Ankletape Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 The preds U15 are definitely a AAA team after beating esmark 4-1 today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hockeyisgreat Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 2 minutes ago, Ankletape said: The preds U15 are definitely a AAA team after beating esmark 4-1 today I think whome87 needs to come back here and apologize to the entire Preds U15 team. His OP was pretty scathing to say the least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just.a.normal.guy Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 Preds 04 just played a very competitive buffalo jr Sabres invitational and came out 2 1 2 and in the process beat the esmark stars 4 1 in dominating fasion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazedandconfused Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 So, I guess we know what the real "money grab" is and always has been. Only this one is paid in Rubles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whome88 Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 (edited) On 8/30/2019 at 10:00 AM, HSFBLJ said: I have said this before check out the Mighigan Hockey by-laws. Organizations that have AAA teams are limited and must have a AAA team at all levels not just one team. This promotes strong organizations and the formation of individual team clusters that we have in Pittsburgh. It also drives the quality coaches to those organizations. Until it is restricted we will still have AA players playing AAA hockey because the parents think the kid is that good and there is a coach waiting to take that $$$$. The Predators and i believe Esmark have teams at every age the only one that does not is the Mt.Lebanon Hornets. So where does that put any lebanon as a team. Edited September 1, 2019 by whome88 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whome88 Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 On 8/31/2019 at 3:41 PM, PAhockey said: The preds u15 team is legit they beat Amherst Knights 5-2 meanwhile Esmark U15 lost to them 3-5 They also beat Esmark 4-1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whome87 Posted September 2, 2019 Author Share Posted September 2, 2019 On 8/24/2019 at 4:07 PM, Jack Handey said: Hmm... you are not wrong here. The group had one AA season (5 wins) and played A major for years before that. So it's pretty astonishing how they are now AAA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whome87 Posted September 2, 2019 Author Share Posted September 2, 2019 Oh gee here come the 04 predator parents with their chests pumped out. Let me enlighten you guys on a few things. 1) it was not a invitational. It’s was the harbor center tournament hosted by the junior sabers. Anyone can pay the money to get in. All the top U15 teams were in Chicago, the tier 1 elite invitational or the north east showcase. The harbor center tournament is a fund raiser for the sabers. It’s never been high end. It’s filled with 80% buffalo teams. Do you think ppe would have a tournament and let icemen, esmark, Lebo and predators in it ? Come on. 2) you beat Amherst who is traditionally weak at every age group. You tied the buffalo red raiders. This team was a bad AA team last year and you beat esmark who is now proven to have a crap 04 team. It took them 3 years to finally field that mess. 1-2-1 in pool play with a consolation win vs a local team. Yep you guys are world beaters. 3) all the stats are online. I’ll give the goalie dad credit early. It’s working out for him. Seeing lots of shots. Congratulate the same 3 kids that scored all the points for your team. Come back with your argument when you beat someone that will be ranked above 75. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whome87 Posted September 2, 2019 Author Share Posted September 2, 2019 On 8/31/2019 at 7:18 PM, PeterThePuck said: Have to be top 40 team to be considered AAA anything 41 and up is Glorified AA team I would agree with this statement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whome87 Posted September 2, 2019 Author Share Posted September 2, 2019 6 minutes ago, whome87 said: Oh gee here come the 04 predator parents with their chests pumped out. Let me enlighten you guys on a few things. 1) it was not a invitational. It’s was the harbor center tournament hosted by the junior sabers. Anyone can pay the money to get in. All the top U15 teams were in Chicago, the tier 1 elite invitational or the north east showcase. The harbor center tournament is a fund raiser for the sabers. It’s never been high end. It’s filled with 80% buffalo teams. Do you think ppe would have a tournament and let icemen, esmark, Lebo and predators in it ? Come on. 2) you beat Amherst who is traditionally weak at every age group. You tied the buffalo red raiders. This team was a bad AA team last year and you beat esmark who is now proven to have a crap 04 team. It took them 3 years to finally field that mess. 1-2-1 in pool play with a consolation win vs a local team. Yep you guys are world beaters. 3) all the stats are online. I’ll give the goalie dad credit early. It’s working out for him. Seeing lots of shots. Congratulate the same 3 kids that scored all the points for your team. Come back with your argument when you beat someone that will be ranked above 75. Typo. 1-1-2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ankletape Posted September 2, 2019 Share Posted September 2, 2019 27 minutes ago, whome87 said: Oh gee here come the 04 predator parents with their chests pumped out. Let me enlighten you guys on a few things. 