Hmm. This new coach for the Jr. Rangers is a NHL scout for the St. Louis Blues, and it's an actual job. He's listed on their website, so I'm sure he's the real deal. I've only heard good things about him lately, and I hope that can contribute to the Jr. Rangers actually having some success this year, because last year was just an embarrassment to the league and organization on how poorly they played.
Heard that there were only a few kids from last year at the tryouts, interested to see how they turn out to be this year. I've also heard that IHC didn't have the best players at tryouts, but I'm sure most of their players didn't even attend, due to them having most of their roster already picked.
I'd love to see if the Jr. Rangers can actually pick it up this year and compete, along with the Pirates. Having a super competitive league is better than a league where there are two teams stomping the rest of the teams isn't the best, and hopefully that will change. I also think if some of the teams picked it up, the games would be more interesting, thus bringing in a little bit more of a crowd, yet the USPHL needs to do a lot more advertising, and that applies to the teams also.