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Wes

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  1. Makes sense, but there is literally nowhere around there to park multiple busses, except maybe the Walmart parking lot like a mile away on the next hill over.
  2. Not that I'm going, but where does BB expect people to park for the Nationals @ Center Ice? Heck, for just some regular busy weekends people park all the way down the drive in the front. I'm trying to figure out where 12+ teams worth of parents cars are going to park. (??)
  3. Why has the PAHL always kept the stats a secret? That's been going on for a decade I believe.
  4. Regarding scoring/PAHL scoresheets/etc. I was a long-time manager mostly at the AA and AAA level. I didn't care which team was which, I tried to be as accurate as possible both ways with the stats. What I found most of the time is the refs were lazy and would only give me 1 assist most of the time, even though I knew (easily) who had the second assist (for both teams)... I knew how to count shots and never bullcrapped around with padding stats. But I have literally sat next to other teams scorekeepers and they were totally clueless on shots/saves, etc. I've been gone from the PAHL for years, but I still think the dumbest move ever was implementing Fair Play Points.
  5. he's still the commie at CHE as well. Must be nice to dip in all that $$$ https://www.collegehockeyeast.com/personnel I have no idea how he got the PAHL job or the CHE job. He's well connected and I guess that's the key.
  6. Armstrong would easily be in the top 5.
  7. Slightly OT, but how the heck did DF get the position as ED with PAHL when to the best of my knowledge he never had anything to do with them??? WTF? Regardless, he's done nothing to improve anything since we left a few years back. Everything still sucks... Just like the WPIAL.
  8. I was just going to say the same thing to @hockeyisgreat but you beat me to it. They get paid $$$ and try to skate by with the minimum amount of work possible. Strange how nothing has changed much since Darcee left.
  9. The PAHL and Midam are total hack buddy-buddy orgs. I couldn't break the glass to get in there, despite trying for years when my kids were active. They want the status quo and nothing more. No ambition, nobody with motivation to improve. The top 2 people in that org are stooges... none of this is surprising.
  10. Our daughter was in this situation. We told the PAHL and PIHL coaches that the AAA team was her priority. They didn't have a problem... But scenarios from coach to coach would vary. But I get it that everyone is worried about lawsuits, etc.
  11. As an RMU alum, I have ZERO idea where on campus they can fit a multi plex arena setup, without demolishing existing buildings - or filling in the valley on the back of campus. There is not much room on that property.
  12. "Gender Equality Issue..." 😵‍💫 So glad I'm not dealing with this bullcrap anymore. The PAHL and Midam are run by inbred stooges.
  13. This would be surprising, given the state of the environment and that hockey is one of the most expensive sports... but never underestimate the pens attempts to mess up youth hockey.
  14. The only org my son played on, and we felt the tryouts were fair and unbiased (for the most part LOL), was with Allegheny in the PRE-BlackBear days. They would bring in outside evaluators and grade the players based on what they saw, not by how many years they played for Allegheny.
  15. this This pretty much sums up our experience from 2010-2020 with 2 kids playing AA/AAA hockey who both were very good players. Never home, bank account drained, cars with 170,000 miles on them. Neither child playing college hockey. Son plays beer league.
  16. Are these the same two documents?? They look the same.
  17. Thank you. I will take credit for keeping the players somewhat inline on the teams managed throughout the years. I take no responsibility for the parents, although I don't recall issues there either. Maybe you never were on an excellently managed team.
  18. I can 100% assure you bad behavior / mouthing off, unsportsmanlike was never part of any team or from any of the coaches that I managed during timeframe. The consistent thing was that our team was usually received many more penalties each game at home. it is what it is.
  19. Between NHL and amateurs, I have probably watched 3,000 games. Not once have I ever seen a player do that with his leg. And if you look very closely at the slow motion, he gets Adam directly on the leg spin then kicks again at him on his way down. There are two skate movements towards his head. I have no idea how you see this as accidental, when he was BRUSHED - if that- but Adam's teammate, certainly not to the extent that his leg powerfully and directionally swings fully around and goes at a 30 degree upward motion. I have seen hits where the player is fully spun around wildly, but due to gravity and physics, the legs are usually swinging level, or most of the time, downward. This player swings his leg around and flings it so hard he flips himself to the ground --- not as the result of a check. Watch it again.
  20. I can assure you the teams that I managed during the timeframe I referenced did not have these sorts of kids on it. As manager I was at every single game and never saw any behavior like this, period. But we're likely in two different age ranges and times, so I can't speak for other teams that I wasn't part of.
  21. I haven't heard that. But don't know how that can be construed as an accident.
  22. If you haven't seen the snippet of Adam Johnson getting hit in the throat by a "reverse roundhouse kick" by the other player, you might want to check it out. Once again, I've seen a ton of hockey over the years, and never saw anyone fall over on their own and then do a leg swing behind them and up in the air. Looked very intentional to me. The player also casually watched the aftermath and skated away, instead of rushing back to help the player which was another telltale sign to me. I didn't post the video here but it is all over twitter. I hope this is investigated, but from the races of the parties involved, along with the immediate "freak injury" crap from the media, I'm not confident this will be looked at. I'd especially like to hear from some of the old timers on here about their thoughts on this one.
  23. As far as Center Ice aka Palmer Imaging Arena, even though my son played AA there for multiple years roughly 2012-2020, we would very often routinely get "reverse homered" by the refs and pretty much always be on the short end of the stick in terms of power plays. And our teams were skill based, not goon based AA teams like other teams in that timeframe. So I will disagree that during that timeframe at that level home teams had the advantage, because we were constantly on the short end at home there.
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