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Guest wrote: ↑Sun Jun 08, 2025 12:22 pm Anyone want to share their thoughts and experience with this group?

Fillo is a con artist. He claims to be a director of player development with PH which he is not and has a bunch of other fake credentials. Check the registration fee for a team in Carnevale and then check what he charges players on his Carnevale team, it’s literally 350% of what their fee should be. Hes never coached any AAA team of any significance.

MF is not respected at all in any hockey circles and preys on people that don’t know any better, who usually leave his team after a year and never come back. Bad, bad news.

No shit

What age group?

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Jun 08, 2025 7:21 pmWhat age group?

All age groups....same scam...

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Jun 08, 2025 7:21 pmWhat age group?

2010-2019. Fillo is a thief

Hockey Parents are suckers. If you did the math before handing over money blindly. You would have seen you were paying this guy 1k per game to open a door.

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Jun 08, 2025 9:14 pm Hockey Parents are suckers. If you did the math before handing over money blindly. You would have seen you were paying this guy 1k per game to open a door.

I don't think there are many Spring Programs who are willing to do their whole thing at cost. I get the guy might not be great, I couldn't tell you if thats true or not, but at the end of the day you are paying for someone to organize it and put a team together with jersey's etc.

Guest wrote: ↑Mon Jun 09, 2025 10:25 am

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Jun 08, 2025 9:14 pm Hockey Parents are suckers. If you did the math before handing over money blindly. You would have seen you were paying this guy 1k per game to open a door.

I don't think there are many Spring Programs who are willing to do their whole thing at cost. I get the guy might not be great, I couldn't tell you if thats true or not, but at the end of the day you are paying for someone to organize it and put a team together with jersey's etc.

It's not just spring hockey, it's all minor hockey.

Parents get ripped off all year for hockey.

While Spring Hockey is a for profit business, a lot of rep programs would fall into the same category but you are more than willing to over pay during the winter and not complain.

No one forces you to play spring hockey, AAA hockey, local league, take skills lesson, power skating, etc. You know the costs up front and make a choice to do it. No one to blame but yourself if you have buyers remorse.

Guest wrote: ↑Mon Jun 09, 2025 11:06 am

Guest wrote: ↑Mon Jun 09, 2025 10:25 am

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Jun 08, 2025 9:14 pm Hockey Parents are suckers. If you did the math before handing over money blindly. You would have seen you were paying this guy 1k per game to open a door.

I don't think there are many Spring Programs who are willing to do their whole thing at cost. I get the guy might not be great, I couldn't tell you if thats true or not, but at the end of the day you are paying for someone to organize it and put a team together with jersey's etc.

It's not just spring hockey, it's all minor hockey.

Parents get ripped off all year for hockey.

While Spring Hockey is a for profit business, a lot of rep programs would fall into the same category but you are more than willing to over pay during the winter and not complain.

No one forces you to play spring hockey, AAA hockey, local league, take skills lesson, power skating, etc. You know the costs up front and make a choice to do it. No one to blame but yourself if you have buyers remorse.

You can get lucky and find a good program though, those are the ones to be loyal to. Our Spring team, everything is at cost. Our coach owns and operates it. Shares what everything costs (which is all easy to find anyways) and divides it by kid. He even pays for his own kid to play. He is a good coach, great with the kids, they love him. Couldn't ask for more.

However, I recognize we are lucky, like I said.