nemesis8679

What was the average number of seasons played there, and what ages?

I agree with all of that. And to be honest once you account for necessities like gas, hotel, food, miles on the vehicle, etc. not to mention extras like lessons on the side, tournament fees, higher price equipment, etc.- I know for a fact another 18u AAA team that would be over 30K and some AA that would hover right around the 20K mark. There are good players and families that just can't do that or don't want to do that. And some of these organizations should have their nonprofit status looked at a bit more closely.

AAA is supposed to be the best, most talented roster's group of kids in an area. When the most (some would say "only") legitimate organization is fielding two so-called AAA teams at each birth year, it's incredible that people still think their kids are AAA players. Or is it AAA parents?

Well at least in the Pittsburgh area they still have a chance at "AAA".

We'll see what happens by 16u.

You mean 2 or 3 of them.

No surprise. They'll all learn that as you go farther and everybody else has talent and a lot of them have even more talent, attitude, personality, and working harder will be the difference. Slamming doors, mouthing off to teammates, and hotdogging will stop you before you even get started.

Disagree. Maybe the bottom half of A, where teams are lucky to field a team. But MHR, which is pretty close to accurate in most cases, doesn't show much evidence that they'd "destroy" most HS teams is laughable. Not in Western PA, anyway. And "destroy" is a big claim. The best local AA team would probably lose to every team in HS AAA, and most of HS AA. Though there'd be some close games.

Yeah, well Frisco, Tx probably wasn’t the place to play to get an audience. And it’s not really a team that’s going to have a big following to a mainstream audience, it’s just not set up for that. Texas isn’t an hotbed for hockey, and the fans there are, are following the Stars right now in the playoffs. And the other teams certainly aren’t going to draw people to attend. Probably would have more interest in the north.

If you get on a team young enough or don’t mind jumping from team to team every year, it’s not hard to be on a AA or AAA team around here. So I don’t take much stock in that. Of course some school districts also have more families with income allowing expense of playing for those teams isn’t as much of an issue. They do have a noticeably good AAA goalie but I wouldn’t say anybody else on that team stands out as elite players. Not knocking anybody, they have a solid team. But those top few teams played no teams of note other than each other.

The past few years I didn't find QV to be insanely talented as much as well-disciplined, playing a team game, and not taking stupid penalties. The A divisions, both of them, had 3 or 4 good teams, a few completive teams, and a bunch of not-so-good teams. Made the top few teams look better than they were. If the top 4-5 teams in each division were in the same division and the bottom teams were in the same division, that would've made for much better divisions.

I'd love to hear more details on the attack, too. Heard it from.four different people. I wasn't there. That's all I know. 🤷‍♂️

I heard NP closed registrations. Maybe not for 18u?

I have heard of a few coaches getting canned. Quaker Valley and Shaler being two of them, which I was surprised to hear. I heard of a few others but not sure on the accuracy. Should be some opportunities out there this season for some coaches to step into places.

What team was that?