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3 hours ago, CranjisMcBasketball said:

The amount of people moving on are maybe 1 percent. 

Not even close.

Is Elitedaddy, like, a satire poster?

3 hours ago, aaaahockey said:

Yes  I think something like St Margaret's would be good for this but the problem is coaches use that tourney to take a look at bubble JV/varsity players so it's hard to say they would even play their best. I'm not as familiar with all the high schools in lower levels but if they are coached like some of the PAHL teams they probably try to play lower to win.  

Seems to be few if any A teams in that tournament. 

PIHL really could do a better job deciding how to move teams around.

1 hour ago, Nepotisim_anyone said:

Agree! Tons of overlap.
 

I don’t know why orgs / coaches aren’t upfront & straightforward with kids. Yes, you have a spot on the team or time to look elsewhere. Seems easy enough. 

Most AA and AAA does do that, and pretty openly. It's A Major and A Minor that have to play more of a guessing game year to year. 

1 hour ago, Pucks11 said:

It's not about you, it's about the kids.

Jack ass parents absolutely can ruin it for the kids, though.

At least they can grab lunch at Dick's Diner.

20 minutes ago, Spear and Magic Helmet said:

I think the more interesting story would be at Liberty University. They have plenty of Canadian players too.

What goes on there? 

I do know that some Europeans get on NCAA teams because their home countries pick up the tab, which is higher tuition than residents would pay.

10 hours ago, Rewster said:

Does anyone remember Life University back in the 1990s early 2000s? They “were” (I honestly don’t know anymore) a chiropractic school in Georgia that somehow managed to lure in a team full of ringers from Canada that nobody knew anything about. They dominated out of nowhere for several seasons.

This sounds like it has "Netflix documentary" all over it.

4 hours ago, Pucks11 said:

Just like in Pittsburgh the pro organization really has nothing to do with the Jr teams besides letting them use their names, colors and logos. It's considered a non profit and used as a write-off.

Nothing to do with them? Oh, besides using their name and their logo. That's enough for me.

19 minutes ago, Nepotisim_anyone said:

Well I think Esmark’s future depends, on some extent, on that dad that destroyed their team and whether or not a bunch of parents continue to follow him or do their own thing and go back?

Where did they all go?

14 minutes ago, sadday4hockey said:

Huge question here.

Do these NHL teams decide to distance themselves from this now or........... is there so much money being made that they will continue to expose themselves to this liability?

https://sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-sharks-sued-over-child-sex-abuse-cover-up/

 

Crazy how the parents called him a creep and a pedophile, and the inappropriateness was well-known. But yet, still had their kids playing there.

Ah, the allure of an nhl team logo on your uniform.

3 hours ago, AAAAleaguestarter said:

Hard to believe that shaler put up 16 against GS in the regular season and then get completely shut down. What a hot streak by Greensburg 

Watching on tenband TV, which isn't as good as watching live so it's hard to pick up on some things, I find it hard to believe they put up 16 on them in the regular season. Maybe they saw a different goalie or something.  Like I said in the midam post... I guess anything can happen when it's just one game. 

2 hours ago, PUCKCOVID19 said:

I bet the parents are happy they don't have to fly half way across the country for this though....

 

I bet they're not. 

2 hours ago, Icebucket said:

I feel bad for the 18u teams. It's the last year of youth hockey for most of the players. They battled hard all year to earn a trip to beautiful Delmont, PA. 

I thought the same thing.

The bottom line is that hockey is the sport with the most variables during the course of a game. In any ONE game, between teams that are anywhere even close to skill, either team can win. Bouncing pucks, stunning goalie performances, how penalties are called or not called, kids being focused or not that particular day, momentum swings at opportune times (or not).... in one single game anything can happen. It happens all the time in hockey at every level. Ever wonder why professional gamblers mostly stick with basketball & football? Less variables.

I can't wait to hear more!

1 hour ago, hockeyisgreat said:

Maybe they should just all play for fun and not keep score!  But then why even have PAHL? Just let all the kids play pickup at their home rinks!  I just think if you are going to do something do it the best possible way.  There will always be parents who complain about something. That's life!  I admire the kids who play outside of PAHL and have their stats published!

