SuperStar

Go Indiana!

On 1/29/2019 at 8:03 AM, Bob Loblaw said:

I'm gonna set the record straight with you son, since you like to throw up links. FACT: The program is only three years old and never had a varsity team. Kind of hard to do at that stage when you don't have the upper-classmen to do it. You want to point out how  Central is so much better, it's a lot easier when you have been around for a long time and you have an all boy enrollment that eclipses North Catholic. 

Next, let's talk about the middle school teams, since you know so much about them. Most people including pihl realize that middle school teams change from year to year especially with small schools. Here's another fact for you. Last year's team was compromised of all eighth graders except for 2. Of the 15 skater roster, 10 of those kids were from Catholic Schools. 1 was from a public school, but planned on, and did enroll at North as a freshman. 4 came from Knoch, who didn't have the numbers to field a team. Fact: when pihl placed the team, it had 11 skaters, hardly a juggernaut. The Knoch kids came after it became apparent they wouldn't have a team. With that being said, everybody was well aware we were in the wrong division, and we tried to change it but it was too late. Happens every year, teams get placed wrong. It's easy to do at that level. Fact: The coach was very adamant about not running the score up on other teams, something that couldn't be said about some other teams in that the tier that were placed low. Fact: the team went out of their way to play scrimmages and tournaments with upper tier teams because it was good for our players. Fact: the team opted up to high division 2 in the playoffs because it was the right thing to do.(and lost by the way) 

That brings us to this season. Obviously the middle school team had to regenerate after losing so many older players. But what I really want to address are your "mind numbing similarities". Do you actually look at the links you put up? If you did you would see that the JV division is super tight. Look at the gf/ga. Look at the scores of the games. How in the hell can you make the accusation that the JV team is beating everyone up? The FACTS state otherwise. 

 

The issue with this long-winded post is that the JV division is tight when you look at teams with underclassmen. The NC team is mostly of older players. The only team run the right way from the beginning has been the MS team.

1 hour ago, Bob Loblaw said:

I'm beginning to wonder if you can read. Isn't that what I said? 

Einstein, I meant that the school and Excel are connected which means the team as well. The school likely dictates how the team is run and the puppets do as they are told. If you think people are happy with the way things are being run then no one in the organization has a clue.

58 minutes ago, Bob Loblaw said:

The Excel Program is between the Penguins and the school. North Catholic Ice Hockey is it's own separate entity, and a club sport, the same as any other high school hockey organization.

If you believe that Excel and the school are not connected, then your drinking there Kool-Aid. 

9 minutes ago, Bob Loblaw said:

Well "Superstar" I'm not sure where you get your your information, but let me correct you on the "rumblings" that you are hearing. 

     1.The Middle School program is not going anywhere.  Half of the current roster came up through the middle school program. Matter of fact, only 5 players on the current roster we're not with the team since it's inception. 

2. Because we didn't want to cut any players, we have a scratch policy that moves up the line beginning with freshmen. To this date 2 players have been scratched for a game. So those "many parents upset that their kids are being sat out GAMES" isn't even possible 

 

3. There are currently 2 Excel players on the pihl team. Both of these players had to appeal pihl to play. One is a goalie. Most of the Excel players either are not allowed to play school, or choose not to due to their high commitment teams. With that said, any Excel player that hasn't been in the school for a year has to sit out a year to even be eligible to play for the school 

4.  We will field as many teams as we can next season. The numbers will dictate that. 

5. Before you start slandering somebody who gives up a whole lot of his time to make this a quality organization, you should get your facts straight.

Clearly you are part of the "in crowd" there. It would help to actually check with the actual people who pay to play.

2 minutes ago, fafa fohi said:

Your comment does not make any sense.  My son's team played them earlier this year and he told me there is no influx of Excel kids on their current roster.  So if that is the case, how could players that "began as middle schoolers be sat out of games to make room for the Excel superstars?"  

It does make sense as they have people on the roster who are Excel. They rotate through freshmen who started when they were MS players in order to allow Excel and older kids to play. There is no loyalty to the kids who built the program from the ground up which was the intention of the people who had originally restarted the program. They are planning on fielding a varsity only next year for numerous reasons including because the delusional president of the association is in it for personal reasons instead of the good of the program.

24 minutes ago, Novos51 said:

Good thing they are a pure school and don’t have to play the dirty coops

They're about as pure as the people who took over the program.

Hearing rumblings that North Catholic is bagging its "grass roots" program where they developed kids from their middle school team and are moving toward utilizing the Excel players. To the extent that they will only field a varsity team next year. Many players and parents upset over this as kids who began as middle schoolers are being sat out of games to make room for the Excel superstars.

I am sure this is not how the program was set up to be run when it was resurrected.

Maybe the PIHL will step in and not allow this type of situation.

On 8/20/2018 at 8:30 AM, discodan said:

Was at that game. Looked like both teams were placed correctly. I would be a little concerned with the Preds playing with 12 skaters but I would guess they have a full roster at that level. SCIR had a full bench. Game would of probably went the other way if the Preds had a deeper bench but who knows. Looks like teams are fairly even.

Since this is the first AA 16U game played, what was the speed like? Are these first year midgets or a mixture? Was it a physical game and how was it called?