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Guest wrote: ↑Sun Apr 20, 2025 10:09 am Heard Barrie Colts AAA will be taking a maximum of 5 Klevr kids per year going forward. Is this true?

Any other organization that is limiting Klevr players? So far, the only confirmed one is Oakville Rangers.

That is why they sucked in 2015 last year. Didn’t take anyone who could have played Barrie MD. Heard they were trying hard to bring back the Klevr kids. Don’t like Klevr? Offer a better product.

What’s the issue with klvr kids?

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Apr 20, 2025 10:41 pm What’s the issue with klvr kids?

No issue with Klevr kids, they are showing well in OMHA tryouts and will populate a high majority of spots on AAA teams. Making MD parents regret their decision to stay in MD, reality hitting hard. AA may even be a stretch for most MD kids unless their parents are helping coach.

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Apr 20, 2025 11:03 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Apr 20, 2025 10:41 pm What’s the issue with klvr kids?

No issue with Klevr kids, they are showing well in OMHA tryouts and will populate a high majority of spots on AAA teams. Making MD parents regret their decision to stay in MD, reality hitting hard. AA may even be a stretch for most MD kids unless their parents are helping coach.

Barrie is a good example. Purple Cobras will clobber the Tier 1 Barrie MD team on their bad day. Colts should take the entire roster of Cobras for the AAA with no questions asked.

Cobras T2 would beat Barrie MD 9/10.

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Apr 20, 2025 11:03 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Apr 20, 2025 10:41 pm What’s the issue with klvr kids?

No issue with Klevr kids, they are showing well in OMHA tryouts and will populate a high majority of spots on AAA teams. Making MD parents regret their decision to stay in MD, reality hitting hard. AA may even be a stretch for most MD kids unless their parents are helping coach.

Just based in 2015s
OMHA top teams were KSL
GTHL top teams were KSL

KSL team won the RedHats
KSL team won the G league.


Good luck to Barrie who finished in the bottom, good luck to Oakville who didn’t even make the red hats.

Both my 2015 and 2016 did KSL, both are on good AAA teams.
Proof is in the pudding

KLVR parents are psychos. That’s the problem.

Waxers will mostly take Stouffville MD kids. These guys are in for a very long and losing season Book it.

Guest wrote: ↑Mon Apr 21, 2025 8:27 am KLVR parents are psychos. That’s the problem.

Well they are better than everyone else

Guest wrote: ↑Mon Apr 21, 2025 9:13 am

Guest wrote: ↑Mon Apr 21, 2025 8:27 am KLVR parents are psychos. That’s the problem.

Well they are better than everyone else

uhg, stop the non-sense.

Yes KSL kids made up most of the AAA teams that were any good last year, and yes, they will likely make up the good ones again this year.
But that doesn't mean kids in MD can't be good. They just need to do a bunch of "extra" to keep up generally. The deck is stacked against them:

Practices:

KSL: mandates 3 Practices a week minimum, most teams doing 4 with some time of either skills/skating coaching as part of it. Our team had a $2000 budget for goalies. Others had slightly different ones. Some goalies played for free.

OMHA: I am not sure what the mandate is, but most teams I know practiced twice a week. The two teams I am pretty close to parents on had skating coach out, but it was once a month. Nothing for goalies - no budget. The one team had an organizational wide day once a month for goalies.


Games:

KSL: 6 or 7 tournaments, all with a guarantee of 5 games each. So that's 30-35 games right off the top. Most teams did at least 10 exhibition games on top of those tournaments. Some did more. My team did 18 games. The exhibition games you schedule yourself, so you can be picky and play against teams that are similar skill. Plus tournament organizers do a pretty good job of moving teams around so they play competitive games. Sometimes its "embarassing" to people because they are playing an age group below, or a T1 team is forced to play T2 teams. But, its hands down the best part of the KSL.

OMHA: Regular scheduled games against set opponents. Most games are blow outs one direction or the other. Sometimes you get a good competitive match. Tournaments are one or two for the season if the team schedules them. Most of the best teams are breaking the rules and playing full ice "off the record games" and the teams not willing to, get crushed when full ice starts.


Rules:

KSL: Full ice, full rules all season long. From U7-U9 (plus Klevr Cubs if you include that on full ice small rinks like NTR).

OMHA: U9 Half ice until Jan and then full ice for a couple months. Prior to that, no rules, no face offs, no score keeping, buzzers for line changes, no icing, no offsides. Half size nets for U8 and U7.


I think this has been talked about at nauseum, but there are still TONS of parents I am meeting at AAA tryouts where little Jimmzy was the best kid on the ice at their MD program for the last three years; they are showing up to AAA tryouts asking WTF is happening? Where did these kids come from? What are those stickers on their helmet?