MGHCA Fall Development League

hockeygroupie · Post by **hockeygroupie** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 3:32 pm

joehockey wrote:I hope that is not the case!

The Elite League has been a great success and is planning year two. I hope the two Leagues find a way to get top girls on the ice next fall.

The Boys have an Elite I and Elite II League - these two Leagues could work together to form a similar approach. I think the key is to announce now/soon plans for next year and how players will be picked or tryout - there is no perfect system but with fore planning and early announcement this could be very successful and end up with 60-80 girls (depends on 3 or 4 teams if the League expands?) and the MGCHA with an equal or larger number.

I agree, lets try and push this to be similiar to the boys, with both Elite teams. If you look at the 4x4 league that is being run in Kasson with over 10 teams in it, there are girls out there that want to play in the fall and plenty of very good ones. If you did tryouts for say 8 teams, 4 in each level= you could really keep the costs down and get some great talent.
I know there are many fall leagues but many of the girls choose to skate with thier winter teams to get ready for thier season, but I also think you could pull the better ones of each team if you did both Elite levels as the boys do.
Just thoughts.

MNHockeyFan · Post by **MNHockeyFan** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 4:18 pm

Just a clarification: on the boys side the two leagues are totally independent of one another and are run separately, with no coordinated tryout, interleague play, etc. But it still works well in that by having two leagues it opens up more opportunities for the boys to improve their games and get ready for the high school season.

joehockey · Post by **joehockey** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 6:21 pm

Correct and that would be the kind of relationship I would like to see emerge between the Upper Midwest Elite Girls HS League (same people who run Elite I boys) and the MGHCA League. The announcement today by the Elite League not expanding next year should help the MGHCA announce early a program.

MNHockeyFan · Post by **MNHockeyFan** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 8:28 am

joehockey wrote:Correct and that would be the kind of relationship I would like to see emerge between the Upper Midwest Elite Girls HS League (same people who run Elite I boys) and the MGHCA League. The announcement today by the Elite League not expanding next year should help the MGHCA announce early a program.

Talking to some people this past weekend, I was surprised to learn that the MGHCA league did get going and they played regularly this fall. I say surprised because nobody brought it up here. I understand that they usually only had about 8-10 players from each team so they typically did development type practice time for the first half and then scrimmaged the remainder of the time. Hope this is accurate and also hope they can get an earlier start next year to get better organized and run it as another option to the Elite League.

Also if it's anything like the boys then I doubt you will see a working relationship emerge between these two leagues - they will probably remain as separate options. My guess is that both leagues will get the word out sooner and more girls will end up trying out for both of them.