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Guest wrote: ↑Mon Jun 09, 2025 5:12 pm TM will probably be the top team with JRC and VK.

The rest will be wide open with the exception of Rebels and nothing should surprise.

The detailed analysis on this site never fails

GTHL: To start the season, this is how it will play out - 5 tiers

TM // JRC
VK // Nats // DMF
TT //SENS
TRW // REPS
MM // Rebels // NYR

- TRW has an opportunity to move up if they get a different coach who knows what hes doing
- VK//Nats // DMF all have an opportunity to play competitive hockey with TM and JRC with good coaching
- REPS will be a totally different team next year when it blows up and OHP lady is told to kick rocks
- NYR are the least toxic team
- TT and SENS both have solid rosters, just simply aren't "Super teams"

OMHA: 5 Tiers as well, this is what the first half of the season will look like.

WW
QRD
YSE // BJC // APR // KING
PETB // COW
NCP // MW // NS

- WW won't have a competitive game against anyone except QRD, who might even squeak out a win against them
- YSE, BJC, APR, KING all have really solid teams with solid coaching should all be competitive with each other. APR might be the first team to drop out of this group.
- NCP as one or two really good players and then dog shit
- MW is a mess
- NS is durham kids left overs after APR/WW/COW all got first pick
- PETB is my sleeper team to possibly come out of no where.

Good luck to everyone!

VK beat DMF 10+ vs nothing in a tournament weeks ago. Any specific reason group them in same tier? Agree with VK and Nats they were close in NYHL games

I mean, I can't keep up with EVERY single game teams play against each other. Was it TRULY fall roster vs fall roster? If so, then they probably slip into that next tier. The tiers might shake up a bit every two months or so. Kids change a lot, and rapidly. Some

A lot of this, just like anyone else trying to do it, is basing it off of LOTS of things:

- Individual kids I am aware of and where they went (I've been coaching in the age group for 4 years, I know A LOT of the kids either personally or through people or through IG. So if the top kid off a team goes somewhere, you are aware of it)

- previous year team results (Some teams "transplanted" more or less the entire team last year into a team this year. You can't account for random add on players, unless you know who they are. And you can't account for young players growth or decline every 6 months but you can have a solid idea. VK, WW, NATs, APR, KING, TRW, etc were all more or less a full team moving.)

- Spring team results (This one is tough, because you never TRULY know who is on which team. Teams are greasy as heck. But, you can still get a pretty good idea of teams when they play as a unit. WW, VK, JRC, TM, REPS, NYR, APR, KING, Nats all have spring teams out there where they are playing more or less as a team.)

- Rumors (Everything you read here, you need to take with a grain of salt, but you can get some decent info and then go and look it up yourself. Or if you happen to hear the same things from multiple different [unbiased] sources you can start to put together a decent story)

- Gut feel (there is things like team "public perspective", for example: no one goes to MM as their first choice, no one goes to NS as their first choice. So their "filler players are likely worse then the "filler players" for YSE, DMF, SENS. Teams like TM, JRC, WW all own either a brick team or they have arguably the best run organization in youth sports right now. Players will always go there, if given the option and they belong)

- Coaches (For example, APR coach is a good coach. He took a team of solid T2 kids and brought them into the heart of T1 all season. Vs. TRW coach took a incredibly talented roster and potentially made them worse from beginning of year to end)

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Jun 10, 2025 9:38 am

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Jun 10, 2025 8:42 am

Guest wrote: ↑Mon Jun 09, 2025 6:25 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Mon Jun 09, 2025 5:12 pm TM will probably be the top team with JRC and VK.

The rest will be wide open with the exception of Rebels and nothing should surprise.

The detailed analysis on this site never fails

GTHL: To start the season, this is how it will play out - 5 tiers

TM // JRC
VK // Nats // DMF
TT //SENS
TRW // REPS
MM // Rebels // NYR

- TRW has an opportunity to move up if they get a different coach who knows what hes doing
- VK//Nats // DMF all have an opportunity to play competitive hockey with TM and JRC with good coaching
- REPS will be a totally different team next year when it blows up and OHP lady is told to kick rocks
- NYR are the least toxic team
- TT and SENS both have solid rosters, just simply aren't "Super teams"

OMHA: 5 Tiers as well, this is what the first half of the season will look like.

