stickboy

There it is! $81 USA hockey fee plus $5 Mid Am fee for bantam-midget players in 2026-27. That’s $86 before you even pick an organization, sign up, try out, and then pay their tuition!

And the next night they used different nets for AA game.

No * next to Peters for Netgate?

You don’t have to keep updating and posting your spreadsheet here. PIHL has much more enjoyable format that we all know how to get to.

Why are you calling them AAA/AA? That team is ranked #10 in Tier 1 and will likely go to Nationals.

I thought they looked good last night. Could have won that game. I know nothing about the team and without reading the above I would have thought they were well coached

like PA high school hockey

Sounds par for the course. Like when they never acknowledged that their 17u team took bronze at the national festival last summer.

USA Hockey says, the HOSTAGES will not be released!

That’s a great story. But, you are out of touch with how top tier youth hockey and advancement to real juniors and NCAA works these days. USAHockey is even working against you now. They are planning a a nationwide 17u league for the best teams in the country to compete in, and be recruited from. I don’t know if players in that Preds team will advance to higher levels, but they are No. 10 in the country, and playing against the best in North America. So, I’m sure that’s the aspiration. If so, high school hockey is unfortunately in the rearview. Some will regret it, some won’t. I wish things could go back to the way you describe, but the reality is the path of the tremendous players you mentioned no longer exists. You conveniently skipped mentioning a whole generation of more recent local players that are playing juniors, NCAA, and Pro that left high school hockey behind.

If you are playing on a Top 10 team, high school hockey is not part of the equation. You wouldn’t know though!

Just keep putting up 20+ goals a game. Eventually everyone in your division will be pissed and something will have to be done.

Sounds like an easy fix if PAHL can give it a half hour of attention, common sense, and actually care. Otherwise, this will be another team that eventually goes independent and their cost will increase yet again. A request to move a team up should be less scrutinized by PAHL. Make it the decision of the org and coaches. Then they have to deal with the aftermath if their egos were bigger than the team’s ability. I’ve seen this plenty of times, usually when dad coach/director want to brag to family and friends that his kid plays AA (result 1-19-1 record) 🙄 Moving a team down is where it gets tricky, to avoid sandbagging. The same dad coaches/directors that I mention above have usually tried this too. 😂

And all our membership fees will go up to support it!

No local club hockey players are getting NIL money or athletic scholarship. Also, please don’t pick a WPA college/university based on club hockey programs!

….. parents shouldn’t be involved! College clubs are to be run by students. That’s part of the education and learning that if you really want something, you have to take ownership and be a leader.

Twoboys literally made this point 2 pages ago and your response was to promote those teams that require long distance travel. Which is it with you? And please save the cut and paste bold and red text 🙄

Oh I’ve seen that there. They were likely posted up in the same parking spaces they used for tailgating the previous 10 years at Renegades.

Any parent involved in their kid’s college club hockey team needs therapy.

Amen! Surprised he didn’t throw an ad in for one of his tournaments too.

They all think they are playing Jr next season 😉

In the last couple years I’ve seen teams picked that aren’t as strong as they could be seemingly to avoid bias, and spread the selections around the district

People actually do that?

Who won?

Actually, it looks like 13O division for nationals is only 12 team format, so I guess they are are out 😬