Situations a bit different than yours, but we’re committing to a PHL team and will possibly uncommit if my boy makes AA but it’s unlikely. I’ve never considered these rouge leagues before but we moved to a much smaller center last year and boy is the hockey here corrupt. My ten year old tried out for the AA team here as a goalie (there’s two teams, so 4 goalie spots) and played incredible - 0 ga, 1ga, 1ga in the three tryout games. They wound up not selecting him, even taking a kid who was well into the 10+ gaa all 3 games. Not only that, they bumped him down to the B team which is lower than he played last year - it was an absolute joke he was way too good for the tier and he hated every minute of it, even telling me he doesn’t like it anymore and won’t play goal next year. It got to the point that he would fight and wouldn’t go to his teams practice, but the age group up AA travel girls and age group up PHL/HSL teams used him as a practice goalie all year and he was fantastic at that level against older kids. Now one of the goalies who made the AA team over him’s dad has been made the head coach for the U13A team, so his son is automatically the goalie before tryouts even begin. After our tryouts he almost cried in the car and would not stop talking about how much he enjoyed playing games against better kids and he wants to stay a goalie. C’est la vie, I think this is the last time we will be associated with hockey Canada.