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They cut a 11-12 year old goalie in the fall after they named him or her on the team in the spring?

Is there any truth to Vengeance and Esmark trading 09 11 year old goalies??! Lol

Well how did preds teams do in Motown?

Shane Clifford is the best in our experience

They are pretty much the former 2010 renegades that went undefeated 10uAA

Exactly true. Two years ago in u10 when 09s were top of the age group-Allegheny won AA followed by State College then Mt Lebo. Preds may have changed some kids on the team but they weren’t even top 3 when 2009s were oldest for u10

So how are the Erie Lions able to win PAHL banners?

Out of curiosity, why does Erie play in PAHL and not against teams in NY like Jamestown, Lakewood area which is much closer? We have teams from Wheeling and Morgantown and Youngstown in our divisions that are out of state.

About $4500 plus $750 for jerseys and workout clothes and then you tag on a few hundred for traveling fees for coaches to the team fund. Now that they are NAPHL but the AA division of this-they fly to at least two tournaments to play AA teams in other states because obviously they can’t play the N Pitt/Predators/Arctic Foxes teams that are so beneath them at the AA level in PAHL

Sounds pretty much like 98% of the people who have played for the Icemen. 3 of the original kids are still on the u18 team from the past 3 years. Pretty sad. Everyone else has figured it out about this organization and left

Are you still allowing AAA players to make “academic teams” and enter in the AA divisions as you did last year to just crush every single AA team with AAA players in a AA division?

They are really great salesmen there at Frozen Pond though ?

Wouldn’t get the third A and where would those coaches/owners get their money??!

Yes there’s a lot of girls in squirt and pee wee who are rostered on both. It seemed like half of the one SHAHA pee wee team was pens girls.

This tournament was a joke. It says above 12UA/12U Scholastic. two of the 12u teams consisted of 50-70% of the team being Pens Elite and/or Vengeance players. Many of these players didn’t even live in the school district that they played for. Teams were led to think it would be AA and A Major players by the tournament director and it was basically two AAA teams that crushed everyone else with the AAA parents still screaming and cheering when their kids were 7+ goals ahead of players that are mostly A Major. complete joke I highly suggest everyone avoid the Alpha tournaments. It’s a waste of time and money.

From what I hear about Esmark it’s pretty much a mix of pens elite black, some vipers stars, and some kids that were actually a major gold and a major white. Should be an interesting team......remember the Esmark team of 05s and 06s years ago......??

So what does this mean for hockey now?

So the placements that came out.........are those going to be revised at all as people play scrimmages? Is scheduling still Oct 10th weekend? where does pahl stand right now?

I also find it frustrating when PA has the same exact #s of deaths per 100,000 as Florida and South Carolina who both barely closed down. Small business owners have been completely annihilated in PA. It’s disgusting the way they have been treated. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covid19-death-rates-us-by-state/

What’s the stance right now?

There is a big cross country meet on Saturday in Allegheny county and the schools were informed that if any parent shows up then the Allegheny Police shuts down the entire meet. It is in a Public park.

Looks like the 16uAAA lost to the AA PAHL 16u lebo team and the 16uAA ashburn team in Ohio as well. How are they still calling themselves AAA?

Rumor has it there’s a rink open already in the Pittsburgh area

Who knows if teams will be able to have imports from Russia as Yuri has? Not sure when and if the borders will open and if visas will even be granted.