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Not really across all four. Might be some decent matchups across two teams in a couple divisions especially if they are playing JV kids.

I think PR plays to win. I've heard they don't play their JV players but I can't confirm or deny that. Most schools seem to take it like a preseason and give JV kids a shot.

If they followed through with their plans to have only two teams at each Birthyear now they should have plenty of extra ice

Not telling you how to run your forum but I would delete the offending ad as well. Also as stated above it hurts my eyes.

I think that might be the vengeance AA (Tier 2) team but I could be wrong. I don't think they are doing a tier 1 team. Vengeance now being all the SCIR teams. I also don't know if they are all doing PAHL or THF/AHF

Canon Mac was not competitive last year. They are an obvious bump down as was Baldwin.

I was kidding hence the laughing face.

Oh maybe they should have moved down then 😂 And yes - Franklin Regional is going to be rough.

Will add to that Central Catholic moving up confuses me a bit unless they added a lot of new players. The teams that moved down to AA were bottom dwellers and needed to move. Overall very good.

I would say about time South Fayette and TJ move up to AAA. Probably should have happened a couple years ago.

I think at this point no one takes this seriously. It's just overpriced summer hockey.

Ice Castle

Call the health department. Seriously.

I did hear the tournament is going to be expanded this year. Don't know the details.

I think that only applies to AHF league games which they control all the teams since they run the league. Im guessing they have no control over the PAHL teams or PAHL games.

Thanks for the most detail I've been able to find to date in this. Not sure I agree with your approach to change to something akin to a "3 stars" approach but at least you have specifics in how it's done. I'd recommend putting the details on your website.

I don't think it's corrupt honestly. If I had an opinion, and this is my opinion of midam in general, they have a bunch of old dinosaurs who always do things the way they have always been done. If I had to guess at evaluators (since I have to) they are a bunch of old dinosaurs who do things the way they have always been done. Again I don't want to make this about specific players but at one birthyear the consensus two best pens defensemen didn't make it. That shocks me. Some of the kids who did make it shocks me. I could be totally wrong - maybe the consensus is wrong? Maybe the evaluators are so good they see things other coaches and fans don't see. Seriously. Transparency would help a lot. If you say you are taking regular seasons into consideration, for instance, how do people in the top 10 scoring in the country get left out? Maybe they are lazy defensively or there are other factors but it's very bizarre and without knowing what they are looking at, seems worthless. I would think evaluators at a USA hockey level they should have thick enough skins to ignore film or complaints sent to them. Would be very curious who they are.

I didn't see anything on the midam website as to who the evaluators were. I know the website is awful so that could be part of why I missed it but definitely didn't and still dont see it.

Any documentation to back this up?

Back to my question: who is doing the evaluating? What are they evaluating the players on?

I guess I'm going to reframe this a bit because I really didn't mean it to be about specific players. Yes - me and Joe Blow could go ahead and take the entire Pens team and send them on. My complaint is that's what the evaluators seem to be doing without looking at season stats (even though they say they do) or even actual performance at the camp. Anyone could do that. If they can't sort through the next 25 or so kids without just doing what I could do without even showing up, that makes the camp a money grab.

Someone told me the ice mine closed but I guess not! Great location 😀

My understanding is PAHL can request a waiver for these rules. If that is true they should. If not then someone just made it up.

I know at least three kids across two birthyears who were in the top 10 of their birthyears and didn't make it out of the original midam camp let alone selected for us national development camp after the second tryout and that's based on both stats and general consensus. The process itself seems really vague. Who are the evaluators? What are the criteria they are looking for? The website says they take into account season stats but that obviously isn't true based on the kids I'm talking about. Those kids also scored in the top 10 of everyone at the first camp. I also know kids who couldn't make aaa teams (even faux ones) made it past the first round. That being said I think it's all a moot point because, yes, if midam is lucky one kid might make it to the actual team, but the whole process seems shrouded in secrecy and silliness. Seems like a giant money grab to me.

Just to clarify I mean the ones who made it past the midam camp. Some of the choices midam evaluators made were mind boggling. There were obviously some snubs to make it to the midam camp to begin with but you would think they would be better at evaluating once you get in.