Carl Racki

The funny thing about your statement and the COVID affect is that the US went back to playing/practicing long before Canada(including the top major leagues like the OHL) and Europe. Our boys should actually have an advantage because of COVID as they gotg back to hockey much sooner than Canada and Europe lol

The previous team got smoked by an A/B level men's league team last year I believe in a pre season scrimmage. A lot of people still went and really enjoyed the games from what I heard. Definitely no type of stepping stone lol. Just fun/entertaining hockey to watch on a budget. If players and people enjoy it I think it is great. If they market it well and make it entertaining I think it will do ok. Definitely not a profit machine or stepping stone to anywhere though.

North Pitt has taken equipment/hockey stuff in the past

I hope you are misinformed and no one ever payed $20,000 or more to play Icemen even all in lol

I like how midget 15u-18u just says "contact for pricing" lol. Must be reasonable!

I truly hope no one is stupid enough to pay $60-70k to play hockey anywhere lol. By the time you are done you could have paid for college a few times especially after they pay their advisor lol

Pens Elite has a great program. My only complaint is the expense of the program. Hockey is in a sad state where a lot of people way over pay chasing a dream. It sometimes ruins families lives while people are making profits off of them and their child chasing a dream. It is nice when there are other options but those do tend to be limited and not consistent. Kudos to teams that make them available from time to time

I thought they came from there to play here?? Lol

Here are some thoughts from a guy who has been involved in hockey for a long time. My sons played at Pens Elite. I can tell you at the squirt age they never worked on the power play or pk. They would go over it a little in film or off ice. 99% of the time at squirt they just ran their lines through. It was all about skill development but would work on concepts off ice. I don't believe any team should be spending ice time working on a power play at the squirt level and the high level teams typically don't unless things have changed. As for parent coaches it can go either way but you need them. There are not enough good paid coaches out there for high level and Varsity teams in my opinion much less all the travel/ other school teams. If you have a very qualified parent coach it may be a much better option than a lot of paid depending on experience and motives. If the parent coach is an issue the organization needs to let them go. I will say years ago my one son's team had a great parent coach (no it wasn't me) and because so many parents are anti parent coaches the organization went to a paid none parent coach. Myself and another player moved on from that team as when I talked to the "new none parent coach" I was very concerned with how he would run the team. That team went from 40 wins to only ten the next season. The season after the whole team pretty much fell apart. THE MOST IMPORTANT THING AT SQUIRT IS THAT THE PLAYER IS HAVING FUN, SKILL DEVELOPMENT, AND A POSITIVE COACHING ENVIRONMENT

Here is a thought, let him do what he prefers. If he really wants to play both for a team, find a team that will let him. If he really wants to play just goalie, let him do that. At the end of the day neither will ruin his career. PS he may change his mind and switch back and forth. If he is really an athlete that has high level potential it won't matter at this age believe me.

Good luck! Seems like pretty good hockey. I remember last year I saw on this post Pitt lost to UNLV. That's the same UNLV that beat NCAA D1 #6 Denver. Just goes to show how good the top ACHA teams are. Denver isn't a bottom dweller NCAA D1 team.

This is why I got involved in this topic. PULL IT UP THE REF NEVER THREW A PUNCH! You accusing him of that is wrong. He didn't TAKE A SWING at the player. For someone to post BS like this here is really wrong. That is why I stepped in. I don't have kids in that division. No skin in the game. Just wrong to accuse the ref of that. Watch it again. I posted the Livebarn time/date. Must have been your kid or team to make garbage like that up! You should be embarrassed. Took a swing???? Yeah poor kid

I guess using a similar example twice is an obsession. I will save that one for the wpapolice.net next time. Sorry

Must have been your son and his team

No, not the ref. I didn't even look to see who it was. Just tired of people blaming police, blaming officials, when the do stupid things. The ref was out there doing a good job of dealing with the BS that occured. What is he supposed to do? The one kid is pushing him while he is escorting the other player who was out of control off. Then you accuse the ref of abuse???? Yeah, I have a problem with that. Put yourself in that situation and how would have you handled it better? Lace them up! I thought he did pretty good considering both of those players where pushing him and wrestling with him while escorting the one off after several altercations for that one player. Clearly he couldn't let him go until he was off the ice. He tried it once and how did that work out.