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Total money grab - many of these invites are "personalized" yet the player's name at the top is almost always in a different font from the text of the invite - kinda like a "insert player name here." There's prospect camps, tryout camps, main camps, exposure camps, combine camps..........didI miss any? And all are at $500 a clip plus hotel at a stay to play venue.

Any truth to the rumor that U18 AAA Vengeance has less than 20 skaters registered for tryouts? And if 09 folded what is going on over there?

Everything you said has zero to do with people accusing the school of covering up abuse that happened at said school. Your trust in Catholics is about as good as my trust in so-called Christians.

To my knowledge Cardinal Wuerl had zero to do with NC other than having his name on the school. And there are those on this thread insinuating abuse occurred at NC and it was ignored? Joe Pa allowed abuse on his own campus. Apples and oranges.

NC has a horrible track record of protecting its students? Could you be more specific?

Well, there were at least two players on the U18 team that attended elsewhere - PR and DL.

Interesting that you did not address my comment that most of the U16 and U18 players are not Pittsburgh locals like you claimed they were. Open your eyes.

Hey U15 Pens dad - we see you. You need to look at the U16 and U18 rosters - the majority of players are not local kids. But give it time. Soon enough when your kid gets into those older age groups he will face “different odds” on his path to the NHL. Let’s circle back after tryouts, yes?

U16 SCIR is 2-0 going into today's game. U18 Armstrong lost a tough one this morning in OT and is eliminated. Allegheny is 1-1 and plays later today. PPE U16 team has been eliminated while U14 and U15 are still in the hunt.

nah.

U18 Tier 2, 3A has the strongest teams by far - Cheektowaga, West Dundee, Armstrong, Chesterfield. U18 Allegheny Ind. gets a "host" spot in 2A? If they are hosting natty's, give them a one game bye in Mid-ams. But a guaranteed spot in natty's? Hell nah. Scores from Wednesday for U18 - Armstrong lost 2-1 and Allegheny lost 7-4.

Only two out of the 24 A-level teams make it to the Pens Cup final and they lost to a team that did not lose a game the entire season. Most schools would take that scenario in a heartbeat. On top of that, GS was a five seed.

There are numerous good players at the D2 level putting up ungodly numbers, but that is because in general D2 teams lack the depth to field 3-4 solid lines so the top players are on the ice 75% of time time, including special teams play. Also, some teams may roll four lines to give all players ice time which is a huge mismatch to a team rolling two lines with their best players which allows players to pad their stats. Again, not to disparage any players on that level but IMO they would not put up similar numbers at AA or AAA PIHL level.

There are numerous articles on the TribLive page covering the D2 division and specific teams. https://tribhssn.triblive.com/category/hockey/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=sports-tray&utm_campaign=click-tracking&utm_term=sports-category-hockey

I never said all kids do it, but a lot of them do it. A lot of them.