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I would contact the coaches. If you are staying at the same organization it probably won't be an issue as they will know your kid.

Yes

I can promise we try. There are some exceptions (insane parents or kids) but are they really the best? Rarely. Some people don't understand if your kid is in the box 50% of the game and costing us FPP you aren't one of the best regardless of your points. At the same time we really try to be open and fair.

I might nominate this as the best post on this forum in years.

I agree except no one is disputing the aviators parents were nuts. If a kid is nuts, that's one thing. Parents? Different story. Even the aviators dad didn't say his parents weren't saying crap about the girls on the team or yelling to hurt kids. That's never acceptable. If the kid (s) were out of control like the bleeding from being cornered and beaten up, someone should file a safesport report.

So that gives the parents a right to be insane towards kids? Serious question.

Our team is getting ready to have a pretty competitive, higher level tryout. Looking at our roster, our head coach (I'm manager) gave everyone a good assessment at the end of the season where they stood and what they were doing well or not. He told kids if they were likely longshots to make the team again and he told the kids who were the best that he hopes they stay and gave them skills to work on. At this point, I'm starting to get a lot of calls about the tryouts. We don't need to make a ton of money off tryouts so that isn't an incentive. Anyone else have experience walking the line between telling everyone to try out and telling people probably 2/3 of the team is definitely locked in? I'm also wondering - we use a tryout rubric that rates kids during tryouts. Has anyone figured out how to incorporate past performance (last season) into something like that? I guess it could be positive or negative but you couldn't do it at all for kids who weren't on your team? I feel like doing it openly could be good because obviously you could have a better tryout than the best kid on the team but we aren't cutting him based on last year?

I might need to see the livebarn on this one. Give us a date and time.

Sounds like you might be one of the crazy parents if you are defending that kind of behavior from adults at a peewee game ?

Their major failure was the 16U team, which is their most important team.

Most of this is true but one caveat - many if not most of the larger orgs are doing birthyear teams and most of the birthyear teams play single A (usually black) their minor year. So you could be the best in a birthyear in an organization playing A Major Black if you are the minor year. Also you always have the outlier teams that say they can't field AA teams and go undefeated in A Major Gold ?

In my experience they will replace anyone who isn't related to someone within the organization. Remember it is hard to make an impression large enough to sway them to cut a current player in just a tryout. Also remember the drills they use for tryouts are the drills these kids have done every day in practice for the past year. If you are serious about it and feel your kid really has the skill of the kids that made it, put them in skills and drills at UPMC and have them get to know the coaches. I wouldn't say it is that hard at all to crack the roster from outside except the caveat that the kids who are there practice the tryout stuff constantly.

Horrible person. Let's hope he gets help and uses the rest of his life to do something good.

Agree with all except I think blue mites worse than reds for parents. The B parents and the faux AAA are the worst and the middle teams.the best.

Lebo usually the most mild from what I have seen. SHAHA hit or miss but has some really wild birthyears and parents. Same with Southpointe. Agree preds especially at the "AAA" level the parents are absolutely insane. Badgers and SCIR I have seen some craziness as well. RMU generally I've seen decent behavior. It's also easy to spread out in the nice rink there. Overall I'd say Lebo Hornets your best bet overall but obviously there are exceptions to everything.

Agreed. Fridays would be a disaster with club travel.

$2750 for mites seems a bit steep! What do they charge for elite mites in Cranberry?

At least they haven't flooded the forums with excuses and kids telling us why they deserve a chance?

After Peters put a beatdown on Lebo a coach came out for the next practice with a chrome green helmet and white gloves. I thought Flavio was here to get me.

North Pittsburgh, Preds, SHAHA, Rebellion, Arctic Foxes, Steel City, and maybe some more were also listed in the main tryout thread if anyone is interested.

They are spending money this off-season for upgrades (I think I heard new boards, glass, and maybe something with the seating?) I don't think that's happening.

I believe all SHAHA teams get two practices a week but depending on what level you are depends on if you get any full ice practices and some of the lower teams even at younger levels have some pretty bad practice times. They have the advantage that the YMCA does little of their own programming there and I don't think any other teams play out of there except Bethel Park? No figure skating, open skating, or regular stick time to my knowledge.

Good question. I don't know the PIHL board well but I would assume if Montour pushes forward (I doubt they will - would assume they drop it now) I bet PIHL punishes them hardcore if the judge rules against Montour. Like a season ban at least?

I think the playoffs going on as scheduled most of the kids were either banned, put on double unsecret probation, or lost interest and left. Will probably quiet back down until tryouts start around here.

I agree with you depending on the amount of travel they are forced to do.