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Resources basically scarce in terms of getting a chance to go check random players out, making those with an "in" simply more likely to be "found" as admin rely largely on a filtering system, but further stacking the deck against diamonds in the rough is the fact that our current...

wouldn't that be that there's only A, B1, B2 and C because the AA-A have mixed tournaments and scrimmages and the others don't (except maybe at squirts where B2s are maybe new)? AA is here to stay, it's not experimental and has it's own tournament, so why can AA teams play A teams but B1 can't play ...

seems like fear of missing out/keeping up with the jonses is something college coaches suffer from, too, and it's not just driving the decisions ov youth sports parents.

& any press is good press, as the saying goes

[quote="SCBlueLiner"] Mike Modano and Gordon Bombay in the Mighty Ducks movie when Modano said that Bombay "killed it in Pee Wees".[/quote] I youtubed it because hadn't heard it was in that movie, good stuff: "This guy used to Rule in peewees...." topped with by Basil M...

So does this, like the guy above asked, mean that the kids/parents/representatives who verbally commit at this young age can't initiate contact with other D1 schools and the other schools aren't supposed to respond to them until the kids tell the school they are un-committing? Even if they un-commit...

What I don't get is why this is really newsworthy beyond good ol' YHH and the Gentry twitter account (the picture is funny though). None of this is binding and it all has to originate from the kid/kid's family. This kid is really good for his age, no doubt, but is it really different than any 13 yea...

[quote="Jeffy95"][quote="jg2112"]Here's a few ideas, specifically with the goal of player development: (1) Instead of a season-long limit at any level, institute a limit on the number of "game days" a team can have per month such that it has a 2:1 practice to game ratio...

This departure rule just keeps bugging me. I've approached a few people on the association board who I am supposed to bring issues like this to and they won't discuss changing it unless someone makes them. They blow me off and say that they are in the right and how dare anyone question them and not ...

[quote="SCBlueLiner"]My thought is that whenever I read policies like this, or any other policies, is that they are a reaction to an issue. Hockey boards don't go around dreaming up stupid rules for no good reason. In fact, it's a crappy job to have to address issues. Policies like the one...

I'd rather not say what association it is. It's a small world. I'm just curious if I'm the only one that thinks this rule is just gross, or if this "non-punitive" measure to "give pause" is something that is okay. Ridiculous, stupid, and some variation of "you have to be kid...

Along the same lines as this, as well as the Eligibility post, what are thoughts on this "player departure rule" and what it says about the desire to develop hockey players (this is a fairly large association with 5-7 teams at each age level above mites, so the difference between top team ...