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9 minutes ago, Carl Racki said:

Sounds like a great way to waste money!

Puckcovid would know. 

15 years later and these money grabs are still going on smh

On 4/17/2024 at 4:21 PM, PUCKCOVID19 said:

someone was saying at the hockey store today that this team is going to try and field a team next season too......HOW?

Lmfao - guessing you are one of the “parents” that didn’t like the coaching change? Time for a user name change or put your kid back In Wooster for “Junior” hockey. Oh wait, that folded too…………..

3 hours ago, Law said:

So you would rather watch fights then. Because I'm pretty sure that Pitt and IUP would have their way with the River Monsters.

Any local western pa college club m1-m3 team would have had their way with this team. I watched some of the YouTube stuff - brutal. 2 older guys that could play, lots of guys that never took a skating lesson in their life, couldn’t use their edges. Some young kids that wouldn’t make any local acha teams. It was just bad. 

2 hours ago, JerryTime said:

SVC got pummeled in game 1 of round robbin play for ACHA M3. Not sure how they made it in the first place, maybe conference autobid…

Ranked top 25 plus che REGULAR season champs, though it appears they did win the che playoffs. To be fair - LTU would beat the heck out of every chma team. 

Dave is still around? He did a great job running the CHE into the ground. Didn’t realize he left that leauge. 

6 hours ago, Rewster said:

Around here? It’s going to be a stretch to find that. Ohio University on some nights, Liberty University, Penn State University ACHA before Pegula/NCAA.
 

I’m talking southeast and southwest United States. It seems the further south you go, the bigger the college hockey support is—even for ACHA. Non-traditional hockey markets/schools are having a huge bump in attendance and support. The mid-America/northeast America ACHA schools don’t seem to really care much about supporting their school/club team. But, schools like Arizona, UNLV, Tennessee, North Carolina, NC St, Alabama, Georgia, you’d be surprised how much support they get…they don’t care if their school is ACHA D3, or whatever the new conference name is. It’s all about school support, not “the best hockey.”

Misunderstood your post. Thought you ment western pa. Yes, I’ve noticed the hype online for the south east and its big name football schools. 

4 hours ago, Loach said:

OU has D1 and D2 ACHA teams. I haven't been to one yet, is it just the D1 team that sells out?

Yes when it does. I’ve been to two OU M1 games. Decent crowds, nothing crazy, barn probably around 70% capacity both games. Half parents half students.  Nobody over there cares about OU team 2. Five parents and a few girlfriends show up. It’s actually worse than what we see over in western pa for club hockey. Not a knock on team 2 - it’s just when you have a M1 team that is consistently hanging around the top 10 with a rink on campus, that is the team the students will show up for.

on the flip side, just last year I was at Mercyhurst and watched their ncaa d1 team play. There couldn’t have been more than 100 or so people at that barn watching the game. A few hours later their club team played. We watched the first period. Might have been 30 people there, if that. 

16 hours ago, Rewster said:

One could say the same about local High School PIHL hockey as well. It’s ok to hype up a school’s hockey program. Those in the “know” understand the true difference. Regardless, having incredible media and student-body support for your school’s hockey program is awesome…regardless of the pecking order of competition. It has to be exciting to play in front of a continuous home crowd of 2,000+ people at an ACHA school…compared with a lot of afterthought small schools in NCAA D3, or even NCAA D1. I remember Kent St and University of Findlay having NCAA D1 hockey teams that had less support than their ACHA clubs do.

While I agree with your ncaa d3 statement, please tell me where anyone around here is getting 2,000 plus people at a club hockey game. I’ve been to many. Attendance looks no different than a pihl game. The most I’ve witnessed for club hockey - attended a Kentucky midnight game a few years back. I’d guess that was around 2000-2500 people. That was the most I’ve ever seen at a club game by far. While I’ve never seen a liberty game in person I’ve seen the other top places and none of them had 2000 people. 

1 hour ago, Pa Hockey said:

IUP was $ 2800 two years ago and don't miss writing that check but very good experience and fun to watch 

We had over 600 views on IUP Hockey You Tube per game and games were well attended at S&T Bank Arena 

Boys confirmed it for me, iup $3300 this year. Duquesne $3500. That’s per team, per player. Each school has two teams. 

10 minutes ago, JerryTime said:

Promotion is huge for club sports in general to drive revenue to keep costs low for players that pay to play on top of tuition... Although the caliber isn't the same, club hockey can offer things NCAA doesn't. If the nobody bought into the "hype", then it would've died out. Must just be a sensitive topic for you.

