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Pete

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  1. I don't worry about his durability. Not counting three games for COVID, he's only missed 26 in his career before this injury.
  2. Yea, Canada much different story re: things like scholarships. Agreed on the social aspect, the bonds, working as a team, All the kids on my son's team are good kids. I kind of think you get that in college as well, I used to frown upon fraternities, but now I see them as useful tools. Also great point on the number of sheets you guys have. We have a very low-end program, but it's not considered tier A because we only have one regulation rank and one pad. You need to have two full sheets to be considered a tier 1. It's politics.
  3. Here's been my experience so far, coupled with what I learned from parents with kids older than mine. Generally, the kids that get most attention from the program are the better kids. So if your kid is on a B team, he's not getting anywhere near the skills attention that the higher ranked kids are. The difference between the A tiers and B at u-10 normally boils down to who are the biggest kids and who got on skates earliest. Then it will become who can afford the privates. As the kids get older, yes, the kids who have the most skill earlier will likely have the more skill later but then life gets in the way. Who wants to play other sports, who wants to chase tail, who's drinking, etc. The introduction of checking also adds an additional dynamic. I kind of laugh at some of our parents who stress over "tryouts" and all these parents who switch programs every season because they think other ones are better. They're generally all the same for one reason or another. You try to move to a "better program" and there's more politics involved. It's a trade off. All these kids are headed to beer league. USA hockey really doesn't promote or care about what's happening in New Jersey. They know where their bread is buttered, the Midwest and New England. @Dunny has seen way more of it than I have.
  4. Yeah, we get that around here too...."for the college scholarship." Nothing like dumping $8-$10k/year into hockey for 10 years instead of just putting it in a 529 and paying for college the old fashioned way.
  5. "scheduled loss"... SIKE! .691 winning percentage ties Florida for best in NHL. 16-3-1 in their last 20. I know some of you guys don't want to believe it, but this is a #goodteam.
  6. It was 27 seconds into the period, anything is possible but I don't think so. Regardless it never amounted to anything. Glider was right back out with him later.
  7. Mika! Now I have to root for the Islanders to make the playoffs otherwise people will argue that the goal is irrelevant because it came against the non playoff team.
  8. I liked Edstrom's game. Until I saw a Rempe play. Edstrom seems kind of unimpressive now.
  9. Big win, you take it and you get out of town. At this time of year you "deal" with the fact that they win more than they lose, playoffs are released to 16 wins by hook or by crook and this team can definitely pull off 16 wins.
  10. Not going to win too many games if you allow lateral passes right across the top of the crease.
  11. Kreider clearly cranky that he had to get out of bed early for this game.
  12. 5 guys got hit with pucks last night. Could be anybody.
  13. But not "this" when I was the one who said Vesey to begin with?
  14. Jimmy Vesey or Ryan Lindgren and it's not close. Quick should be nominated for his dedication to hockey, I think that's the Pearson
  15. That's "a" point in the game, but not "the" pivotal point, IMO. Even if he shoots, there's no guarantee he scores. Mika going down was where they lost it and it really was a team effort of fuck ups after that, none bigger than Laf and Brodz. Just my $.02.
  16. Laf was +10 last year and -5 this year. He's the only minus player on his line. Just part of his learning process. Next year he'll take another step in putting it all together.
  17. There's no road to go down. I'm not debating whether or not he should be moved down, I'm saying it's an odd game to do it after.
  18. That's an odd choice for today considering his line was the only one to post an even rating last night.
  19. Tampa had 30 hits to Rangers 26. What I saw last night was a team scrambling in their own zone. I don't think either of the players you mentioned would have remedied that. They started to unravel when Mika got hurt. They never recovered from it. Like I said though, through a seven game series I would agree with you. But they were losing last night's game no matter who was in lineup, IMO.
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