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Guest wrote: ↑Mon Dec 23, 2024 7:30 pm Gotta love what Oakville put out on their website about it, basically that since they are the biggest they are the best and will crush all the other centres and attract the best players. Their executive is severely delusional. LOL

Just curious which org in the Oakville area is better? Burlington? Milton? Hamilton/Glancaster? Regardless of the Oakville executive, do you honestly think kids are going to flock to those other orgs? I'm sure at least half the players in Burlington are already making plans to leave LOL

“Half the players in Burlington making plans to leave”. You sir are a clown. The Rangers organization is no better than the Eagles. The only thing you should be chasing is a coach and the environment he creates. Leaving one centre because another is “better” is fools gold. Rangers have their share of great coaches as well as their share of guys who should never have been given a team. Absolutely no different than Burlington or Milton. Crest and logo mean nothing.

Sorry to hurt your feelings but Burlington has not one good coach in the program.
Just look at it once you play U12 AAA in Burlington by the time you get to U18 they keep 3 Burlington kids and pick up
All talent from elsewhere proves they have terrible Development

Open borders will prove your point then. If the organization is so bad, kids will leave and they won't have enough to field teams.

There will always be letter chasers and parents willing to pay up so their kid can play at a level he has no business being at. ANd the org will gladly take their money!

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Just curious which org in the Oakville area is better? Burlington? Milton? Hamilton/Glancaster? Regardless of the Oakville executive, do you honestly think kids are going to flock to those other orgs? I'm sure at least half the players in Burlington are already making plans to leave LOL

“Half the players in Burlington making plans to leave”. You sir are a clown. The Rangers organization is no better than the Eagles. The only thing you should be chasing is a coach and the environment he creates. Leaving one centre because another is “better” is fools gold. Rangers have their share of great coaches as well as their share of guys who should never have been given a team. Absolutely no different than Burlington or Milton. Crest and logo mean nothing.

Sorry to hurt your feelings but Burlington has not one good coach in the program.
Just look at it once you play U12 AAA in Burlington by the time you get to U18 they keep 3 Burlington kids and pick up
All talent from elsewhere proves they have terrible Development

Open borders will prove your point then. If the organization is so bad, kids will leave and they won't have enough to field teams.

There will always be letter chasers and parents willing to pay up so their kid can play at a level he has no business being at. ANd the org will gladly take their money!

There's some kids that might be pigeon holed because of a poor association or can't get an opportunity to play at a higher level where they are because of these dumb boundaries. There are kids that have quit because of ahole coaches and these dumb residency rules. Some will move up sure, but some just want to go sideways to a well managed association or team that has their *hit together. You'll have parents that will drive to the end of the earth for a league letter AAA but let them if they want to, it'll get old fast. This should be a wake up call to all those poorly run associations that think no one will leave. LOL Morons! Players now have the control and it's ABOUT TIME!

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Guest wrote: ↑Sat Dec 28, 2024 7:22 am I’ve heard there will be no caps on how many non resident players play on a team but above posters say there will be caps. What’s the truth?

Ha. There has never been a cap. Not sure how people get their information. It’s all based on what the org decides. The omha does not care. Why do you write this stuff when you have no idea what you’re talking about. My sons omha team has 7 imports right now. But apparently there is a rule that it’s capped at 4? Common people. Get the facts straight.

Currently it’s 4 imports at AAA so how is it possible to have 7 unless they are coming in with address changes then obviously they are not classed as imports. With open borders the existing rule of imports no longer applies. Orgs will decide on capping or leaving it open. I think it will be non capped.

What age group? Some of the older age groups (08,09,10) may have been grand fathered in with unlimited imports at AAA. OMHA removed Import caps at AAA a few years ago but then changed the rule again to cap the # of imports after a couple seasons.

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Guest wrote: ↑Sat Dec 28, 2024 7:22 am I’ve heard there will be no caps on how many non resident players play on a team but above posters say there will be caps. What’s the truth?

Ha. There has never been a cap. Not sure how people get their information. It’s all based on what the org decides. The omha does not care. Why do you write this stuff when you have no idea what you’re talking about. My sons omha team has 7 imports right now. But apparently there is a rule that it’s capped at 4? Common people. Get the facts straight.

Currently it’s 4 imports at AAA so how is it possible to have 7 unless they are coming in with address changes then obviously they are not classed as imports. With open borders the existing rule of imports no longer applies. Orgs will decide on capping or leaving it open. I think it will be non capped.

What age group? Some of the older age groups (08,09,10) may have been grand fathered in with unlimited imports at AAA. OMHA removed Import caps at AAA a few years ago but then changed the rule again to cap the # of imports after a couple seasons.

I am not up on the AAA rules but I was told by a non reliable person the 'imports' for AAA clarification were players from another league. eg: OMHA AAA team could only have 4 players from Alliance/GTHL but unlimited players from other OMHA centres. Does this make sense?

Guest wrote: ↑Mon Jan 06, 2025 9:07 am Hey OHF.....Guess what? Tampering has started already, and honestly can anyone really be shocked about it?!?

How are you policing this? Are you relying on all of us to be rats? What's the penalties, what's the process? All for open borders but the jockeying has already begun. Why is OMHA telling associations to not allow imports. Boards are already jockeying on coaches and associations are scrambling to appoint coaches for the 2025/2026 season so that they can tamper for the next 3-4 months. No structure to your big announcement is just going to leave some kids on the outside looking in, overlapping tryouts, no processes or rules in place, more back room deals happening now than ever before. LOL What a mess fellas.

Guest wrote: ↑Mon Jan 06, 2025 9:07 am Hey OHF.....Guess what? Tampering has started already, and honestly can anyone really be shocked about it?!?

How are you policing this? Are you relying on all of us to be rats? What's the penalties, what's the process? All for open borders but the jockeying has already begun. Why is OMHA telling associations to not allow imports. Boards are already jockeying on coaches and associations are scrambling to appoint coaches for the 2025/2026 season so that they can tamper for the next 3-4 months. No structure to your big announcement is just going to leave some kids on the outside looking in, overlapping tryouts, no processes or rules in place, more back room deals happening now than ever before. LOL What a mess fellas.

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Guest wrote: ↑Sat Dec 28, 2024 10:54 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Sat Dec 28, 2024 9:47 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Sat Dec 28, 2024 7:22 am I’ve heard there will be no caps on how many non resident players play on a team but above posters say there will be caps. What’s the truth?

Ha. There has never been a cap. Not sure how people get their information. It’s all based on what the org decides. The omha does not care. Why do you write this stuff when you have no idea what you’re talking about. My sons omha team has 7 imports right now. But apparently there is a rule that it’s capped at 4? Common people. Get the facts straight.

Currently it’s 4 imports at AAA so how is it possible to have 7 unless they are coming in with address changes then obviously they are not classed as imports. With open borders the existing rule of imports no longer applies. Orgs will decide on capping or leaving it open. I think it will be non capped.

What age group? Some of the older age groups (08,09,10) may have been grand fathered in with unlimited imports at AAA. OMHA removed Import caps at AAA a few years ago but then changed the rule again to cap the # of imports after a couple seasons.

I am not up on the AAA rules but I was told by a non reliable person the 'imports' for AAA clarification were players from another league. eg: OMHA AAA team could only have 4 players from Alliance/GTHL but unlimited players from other OMHA centres. Does this make sense?