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In an ideal world you are correct. However, you are ignoring coaches that play favorites, as many do. They don't care about extra effort and will try to put the spotlight on theirs and friends' kids. Starts with ice-time and development opportunities, and ends with manipulations of points in Gamesheet.
Enforcement of fair and equal ice-time rules starts to address this behavior.
Stop whining and go to another team then.
Top teams play their best players. Whine and complain and your kid will get less and less ice time.
This is not true and if it is, that coach should not be teaching young children. Top teams develop and play ALL their players. Lazy, incompetent coaches only play their best players.
And don't whine and complain. Mention it ONE time to your coach and if there isn't an immediate change, take it directly to the GTHL. Simple.
You ask any AAA coach if he plays his best players the majority of the time and see what he says. Deny it all you want, it’s happening. GTHL will do nothing. I know of coaches doing it even at the AA level.
If your kid is one of the ones sitting then you are the suckers who are paying for other kids to play. Move down a division to where your kid is the star and maybe we get the kids who should not be in rep moved back to HL.
Don’t feel bad about it either because even some of the best AAA players will eventually get cut too whether it be OHL, World Junior or NHL.
I agree about moving down a level, I know somebody who’s paying big money for their kid to play in AAA. He literally plays 2 minutes a game that’s been recorded and published from last years stats 2 minutes a game! Paying thousands and thousands of dollars just to say your kid plays AAA.
Guest wrote: ↑Fri Oct 25, 2024 10:32 am
Stop whining and go to another team then.
Top teams play their best players. Whine and complain and your kid will get less and less ice time.
This is not true and if it is, that coach should not be teaching young children. Top teams develop and play ALL their players. Lazy, incompetent coaches only play their best players.
And don't whine and complain. Mention it ONE time to your coach and if there isn't an immediate change, take it directly to the GTHL. Simple.
You ask any AAA coach if he plays his best players the majority of the time and see what he says. Deny it all you want, it’s happening. GTHL will do nothing. I know of coaches doing it even at the AA level.
If your kid is one of the ones sitting then you are the suckers who are paying for other kids to play. Move down a division to where your kid is the star and maybe we get the kids who should not be in rep moved back to HL.
Don’t feel bad about it either because even some of the best AAA players will eventually get cut too whether it be OHL, World Junior or NHL.
I agree about moving down a level, I know somebody who’s paying big money for their kid to play in AAA. He literally plays 2 minutes a game that’s been recorded and published from last years stats 2 minutes a game! Paying thousands and thousands of dollars just to say your kid plays AAA.
Peanuts for some, whats 100k, look at Hyman, dad started all this chaos. But it was required to keep up with the US programs, you need paid coaches and unfortunately there are always scum bags, that are not good coaches that take cash. You can tell by how they skate…
Listen, I’m just gonna be 100% honest, when the coach doesn’t play my son as much as I think he should be playing him. We quit the team and we move onto the next team. Easy peasy!
Guest wrote: ↑Fri Oct 25, 2024 8:16 pm
Listen, I’m just gonna be 100% honest, when the coach doesn’t play my son as much as I think he should be playing him. We quit the team and we move onto the next team. Easy peasy!
Can't do that in OMHA, you're stuck, if the coach sticks around for 3-4 years and doesn't play your kid for PP PK or the third period ever your kid's development is over.