nemesis8679

Thats different. They're trying to make a team, not just get cheap ice time with no intentions to play.

I would say so. If you are still good enough to get to D1, Major Junior, or pro, that will be obvious somewhere along the line no matter where you play.

It seems like everyone tried to have them about the same time, probably in order to try to retain the previous season's kids to make it hard to go to many tryouts. So I guess that results in low number attendance and the need to have all of these supplementals? And yes, I'd assume you'd lose your commitment fee. I would also try to find a way, I'm not sure how other than charging more for tryouts, to keep parents from taking their kids to a million tryouts where they have zero intention to play there and are just there because you're getting a ton of cheap ice time. All it does is waste the evaluators' time.

A friend of mine mentioned that Renegades are having a supplemental tryout Monday, May 9th at 8:30 pm for 16u mixed year. Just thought I'd post for anyone who might be interested.

For Pittsburgh area AAA, it's more like 80% ???

What is that?

I don't know how much property that includes, the property may be worth that much, MAYBE. But not because the ice rink is there. If property actually is worth anything near that, it'll be torn down and something else put in there like a shopping center or office building. My guess is the guy thinks since the big corporate Black Bear is buying up rinks, they'll give him 3 million. It would take a long time for one sheet to generate 3 million bucks especially for having to put more money into it. And rinks are a poor invest generally speaking.

It was a compliment. It's a thousand times better.

If the new owner took a dump right on center ice, it would've been an improvement over what it used to be.

I'd be pissed if some kid didn't have to go to North catholic to play on that team but mine did. BUT actually I guess I wouldn't, since mine wouldn't play on any team where a specific school was forced on you as the only option. Maybe unless they paid the tuition, and pretty much not even then if it was that school. Seems shady.

Could I ask why?

Based on teams played with or played against, or what the majority of parents say... I've never heard a bad thing about Steel City orArtic Foxes. I would steer clear of SHAHA, Allegheny, Armstrong, Yetis, Vipers, and North Pittsburgh.

I'd also add that hockey is by far the hardest to play of the major sports. And unlike football, where the rest of the world couldn't care less about it... to advance in hockey you are competing with players all over the world.

That's a shame, considering they're supposedly one of the so-called top organizations in the Pittsburgh area. I think I also remember something like last season, I don't remember what age group, they took tryout checks only to announce they wouldn't have a team at that age after all. If either of these things happened to me or my kid, I'd be furious. Seems like they could use some organization and professionalism. Sounds like they couldn't care less, though.

I heard that a kid who tried out for Esmark's 08 team was posted on the tryout page as having made the team. In the mean time, this family patiently waited for an email from the organization for more information. After not hearing anything more, and multiple attempts to contact Esmark which went completely ignored, a third party got a hold of the coach and asked what was going on. The coach's response was that the kid didn't really make the team, but there was no way this coach was going to contact the family and tell them that. I don't know if this boy made the team, and after tryouts were done another kid was available so they went that route, or if reading and writing a correct tryout number on the evaluation form was too difficult for somebody to figure out, or what happened there. But I think it's pretty unprofessional- not to mention pretty rotten- to let a 14 year-old kid look forward to being on a team he wanted to play for and passing up some other opportunities he could have had just because somebody had no balls to simply call this family back to say there was a mistake or whatever the case was. Does anyone know if this is a first-year coach or something? I mean if he can't figure out how to handle a phone call or a simple email, or is too afraid to talk to a kid's mom or dad about a situation that he might have felt slightly uncomfortable about... I wonder if he's capable to coach a AAA hockey team and handle all that comes with that?

Sounds like they won't have teams.

I tell my kid that if they're in trouble, go high off the glass and just ice it anyway. But I would gladly have the no icing the puck rule if they'd get rid of the stupid forced offside.

I watched an interview that Gretzky gave a few years ago. He said two things in particular I found interesting. #1 After hockey season, the skates and hockey stick went to the basement, not to be touched again until the next season started. #2 If he had to deal with the same expense and aggravation as kids and parents do today, he wouldn't have been able to continue playing.

Both options are crazy. Unless that kid clearly looks like Crosby or Makar out on the ice. I would have to think that if a kid from Michigan or Canada is good enough to make PPE they're definitely good enough to make a high-level team where they live.

How many of these kids who've upended their own lives and their families lives actually end up playing in any of the leagues you've mentioned? And I mean stepped on the ice at all in those leagues, let alone making anything else out of it.

Nice job guys!

Can someone put up screens hots, or at least names and teams? I just get the pay wall.

There's a cap on what they're paid?

A few hundred bucks, it's sounds like.

What years are we talking? Why is everyone leaving?