Stillers1979

I’ve seen your posts before why do you have to be combative and negative ? Sometimes you can be a very good contributor on this forum I agree with the persons assessment that the pihl is very young this year at all classes I looked teams up on the pihl website after reading it he’s correct and when you add that with many tier 1 players not in the pihl this season it starts to make more sense why the level of hockey in the pihl is down this season I also believe the games are called completely different in the pihl I think the pihl could use better leadership and the student body needs to start coming out to support their teams!!!! The few I see are always walking around the barns looking for phone service thank you for reading

Predators 16 probably the best predators tier 1 team they’ve had I don’t understand why you folks are complaining about one of the people involved with the team it looks like He has brought better Players in this year if you want to complain do it about the 15 & 18 they are both very bad

LONG time lurker this topic and one other made me create a user so I could reply. the pihl is having a very down year I’ve watched many years of varsity it’s just not good hockey this year in any class. School teams are missing many local players that play for tier 1 programs. The pens have zero players in the pihl this year esmark has a very small few the predators appear to have the most and it’s still not half their teams players I’m not sure about icemen it looks like they Only have one age group that would effect varsity hockey but they do not have players on the team listed and I really don’t know much about them. I think the officiating is part of the problem I am not blaming the refs the games at tier 1 are called very different than the pihl and pahl. The pihl and Pahl seem to be called very similar I’ve talked to some players most of them say in the pihl a clean hit to separate the player from the puck turns into a 2/10 in a school game or roughing or interference it sounds like it has Turned many of them off playing for their schools. Do they pay officials less in the pihl ? Are they different officials ? I have watched some college club games at upmc and they seem to be called more like tier 1 games. I am not knocking the officials it’s a hard job that doesn’t pay well. I just finished watching the above game what I saw was very bad hockey with out the occasional check it looked like beer league in warrendale. No puck movement kids trying to play pond hockey very slow paced hockey in general lack of defensive play from all positions there were a lot of players on both teams who do not skate well at all. Maybe the coaching in the pihl isn’t very good anymore Now the pihl wants to start a girls division I don’t see them getting enough players all the top girls play for the pens and selects locally un like men’s hockey the woman have more opportunity for college Ncaa hockey money due to title 9 none of these girls will take the chance at injury to play in a very tiny girls school division for fun. These teams would all have to be co op like the boys B division I don’t imagine even the biggest school districts have 16-20 female hockey players in the same high school. I do agree that many teams in the pihl are young this year this gives me hope maybe next year and on the play will get better i just spent a hour looking at the pihl website after that comment was made. Whatever the reason I hope it can be fixed school hockey was such a great experience to play in my day I’ve followed it now for 35 plus years it has always been going up but all the sudden this season it’s taken a nose dive. call me Al bundy I don’t care I really enjoy watching the kids play mine are all grown up Upmc and Baierl are in my backyard and I love having two rinks so close I attend a lot of games! This season alone I’ve seen in person every varsity team that plays out of Baierl at least once along with their opponents I’ve have gone to two slippery rock college club games I’ve watched a few games at every age group the penguins have along with a junior ushl showcase I’ve watched esmark 16 and 18 year olds I saw the Predators 16 year olds play I also catch a lot of Pahl games north Pittsburgh wildcats, steel city renegades, north hills. Sorry to ramble on i just enjoy watching hockey at my age haha and really hope varsity hockey gets better again. I would also like to add it doesn’t look like many students come out to watch their schools teams this year years past had much much better student body attendance thank you for reading