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Guest wrote: ↑Mon Feb 03, 2025 6:24 pm
Niagara should be 1 if they keep their kids. Oakville and Burlington will fight for 2. Steel could have players coming from Niagara so hard to say where they will be.
Rest should be quite weak. But the best team west of Toronto will be Brantford. Building a super team from what I hear.
Building a super team with kids coming from where?
No KSL really close outside of Hamilton or Halton and Ferroni has destroyed any feeder opportunities for any AAA. The program he runs is a disaster and seems to have kids at every age group looking for new homes next year.
Guest wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2025 8:07 am
Burlington parent here, we play Oakville MD1 all the time. They would be a very good Tier 2 KLVR team. They have beat tier 1 teams, can hang with Duffield. If you ask them they are happy to have developed 6 new kids after 6 left last year from their U8 team. They feel and I think they are right that their core of 5-8 skaters can compete with anyone, depth hurts them. We in Burlington are a similar story.
What tier 1 klevr team did they beat?
They haven't. They beat miss raiders I heard and if you consider them tier 1, then that's the one. They absolutely can't hang with Duffield /Nats or Vaughn however . Good D and goalies, but forwards lacking as their top players all left for the G because of the coach. New coach next year so could be a lot of new players however . The MD loop they are in is very weak; we (Milton) are in it as a AA centre (as are most teams in the loop). They're better than us for sure but again, we are AA and they are AAA next year. East omha will be alot stronger than West from the looks of it but all depends with the open borders
They play duffield this weekend. I guess we’ll understand a bit more after a proper game
Guest wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2025 11:05 pm
Brantford will have the best kids from London to Hamilton bank on it.
Why would kids from london come to Brantford when they could play for Elgin middlesex? London has been a hotbed with Battle pumping out players.
I think Brantford runs a good program, just not sure why they would draw top talent from Hamilton-london. Interesting take none the less
Guest wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2025 8:07 am
Burlington parent here, we play Oakville MD1 all the time. They would be a very good Tier 2 KLVR team. They have beat tier 1 teams, can hang with Duffield. If you ask them they are happy to have developed 6 new kids after 6 left last year from their U8 team. They feel and I think they are right that their core of 5-8 skaters can compete with anyone, depth hurts them. We in Burlington are a similar story.
What tier 1 klevr team did they beat?
They haven't. They beat miss raiders I heard and if you consider them tier 1, then that's the one. They absolutely can't hang with Duffield /Nats or Vaughn however . Good D and goalies, but forwards lacking as their top players all left for the G because of the coach. New coach next year so could be a lot of new players however . The MD loop they are in is very weak; we (Milton) are in it as a AA centre (as are most teams in the loop). They're better than us for sure but again, we are AA and they are AAA next year. East omha will be alot stronger than West from the looks of it but all depends with the open borders
They play duffield this weekend. I guess we’ll understand a bit more after a proper game
Mississauga/rebels beat Oakville 11-2 in exhibition.
Guest wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2025 8:07 am
Burlington parent here, we play Oakville MD1 all the time. They would be a very good Tier 2 KLVR team. They have beat tier 1 teams, can hang with Duffield. If you ask them they are happy to have developed 6 new kids after 6 left last year from their U8 team. They feel and I think they are right that their core of 5-8 skaters can compete with anyone, depth hurts them. We in Burlington are a similar story.
What tier 1 klevr team did they beat?
They haven't. They beat miss raiders I heard and if you consider them tier 1, then that's the one. They absolutely can't hang with Duffield /Nats or Vaughn however . Good D and goalies, but forwards lacking as their top players all left for the G because of the coach. New coach next year so could be a lot of new players however . The MD loop they are in is very weak; we (Milton) are in it as a AA centre (as are most teams in the loop). They're better than us for sure but again, we are AA and they are AAA next year. East omha will be alot stronger than West from the looks of it but all depends with the open borders
They play duffield this weekend. I guess we’ll understand a bit more after a proper game
Mississauga/rebels beat Oakville 11-2 in exhibition.
When was this? Trying to see start of season or more recently when Rebels are playing with shorter bench.