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This is a definite problem in the high school hockey where they include the st Margaret's tourney as an example.

Are they putting a lot of kids into high level D1? Kids who grew up in Pittsburgh and were developed by them? Serious question. I know the odd 1 or 2 studs and even then some of them left for greener grass.

I also think he's making a good point about the point spread. Even worse than that is when you win a game and the kids feel like garbage because they only won by 3 instead of 5 and other crap like that. Sucks the fun and the interest in winning out. Leaves everyone bitter and jaded.

I'm still shocked about Seneca and USC (in different ways). A little surprised about Lebo as well. We will see if it holds through the rest of the season.

Sounds like all the AAA programs more than PAHL to me.

Points for being funny

Well no one wants to go to alpha either. But point taken.

On a more serious note our geographic location makes Pittsburgh a great place to play hockey. You can, in my opinion, easily drive from Toronto to Nashville North to South if you wanted. Same Boston to Chicago East to West. Add up all the hockey you can get to in between and it's pretty darn good.

I like the analogy but which side are you on? Does Tomlin suck or not? 😂

Armstrong won U18 second division. SHAHA 09 won the 2009 second division. WBS (I know not western PA) won 2010 second division. That's the only PA teams that won I believe. I think there were a ton of teams out there though.

Out of curiosity how do you make these rankings?

Who had unrealistic expectations? Serious question too. Not an SV parent so I might have missed something.

Well after the first couple weeks AAA scores are all over the map. Almost looks like Rock Paper Scissors. Seneca hasn't looked nearly as strong as I would have expected. Player availability? Who knows?

Your larger point is correct but the hockey environment was very different back then. I don't think you can take any player stats from that era and compare it to what someone is doing today. Also even local kids who made the NHL didn't have those high school stats. There is a lot of context missing from that in a bubble.

Yes hockey is idiotic about this

I figured if PIHL can figure it out college teams can 🤣

I wonder why ACHA doesn't participate in my hockey rankings? Genuinely curious. NCAA teams are even listed.

I thought some of them lived in Peters?

Shaler ranked #5 in the poll in the other post wherever that number comes from.

Out of curiosity I looked at the Duquesne M1 ACHA program. Looked like they had around 5 local players and 3/5 played juniors at a high level at least a year. Two didn't have anything listed other than high school so I'm unsure where they played. Is that typical these days? The board seems to think it's almost all top tier junior kids but I'm curious and don't want to Google the other 10 programs in the region.

If you take out Pens elite in every one of these brackets, and Pens elite and Esmark in 18U, looks like you would have some pretty competitive local hockey. Especially at 16U and 14U. Also in general tiers don't seem to matter. Sorry - had to use my lunch break.

Most if not all rinks around here make money. No one is running them from the goodness of their hearts.

Incorrect.

Are they actually playing games on it?