nemesis8679

Don't you know? It helps add to that NHL Experience!! The big difference is who is paying and who is getting paid.

Who was the goalie? Where is he now?

Exactly

Yeah that's kind of what I meant. As I've said before, I feel the the penalty called itself is the punishment and going beyond that is unfair (intent to injure, slurs, abusing the ref, etc. is different and should get supplemental discipline for the offending player only). What I'd prefer is that if one player racks up 4 or 5 in the course of a season, the individual player should be out of the playoffs, (if not the rest of the regular season). Not the whole team. In reality, the problem usually isn't the team, it's almost always one or two players causing 90% of the problems in a given game where this is a problem. The way I'd handle it with the rule as it is now is if a particular player got 3, then they'd be virtually benched the rest of the season. I'm sure the orgs and parents would love that. But what else can you do? Risk a whole season, somewhat on the whims of what a ref might or might not call, because of one or two players?

I think it'll probably be fine, too. Maybe a bit strict. But I think it could end up going overboard, too. We've all seen how different penalties are called or not called between PAHL and PIHL (while both are being regulated by USA Hockey), and for players playing both what goes for zero attention in a PIHL game can be easily be a misconduct in PAHL. So it's pretty easy to rack up a few "misconducts" in PAHL by delivering the same hit that's called as clean on the school team.

Jointly with the Badgers

What's everybody's opinion on the new system of misconduct penalties? On one hand, I'm thrilled that the FPPs are gone. On the other hand, I think this new way could play out worse. For every 2 and 10 I've seen called the past few years, some were deserved and some were pretty questionable at best. Many times a borderline play early in the game that could have been let go was called for a 2 and 10 just to set the precedent- which I totally understand and have no problems with. But I can see it going two ways: 1) refs are going to call everything, and PAHL will turn into a virtual no-contact league out of fear of being called, or 2) refs won't call anything, due to the higher stakes of teams getting misconduct penalties. https://www.pahockey.com/discipline

Interesting as always.

Honestly I think they purposefully set the teams to be mismatched. This ensures that you don't wind up with some random A team winning the thing.

They're probably playing in an area with more community-owned rinks.

I'm familiar with goalie you're talking about, for whatever reason he and his family chose playing for an A Major team playing 16u while he was 14u. He'd be fine playing on any 09 AA team and probably most of the AAA ones around here. As I've said before, most teams around here have kids that can play at the next step up, and for a lot of different reasons not all of them do.

"Just a few years ago" is plenty of time to graduate quite a bit of good players. If they're not replaced with similar players, or if their program hasn't attracted/built an organization that kids want to play for and eligible players decide to just stick with their travel team, then that's what happens. I'm not sure what the board or coaching situation is there, but that can always play into it. And I wouldn't say moving from AAA to AA is "plummeting". I'd say it's getting moved down. That happens. If a team moved from A to AA, I wouldn't say that team skyrocketed to AA. Going from AAA to A in for or 5 seasons, then I'd say that's plummeting.

No idea. McDowell struggled mightily in A, and some other teams fared far better. Yet they moved McDowell. Who knows what they're thinking.

I wonder if moving it was Alphas doing or the tournaments?

That's probably pushing it for most birth years.

According to parents, there's like a dozen teams' worth of AAA players.

Wow, that sounds pretty harsh and over reaching. I'd almost want to blatantly film as a visiting team with a player just playing there, and no affiliation to BB. Can't suspend your kid if he has nothing to do with BB. And I think that 50 dollar fee is just another fee, nothing to do with the video.

Or if your kid doesn't play for a Black Bear team, but plays a game in one of their rinks via PIHL or PAHL or tournament, etc. That said, I'm sure it's more up to date than livebarn, and they are marketing all the bells and whistles that'll be at your fingertips to get your kid a chance at the NHL... The only upside I see is that livebarn will need to step up it's game. But you'll still be missing games or paying for 2 services. I wonder what this means for the parents who set up their own livestreams? Probably will be told they aren't allowed to film.

Well, Black Bear can suck it. https://blackbearsportsgroup.com/blackbeartv/

I take the time I could be watching football, baseball, or basketball and spend it reading.

I wasn't disparaging, just stating a fact. I guess you think those people I mentioned are Great Americans, since they're veterans and stuff.

Why a big deal he's former military? So was Charles Whitman, Jeffery Dahmer, Dennis Rader, and Gary Ridgeway. People act like being a veteran makes somebody a great person just by default.

PIHL is under USA hockey as well, though.

Good riddance to the fair play points. Now I hope they fix offsides and icing on the powerplay

Anybody with a real chance isn't waiting for an invitation-only email. Somebody will contact the player/his or her family.