placed team last night. Never mind that hard fought 1-0 win against the sixth place team the week before. #justbeatingeveryoneupasusual

12 underclassmen, 6 juniors and 4 seniors on the active roster. So what side if the fence you gonna ride today troll boy? Crying that there is talk about a possible varsity squad or crying that there is a JV team? Either way, a little troll like you will still whine. Show yourself to the door son, come back when you have some facts. K

I'm gonna set the record straight with you son, since you like to throw up links. FACT: The program is only three years old and never had a varsity team. Kind of hard to do at that stage when you don't have the upper-classmen to do it. You want to point out how Central is so much better, it's a lot easier when you have been around for a long time and you have an all boy enrollment that eclipses North Catholic. Next, let's talk about the middle school teams, since you know so much about them. Most people including pihl realize that middle school teams change from year to year especially with small schools. Here's another fact for you. Last year's team was compromised of all eighth graders except for 2. Of the 15 skater roster, 10 of those kids were from Catholic Schools. 1 was from a public school, but planned on, and did enroll at North as a freshman. 4 came from Knoch, who didn't have the numbers to field a team. Fact: when pihl placed the team, it had 11 skaters, hardly a juggernaut. The Knoch kids came after it became apparent they wouldn't have a team. With that being said, everybody was well aware we were in the wrong division, and we tried to change it but it was too late. Happens every year, teams get placed wrong. It's easy to do at that level. Fact: The coach was very adamant about not running the score up on other teams, something that couldn't be said about some other teams in that the tier that were placed low. Fact: the team went out of their way to play scrimmages and tournaments with upper tier teams because it was good for our players. Fact: the team opted up to high division 2 in the playoffs because it was the right thing to do.(and lost by the way) That brings us to this season. Obviously the middle school team had to regenerate after losing so many older players. But what I really want to address are your "mind numbing similarities". Do you actually look at the links you put up? If you did you would see that the JV division is super tight. Look at the gf/ga. Look at the scores of the games. How in the hell can you make the accusation that the JV team is beating everyone up? The FACTS state otherwise.

5 of those eighth graders from last year's middle school team are playing on the JV team this season.

Maybe you should come to a board meeting and give your input to help make it a better organization instead of being anonymous troll spouting off untruths on a message board.

I'm beginning to wonder if you can read. Isn't that what I said?

The Excel Program is between the Penguins and the school. North Catholic Ice Hockey is it's own separate entity, and a club sport, the same as any other high school hockey organization.

Well "Superstar" I'm not sure where you get your your information, but let me correct you on the "rumblings" that you are hearing. 1.The Middle School program is not going anywhere. Half of the current roster came up through the middle school program. Matter of fact, only 5 players on the current roster we're not with the team since it's inception. 2. Because we didn't want to cut any players, we have a scratch policy that moves up the line beginning with freshmen. To this date 2 players have been scratched for a game. So those "many parents upset that their kids are being sat out GAMES" isn't even possible 3. There are currently 2 Excel players on the pihl team. Both of these players had to appeal pihl to play. One is a goalie. Most of the Excel players either are not allowed to play school, or choose not to due to their high commitment teams. With that said, any Excel player that hasn't been in the school for a year has to sit out a year to even be eligible to play for the school 4. We will field as many teams as we can next season. The numbers will dictate that. 5. Before you start slandering somebody who gives up a whole lot of his time to make this a quality organization, you should get your facts straight.