good jv players with solid varsity teams

aceinthehole · Post by **aceinthehole** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 9:49 pm

what do they turn out to be like when they play varisty???

example if a kid played private school as a 10th grader on a jv squad who rarely takes 10th graders on varisty and leads his jv team against good oppenents with juniors some who have seniors on jv ex(roseau st benildes) are those players usually succesful at varsity level

hockeyhair15 · Post by **hockeyhair15** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 10:59 pm

kinda depends on how the jv squad is being used, if the coach views it as the, dont take this the wrong way, "team for the kids who are not good enough", then its hard for the players to crack the varsity lineup because the coach usualy has it in his mind that they wont play varsity and its takes allot of hard work to sway his oppinion, not saying it cant be done but its dificult.

now if the coach sees it as a feeder team, kinda like an AHL affiliate for one of the teams in the show, then yea he can be productive at the varstiy level. especially if hes getting all the ice time he can handle, PP, PK, end of the game, stuff like that. this way the transition to the varsity level is easier on the kid. and that way when he gets to the varsity roster he is more comfortable in those kind of situations

aceinthehole · Post by **aceinthehole** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 11:05 pm

yeah the kids im talking about were 10 graders but skated with varsity durng practices quite a bit. and they are now on varsity as 11 graders as not many 10th graders actually make this team or if the do actually play.

i was just curios if there is potential for them to turn out to good decent players or if they are going to be 3rd 4th line kind of players normally

hockeyhair15 · Post by **hockeyhair15** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 11:25 pm

yea from the sounds of it the coach was trying to groom them to be varsity players, so there is a good chance they will contribute this year. however on a upperclassman heavy team id expect the seniors to carry most of the load and the underclassmen to chip in where they can, then cary the team next year.

scoreboard33 · Post by **scoreboard33** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 3:01 pm

Im not sure what schools don't really take many underclassmen consistently. Sometimes class aren't as good and very few underclassmen get taken but not very many schools don't take underclassmen as policy of their coach. The top JV players, 1-2, probably are varsity players the next year at any school, however if a team is senior heavy, they might have 7 or 8 players up from JV next year. If the class below the current sophomores is not very strong, there might be a lot of JV players. But then if the class below is very strong there might not be any JV players who move up.

hockeyhair15 · Post by **hockeyhair15** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 3:33 pm

scoreboard33 wrote:Im not sure what schools don't really take many underclassmen consistently. Sometimes class aren't as good and very few underclassmen get taken but not very many schools don't take underclassmen as policy of their coach. The top JV players, 1-2, probably are varsity players the next year at any school, however if a team is senior heavy, they might have 7 or 8 players up from JV next year. If the class below the current sophomores is not very strong, there might be a lot of JV players. But then if the class below is very strong there might not be any JV players who move up.

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