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Guest wrote: ↑Tue Oct 25, 2022 4:19 pm How are families finding the transition to APR? Is there a void from not having a rooted Ajax organization? A sacrifice around hockey development? Maybe a longing for championships that were so common with Knights Rep Teams?

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Feb 14, 2023 2:53 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Oct 25, 2022 4:19 pm How are families finding the transition to APR? Is there a void from not having a rooted Ajax organization? A sacrifice around hockey development? Maybe a longing for championships that were so common with Knights Rep Teams?

so here is my expience, my kid played in Ajax and ended on a mixed Ajax Pickering team. I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt its night and day.
I had no idea what the other side was like. The pickering parents told me it was always like this, the PHA was very well run so they dont see much of a difference. We have development which is awsome, ajax never did that, our emails are getting answered ajax never did that and for the first time no one is crying about about coaches. Ajax was dead anyway. The had 11 rep teams and had they no done this everyone was coming to Pickering. There were some bad ajax coaches they allowed to coach but i guess that was part of the deal. Hopefully they can fix the AAA mess, their teams are not very good.

Guest wrote: ↑Thu Feb 16, 2023 10:03 am The first year coaches were told they had to take equal amounts of players from each side which hurt some teams out of the gate. Some took additional players because of the request to equalize sides. It showed that coaches had no backbone and the organization didn't care to put the best team on the ice. Allowing teams to roster 19 players at AA down is a f ing joke and shows how money hungry the organization or coaching is starting to become.

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Feb 14, 2023 2:53 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Oct 25, 2022 4:19 pm How are families finding the transition to APR? Is there a void from not having a rooted Ajax organization? A sacrifice around hockey development? Maybe a longing for championships that were so common with Knights Rep Teams?

so here is my expience, my kid played in Ajax and ended on a mixed Ajax Pickering team. I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt its night and day.
I had no idea what the other side was like. The pickering parents told me it was always like this, the PHA was very well run so they dont see much of a difference. We have development which is awsome, ajax never did that, our emails are getting answered ajax never did that and for the first time no one is crying about about coaches. Ajax was dead anyway. The had 11 rep teams and had they no done this everyone was coming to Pickering. There were some bad ajax coaches they allowed to coach but i guess that was part of the deal. Hopefully they can fix the AAA mess, their teams are not very good.

Guest wrote: ↑Sat Feb 18, 2023 11:16 am

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Feb 14, 2023 2:53 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Oct 25, 2022 4:19 pm How are families finding the transition to APR? Is there a void from not having a rooted Ajax organization? A sacrifice around hockey development? Maybe a longing for championships that were so common with Knights Rep Teams?

so here is my expience, my kid played in Ajax and ended on a mixed Ajax Pickering team. I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt its night and day.
I had no idea what the other side was like. The pickering parents told me it was always like this, the PHA was very well run so they dont see much of a difference. We have development which is awsome, ajax never did that, our emails are getting answered ajax never did that and for the first time no one is crying about about coaches. Ajax was dead anyway. The had 11 rep teams and had they no done this everyone was coming to Pickering. There were some bad ajax coaches they allowed to coach but i guess that was part of the deal. Hopefully they can fix the AAA mess, their teams are not very good.

Pickering was certainly far better run than ajax ever was. Its pretty evident to anyone from Ajax. All the lies they told about Pickering for years were never true and now we see for ourselves. Everyone seems way happier. However my other son that plays AAA, its still a complete mess. Hoepfully they can fix that too. Lets see what happens, but for the first time someone is making good decisions with AAA coaches for the most part and has no bones bout tossing the bad ones even if its mid season.

Guest wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 8:24 am

Guest wrote: ↑Sat Feb 18, 2023 11:16 am

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Feb 14, 2023 2:53 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Oct 25, 2022 4:19 pm How are families finding the transition to APR? Is there a void from not having a rooted Ajax organization? A sacrifice around hockey development? Maybe a longing for championships that were so common with Knights Rep Teams?

so here is my expience, my kid played in Ajax and ended on a mixed Ajax Pickering team. I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt its night and day.
I had no idea what the other side was like. The pickering parents told me it was always like this, the PHA was very well run so they dont see much of a difference. We have development which is awsome, ajax never did that, our emails are getting answered ajax never did that and for the first time no one is crying about about coaches. Ajax was dead anyway. The had 11 rep teams and had they no done this everyone was coming to Pickering. There were some bad ajax coaches they allowed to coach but i guess that was part of the deal. Hopefully they can fix the AAA mess, their teams are not very good.

Pickering was certainly far better run than ajax ever was. Its pretty evident to anyone from Ajax. All the lies they told about Pickering for years were never true and now we see for ourselves. Everyone seems way happier. However my other son that plays AAA, its still a complete mess. Hoepfully they can fix that too. Lets see what happens, but for the first time someone is making good decisions with AAA coaches for the most part and has no bones bout tossing the bad ones even if its mid season.

Look at the 09 team and the trash behind the bench and it hasn’t changed enough. Raiders have never been shy about booting someone who wasn’t an insider from the perch. They did it to the 09’s years ago in Minor Atom. What they have a problem doing is recognizing when an insider is toxic and cancerous and riding them of that problem. Most of the AAA teams in this organization are made up of kids who don’t reside in Ajax or Pickering yet they will hold back kids who want to go elsewhere. There are up to a dozen kids in the 09 age group playing aaa elsewhere that WANTED to play for the raiders. Now that “super” team is imploding like all the others.