edit good to hear he is gone, i just saw that now as your post mad me mad so i didnt finish reading it
Haha, I know.
Parents tried petitions, scheduling 'black outs' where nobody would show up to the rink, nothing worked.
The problem is exactly what you mentioned; politics.
The summer before this guy took over, I applied for the position of being convener. So did another guy I knew.
Both of us submitted applications giving our ideas (which were pretty similar).
The spring turned to summer, then to Fall and neither of us got a phone call, email, nothing.
Suddenly we get a call from the new convener telling us how his program is going to run.
We were both livid. The VP claimed he never got our applications. This was a lie and I even spoke personally to a number of different members on the board so people were well aware of the interest for the position.
During the season, when parents complained about this guy, the VP told them "That's what happens when only one person applies".
Everyone in the town knew that the VP and the convener were great buddies.
Our entire board is corrupt like that.
Shawn it sounds like the problem is not enough parity/levels in that league. When you're mixing AAA, A, B, and C, it's just going to be a disaster. Half a dozen kids will score 90% of the goals and everyone else gets frustrated and chippy. Hope you can get into a different league next year.
I've seen some centres that do it right. They take out the true AAA, AA players and build their own teams, so the B's and C's can have their own little league against one another.
It stinks to play that one team with the AAA player because we never touch the puck. But it's even worse for his own team because none of his own teammates every get to touch it either.
What really burns me is that this kids parents have obviously never spoken to him about passing.
I know one mother who has a phenom on her hands. The kid is amazing. She tells him before every game that he's only allowed 3 goals and then he has to pass.
Every kid on that team has scored goals this year because this kid sets them up left-and-right. He's also gotten good at letting other kids carry the puck more too, so that he's not the only one that does all the work.
That's parenting.
But this hottog has never gotten that speech.
The league even tried moving him up to Novice but the kid didn't like it. I guess he cried everytime someone took the puck away from him.