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Judgeandjury wrote:

MnPride2 wrote:

Judgeandjury wrote:I suggest that you make an appointment with Mernie McHockey. His secret is to have the kids skate about 2 hours a day up and down the ice learning through repetition. If you spend money on each and every clinic he offers your son will become a solid player. You can only hope that some day your sons jerseys is hanging at the made and if your lucky his picture will be hung up as well.
I think Mernie McHockey is building a hockey shrine to his son at the made opening soon right after the third rink is built and the parking lot gets asphalt.

Bernie has helped turn out some pretty damn good skaters,why ya choppin on him...your kid didn`t turn into a superstar...

Not at all. My son is doing just fine. In fact I owe Minnesota made a thank you for developing his skills at a young age. I also agree that the Blades and Mernie McHockey have developed some great skaters. I don't think anyone will argue the point. But when you have a grown man telling another grown man that his son cannot skate in his tourney because he's not part of an alliance and he lives in the metro area then some thing is seriously wrong with youth hockey. In this case the skater was a former player on one of his teams. When it comes down to it there's no logical reason why this player cannot play in this tourney. This is youth hockey for god's sake. No one man is above the rules nor should they be.

You want class just look at how the Blades handled the alliance situation.
They made it very clear that they were never part of any discussion about the alliance, and they would never be part of the alliance. What's hard to believe is they still have an open invitation to any alliance tourney they want to play in.
Keep in mind that the alliance was formed to stop new programs from starting up. The two programs that started the beloved alliance are both in it to make money. If new programs start up and succeed it will take players from their teams for what ever reason to pay less money, play closer to home or play with buddies. Both these programs need to the money coming and need to keep the top players on their teams in order succeed.
Here's the kicker. Both the programs started the alliance to keep the number of AAA teams to a minimum have just recently in the past year started new teams in their programs. Are you kidding me? They want to keep the number of newer programs to a minimum so AAA hockey doesn't get watered down and they both go out and offer more teams?

InigoMontoya wrote:I don't have a copy of LPH, could you please include a link? I'm sure all of the kids that played in St Paul shot thousands of pucks and stickhandled until the blisters broke, as did a boatload of kids that didn't make it that far. However, I'd like to read the article that says EP won the state championship because the bantam B kids saved their parents money by rollerblading.