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Here is an update from the PAHL website. Bueller? Bueller?

Although appeal games rarely overturn PAHL's final placement of teams, they are particularly done by teams wanting to be placed in a higher division spurred by the rumblings of anabolic parents and their desire for their kid to play at a higher level.

I believe these are the preseason groupings prior to placement games which ended yesterday, and an announcement from PAHL with an update will come tomorrow with appeal games coming this weekend. https://www.pahockey.com/game-schedules

LOL……..the “off-ice training” fee that is offered to these teams may be the biggest rip off of all time. All I hear is the so-called trainers spend more time on their phones than they do in instruction and getting the kids a solid workout. And if any AA or lower team makes the off-ice training mandatory with a separate fee, run for the hills and look elsewhere.

Not all of the time, but typically BY teams get a paid non-parent coach, more ice time and more full ice time. Most teams at a sub AA level get shared / hybrid ice and if full ice is offered it is usually at O-Dark-30 on Saturdays or Sundays.

Who is "they" ace? I have yet to come across a single parent / player / family that equates anything PPE does to Tier 2 AA hockey. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to recognize the differences in player skill, instruction and player development, cost, travel, etc. Some of that stuff may come from the "faux AAA" teams but certainly not AA teams let alone PAHL AA teams. And what does your comment say to the many, many Tier 2 AA teams that don't have a PPE equivalent? This conversation is getting ridiculous.

"A local trend of wannabe PPE's?" You can't be serious. And to equate AA BY teams to anything related to PPE is absolutely absurd. Sorry, but it is.

I lost count of how many Tier 2 AA U15 and U16 teams there are out there. https://myhockeyrankings.com/rank.php?y=2021&v=112&view=alphabetic

Can we please reserve talk about calling ANY U12 or below team a "powerhouse" until they at least reach U14 and checking comes into play?

The Barons 06 team went 2-0-2 against PPE last year going into the final at Mid-Ams before losing in OT while being ranked #16 in the country. Don’t you think a top 16 Tier 1 national ranking would warrant an at-large bid? https://myhockeyrankings.com/rank.php?y=2020&a=3&v=116

As an FYI, PPE gets at-large bids to Nationals even if they don't win Mid-Ams. Last year at Mid-Ams the 06 Barons took PPE to overtime in the championship game and lost, and if they had won the Barons would have received the automatic bid and PPE the at-large bid.

Thanks @Saucey where did you find these scores?

Now that the season is moving forward I was curious to see if anyone has game updates on the numerous AAA teams within WPA. Some games have been reported on MHR but there's many that have not. Of particular interest is at the 05 and 06 BY's as there are so many WPA teams at this level. Figured I would be the one to stir the pot and get the conversation going.

I have watched a handful of games this weekend and this rule change is an absolute joke. It's as if the clowns within USA Hockey want the youth game to be unwatchable. Slowly but surely they are succeeding.

I get that, I’m just saying a PAHL rep parusing this thread can shed light on what info or data has / hasn’t been fed to MHR at this point. Anyone? Anyone?