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That story is insane. Over a holding call?

Just remember to focus more on the rating (as someone said above) than the ranking. The rankings will change wildly because many many teams had not yet played the five game minimum to be included in week 1.

To my knowledge no, you do not need parental consent to treat or transport by ambulance in an emergency or injury situation.

Just curious cause there are a lot of comments here recently about "waiting on your kids to get hurt". Unless you are an EMT or other medical professional (and there isn't another one there) what exactly are you doing that you wouldn't be doing in the parking lot? I should hope no one in here is a parent who would try to jump on the ice?

I agree with everything said here. The more games a team has played and the more outside their own league the more accurate the ratings are. In general they are a great guide from January on if you are still able to do scheduling. It can help to look at last year's rankings for scheduling this year as well but you have to be cautious because players can change from year to year obviously.

Are you able to guarantee full rosters and spectators? Is there a refund if not? Thanks!

This is certainly interesting. Not sure if it would ever be large enough or practical for hockey but cool idea anyway. https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2020/09/30/kaufmanns-building-rooftop-ice-rink/amp/

Anyway, things are getting back to normal in the hockey world. Hopefully we continue trending the right direction and we can have a real season.

I think it's kinda the opposite (assuming there isn't a stay). I bet we get most of a season in and February ish things get called back (pending who wins the elections)

I'm guessing the stay will be granted by the federal appeals court panel next week but I hope I'm wrong. That's the next step now that the judge who actually made the ruling denied the stay. If the panel rejects a stay we will be good until they rule on the case and st that pace probably not til next year so we should get the season in normally.

I think we are basically on track now.

Right on time! https://tribhssn.triblive.com/gov-wolf-legislation-to-allow-more-sports-spectators-will-be-vetoed-today/

As Eddie has pointed out before, he is one of the people who has been directly impacted and harmed by the terrible policy choices that have been made by our governor. Most hockey people are lucky and don't have to do anything but teach their kids and work at home but he felt the brunt that millions of others in our state did. While the reply might have been a little crude, he's just tired of rich, unaffected crybabies talking about how good this shutdown crap has been because they live in their own little luxury bubbles. If you lost your job and most of your family income like millions of regular people because wolf is an @$#hat you might be angry too.

What locker room are you in ???!!! I kid it's a good point about locker rooms. ?

I'm not sure A) This will mention hockey and B) it will impact any hockey except for school hockey even if it does, but this could be interesting especially because they are going to address indoor specifically: https://tribhssn.triblive.com/gov-wolf-schools-will-receive-updated-guidance-on-sports-spectators-this-week/

Well the law is gone as of yesterday so good for them

Probably too soon to react to the court decision + the stuff I was asking earlier about what to do if the season switched mid season

Yes I guess it depends on your definition of private but almost all the rinks are holding to some sort of restriction. Seems like RMU, Baierl, and Shahas ymca are very strict. But even other rinks are cautious about allowing other teams to come play even if they are bending the rules with parents for practices or private practices. I'm not sure a single rink is "business as usual".

I hope so. As bad as it's going to be for our taxes in the future, we need something like that to prevent this stuff from happening again in the future.

I agree with you there too about the rinks. According to to the lawyer video posted above we can play full games based on mid am guidance.

So what I am hearing is we can now have full hockey games until Wolf gets his stay and since his order was vacated MidAm would approve since we would be following state law.

Yeah you two both are hitting on my main questions. I can see some real heat coming if some teams play "real" games and some play limited player games, especially if some are more than others because of venue or timing.

Here is another question - if we start the season with some weird format is everyone ok if we were to be able to switch halfway through to a different format? Could make for some interesting arguments.

It's all political - what about it? We can all decide how "purely" based on the opinion itself but a lot of the points are important - can an executive unilaterally decide when to lock down private business? With no metrics? With no timeline?

I wonder if that has an impact on ice rinks? I'm sure Wolf will appeal and maybe get an emergency injunction to stop them from opening anything.