hey district9 i've heard of this type of thing at least for each of the past three seasons.
If it's happening to your kid, once is more than enough to point it out to all and its wrong if it happens once or if it happens 30 times. This league is a money grab. Everyone knows it .
so then don't let your son play in it. 99% of the kids who play in the league have had no issues like this.
Here are the top USPHL Jr Teams.
Islanders Hockey Club (Premier) 11-2
Hampton Roads Whalers (Elite-South) 13-1
Islanders Hockey Club (Elite-North) 10-0
Hampton Roads Whalers (US3PHL-South) 11-2-1
Junior Bruins (US3PHL-North) 12-2-1
Chicago Cougars 15-0
Tri City Icehawks 11-1-1
Anyone know the differences here? Or could rank them?
maybe the addition of all these juniors teams across the board has finally cramped teams like Hitmen's recruiting style. Rumor is they passed on some very good players .
Agreed. Just the fact that the USPHL completely destroyed every other league in T3 shows that. I can without a doubt say that the Hitmen and BJB and maybe even IHC would be able to beat most of the top NAHL teams if not all of them, and I think it's just the organization that is very shady and typical to get in trouble. Haven't heard many good things at all about CT.
Agreed. However, I do feel like unfortunately you will have the top 4 teams just because of their recent success and more talented players wanted to play for the team that won playoffs or regular season, and the fact that some of these coaches are just leaps and bounds ahead of others. I mean, I don't think any of the coaches are even close to being as good as Tremblay, (IHC), Harris, (Hitmen), Masters, (Jr Bruins) or Harlow, (SSK). I mean these guys have so much experience in winning and coaching juniors it's almost unfair. You can just tell that the coaching is so good compared to the other teams just in the way that they cycle the puck, breakout and even just run their PP and PK.
Still, there are so many different options and situations that work for different kids now. As the league becomes older and older I believe that they could eventually catch up to the USHL in terms of talent, but may not ever reach the USHL in terms of structure. I mean, the league was created what, 3 years ago? and I think some of top Premier teams like IHC, SSK, Hitmen and Jr Bruins can easily compete with some of these middle-of-the-pack USHL teams if not the top team, and possibly some middle pack teams of the USPHL, (Flyers and PAL) can contend with the USHL teams.
This year, no chance. The first year of the USPHL those Hitmen and Jr Bruins team could have competed in the USHL. Last year's Hitmen team definitely could have too. Not sure there's a team in the league this year that could do that.
I don't think USA Hockey would ever want the financial structure of the league to be different, because it'd clearly take away from what the USHL is doing. The percentage of east coast kids who are in the USHL would plummet to basically 0 if they didn't have to pay to play locally.
This year, no chance. The first year of the USPHL those Hitmen and Jr Bruins team could have competed in the USHL. Last year's Hitmen team definitely could have too. Not sure there's a team in the league this year that could do that.
I don't think USA Hockey would ever want the financial structure of the league to be different, because it'd clearly take away from what the USHL is doing. The percentage of east coast kids who are in the USHL would plummet to basically 0 if they didn't have to pay to play locally.