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It works both ways. There's plenty of anabolic coaches and parents out there that want to brag about their kids being in a division where they don't belong. Ask the parents from last years 2007 BY Renegades team how their season went. Going 8-28-3 in PW AA just so they can wear an extra A didn't work out so well for them. And to think there were those within SCIR that felt they should have two, yes two teams in PW AA ( 06 and 07 ) was absolute nonsense.

I always thought jokes were supposed to be funny........”tough guy.”

No, it is what a bloated four time bone spur draft dodger calls “the perfect” scenario. keep the politics out of this son - that’s what Twitter is for.

If a "tenant" backed out of ice time at FP, someone else would step right in within minutes. Not enough ice to meet the current demand.

"Already dreading tryouts" for a U12 player and the season just started. Sorry everyone, but I find this entire thread to be completely absurd.

For those of you following PIHL, burghhockey.com is a decent site to get info on what is going on.

Parents, be careful for what you wish for when it comes to your players team moving up a division or two. Anabolic coaches wanting to don a AA moniker may end up biting off more they can chew just so they can tell everyone their son / team plays at the AA level, or just a higher level than they really should be at. Your player will get more out of a winning season at A Major Black than a disastrous one at AA. Ask the players / parent of last years Renegades 07 team which had no business playing AA. And that was driven by coaches

When I have to do a Google search to find out who won the tournament because the PIHL website had not even updated the game scores from Monday (three days after the games were over), that's a problem. And it's inexcusable.

The PIHL website is a disaster and never updates regularly. I guess more of the same for 2019-20 as I had to go elsewhere to find out who actually won the tournament.

The renovations for bathrooms at Baeirl are completed and outside of UPMC, the mens is a pretty frigging nice bathroom. Cannot attest to the ladies however I assume they are done as well. PAHL placement games just started so from a timing standpoint I am not going to complain about that. Well done boys at Baeirl.

Key word - "barns." Props to the ownership groups at Frozen Pond and Baeirl for making significant improvements in their facilities. Both rinks have gone through major changes while other rinks continue to rake in funds while their owners put nothing back into the rink from an improvement standpoint.

Last night I watched part of the U-14 Icemen vs Charlotte Rush game. Fun game to watch, and Rush were leading 1-0 at the end of the first period when I left. Icemen forwards looked aggressive and fast, however they couldn't sustain a rush as most of the time was spend in their own end. If they have a weakness its their D line. Anyone know the final score? Since Icemen are playing as an Ind. what's the word on PAHL U-14, particularly AA and BY 06.........who looks good so far?

Anyone with some insight on the U18 level, particularly AA? Now that my youngest is no longer playing I’m curious as to who appears to be the strength of the division.

On the opposite side of the spectrum there are local teams that haven’t played a single game yet - no placement games nor scrimmages and won’t play until this coming weekend or the next. When my two sons played both had at least a scrimmage or two before placement games as an act of preparation. However, ten games into the season sounds excessive to me.

Some kids use MS as their intro into ice hockey. Over the years I have seen such a wide disparity of talent from smaller schools that field only one MS team and need all of the bodies they can get, and in many cases you have inline players taking the ice for the first time while you have other players on the same team that have skated since they were five. With schools that have enough players to form two teams like SV and PR, their #1 teams are usually quite good with a relatively solid talent across the board. That is not always the case for some of these smaller schools fighting just to get one goalie and three lines.