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Guest wrote: ↑Tue Jun 10, 2025 3:39 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Jun 10, 2025 3:20 pm Yes. NYR did play in CCT and Carnovale league. Great group of kids, great team, Everything is looking good. You don’t need to bring on ego personalities with trying to stack teams like what some they did because the parents will all never be happy thinking their kid should play PP or PK and so the churn will start. It always does.

I love that, I wish more teams were out there built like actual teams. Spring Hockey is brutal right now. Its either "Elite all star teams" or "garbage" in peoples minds.

Also, not responding specifically this guy, but the guy prior to him claiming the person who put the rankings out is "making shit up to fit a narrative". He made it pretty clear that with spring hockey teams, you can NEVER TELL who is fully on the team, and is just one of many things used to do his rankings.

Young Nats = Everest Elite (only some tournaments - they even have their coach)
TM = Pro Hockey (They have thier coach)
WW = Young kings
APR = Junior wings
NYR = Jr Rangers
VK = Something Knights
REPS = OHP

Yes, I am sure not a single one of these is the "full complete team" but, its "mostly" that team. I am sure I am missing some.

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Jun 10, 2025 3:20 pm Yes. NYR did play in CCT and Carnovale league. Great group of kids, great team, Everything is looking good. You don’t need to bring on ego personalities with trying to stack teams like what some they did because the parents will all never be happy thinking their kid should play PP or PK and so the churn will start. It always does.

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

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 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 12:46 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.