1) it was not a invitational. It’s was the harbor center tournament hosted by the junior sabers. Anyone can pay the money to get in. All the top U15 teams were in Chicago, the tier 1 elite invitational or the north east showcase. The harbor center tournament is a fund raiser for the sabers. It’s never been high end. It’s filled with 80% buffalo teams. Do you think ppe would have a tournament and let icemen, esmark, Lebo and predators in it ? Come on. 2) you beat Amherst who is traditionally weak at every age group. You tied the buffalo red raiders. This team was a bad AA team last year and you beat esmark who is now proven to have a crap 04 team. It took them 3 years to finally field that mess. 1-2-1 in pool play with a consolation win vs a local team. Yep you guys are world beaters. 3) all the stats are online. I’ll give the goalie dad credit early. It’s working out for him. Seeing lots of shots. Congratulate the same 3 kids that scored all the points for your team. Come back with your argument when you beat someone that will be ranked above 75. But why did the PPE 06 gold team play in this then ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ankletape Posted September 2, 2019 Share Posted September 2, 2019 27 minutes ago, whome87 said: Oh gee here come the 04 predator parents with their chests pumped out. Let me enlighten you guys on a few things. 1) it was not a invitational. It’s was the harbor center tournament hosted by the junior sabers. Anyone can pay the money to get in. All the top U15 teams were in Chicago, the tier 1 elite invitational or the north east showcase. The harbor center tournament is a fund raiser for the sabers. It’s never been high end. It’s filled with 80% buffalo teams. Do you think ppe would have a tournament and let icemen, esmark, Lebo and predators in it ? Come on. 2) you beat Amherst who is traditionally weak at every age group. You tied the buffalo red raiders. This team was a bad AA team last year and you beat esmark who is now proven to have a crap 04 team. It took them 3 years to finally field that mess. 1-2-1 in pool play with a consolation win vs a local team. Yep you guys are world beaters. 3) all the stats are online. I’ll give the goalie dad credit early. It’s working out for him. Seeing lots of shots. Congratulate the same 3 kids that scored all the points for your team. Come back with your argument when you beat someone that will be ranked above 75. But why did the PPE 06 gold team play in this then ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hockeyisgreat Posted September 2, 2019 Share Posted September 2, 2019 On 8/6/2019 at 3:59 PM, whome87 said: the U15 (2004) “AAA” pgh predators! What a train wreck! This team would be hard pressed to play with a pw AA team. Players that can’t skate, can’t shot, can’t pass & I’m talking about every kid on the ice! The speed was also extremely slow. I'm just curious to know if you stand by the statement above? Obviously they are not the worst team in AAA. Your exact words "every kid on the ice!" When they beat a team in the top 100 will you then apologize to these kids? Or will you justify your pathetic rant some other way? I have absolutely no ties to the Predators other than getting annoyed by you bashing them. Why are you so bitter toward them? Not that they care but what would they have to do to make you happy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ankletape Posted September 2, 2019 Share Posted September 2, 2019 40 minutes ago, hockeyisgreat said: I'm just curious to know if you stand by the statement above? Obviously they are not the worst team in AAA. Your exact words "every kid on the ice!" When they beat a team in the top 100 will you then apologize to these kids? Or will you justify your pathetic rant some other way? I have absolutely no ties to the Predators other than getting annoyed by you bashing them. Why are you so bitter toward them? Not that they care but what would they have to do to make you happy? He sure does know a lot about 04 AAA hockey for not having a kid that’s an 04 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pghbus36 Posted November 11, 2019 Share Posted November 11, 2019 On 9/1/2019 at 1:30 PM, hockeyisgreat said: that was a fluke. My sons team played at ice castle this weekend and watched the preds get pounded by Carolina. Wasn’t even competitive. Someone in the stands said they gave up 2 short handed goals on one PP the game before ! think whome87 needs to come back here and apologize to the entire Preds U15 team. His On 9/1/2019 at 4:55 PM, whome88 said: They also beat Esmark 4-1 OP was pretty scathing to say the least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HereWithPopcorn Posted November 11, 2019 Share Posted November 11, 2019 I think the only correction here is that it is the Icemen (#113 out of 123) that will probably take the title of biggest money grab. But the Preds being #83 and getting drubbed again this weekend by Carolina is getting them back into the title hunt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazedandconfused Posted November 11, 2019 Share Posted November 11, 2019 Icemen as a whole are a complete joke. The powers that be have taken a once thriving Butler Valley organization and dismantled it to the point of which it may never recover. And to what end? To have a group of teams be forced to pay 3-4x what they could be paying as BV teams: U18 Tier 2 #14 - very good, but why not just be a BV team and save the families a couple thousand in travel costs? U16 Tier 1 #122/150 Nationally and #10/10 in the MidAm District. They recently found it advantageous (financially) to add a skater from the BV 04 team to this team. At a ranking of 89.87, they would be a perfect fit in a strong PAHL U16 league. U15 Tier 1 #113/123 Nationally and #12/12 in the MidAm District. They would be a solid fit in PAHL A Major Black. 