Happy Hockey Fan

I’d like to see the rosters with the kids schools listed. For the past five years. I’d bet that there have been enough kids from Canevin that they could field a pure team. If you have the information to prove me wrong I’d like to see that as well. I wouldn’t mind being wrong. But I can’t find enough information to prove it either way.

How do you determine how many kids on the roster actually attend Canevin? It doesn’t show on the PIHL website. Is it because you are a Canevin insider and know this for a fact? I’d like to see where each kid actually attends school.

Haven’t beaten my team. I am actually a fan of Bishop Canevin as I am a graduate of the school and played there myself. Maybe this year’s team has only 8 kids on the team that attend Canevin. But in the last few years there have been more than enough kids to field a pure team. I know this because I attended games to support my old team and talked to kids a number of times that were not playing, and they attended Canevin. I am talking 5 or 6 kids a game. There have been plenty of schools that play with less than a full team of skaters in the pure divisions. In fact, there have been teams in AA that have played without a full roster. (Which is another failure by PIHL). You can be a fan of a team or school and still disagree with how they make up their team. Good luck to Canevin the rest of the way!

Nobody in Class A from PIHL has shot at States in my opinion. You keep mentioning teams that have competitive and full JV teams should be in 2A. There are teams that have been barely able to field a JV team that have been forced to play AA and it has showed that they didn’t belong there. The competitive balance formula needs to take that as a more serious reason for not moving teams up. As well as taking into consideration how many seniors a team loses. North Hills is a perfect example of that this year. Bishop Canevin should have been removed from the open class years ago. They have had enough kids that attended the school to field teams without the Co-op players. They have played many many games with kids that actually attend the school watch from the stands while the co-op players played in every game. They manipulate the system so they can have their outstanding co-op players play all the while they could field a team without them. It is a shame that PIHL has let this happen. But I guess no one should be surprised by their lack of action as they have been manipulated before. When Moon won the open Class championship they had ONE player that didn’t attend Moon. It was an excuse not to play AAA that year. Which was also a ridiculous ask of Moon after losing so many seniors the previous year.

I really do not understand PIHLs reason for doing this. It is a disservice to many kids that may not get a chance to make the playoffs. But why should it surprise anyone? They fail miserably at selecting the right teams for divisions all the time. However, this seems to be politically motivated where as past mistakes have been a result of the “competitive “ balance formula that doesn’t take into account things like number of seniors lost.

Yeah that is what makes them chase the extra A. They are using that as a reason when in reality they are just chasing extra A’s.

North Pittsburgh. RMU. Mt. Lebanon.

No speculation for IUP! Haha

Lots of speculation about the cost for Duq and IUP. I will ask some players what they pay for a solid answer. I wouldn’t say that RMU is a better education either. Chatham is a good school academically. There could be.a million reasons for a transfer. Don’t think quality of education has much to do with this transfer.

What is wrong with promoting the ACHA? It provides many different types of opportunities for kids that wouldn’t have them otherwise. Why do you care that they promote?

I’d rather drive there before Alpha, Kittanning, New Ken, Delmont, YMCA, Mt. Lebanon or Ice Castle.

Very cool

I guess I missed the sarcasm. Haha

Who was the “big” signing?

Esmark has done a good job. Watched an Esmark kid last night on Pittsburgh Sports Met. And another Esmark kid just committed to RMU.

Very good points. PIHL should definitely take the number of players that are in a program into account. And also losing a heavy senior class. Kiski is suffering because of it but they were not moved up in class. North Hills on the other hand was moved up after losing a number of seniors and their top two point scorers. I have seen it multiple times and it hurts teams tremendously when they lose so much talent and are moved up, or in some cases not allowed to move down after losing lots of players and top scorers. It is a real shame for kids that go through seasons where they win very few games or worse none at all. It happened to both my sons. One moved up after losing 8 seniors including the top two scorers and their only goalie and they had a five win season. Got blown out a lot of games early because they had no goalie other than a kid that strapped them on the year before. And the other son’s team also lost 8 seniors and their top three scorers and wasn’t allowed to move back down. Also struggled mightily and only won 4 or 5 games, and those wins were against teams that were in a similar position having lost a ton of seniors as well. There is so much information available to PIHL about what level these kids play at on amateur teams that it should be used as well. For instance this season, Shaler moved down in classification after adding two players from AAA teams that didn’t play for them last year. And they are not freshmen or sophomores. And now they are better than they were last year and still got moved down. Where as other teams lose a ton of talent and have been moved up. I think the system is very flawed.

To be honest I am afraid to even watch it. I know that the kids and PIHL and PAHL better show up with their neck guards. It really is such a simple piece of equipment to wear.

It isn’t geographic. Moon, Chartiers Valley and Avonworth are in a different section that Montour, West Allegheny and Quaker Valley when those districts actually border each other. The amount of travel added to all these teams is tremendous. And in my opinion absolutely stupid. Why divide teams that are natural rivalries? I think whoever was in charge of making the divisions did a real disservice to all those teams and their fans.

Police are investigating. Hopefully you are wrong. Hopefully.

Indiana is horrible also. Som played on a team that went there for a game. They tied 4-4. Mainly because they were shorthanded the whole game. Played them later in the year at home and beat them 14-1. Hardly any penalties either way. That is how much the refs effected the game. And the one point cost his team the regular season championship.

I don’t know for sure because I haven’t seen enough games, but it seems to me that the blue division is weaker by a good bit.

It happened and I am sure it continues even at the youngest ages and levels.

Not pure coincidence, you are 100 percent correct. And it has been like that for many years. Absolutely disgusting.

Anybody else having trouble with the ACHA website? I have been having issues accessing the site for a couple weeks.

Ok so you don’t bash any PAHL or PIHl teams here. You absolutely bash every ACHA team around here.