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This was a very informative post. Need more of these!

Legal fees

I don't remember many people taking up for Black Bear.

Yeah we seem to notice it more I think because we are Pens fans and someone would have to do a count but we started talking about it two games ago and witnessed both teams causing massive interference on plays. Probably more on the Philly side because our zone entries are limited by their trap and we have to dump it so you see it more but the Pens have been guilty several times and no calls there either.

My son and I have been watching and commenting on the lack of interference calls (or late hits if you want to call them that). It's been prevalent thoughout the series honestly on both sides.

I actually like this better than the never ending slush fund requests.

There is no such thing. Tier 1 and 2 don't start til Bantam.

Didn't know Ralph was feeding the poor but I'm sure someone could make a meme of him doing it or maybe even raising the dead.

Totally agree with you on this one. Making Preds Non-Profit but paying your kids to coach/run the pro-shop/etc and taking the ice fees etc is pretty smart. Black Bear has some things to learn from him!

Owning the rink, they make a ton of profit. They could forget the registration money etc but it's an odd setup.

That's insane because they probably make more profit than anyone in the area but who am I to judge?

I assume Preds are but someone correct me if I'm wrong.

The big thing everyone leaves out of these conversations is that money talks. If you are willing to shell it out, you can play almost anywhere. I totally agree playing wise the younger kids are usually the still best kids at an older age but the amount of investment gets insane at some point.

I've seen largely the same with some exceptions of kids who lose interest. But don't forget the money part of the story.

I'd have to do deeper digging to see that. Looked like they grouped them based on myhockeyrankings into a 1 2 and 3.

Actually I was being goofy in the last post but I think the seperation in the teams based on MyHockey says some teams would go somewhere and get killed in games. When that happens they probably would just stay home. I think the idea behind multiple tier ii championships is to get as many people to pay as possible. If you knew you didn't have a chance, why go?

Don't give them any ideas!

I heard that and heard the preds kids did not have a mass exodus to Pens at the 18u level as some predicted. I think kids want to play high school. PAHockey will be happy.

Called making money!

Advice: don't let your kids play hockey. It's a money and time waster and while it's a great sport to watch you should just buy a yacht or something.

Yeah I'm very confused to be honest. More teams going independent will likely kill 19u girls PAHL and water down 14U. 12U - I think this was a tough call by PAHL but they probably should have had two divisions. I think making everything independent is just going to kill girls hockey. But again just my opinion

Also just to clarify if there is something I'm not getting here like the independent teams have all agreed to play each other or PAHL fees are way too high for the benefit let me know. I'm just looking at standings and 2/3 of the divisions look competitive.

I'll bite. 19U the vengeance girls seemed to be dominating so maybe I could see it there. 14U looks to be competitive with the exception of Armstrong (lost almost all their games) and SHAHA (Who went undefeated in regular season but lost to #4 in the division who went on to win.). 12U also looks competitive but very large and probably should have been two divisions based on the standings. Only Armstrong again looks to have struggled. What am I missing?

So in other words chasing As instead of growing girls hockey?

Why are all these teams going independent? Serious question is it that easy to find girls to play against?