As in, they agreed with the other three (never usually hear complaints about the 15's on here) poster's opinions, that some cruised through on their reputation from peewees. Mostly the choices out of the district festival, but also have heard about the one that went to National Camp that had his district coach say "He has no chance" Never looks up" Not a good hockey player".... But the name hype got him through.Mite-dad wrote:As in, it wasn't a quality group of kids this year?MrBoDangles wrote:I keep hearing about tons of head shaking from scouts other than the "pickers" this year..jpiehl wrote: Big names will always make it. Once it is decided that a player is elite at squirts, it is virtually impossible to lose that designation, especially if they have a 'name'. Other evaluators that don't see it don't want to be seen as incompetent so they all go along with it. Would be nice to see a few get knocked off by small association kids, but not ever likely to happen.
I think there's way more head shaking this year because of the depth of this age group and many of the "names" were outplayed. Even YHH said (hinted) to expect "many new faces" to come out of the group the next couple years.
Very solid group went for the most part, though....
But as we hear... "If you're good, they'll find ya"