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Patrick Wey played for Boston College and later a few NHL games.

Esmark moving to the newly acquired Rostraver rink and rebranded as the Rostraver Rockets ?

Any updates on this one?

I'm a different thread here, someone said the owner denied it and said the rink was still for sale. So there are at least two different stories floating around and I guess only time will tell.

Everyone taking notes from the Preds. Can't win PAHL and still take your teams independent. Follow the money.

I second this. Ive also seen gold kids cut who weren't dominating in AA either (I think most were good but you would expect them to dominate and I've only seen that in one or two kids).

That's kind of why I'm curious. I heard they did pretty well last year. Did they retain the team? Lose kids? Pick up anyone? Think PAHL would be better at the major birthyear?

Yes south Pittsburgh 10s were independent last year and came back to PAHL this year to play AA. I don't know why but I'd be interested to hear the reasons from someone involved.

Don't worry some Pens squirt dad's will have it all sorted out and numerically ranked by week 1.

https://www.nhl.com/penguins/news/penguins-take-youth-summer-hockey-camp-to-sweden/c-335178244?s=09 Next thing we know Esmark is all Eastern Europeans and Pens Elite is all Scandinavians. Vengeance losing out on the global demand ?

Actually the terrible thing according to the news article is that he actually isn't in trouble due to weird age of consent laws. At a bare minimum they should include some sort of power imbalance thing in here for coaches, teachers, etc.

To all the Dad Coaches. What a thankless job!

This should say "starting at" because you then have to start paying regular team fees for ice and other things. And I don't mean just SHAHA, this is true of all the "AAA" teams including Pens. And if you are worried your kid is on the bubble, get ready to pay for every extra workout, skills training, and in the case of Pens even school ?

Are you including travel? That makes a big difference. I could see 6-8 for all the fees etc without including the travel. Going to be substantially higher depending on game schedules.

https://myhockeyrankings.com/news.php?b=902 Looks like they will stop giving out numerical ranking numbers for first year peewee and under. Thoughts? Does this address some people's concern in here?

Non-profit just means they are supposed to do certain things to benefit the community with their revenues. Look at the billions UPMC rakes in every year and they are non-profit as well. Pens Elite brings in a lot of money and pays some nice salaries to their staff and, like UPMC, are always trying to increase revenue.

As far as I'm concerned it would make it hard to find games to schedule for my teams. I love the rankings. It's a great tool to use to find competitive games. I don't like how people use them to drive the fever craziness though.

https://myhockeyrankings.com/news.php?b=901

There is a demand for money ?

Depends on where people live but I would think SHAHA would be closer for people who live in TJ. If you live south of there southpointe across 70 or down to Morgantown?

It improved in that you can drink the water now without dying. Other than that I'm with you

I think in general North Pittsburgh. Renegades I would lump in with SHAHA and some of the other "rougher" places. Lebo has the best parents but as pointed out above they have one of the worst ice situations in Pittsburgh.

I would like to re-emphasize a point that has been made elsewhere here. It really isn't about having dad coaches or not. It's more about how the dad coaches coach. If the coach only or over-focuses on their own kid (lines, play time, special teams, skill development) then it is a problem. If they are able to see the whole team and develop them, it isn't. There are great dad coaches and terrible dad coaches out there. There are great non-dad coaches and terrible non-dad coaches out there. Also, AAA seems hit or miss on which ones have parent coaches and which ones don't (including PPE), not dissimilar to PAHL AA - so much so I'm not even sure it should be a part of the overall AAA conversation.

Talking about 11s we have hit rock bottom. Have some perspective. Someone needs to replicate @Sauceychart and see how many mites had to play elite to make it to the show ?

Agreed and thanks for sharing this. Finally some real content ?