Pretty sure, there won't be any refunds. I was curious what the information said about the practices and went to the Minnesota Hockey site: http://www.minnesotahockey.org/news/news.asp?ID=206. "The eight Festival teams have a maximum of 4.5 hours of practice ice that they may use at the coaches discretion".hockeya1a wrote:So if no practice will there be refunds to the girls? is it fair that some get 4.5 more hours of ice time than the others?
and won't it be harder for some of the girls to play togather with limited practice.
No, it is not fair and pretty safe to write the teams that practice together should play better together and then their individual skills are likely better displayed, too. The players that are from the same HS teams would likely play better together due to their familiarity at least without practices so the individual HS representatives are at an additional disadvantage without team practices.
Sounds like Section 4 may have the model for other sections to follow. It would be great if the sections all used the same model and hopefully they will look at gaining greater consistency for future years. I am sure it all depends on whether the current system is identifying the players by the final phase that they are seeking whether they will revisit the tryout process.