05 Tier 2 #4 in Western PA and at 89.55 sitting exactly in the middle of 6 other Western PA teams led by the Viper Stars at 90.69 and book-ended by North Pittsburgh 88.52. Again, just another good Butler Valley team that wouldn't need to travel to play all of their games. If them and the VS were in the PAHL AA-Major division, that would be a great 7 team division with Allegheny and Predators being pushed down to A Major Black. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saucey Posted November 11, 2019 Share Posted November 11, 2019 Just now, dazedandconfused said: Icemen as a whole are a complete joke. The powers that be have taken a once thriving Butler Valley organization and dismantled it to the point of which it may never recover. And to what end? To have a group of teams be forced to pay 3-4x what they could be paying as BV teams: U18 Tier 2 #14 - very good, but why not just be a BV team and save the families a couple thousand in travel costs? U16 Tier 1 #122/150 Nationally and #10/10 in the MidAm District. They recently found it advantageous (financially) to add a skater from the BV 04 team to this team. At a ranking of 89.87, they would be a perfect fit in a strong PAHL U16 league. U15 Tier 1 #113/123 Nationally and #12/12 in the MidAm District. They would be a solid fit in PAHL A Major Black. 05 Tier 2 #4 in Western PA and at 89.55 sitting exactly in the middle of 6 other Western PA teams led by the Viper Stars at 90.69 and book-ended by North Pittsburgh 88.52. Again, just another good Butler Valley team that wouldn't need to travel to play all of their games. If them and the VS were in the PAHL AA-Major division, that would be a great 7 team division with Allegheny and Predators being pushed down to A Major Black. I get your point, but if the parents wanted to pay less, they would have their kids playing PAHL. If not Icemen, they would go to another independent. I've had a parent tell me from the U15 team that PAHL is 'too slow'. Chasing the dream. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twoboys Posted November 11, 2019 Share Posted November 11, 2019 I think families head to the Icemen and similar programs because they like the coaching and the ice time. Are you suggesting that BV hire these very same coaches, give them more ice time than a typical BV team and play PAHL? If you are then you are basically saying that you like Posey's Viper Stars model. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Handey Posted November 11, 2019 Share Posted November 11, 2019 He who owneth the ice maketh the rules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ankletape Posted November 11, 2019 Share Posted November 11, 2019 1 hour ago, Saucey said: I get your point, but if the parents wanted to pay less, they would have their kids playing PAHL. If not Icemen, they would go to another independent. I've had a parent tell me from the U15 team that PAHL is 'too slow'. Chasing the dream. U15 Icemen is ran by the 04 bv parents from last year dw wanted to have a team so he promised all of those parents lots of ice time , There is talented Kids on that team but they are getting benched for the bv kids. Surprised nobody has left yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazedandconfused Posted November 11, 2019 Share Posted November 11, 2019 2 hours ago, Saucey said: I get your point, but if the parents wanted to pay less, they would have their kids playing PAHL. If not Icemen, they would go to another independent. I've had a parent tell me from the U15 team that PAHL is 'too slow'. Chasing the dream. It's obvious that those are "highly educated" hockey parents. The only thing that is too slow is the processing part of their brain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazedandconfused Posted November 11, 2019 Share Posted November 11, 2019 1 hour ago, Jack Handey said: He who owneth the ice maketh the rules. 100% agree, but if you (sort of) own the ice then what sense does it make to dismantle your main tenant and give up that guaranteed revenue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazedandconfused Posted November 11, 2019 Share Posted November 11, 2019 1 hour ago, Ankletape said: Surprised nobody has left yet December 31st is still roughly 40 days away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fafa fohi Posted November 11, 2019 Share Posted November 11, 2019 17 minutes ago, dazedandconfused said: 100% agree, but if you (sort of) own the ice then what sense does it make to dismantle your main tenant and give up that guaranteed revenue? If a "tenant" backed out of ice time at FP, someone else would step right in within minutes. Not enough ice to meet the current demand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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