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Again, thanks for the advice. I’m not sure if the person advising on Pens is serious or not but I feel like thats the image I get there. It makes it hard to qualify programs without personally having any relevant hockey experience.

Thanks for all the replies so far. That is my concern with continuing at Lemieux. With a couple seasons experience in the skating program it seems to have changed for the negative after the lady who ran it previously had a split with them. Having seen some mite games there while waiting in the rink it seemed like coaches weren't engaged during games but that isn't fair to judge them on my minimal observation. I would like to find a program where kids are coached and not left to run a drill after 1 demonstration and they either figure it out or they don't with no additional guidance. I would like to see corrections and direction given, practicing something the wrong way doesn't seem beneficial to me in any way and probably forms bad habits. Maybe that's asking for too much but it sounds like RMU or Bairel would be closer to that. It seems like Bairel and Rmu run one season, a fall through winter, while lemieux is 2 seperate seasons with fall through december then winter starting in Jan. If its too late to get her into one of the other programs is it worth doing Lemieux winter session then jump into another program later or should we just stick with skating for now?

Hello. Hoping I can get some guidance and opinions here. I tried to do a forumn search but didnt really get what I was looking for. As someone new to youth hockey I have no idea how to navigate the “career path”. Every other sport seems exceptionally easy to understand and is pretty linear but this is a confusing tangle or organizations and tiers and I hope I can get some insight so I’m making a good decision. right now my kid is 6 has been doing some skating lessons since age 3 and did learn to play. I didnt know where to go from there but a coworker told me their kid was doing mites. The 3 rinks closest to us are bairel, RMU, and lemieux. We’ve done skating lessons at lemieux so should I just sign up there or is there a difference? Lemieux has different levels black gold etc. which I guess are tiers for mite. I see baierl has a house league ADM but then there is wildcats adm which is longer than Lemieux’s season but has some tournament and “jamborees”. RMU I think has their colonials adm. I just want my kid to have fun, make some friends, get exercise, and learn the skills to move to the next level if they enjoy it and want to keep playing, which seems even more complicated to figure out with different tiers and clubs. Can anyone help me understand the differences and have opinions on where she’ll get good but fun instruction? thanks