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99 Machine are flatlining

Seven years of hockey for my youngest and he has only missed one practise due to a unavoidable conflict. If we expect coaches to have time management skills and commitment than I as a parent would expect no less from the participant.

I know associations that allow it but the skater must evaluate in the top 5 and goalie top 2 of the of the highest team.

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The core of the Canadian teams will have been together for 2 seasons prior to entering the Brick.[/quote]

? That is a blanket statement as many of the Canadian teams are actually only together for 4 weeks before the tournament. The players play for their own spring teams.

Should be great competition, but I think the 98 Wolverines will take this division. For some reason they slip under the radar, but they have some unbelieveable talent on this team. A few weeks ago in Vancouver (Challenge Cup) they easily walked into the championship game, outscoring their opponents...

8:30am 9:50am FV NHL 99 Elite B1. MN Machine 1 B2. Little Caesars 4
8:40am 10:00am FV Inter 99 Elite A1. Team Illinois 0 A2. MN Blades 11

Manitoba starts in Squirts and the reasoning is that they teach them to make contact early before they are big enough to actually hurt somebody by doing it. By the time their players have hit puberty they know how to properly give a hit and how to defend themselves. In Manitoba hitting begins at Pe...

scrapiron wrote:In Canada they have twice the number of kids playing with a much small population. They don't seem to have soften the game to get kids to play.

Actually in Quebec there is no checking at the PeeWee level. And under review in the city of Calgary in June.

OrangeKoolaid now we all wait for your “forum wide apology” and then you should advise that 99 parent of the facts.

One must ask themselves why is it all the Canadian provinces, California, Chicago, Connecticut, Detroit, and Chicago all manage to put the kid’s interest first and not deny them the opportunity to do the tournament. Only in Minnesota is there an issue... The Blades will not lose their charter as the...

Pretty sure spring hockey was created to get away from the association philosophy Actually I would disagree with that. Spring hockey, like summer hockey, was created for two reasons: Winter hockey ends in March so there is a demand for more and there's money to made. I don't think Showcase started ...

Pretty sure spring hockey was created to get away from the association philosophy

[quote="royals dad"] I think what you see as a step forward would be a big step back. As has been said many times before the grass is not greener on the other side of the border. If MM is such a better product why is it so hard to just turn your back on Minn Hockey and go there? quote] her...

any updates would be appreciated I do not see any scores listed on the pdf

Yes that is what spring hockey is thus I don't comprehend the negative comments about the Monopoly organization picking up players.

To my knowledge the championship team in the 99 age division is a rent an all star team. Both the Bauer teams were a collection of poorly mix match hockey gear.

Anklebeater, Yes, ideally a good representation of the state would be to have tryouts for this specific team to attend the tournament. There are positives and negatives to the tournament. There is NO comparable tournament for this age group in North America from the team skill on the ice to the soci...

just like teams in Canada do it, and those teams seem to have to have the best success, right? ![/b] The Canadian teams are actually formed the same way as the Blade’s team. A certain program (team) has the rights to the entry. In most cases a gallant effort is given to have a good representation o...

“When men are full of envy, they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad”

The recent onslaught of the Blades program appears to be sour grapes over the Brick tournament and the fact is the Blades have the rights to the tournament. This doesn't mean your little Johny isn't a good hockey player.

hockeydad11 wrote:Maybe the Torspo team can help bail them out. I hear the loons have some good players that Scotty and Terry can call.

Crash and Burn at the Brick

Word to the wise: bad hockey parents equals bad business

“These kids have played together for awhile” I’m not sure where you got your information from as it is incorrect. First, it is true a majority of that team (9) had played together that spring. I can guarantee you the Subway tournament was the first time the team played a single game as the players c...

The Subway tournament in the Brick age group has most Canadian teams without their top players as they are on the Brick team and would be the Canadian Brick team's first games together as the players play with their regular spring teams before this tournament. The Stampede tournament does not attrac...

Now that is hitting the nail on the head.