Wes

Can someone post an update on the 18uaaa bracket ASAP? Thx

Sunday nights won't work for us, too many have High School practices, so any games would need to be earlier than ~4pm on Sundays or perhaps during the week. We are open until 3/26.

Don't get me started on MidAm. "The old boys club". Impossible to volunteer for / get onto. No fresh blood. Blah.

Ouch to all the parents who paid for their "AAA" teams. YIKES

Local PGH area 18uAA team seeking scrimmages with PIHL team or 18u teams outside Pittsburgh between now and 3/27. Your rink or ours. We also have a Wednesday practice slot we could play in at our rink. Private message me to discuss.

EPIC ->"he was checking to see if he was ok"

Please send me the link to the FB page where this is being discussed...

There is NO WAY that can be logically explained. Horrible. If that doesn't warrant a season ending suspension, I don't know what does.

What exact teams are these? The goalie should be gone for the season. Disgusting.

A little birdie tells me more information about this will eventually come out.

That's a very good question!

Ok, NOOB.

I'd say at best that's 50/50 right now...

I will shoot the PIHL an email and volunteer.

I would like to run a girls showcase over the summer in Pgh. I have the time and contacts. I would also be glad to lead work on a PIHL girls co-op setup. Maybe North-East-South-West pgh regional teams for starters?? I am SURE if we could network the high schools and girls teams hard we could get this going. Extra ice time is what it's all about... and for the ladies meeting new friends and having fun.

I would love to see a girls division, but how are high schools going to find 10+ players per school in Western PA? I can see JOINT teams forming to get enough numbers, but I can't see more than a VERY small # of schools having a goalie + 8-9 skaters.

Off Topic, but I went to Mario's very first Pens practice at Mt. Lebanon. That was a really cool experience. When the Pens practiced at Southpointe, all the big wigs would sit in the restaurant along the glass and watch practice.

You make a lot of good points here. Especially with the jump right to 2 & 10's as opposed to 2x2 min penalties. 16 minutes in PIM limit for FPP is ridiculous at 16uAA let alone 18uAA. Hockey is so fast and aggressive at that level. 2 months left of the PAHL. Thank God, and good riddance. = So Grumpy, given that the younger guy called literally 95% of the calls on the Huskies and many were questionable, is there EVER any evaluation for referees that will review this sort of a game and help them to fix their game? From the team perspective there NEVER seems to be any punishment to refs for blowing up a game like this. The officiating this year at 18uAA has been ALL OVER THE PLACE. in one prior game a week or 2 back, literally every scrum was a 2 on both players. in other games, its a no call or take one kid. I just don't see any consistency among refs.

#11 was slashed in the hand/fingers late in the 1st period in the corner. He pulled off his glove and was bleeding. The ref came over to him and he said something to the effect "they fucking slashed and cut my finger". Ref gives him a 2. Kid goes to PB and says to the ref something close to "why am I going to the PB, they fucking cut my finger?". Ref gives him a GM. I heard it, I was there. I've never heard a 2 minute let alone GM called when someone was injured and bleeding, but this started the dominos of 2 & 10's that the younger ref was handing out. It was a disgrace.

The game was out of hand way before the brawl with 2:30 left. Halfway through the second period it was 42-2 in PIM and you could feel the anger building from the Huskies Parents (due to the lack of calls on preds and excessive calls on Huskies), the tension building in the players and the coaches. I've been to a thousand youth hockey games and I've never witnessed a game where the PIM were like this 20 minutes into a game, where 99% of the calls were against 1 team. All those calls were made by the ONE ref. It wasn't until one of the Huskies coaches (not the HC) chirped the younger ref about all the penalties going one way, that the OLDER ref chimed in and called a few on the Preds the last few minutes of the second. That coach got a 2 min. unsportsman like penalty but it obviously woke up the older ref and he called a few so the scoresheet wouldn't look so bad. The fact of the matter there was something going on there with the younger ref and the Huskies. Right before the brawl the penalties were around 60-10. When a ref singlehandedly calls 55+ of the 60 PIM and only ~4 PIM on the other team, it's going to cause hostility no matter what. No way to avoid that. Everyone on the one team is going to be boiling. And at that point the players already know they've lost their FPP plus lost another FPP point, so who cares anymore about taking penalties.

I was there when the pens were doing training camp a Long time ago. Ok so I guess it was the 90's ?

Scoresheet of the Preds/Huskies game. The times are in reverse, so you have to subtract the time shown from 15:00 to get the actual game time. https://www.pahockey.com/game/game_sheet/29564172

The PAHL games are entered online into SportsEngine (post game) by the manager of the home team.

That's great to hear that Southpointe is opening the second sheet of ice. I really like that rink. First visited there in the 80's to watch pens training camps.

The prior worst experience I had was I believe in 14u. Also happened at PICE at LONG time ago when two very "veteran" referees let a 13 & 14 year old brawl ensue after a blow out game where Altoona was still trying to score with 1 second left on the clock. The "vets" just stood there and let the young kids have at it. A parent yelled from the stands and told them to go break up the brawl instead of standing at the scorers booth and chatting, and instead they threw out that parent who was trying to protect the kids!! Zero class from Altoona. The coaches almost fought on ice in that one post game. It is a shit show all around.