I’ve heard iup & duqesne are $3500 a year. seems pretty costly for club hockey. Compared to teams in ohio & the other side of the state that run around $1500-2k. Both iup & Duq have two teams. Someone is making good money. 
 

side note - Chattam “ncaa” d3 kid I’ve noticed has transfferd to rmu - playing club hockey now. RMU is obviously a much better eduction. 

1 hour ago, sarampage said:

...and DU has a player and head coach at the IIHF World Junior Championships....

It was way worse than the 9-3 score that highlight clip shows. Denver’s head coach not there. Denver playing their 3rd and 4th line on the pp, kids that are normally healthy scratched.  zone time, could go on with more. the ncaa d1 kids just skate so much better, that’s what really separates acha top teams vs ncaa d1 imo and minot probabaly has some of the better acha skaters I’ve seen. We’ve been through this topic on here when Alaska-Fairbanks blew out unlv. 

with that said - minot would destroy the like’s of pitt, iup etc. gives some perspective.

as for ncaa d3 🙄 Chattam beat a mid level acha team (iup) 1-0. 

Personal side note - it’s hilarious to me the ncaa d1 kids don’t wear those stupid bubble cages like you see the acha teams using. Especially around here - every acha game I see locally has half a team with those stupid things. 

3 hours ago, Spear and Magic Helmet said:

Not to be rude, but I'm not sure IUP's requirements could go down any further. A long time ago (15+ years ago), I had a conversation with IUP's coach about how he'd get a kid to apply the week before classes start and he'd get in. With the declining enrollment at IUP, I doubt the standards have increased.

When I was there in the late 80’s it was a fun town with a decent look along with an affordable education that wasn’t to far away from Pittsburgh. I learned to grow up while attending college in that town. I’ve had a few people tell me what they think went wrong over the years I’m just not sure how to post it with out coming off in a way that’s not who I am but there are a few factors and various things that all seem to contribute to the problems, violence, drugs and declining education standards. Whatever the reasons, the place has dropped off a cliff. A few pages back around spring I posted about one of my boys buddies who graduated from iup this past spring - he couldn’t wait to get out of there.
 

I am not surprised to hear the story you just mentioned about hockey, I’ve heard similar. 

One of my boy’s was sent this 

On 10/1/2023 at 1:04 AM, Danner27 said:

Yes,  there was partying when I was there many moons ago but this is not something to be proud of. Between race riots, drugs, terrible acedmic rankings, kids dying etc wtf is going on? Number 1 party school in the country - bottom 25% for acedmics. Extremely dissapointing. 

https://www.wpxi.com/news/local/indiana-university-pennsylvania-ranked-no-1-party-school-by-national-publication/VPAH77BYCNBTJLXHXHDIBLFRJM/?utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=trueanthem&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR2skrbOeJ5zDmuQYDSldHkelQzzuhUuLbDnRmbQKr-i4qt_NQO9Ep3kTUc_aem_AeYaoFzc7hUkCiut5zgah0nqaNvBeVt9jdol0VGfT4Fuk6UeL4vU-RRXFIZu3bAR3wg&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

 

It appears both hockey teams partied to much this week. Both with embarrassing losses to bad teams this weekend. 

The hits keep coming in Indiana smfh - shots fired on Philadelphia St. Possible dead student. don’t know what’s accurate yet. IUP Just had people killed at a home coming party recently. Race riot again last weekend. So dissapointed in my Alma. Don’t send your kids there. That entire town needs an enema at this point, same goes for the school president & admin. 

I named dropped an adult who has been involved in local hockey for some time. I said nothing about the hockey ability of his son. To me, It makes perfect sense this dad is involved with the con man. 
 

you are projecting - your kid is the one that couldn’t make faux aaa, aa locally I referred to while replying to your normal screen name. 

see how this works? I’ll explain what you just did. After you started this thread to try and draw attention to your kids new team. You got all worked up, made a new account because EVERYONE here knows a con man put that team together. Court documents are posted that prove it & there is plenty more issues not posted. you come on with a new account claiming  you hate the owner but the “kids” bs. You now realize the sh!t show situation  you got your son in due to people on this thread. To take it further, you mention the “skill” of all these players, how they are just trying to do the right thing. Sorry, when a few of the players are older men just learning to skate in beer leauge, yes “skill” sure as hell can be called into the equitation when you want to call this team a “semi pro” team. I would bet my house this team would not beat one local ACHA M1 or M3 college team. I’ve seen the roster, know many of the names. You know they are charging a few players to cover icetime for practice, you are deflecting - using these few players with poor skill level to tell us the only reason they are on the team. The same reason your own son played on some of those garbage (one that folded during a season because they had a grand total of 11 players with your son - Wooster) faux jr teams - to pay into the bills.

