Eddie Shore

Wow, great point. Never thought of it that way. Yes, Pitt and others have some Junior players but most freshmen are 18 year old AA/AAA players.

they do nothing for any youth local hockey compared some other pro clubs

Pick a school that will provide a good education and look good on a resume. College is for an education, even club hockey coaches will tell you that. Any club player will tell you they are playing for the brotherhood, to stay in shape and the joy they get from playing. At the end of the day you will do what you want, just saying that after graduation hockey pretty much ends, for college play for the enjoyment but grade’s always come first

Do yourselves a favor. If you kid winds up playing ACHA, have them focus on grades first and hockey second. Even the coaches will tell them that. Club hockey is for fun, friends and exercise. And a little bit of competition. It will be done before they know it and the grades will taken them farther than hockey will. Just trying to give some serious advice

Sarcasm…….. Looking at potential NHL while still in Mites? I guess I am really going to have to mark all my posts when I am being sarcastic. Sarcasm starts here: Plus, everyone knows you really can’t judge good NHL potential until kids get to Pee Wee’s. Sarcasm ends here ?

Yep, with behavior like that these kids are never going to get to the NHL. Someone needs to keep them in line.

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It was sarcasm. Next time I will try to be more clear

Really? You did see where they said, “hey let’s put an expansion team in an area where an NCAA D1 program just folded, but our model will be successful because we will put our team 15 minutes up the road where all the rich people live”. I’m being told this will make is a huge success……….

A USHL expansion team? The area doesn’t support the Junior Team, the ACHA club teams or the NCAA D1 & D3 organizations. Guess they want to play in front of a bunch of empty seats ?

Might as well start now as that’s where they will end up don’t worry though I have the utmost faith that the parents who ruined youth hockey and now are starting their way through club hockey won’t be satisfied there, and in 4-8 years will destroy beer league next ?

Top divisions at UPMC and Ice Castle, Delmont etc, have a lot of Pitt players as well. I think the team that won it all last summer at UPMC was all Pitt

Is Marc the guy who teaches power skating out of the Bairel rink in Cranberry?

So, what is the definition of a “high-level” for a female coach?

Yep, as far as Pitt goes the administration and the school doesn’t like the hockey club and sticks it to them whenever they can. Tryouts used to have 100+ kids at it every year for two teams. Now it’s about 35 for just one team. This is not how an organization gets treated in a “hockey town” ?