nemesis8679

Those are great questions

Enforcing anti-trust laws in this country is sooooo 1940's.

Also the earlier you get on a good team, the easier it is to stay on it or get onto another one. Especially with money to spend.

OK, at least I'm not the only one that thinks it's a weird way of doing it. You'd think they could make more money having the final teams play each other to actually get one winner.

-if you're spending extra time and money outside of the team on anything, spend it on skating lessons with a good skating coach that does private and/or small groups. This will help your kid more than anything else. A kid who has 6 months to a year of skating lessons will stand out from most kids that have been playing years longer and have only done whatever skating came from team practices. Stick handling and shooting lessons are great, too. But I would at least do 3 skating lessons to 1 skills lesson. Skating is the whole thing. -find a good coach (this can be different for different kids) and good parents. If you find these, you'll find the good kids, too. Teammates that bring the least-skilled players up and don't put their teammates down. -stay away from teams that have coaches doing lessons on the side. -unless literally your kid has no other interests than being on the ice, (and if that's the case you should try to introduce other interests), take a break from hockey over the off-season. I don't mean not to step foot in a rink for four months, but your schedule shouldn't look like hockey season. It's a good time to get some skating lessons in once every week or two. Make sure they're doing other things, too. -remember it's supposed to be fun time for your kid. Make sure that's what it is. It's a big time and money commitment to not be enjoying it. If your kid thinks fun looks like 10 tryouts and picking the highest team they make every year and practices 5 nights a week between school and club, okay. If they think fun looks like playing on a B club team and not playing school, okay. Let them decide. -if you do this right, your child will come out of this around 17-18 years old with lifelong friends from other school districts they never would've met if not for this sport. You will, too, as a parent. They'll learn lessons about hard work, exercise and eating right, navigating different personalities, competition, winning and losing, and a long list of other things that will serve them well the rest of their lives.

How is it considered a national championship, when they have more than one champion in a division? Example 18u tier 2, has 3 divisions.

There's plenty of "AAA" players in PIHL that don't stand out from a lot of the AA and A players, though. But that's the western PA way.

Q&A with "NHL goalie"... aka, Carter Hart 😂😂

Justice was served.

Allegheny organization holding someone accountable? That's a laugh.

Oh OK. It's perfectly fine, then?

What a weird comment. Why would it be okay to use hateful or discriminatory language around friends? If someone calls somebody the n-word or a f@ggot or something like that, it's just, "Whoops. Sorry, I didn't mean it. Me and my friends talk like that and I just said it out of habit." ?

Being able to call the team AAA without having to play actual AAA teams?

I'm no math expert. But it seems to me that having the A divisions be so top heavy for a few teams would skew winning percentages for those "top" 3 or 4 teams each division has. And the bottom teams. If you had the top 4 or 5 teams from Gold in a division with the top 4 or 5 from Blue and the bottom teams doing the same, winning percentages would look very different for a lot of those teams. When the top teams play at least half of their games against teams they have no business playing, and the same for those lower teams, W% is not an accurate measure when differences in so many games are 4 goals or more. Come to think of it, no mention at all of goal differential being any consideration. A one or two goal game is way different of a win than a differential of 5 or 6. And a lot of those A teams win and lose with big differentials like that several times during the season. That right there tells you something is wrong. It would be very rare for a team go jump from AAA to A and vice versa. If they could do better with A, it would help AA as well and in turn, even AAA. As far as where there should be movement between those divisions, too because AA would be adding and subtracting teams. The disparity in AA and AAA isn't so egregious. I hope I said that in a way that makes sense.

And next season, somebody else's, probably.