You are a parent, thee parent. Cut your loses now before you waste another year. 

3 minutes ago, i am score said:

I actually have no kids or anybody related to me on the team and joined this as an outsider with some opinions. I don't understand why an adult would be so upset over "kids" playing on any team, I mean who are you to know what's going on with any of the players on that team. The fact that you're on here coming after the same kid multiple times, like come on man. Are you really helping anything? Does anyone actually care what you have to say? NO! They're playing hockey. Who cares. The guys (and "kids") just want to play hockey. Why don't you get out there 😭

Confirmed parent. Confirmed parent I am confident it is. I’ve never personally “come after” any kid on here. Parents, probabaly. 

Ive been around hockey 10 year before your 2005 was born. I have a 1998 & 2002 - there is a good chance my boys and I have crossed paths with players and parents from 1996 all the way to 2004 birth years. Many of these parents I still stay in touch with, I’ve made friends all across the county due to hockey. To put it short, I know ALOT of people in the small hockey community we have. Sure some here don’t like my opinions but in reality all I do is call out the BS. 

2 hours ago, i am score said:

Jaison Kelly is a joke of an owner. He has these guys forking out $25 a practice and they're paying to get on the ice for games as well. Literally no hockey knowledge whatsoever, and it's become extremely evident as things have went on. This team actually has a lot of skilled guys who are working hard to play and make this fun for the fans, but Jaison is going to be the reason they have problems. As a caring fan, everyone should know what's really going on here. I have nothing but bad things to say about the guy, and this post is me being nice about it! He's a raging narcissist.

skill 🙄

2 hours ago, i am score said:

Why are you so angry lol seems like you really care.

make a new account to dispute you are pumping up your kids bs con team. I see Cunningham’s kid is also On the team, makes even more sense. Don’t worry I won’t say your name, someone once spelled it backwards here. 

On 11/22/2023 at 3:27 AM, nemesis8679 said:

From the Union Hockey League's website:

"The Union Hockey League is hybrid league, a mix between semi-professional hockey and senior hockey, with players being compensated for travel and other expenses via a ticket sales split but allowing them to retain their amateur status. Players can also make a substantial commission by selling season tickets and partnerships. "

 

So, I guess they earn their own money by hawking tickets, and if ticket sales aren't great, they're on their own with expenses? 

Basically, it’s how a garage band works -  Hawk 20 tickets to your friends so the promoter makes $200 - lets your band open on the bill locally while the touring band coming through is unloading their gear. Pay to play. 

3 minutes ago, ice is cold said:

I was100% being sarcastic. Lol.  I originally called out the owner was a con 😂. 

I somehow just discovered this thread, I’m commenting on stuff from July, didn’t realize it was 3 pages!  🙂

On 11/19/2023 at 5:08 PM, PUCKCOVID19 said:

judging by all their social media pictures, looks like they had a successful first night in Pittsburgh( well beaver) 

Lol pumping your kid’s scam of a team. Couldn’t make faux AAA locally, couldn’t make youth AA - send him to play faux “juniors” instead. Now he’s a pro Profit! 

On 7/11/2023 at 3:00 PM, PUCKCOVID19 said:

Anyone ever heard of this yet? They are playing in the NEHL........ and going by the name Pittsburgh River Monsters.....

And we come full circle, your kid is on the team. 

On 7/12/2023 at 10:33 PM, ice is cold said:

I guess if you are playing beer league now and can get paid $150/game vs a 6-pack it is compelling. From a fan perspective.... I've got nothing.... 

nobody will be getting paid much if at all. Its sponsor dependent - they don’t have crap for sponsors, look at the leauge webpage.  it’s my understanding the players have to help find sponsors. 
 

it’s travel beer leauge with the local team run by a con man. This will be over soon 

12 hours ago, fafa fohi said:

For Mid-Ams there are 11 teams in this group.  Will the top six or top eight advance to the Mid-Am tournament?

If six, only Esmark and PPE will be there.  Vengeance and the rest are on the outside looking in.

It’s always just ppe & esmark. Six is correct. I haven’t looked, I assume the predators season was over as usual in October? I suppose I will take a look.