sadday4hockey Posted October 20, 2023 Share Posted October 20, 2023 Good thing they decided to play the season out. Unrealistic expectations begat unexpected results and therefore parental disappointment, but hey keep making the excuses (# of skaters) for them as that will definitely teach them life lessons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaaahockey Posted October 20, 2023 Share Posted October 20, 2023 41 minutes ago, sadday4hockey said: Good thing they decided to play the season out. Unrealistic expectations begat unexpected results and therefore parental disappointment, but hey keep making the excuses (# of skaters) for them as that will definitely teach them life lessons. Who had unrealistic expectations? Serious question too. Not an SV parent so I might have missed something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ice is cold Posted October 20, 2023 Share Posted October 20, 2023 48 minutes ago, aaaahockey said: Who had unrealistic expectations? Serious question too. Not an SV parent so I might have missed something. I have the same question, not sure what @sadday4hockeyis talking about. I am not an SV parent but am close to the organization. 🤔 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stanley PK Posted October 20, 2023 Share Posted October 20, 2023 Alot of AA and AAA players are out of town this weekend in Detroit and Buffalo. Games started this morning for them, so I'm sure some teams were short some of their usual talent last night, my son's included. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemesis8679 Posted October 21, 2023 Share Posted October 21, 2023 3 hours ago, Stanley PK said: Alot of AA and AAA players are out of town this weekend in Detroit and Buffalo. Games started this morning for them, so I'm sure some teams were short some of their usual talent last night, my son's included. So... then the teams you played against also didn't have their AA or AAA players. It's like saying my baseball team lost because it was raining. Meanwhile it was raining for the other team, too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeerLeagueRockstar Posted October 23, 2023 Share Posted October 23, 2023 On 10/20/2023 at 4:35 PM, Stanley PK said: Alot of AA and AAA players are out of town this weekend in Detroit and Buffalo. Games started this morning for them, so I'm sure some teams were short some of their usual talent last night, my son's included. How did WPa teams do out there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaaahockey Posted October 23, 2023 Share Posted October 23, 2023 (edited) 3 hours ago, BeerLeagueRockstar said: How did WPa teams do out there? Armstrong won U18 second division. SHAHA 09 won the 2009 second division. WBS (I know not western PA) won 2010 second division. That's the only PA teams that won I believe. I think there were a ton of teams out there though. Edited October 23, 2023 by aaaahockey Typo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fafa fohi Posted October 23, 2023 Share Posted October 23, 2023 1 hour ago, aaaahockey said: Armstrong won U18 second division. SHAHA 09 won the 2009 second division. WBS (I know not western PA) won 2010 second division. That's the only PA teams that won I believe. I think there were a ton of teams out there though. The talent levels for both AAA and AA divisions were not as good as prior years as there were many teams in both divisions that got blown out by the better teams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadday4hockey Posted October 23, 2023 Share Posted October 23, 2023 Pittsburgh Youth hockey is a lot like Mike Tomlin, the rest of the country thinks we have a pretty good thing here while the locals all think it sucks. If you do a deep dive into the CCM results, I think you would find a lot of what should be deemed as successful weekends. Especially when we have so many "faux" AAA teams whom water down the AA. Like that doesn't happen anywhere else in the country except Western PA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaaahockey Posted October 23, 2023 Share Posted October 23, 2023 48 minutes ago, sadday4hockey said: Pittsburgh Youth hockey is a lot like Mike Tomlin, the rest of the country thinks we have a pretty good thing here while the locals all think it sucks. If you do a deep dive into the CCM results, I think you would find a lot of what should be deemed as successful weekends. Especially when we have so many "faux" AAA teams whom water down the AA. Like that doesn't happen anywhere else in the country except Western PA. I like the analogy but which side are you on? Does Tomlin suck or not? 😂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaaahockey Posted October 23, 2023 Share Posted October 23, 2023 52 minutes ago, sadday4hockey said: Pittsburgh Youth hockey is a lot like Mike Tomlin, the rest of the country thinks we have a pretty good thing here while the locals all think it sucks. If you do a deep dive into the CCM results, I think you would find a lot of what should be deemed as successful weekends. Especially when we have so many "faux" AAA teams whom water down the AA. Like that doesn't happen anywhere else in the country except Western PA. On a more serious note our geographic location makes Pittsburgh a great place to play hockey. You can, in my opinion, easily drive from Toronto to Nashville North to South if you wanted. Same Boston to Chicago East to West. Add up all the hockey you can get to in between and it's pretty darn good. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadday4hockey Posted October 23, 2023 Share Posted October 23, 2023 Tomlin sucks, but Western PA is a strong hockey area. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemesis8679 Posted October 24, 2023 Share Posted October 24, 2023 5 hours ago, sadday4hockey said: Especially when we have so many "faux" AAA teams whom water down the AA. Like that doesn't happen anywhere else in the country except Western PA. I'm sure it happens elsewhere to a point. But not sure it's to the extent it is here. Just look around. The bottom half of most AA teams are interchangeable with the top half of A Major. And the AAA teams the same thing with AA (and even some A players mixed in). You can say what you want, but there is room for a maximum of 2 AAA teams around here. But the scumbags pocketing the money from the faux AAA teams need to fill those rosters to maximum size somehow. How else can you collect all those season fees and extra skills and extra gym fees? When anyone asks what has ruined hockey in this area, there's a few answers. But this is the main contributor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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