ottawafan66
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- May 14, 2010
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The HEO presentation stated fees $4,700-$5,600 including all team wear, off ice programs, ice...... All 12 teams play in same rink every Monday (one of Sensplex's) and Saturday (rotates amongst 12 teams) plus 4 hours of practice per week. This will make scouting the Min Midgets easy. This works out to 44 game regular season, apparently little or no out of town tournaments (that is a big savings for players). Budgets prepared by league executive (HEO) and all finances go through league, there is not supposed to be profit for Jr A teams.
The players will come from existing 5 Min Midget and 5 Mj Midget AAA teams, plus with the reduced # teams in Jr B there will be players available from that, which will most likely be a lot of 16/17 year olds. Also, with more teams in outlying communities more top end AA players may choose U18 since closer to home now. No import players permitted, so no USA players or out of district.
There are a lot of positives to the program, plus I am sure there will be some issues still to resolve. It seems to follow the USA model more where players play in a club system. If you are a player looking to play Jr A you will be part of the club that drafted you from Minor Midget onwards. I know when my oldest son was drafted we rarely seen the Jr A team other than at camps, now they will be working with him all the time. For the 4-6 players every birth year that end up in the OHL I do not see any negatives, the top players are always found, under this set up scouting should be even easier for the OHL scouts since all teams playing in one location.
Personally I am keeping on open mind on it. If you have questions I would recommend to reach out and ask them.
1. If there aren't any tournaments, then you are limiting players to competing against the same players for the whole season? If there actually will be tournaments, then the cost goes up. How is this a positive.
2. So the Pembroke based team will have to play all games out of the SensPlex? What about practices? This is probably the most expensive ice in Eastern Ontario. How is this a positive?
3. There is not supposed to be profit in Jr. A? Since when? I know that few teams make a profit, but they certainly try to.
4. While I see this as a positive for the Major Midget age group, I think the Minor's are getting shafted.
5. And finally, does this do away with the CCHL draft or will teams be able to draft kids out of their home area and force them to play U18 elsewhere?
IMHO.
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