WW
QRD
YSE // BJC // APR // KING
PETB // COW
NCP // MW // NS

- WW won't have a competitive game against anyone except QRD, who might even squeak out a win against them
- YSE, BJC, APR, KING all have really solid teams with solid coaching should all be competitive with each other. APR might be the first team to drop out of this group.
- NCP as one or two really good players and then dog shit
- MW is a mess
- NS is durham kids left overs after APR/WW/COW all got first pick
- PETB is my sleeper team to possibly come out of no where.

Good luck to everyone!

VK beat DMF 10+ vs nothing in a tournament weeks ago. Any specific reason group them in same tier? Agree with VK and Nats they were close in NYHL games

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Jun 10, 2025 10:49 am

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Jun 10, 2025 9:38 am

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Jun 10, 2025 8:42 am

Guest wrote: ↑Mon Jun 09, 2025 6:25 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Mon Jun 09, 2025 5:12 pm TM will probably be the top team with JRC and VK.

The rest will be wide open with the exception of Rebels and nothing should surprise.

The detailed analysis on this site never fails

GTHL: To start the season, this is how it will play out - 5 tiers

TM // JRC
VK // Nats // DMF
TT //SENS
TRW // REPS
MM // Rebels // NYR

- TRW has an opportunity to move up if they get a different coach who knows what hes doing
- VK//Nats // DMF all have an opportunity to play competitive hockey with TM and JRC with good coaching
- REPS will be a totally different team next year when it blows up and OHP lady is told to kick rocks
- NYR are the least toxic team
- TT and SENS both have solid rosters, just simply aren't "Super teams"

OMHA: 5 Tiers as well, this is what the first half of the season will look like.

WW
QRD
YSE // BJC // APR // KING
PETB // COW
NCP // MW // NS

- WW won't have a competitive game against anyone except QRD, who might even squeak out a win against them
- YSE, BJC, APR, KING all have really solid teams with solid coaching should all be competitive with each other. APR might be the first team to drop out of this group.
- NCP as one or two really good players and then dog shit
- MW is a mess
- NS is durham kids left overs after APR/WW/COW all got first pick
- PETB is my sleeper team to possibly come out of no where.

Good luck to everyone!

VK beat DMF 10+ vs nothing in a tournament weeks ago. Any specific reason group them in same tier? Agree with VK and Nats they were close in NYHL games

The specific reason is that this was written by someone who doesnt have a clue and istn paying attention. These rankings are garbage. Quick ignore and move on

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Jun 10, 2025 12:46 pm Complete nonsense from the guy with time to write 10 paragraphs during a weekday. PH has had few players from other teams like JRC. So how can this be used to evaluate a winter team. VK and Nats had pretty much the winter rosters. Some Tournaments TB has played with JRC roster. The way things look JRC, VK, Nats will be very strong. WW will blow up after a year of being stranded on an island.

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Jun 10, 2025 10:50 am To complete the analysis….

From the Alliance, Brantford will compete with anyone. Basically the draft day elite team that have been competitive at all the big spring tourneys. They will beat some big teams at silver stick, definitely a dark horse to compete with Whitby.

Niagara will be very strong, probably similar to the analysis of Quinte.

Oakville and Burlington both shook up their MD groups and added from outside. Oakville goaltending is probably tops in the province. With solid coaching both could compete with all the tier 2 teams but not at JRC/Marlies/WW/Brantford level.

Rest of OMHA West is quite weak. While the rest of Alliance is dependant on the kids from London and whether they all went to one super team (I haven’t heard one way or another).

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Jun 10, 2025 12:26 pm This guy seems out to lunch. Which spring teams are TM, NYR or Reps? I heard someone say it was PH but I saw at least 6 kids that are not on TM.

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Jun 10, 2025 1:41 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Jun 10, 2025 12:26 pm This guy seems out to lunch. Which spring teams are TM, NYR or Reps? I heard someone say it was PH but I saw at least 6 kids that are not on TM.

NYR and Reps definitely dont have spring teams. But the ranking guy needs that to not be true to make these rankings and will come up with some nonsense to justify it all