nemesis8679

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.

Instead, they'll keep all those teams at A and make sure to put half in gold and half in blue to beat up on the bottom half of each division and move Shaler (finished 3rd out of 12teams last season) and Wheeling Park (finished 9th out of 12 teams last season) to AA.

"A" has two divisions. What I've seen the past 3 years is that if they took the top 4 or 5 teams from Blue and Gold and put them in one division and the bottom teams in the other, they'd have 2 competitive divisions at A level. But of course that's not what they do.

I wonder if that's the team that the former semipro owner has kids playing on?

Mascots? Red carpet? Photo booth? Not 1, not 2, but FOUR teams from the Hockey Super League?!?! Sounds like a cosplay event, not a youth hockey tournament. The new parents with first time players are the easiest to sucker.

MHR doesn't mean anything this early in the season.

Like AAA locally, they can call it whatever they want. It's the end, not the beginning, of the road.

The org submits their preferred placements. Age of players is a factor that's considered. Go directly to the org for help. I also don't know this officially but over the years it seems the amount of teams in given divisions is considered to keep each division to no more than ten and no less than eight. So a team that should be moved up or down doesn't move if a corresponding team from the next division doesn't move. This leads to certain teams dominating or getting beat up on all season. I would say if your team, isn't moved at least one division up somebody is failing in their role.

That may be. But at least it would differentiate between teams to pay attention to, and teams to not pay attention to.

The best thing USA Hockey could do to better the sport is to decide what teams are really AAA. Perhaps this is an attempt at that.

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Too be honest, I get it but I think it's stupid. Other than goals, assists, and penalties (SOG and saves, too) - which is often incorrect anyway- what is this accomplishing? You can't really go by it as accurate, and I know a few kids that don't score much but they win face offs, block shots, get to the puck, win most battles, hit (as much as PAHL allows) make great breakout passes- there's some kids that REALLY excel at these things. Just as important as scoring goals but you wouldn't know it by looking at game sheet. Of course I don't expect every possible stat to be recorded but what is recorded isn't the end all be all. Plus, with what league fees are, if they want to do this stuff and be serious with it, they should provide someone to do it. Not rely on more parents, 90% of whom don't help with a thing.

Not sure. All I heard was that after the game when scoresheet was turned in it was caught.