"Doing it the best possible way" would be to keep track not just points and shutouts, for reasons I already explained. It would include hits, blocks, shots, turnovers, and take aways, etc. 

Maybe then we'd see players challenging themselves to play the whole game of hockey rather than cherry picking and trying to go coast to coast every time they get the puck?

The best possible way isn't keeping track of 3 or 4 statistics. 

Here's another thing with stats... Besides favoring goals and shutout, who benefits?
And assists aren't going to be accurate at all. 
I know kids that score a good amount of goals. Some of them do this by cherry picking constantly and giving up a lot of goals because of it. 
I know kids that have gotten shutouts because the team in front of them held the opponents to <15 shots in a game. 

So good for them.

I also know kids who don't necessarily score all the time but play the game very well, consistently work hard creating opportunities for their team, don't take lazy penalties, excellent at killing penalties, excel at taking away the middle of the ice, etc. Kind of like the baseball player that never hits the homerun yet is almost always on first base and doesn't make errors in the field. 

Those kids really don't benefit at all from stats on some website, other than their friends or some parent saying, "oh well so-and-so really doesn't score a lot."

54 minutes ago, Happy Hockey Fan said:

Went to a couple playoff games the other night. Two things I found strange, no admission fee, and no announcements during the game. No goals, assists, penalties announced. 

 

 

That's odd. Where? They like those admission fees.

Armstrong

Predators

 Badgers

North Pittsburgh

Indiana

Though I'm not convinced the refs of the Badgers games are actually biased, or just afraid of being assaulted by Badgers parents. 

10 hours ago, Rewster said:

There was a glitch in the reporting of the game scores this season for most of the year. You actually could click on the individual games and have access to the digital game sheets and summaries.

Nobody complained about it. It was actually pretty nice to see something other than just the final score of each game.

Once the league caught wind of their loophole of their statistical lockdown; they sewed it up for good. 

If there was any one person that complained about the score sheets being open to the public…well, it was the PAHL (obviously). Someone who monitors these boards and has the ability to remove the players’ individual competitiveness. The player statistics were obviously being tabulated and recorded. Why not be transparent about it? Hockey is a team game where keeping score is important. The Fair Play Points make a big difference down the stretch and sometimes it’s what makes teams more or less competitive depending on how aggressive they can be. The game sheets also show these penalties, minutes, and tabulations of the FPP. Without transparency, corruption has a haven.

Imagine if you could see the actual scoresheets. It would substantiate the rinks where the visiting teams routinely and blatantly get homered. 

47 minutes ago, Pucks11 said:

This is the problem with having score sheets, the parents have to ruin it once again. Goalie parents are the WORST by far and most of them don't know what a REAL shit on goal is and want everything thrown near their kid listed as a shot. They yell at the coaches, refs and score keepers if their kids don't get their assist or shots right. I know parents that have actually called and Emailed the teams, leagues and companies running a tournament because they keep their own stats and even send video clips of their kids not getting a 2nd assist or a shot went off their kid and someone else got the goal. Parents ruin everything in youth sports.

Uh, YEP.

33 minutes ago, hockeyisgreat said:

Wouldn't it be nice if the PAHL had a social media presence and actually did more to recognize the players in their league! You would have the best of both leagues here at home!

PAHL wants to charge the money and do the least work possible. Basically they run an organized in-house league that travels to play. I can see it getting to where they're being challenged with a competitor now and will probably end up rolling over and giving up as they continue to lose players and teams. 

However, I'll add that the AHF/THF groups on Facebook have an awful lot of complaining about "my kid faced 60 shots but the scoresheet only said 58", "they totally missed my kid's secondary assists 3 time this weekend", or any different incarnations of that you can think of. So I can see where PAHL doesn't want hounded week in and week out with those kind of complaints. 

24 minutes ago, hockeyisgreat said:

I am surprised that Black Bear hasn't tried to force all the teams that play in their rinks in SWPA to join the AHF.

All in due time.