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20 hours ago, Theroadtobeerleague said:

After this weekend they will drop outside of top 10. If you look at rankings , historically, midget teams ranked 11-15 are NOT guaranteed an at-large

doesnt matter u16 Esmark choked.  CULVER won. and pens will get in via at large.......... YURI reign is coming to an end in pgh..with no u15 he is in trouble 

Bishop Canevin is in nationals no idea who the other team is yet or if there is even a second team going. 

27 minutes ago, Theroadtobeerleague said:

Pens Elite U16… out

Esmark U16… in final vs Culver

does Pens Elite deserve an at-large bid?

yes they are better and much higher ranked then esmark..  pens where top 10. iF remark was to win tmw they would more then likely be the lowest seed at nationals and wouldn't probably even win a game 

TJ Deff winning AA. was the strongest the whole season top to bottom 

I heard it came down to PIM for the last spots 

1 hour ago, mrfreeze said:

Is Esmark really an option? They have no u15 team right now, what are they going to do at u16 team next year. Lot of people say esmark develops it players when in reality they only worry about 16 and 18. The last 20 years all they do is go around and take PPE cuts and pick off other teams. The current 07 esmark team is 80% vengeance players that left cause they did not get what they wanted. It really came down to 2 players. Yurri is now trying to poach all the vengeance u16 team and telling everyone he is getting kids from Cleveland and all over. Lets see what happens. Now the Vengance have some good young teams, but after being together long enough, those teams will blow up by the time they get to bantam/midget. Then you have SHAHA and Pred who have had some success. It's the same thing every year just change the names and teams. So how many tryouts will your kid be in this tryout season. I'll be here with the popcorn watching the heards go from one tryout to another and saying I did not want to play for x team or coach anyway or how they should not play for the faux AAA team and should just play with my PAHL AA that also got cut from those other teams.

never was. what they don't tell parents is they have to have certain number of tenders, tenders mean really nothing. 90 percent of those tenders do not make the nahl team anyways. 

the ONLY real AAA option is Pens Elite and thats the truth. most dont wanna believe it though. the NAPHL is a weak Aaa league for the most part..l the beast and teir 1 elite league are 2 pretty darn good leagues 

5 hours ago, Murray Chadwick said:

They likely believe that their My Hockey Ranking will place them in the top 8 PA teams and qualify for State/mid Am. Tournament. 2006 Renegades did it this year. 

your right!!! and no knock on them BUT The 05 BY IS Very weak and watered down as well.

wow so that makes 3 teams in PGH trying to field teams to go to this showcase now.....

18 hours ago, Hockeymomma said:

What these rinks need to do is not allow spectators. Treat it like school. You drop your kids off and let the coach be the coach, let the kids be kids. If you have to watch, watch on live barn. The non players have highjacked the sport and need to go. 

never happen how do you think pihl makes their money off of fans at games and the home team gets a percentage of that money as well 

ok lets stop calling this kid a minor, he is not a minor according to his elite prospects profile and also IF he was a minor the news wouldn't have been able to publish his name 

top 3 in AA could win the Penguin cup 4-8 is just a toss up to get in.  Fox Chapel wow congrats on great season thus far hope they can do it  all

what ever happened to earning your ice time?    if ou bust your ass in practice and in weight room and are doing the other things then obv it'll show and you have earned your ice time for that weeks game. EVERY kid has good and bad weeks. few weeks later that 3rd line little Johnny might have busted his ass earned more ice time and maybe put up a point or 2. Now little Johnny is on a roll and might get another shot next week with another week of hard practices....

NOW Y'all want equal ice time for ALL? really. thats pretty sad...EARN IT!!!!!!!!!! 

THIS GENERATION WOULDNT SURVUVE BOOT CAMP AT THE ARMY OR MARINES!!!!! 

agreed all those ccm invites ruined the hype of the silver sticks.  silver sticks use to be the event to go to 

11 hours ago, hockeyisgreat said:

Yes maybe a tie for #5 between Meadville and South Fayette, or a 3 way tie for #4 with Penn Trafford.  It will all sort itself out soon enough. I sure hope Pittsburgh Hockey digest does some articles on playoff races as we come down to the wire. I always liked reading their analysis and articles.

penn trafford deserves that 4 spot plus they beat up on outs Fayette back in dec at the showcase in the alpha rink... and by the looks of it sf did beat Meadville in the first game of the season but barley... they play again in a few weeks 

AA top 4 yea but I would think Meadville would've been the number 5. 

7 hours ago, Danner27 said:

TJ vs BP in the final - this tournament backed up what I had to say about the AA class earlier in this thread. Look at some of the scores.  

I bet it was one hell of a game though. BP has always been really good. And as of late  ( the last few seasons) TJ has been coming on strong from top to bottom 

3 minutes ago, Danner27 said:

TJ vs BP in the final - this tournament backed up what I had to say about the AA class earlier in this thread. Look at some of the scores.  

you had your top 3 aa teams. the other aa teams suck anyways.

figured thats how the varsity would pan out, those where the 4 strongest teams there. NOT Much comp for any of them besides one another. 

2 hours ago, Pucks11 said:

Maybe something with that age group in general. From what I have seen over the years parents are getting nuttier and nuttier at the younger age groups. 

BOY ARE THEY IN FOR A SUPER LET DOWN, BUT DONT WORRY PPE ESMARK VENG WILL ALL KEEP FEEDING THESE PARENTS THE HOOK LINE AND SINKER UNTIL THE PARENTS ONE DAY COME TO THEMSELVES AND SEE LITTLE JOHNY IS JUST ANOTHER AVERAGE PGH KID 

4 hours ago, Pucks11 said:

If it was the '10 team that may be true. A lot of those parents are getting ready to walk because of the coach. 

so your saying the parents dont like Mark Voit?  Goes to show how retarded Vengeance parents are...... guys an amazing coach !!!

true. some one should call PPE out on this, its no thanks to them that he was signed, most of his development cam while they where in FL 

AA is deff a toss up between those 5 teams for sure 

won't last 3 seasons and it will be gone for good. 

well AA looks like a close race we obv see 3 of the 4 that should be in the penguin cup semi finals 

most of the time the Pittsburgh teams end up in the bottom division anyways and go 0-3 or 1-2.  Pittsburgh is falling behind for sure...