Carl Racki

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.

Again, it's people like you that are the problem. I went back to watch it for a third time to be sure I didn't miss something. The one player that the ref was escorting off the ice kept pushing and fighting with the ref. The other clown kid comes over while the ref is getting the tall kid off and repeatedly PUSHES the ref. What business does clown kid two even have getting in there and touching the ref. EXTREMELY stupid. The ref pushes him back SEVERAL times while getting the other clown off the ice. Then ref pushes clown kid two back so he could back into the ice and clown kid two falls over and punches him. Clown boy two will be done for the season. There was ZERO reason for him to go over to the ref, zero reason to push the ref numerous times and no excuse for punching the ref. The ref simply pushed him back out of the way to get back on the ice. THE REF ISNT EVEN LOOKING AT HIM WHEN HE PUSHES HIM BACK AND HE FALLS AS THE REF IS STILL TRYING TO GET CLOWN BOY OFF AND THE DOOR CLOSED! PEOPLE LIKE YOU ARE THE PROBLEM! Again, they make excuses for other people's clear stupidity. He had zero reason to be over there. Same thing happens when people resist arrest and something bad happens to them. I can assure you if anything would happen to that ref for how he handled things you will not have refs for the rest of the season. Looks like you better lace them up! I would love to see how you would have handled it. Livebarn 12/2 10;30pm 25min mark. Watch it close.

Your either kidding or a moron. The ref is trying to escort off a kid that was already pulled out of multiple fights. That kid should be done for the season. Pulled the ref down multiple times. Then the other kid that punched the ref was pushing the ref while he was trying to get the other player off the ice. He then swung at the ref. I WILL BE SHOCKED IF HE IS NOT GONE FOR THE SEASON. A scrum is one thing but these kids can't be pushing, punching refs and need to stop once it is broke up. This isn't the NHL and I don't want to be paying for a four man officiating team because a few kids make poor decisions and you blame the ref. Your the clown that resists arrest and then cries police brutality. Clowns like you are why it is hard to get good police officers, refs,...

That is why they buy so many rinks in the same area. They like to price set. Then they make teams play in their leagues, use their streaming,.... They like the monopoly model! Horrible for youth sports

So who has the best band program then?

I have seen it numerous times over the years where more athletic players that started later, around 12 yrs old, and passed the Junior Pens players, Hornets,... Most of those players that started late got their start by playing dek hockey and or roller as that was what they could afford. When they got the opportunity to play ice they were far hungrier and would catch/pass kids. They also usually beat them in beer league. I have also seen many players that were top players in the area move on once they hit 16,17 years old old. Not even necessarily burnt out but just want to play highschool hockey with buddies and have a life or move on to a new sport which they have become passionate. You have to find the happy medium and multi sport athletes have proven to be the best time and time again. Someone once said to me their player wanted to do skills every day. I heard someone else say I am sure a lot of young kids would eat candy for every meal also but that doesn't mean it is the best for them.

Yes, another black bear money grab. A few years ago they had some good teams. Now it looks like they allow any wanna be AAA team in it no matter how bad they are as long as they a listed AAA. Do you think they turned down the 2009 Vengeance because they were to bad? I doubt it, I think they would take any teams money that calls themselves AAA.

It's coming I am sure. Sleezy way to run youth sports

Yes, said it when they bought their first rink in the area. BB is no good for hockey. They just want to monopolize everything. Rinks, leagues, live barn, the associations that play in their rinks, tournaments, .... (which are WAY over priced).

Yes absolutely ridiculous especially since it is such a mixed bag of teams.

So all AAA schools in the playoffs? Franklin should be an interesting team this season. To early to tell but good start.

I wasn't shocked by the former SV coach being let go. If you look back at the 12 yrs he was a head coach he finished on average 5th place for the regular season. That's not a great average over 12 yrs. for an organization the size of Seneca Valley. In that same 12 year period NA finished 1st or 2nd 7 of 12 years and had 5 championship appearances. I am not shocked by them trying a different coach. I do know him and he is a great guy and really loves the game. Hopefully he can prove himself at Central now although I do think he will have to sit out their 2nd game tonight as they took 12 penalties in their first game. Hopefully he can turn that team around.

I like Lebo or Seneca. Franklin will be interesting to watch.