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Guest wrote: ↑Fri Feb 14, 2025 11:16 am
You’ll see this week. Oakville also beat them 9-1 earlier in the year.
Barrie just beat Oakville in the tourney.
Is this Barrie MD team equal or stronger than Purple cobras?
Set up the “Scrimmage” and find out
Cobras tier 1 much Stronger but how many are just from Barrie? I'm sure colts AAA will be a hybrid of md/cobras. Oakville beat cobras tier 2 by 1 last year and apparently lost all their top players this year
I heard the same about Oakville. They have 4-5 T1 kids in KSL who left due to coach who can’t even skate properly and plays his kid all the time. The whole coaching bench there are daddy looking after their kid. Had they got a non-parent coach, they would have been top tier team in OMHA.
It is quite easy as an Oakville parent to narrow down those few who would make this particular comment on the bench staff. Those “dad’s” on the bench include dads with great hockey careers under their belts and a coach who has coached at both a National and International level for over 20 years. There are a few who left after last season and those parents did what they believed was best for their child and I suppose it’s easiest to say it is because of the coaches but what I can say is dads or not they run excellent practices and are top notch role models for our kids. Have we struggled against teams like Duffield… yes… but at this young age unlike many other teams these coaches did not run a short bench just to win. They have focused on developing a large number of kids and looking at the bigger picture since after all they are 8 and 9 years old! What I can say for sure is that some of those who left last season did not have a negative impact on the team on or off the ice.
Is this Barrie MD team equal or stronger than Purple cobras?
Set up the “Scrimmage” and find out
Cobras tier 1 much Stronger but how many are just from Barrie? I'm sure colts AAA will be a hybrid of md/cobras. Oakville beat cobras tier 2 by 1 last year and apparently lost all their top players this year
I heard the same about Oakville. They have 4-5 T1 kids in KSL who left due to coach who can’t even skate properly and plays his kid all the time. The whole coaching bench there are daddy looking after their kid. Had they got a non-parent coach, they would have been top tier team in OMHA.
It is quite easy as an Oakville parent to narrow down those few who would make this particular comment on the bench staff. Those “dad’s” on the bench include dads with great hockey careers under their belts and a coach who has coached at both a National and International level for over 20 years. There are a few who left after last season and those parents did what they believed was best for their child and I suppose it’s easiest to say it is because of the coaches but what I can say is dads or not they run excellent practices and are top notch role models for our kids. Have we struggled against teams like Duffield… yes… but at this young age unlike many other teams these coaches did not run a short bench just to win. They have focused on developing a large number of kids and looking at the bigger picture since after all they are 8 and 9 years old! What I can say for sure is that some of those who left last season did not have a negative impact on the team on or off the ice.
Oakville fighting public..lol. Good luck to them. They will likely win against most teams in their loop other than Niagara.