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Guest wrote: ↑Tue Dec 24, 2024 10:11 am U14 LJK is not a strong team. They were destroyed by Waterloo 7-1 and barely got past Brantford 3-2. That team does not have AAA skill; it is essentially a strong AA team. Why would EMC want any of those players? Size? Sure, LJK has size, but they're AA players. Size won't win games, as evidenced by their record of 8-7-3 in regular-season play. There are better kids out there that could make that team a lot more competitive. If they get a non-parent next year, perhaps things will change.

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Dec 24, 2024 12:09 pm The only team where they can get players would be the green team. Maybe some EMC cuts? Not sure there are many players to choose from for next year unless some crazy parents want to drive over an hour.

Guest wrote: ↑Fri Dec 27, 2024 7:09 pm Hearing 3 EMC kids to LJK for the 2012 group

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They’ll never unite. There are a lot more people voicing their displeasure at EMC since this announcement was made. If London played their cards right, they could get a lot of EMC players to jump over. So many already drove right through or by London anyhow.

Let’s create a healthy conversation around this. People want development, coaching will matter. No need to rip either organization apart. If both organizations embrace the new era of hockey it will come down to who offers the best coaching and development opportunities for players. The days of using coaching to social climb and putting yourself before the team are gone. Take a look at the coaches for each age group and you’ll see where the best players will want to be.

This will root out the problems of bad coaches, no development programs and poorly run associations/boards who are making poor decisions. You want to get on the board and pick ya unqualified buddies as coaches, knock yourself out. People will see through this crap and take their money elsewhere. Build a program, show what ya get for the money you spend, development model and qualified coaching applicants and mentorship. That will be the associations that win and where parents will spend their money.

Up until now it hasn’t mattered who was coaching because players had to stay. Respectfully, right now LJK has better coaching at the AAA level with the exception of two age groups. Difference between the two organizations is EMC picks coaches before tryouts, whereas LJK only picks the HC, this will benefit players because they can window shop EMC and move to LJK if they don’t like what they see. This is about the kids. Hopefully the kids win!

EMC U10 will lose kids to London already in the works
EMC U11 will lose kids to London because of unfair coaching, only win because they only play half the team since u10
LJk U12 will lose a kid to EMC
EMC LJK U13 will lose kids to Chatham shamrock kids backfill
LJK U14 will lose kids to EMC
LJK U15 & 16 to lose to EMC