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Guest wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2024 11:18 am Wishful thinking. No chance these two orgs unite. The politics in both orgs is so thick there is no way those in power would allow it. Yes, it would make sense and the teams would be very strong, but we all know that's the last thing these clowns care about.

Rumour has it London still won’t allow out of area residents.
EMC will lose the best kids at age groups where the coaching is stronger in London, and visaversa. No one wants to leave home organization but everyone wants to be part of the best program available to them

Not surprised if LJK was to pull that stunt.

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.

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Guest wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 8:53 am

Guest wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 8:53 am

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2024 6:13 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2024 2:49 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2024 11:18 am Wishful thinking. No chance these two orgs unite. The politics in both orgs is so thick there is no way those in power would allow it. Yes, it would make sense and the teams would be very strong, but we all know that's the last thing these clowns care about.

Rumour has it London still won’t allow out of area residents.
EMC will lose the best kids at age groups where the coaching is stronger in London, and visaversa. No one wants to leave home organization but everyone wants to be part of the best program available to them

Not surprised if LJK was to pull that stunt.

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.

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Guest wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 9:22 am

Guest wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 8:53 am

Guest wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 8:53 am

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2024 6:13 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2024 2:49 pm

Rumour has it London still won’t allow out of area residents.
EMC will lose the best kids at age groups where the coaching is stronger in London, and visaversa. No one wants to leave home organization but everyone wants to be part of the best program available to them

Not surprised if LJK was to pull that stunt.

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.

Guest wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 11:30 am

Guest wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 9:22 am

Guest wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 8:53 am

Guest wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 8:53 am

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2024 6:13 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2024 2:49 pm

Rumour has it London still won’t allow out of area residents.
EMC will lose the best kids at age groups where the coaching is stronger in London, and visaversa. No one wants to leave home organization but everyone wants to be part of the best program available to them

Not surprised if LJK was to pull that stunt.

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.

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Guest wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 11:30 am

Guest wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 9:22 am

Guest wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 8:53 am

Guest wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 8:53 am

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2024 6:13 pm
Not surprised if LJK was to pull that stunt.

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!

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Guest wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 12:58 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 11:30 am

Guest wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 9:22 am

Guest wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 8:53 am

Guest wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 8:53 am

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!

LJK has voted for open borders within Alliance a few times already, EMC has voted against it. Tells me all I need to know about who is prepared for the new change.

Guest wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 2:47 pm EMC will have the better teams, better facilities to offer. Coaching will be better as well

Guest wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 3:32 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 2:47 pm EMC will have the better teams, better facilities to offer. Coaching will be better as well

What facilities? EMC utilizes public facilities, the same as LJK. AAA coaching across the two organizations is pretty equal. Some parent coaches with knowledge but some political BS that follows, some solid non-parent coaches, and one or two really good coaches on each end. The difference will be where the relationships within the teams are and how good those teams already are. If one team is much stronger than the other, I could see those few top end kids jumping ship to the other so they can really push those teams to the top. Ages where both are strong likely won't see much jumping around.