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Guest wrote: ↑Sun Apr 13, 2025 9:46 am Anyone else from some small centre, bullshit OMHA and Alliance teams want to argue that if you’re good enough scouts will find you anywhere? You don’t become good with farmer coaches and playing against dogshit players. This was a harsh lesson for you folks. You lost.

What happened to the omha champions? Lots of players there expecting to go, had been planning this day for years.

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Apr 13, 2025 10:04 am

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Apr 13, 2025 9:46 am Anyone else from some small centre, bullshit OMHA and Alliance teams want to argue that if you’re good enough scouts will find you anywhere? You don’t become good with farmer coaches and playing against dogshit players. This was a harsh lesson for you folks. You lost.

What happened to the omha champions? Lots of players there expecting to go, had been planning this day for years.

A lot of programs in the OHL decided to tap into the American market for better, more skilled players.

Down south they didn’t have 3+ years of lockdowns and limited hockey. They were going balls deep to the floor training. 3 years of gaining skill is a lot. You may clue in why this 2009 draft class sucks here in the GTHL, well that’s why.

When a kid is only 15/16 years old and he lost 3 years of development compared to his competition in the States that’s HUGE. Imagine a kid started hockey at 10 years old, that’s considered way too late. Well, these kids all had no shot here in Canada.

You can thank you Liberal gov for that one

Guest wrote: ↑Sat Apr 12, 2025 1:56 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Sat Apr 12, 2025 1:51 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Sat Apr 12, 2025 1:34 pm And the lone AA kid! Hahahahahahaha

Les jealous? BIG thumbs up to the coach of VP. All he does is win. He’s the real champion here for this development.

What round did the AA KID GO IN

Rumour is he paid over 7k

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Apr 13, 2025 10:45 am

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Apr 13, 2025 10:04 am

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Apr 13, 2025 9:46 am Anyone else from some small centre, bullshit OMHA and Alliance teams want to argue that if you’re good enough scouts will find you anywhere? You don’t become good with farmer coaches and playing against dogshit players. This was a harsh lesson for you folks. You lost.

What happened to the omha champions? Lots of players there expecting to go, had been planning this day for years.

A lot of programs in the OHL decided to tap into the American market for better, more skilled players.

Down south they didn’t have 3+ years of lockdowns and limited hockey. They were going balls deep to the floor training. 3 years of gaining skill is a lot. You may clue in why this 2009 draft class sucks here in the GTHL, well that’s why.

When a kid is only 15/16 years old and he lost 3 years of development compared to his competition in the States that’s HUGE. Imagine a kid started hockey at 10 years old, that’s considered way too late. Well, these kids all had no shot here in Canada.

You can thank you Liberal gov for that one

Haha , hockey is a late specialization sport. Meaning you don’t focus in on it to about 14/15 in an ideal world. It is the Canadian system and draft schedule that is broken. I’ve seen athletes start a sport at 16 and become Olympic level by 22! A more globally competitive sport than hockey as well.

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Apr 13, 2025 10:57 am

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Apr 13, 2025 10:45 am

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Apr 13, 2025 10:04 am

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Apr 13, 2025 9:46 am Anyone else from some small centre, bullshit OMHA and Alliance teams want to argue that if you’re good enough scouts will find you anywhere? You don’t become good with farmer coaches and playing against dogshit players. This was a harsh lesson for you folks. You lost.

What happened to the omha champions? Lots of players there expecting to go, had been planning this day for years.

A lot of programs in the OHL decided to tap into the American market for better, more skilled players.

Down south they didn’t have 3+ years of lockdowns and limited hockey. They were going balls deep to the floor training. 3 years of gaining skill is a lot. You may clue in why this 2009 draft class sucks here in the GTHL, well that’s why.

When a kid is only 15/16 years old and he lost 3 years of development compared to his competition in the States that’s HUGE. Imagine a kid started hockey at 10 years old, that’s considered way too late. Well, these kids all had no shot here in Canada.

You can thank you Liberal gov for that one

Haha , hockey is a late specialization sport. Meaning you don’t focus in on it to about 14/15 in an ideal world. It is the Canadian system and draft schedule that is broken. I’ve seen athletes start a sport at 16 and become Olympic level by 22! A more globally competitive sport than hockey as well.

Are you drinking this early in the morning?

Give your balls a tug.

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Apr 13, 2025 10:54 am

Guest wrote: ↑Sat Apr 12, 2025 1:56 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Sat Apr 12, 2025 1:51 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Sat Apr 12, 2025 1:34 pm And the lone AA kid! Hahahahahahaha

Les jealous? BIG thumbs up to the coach of VP. All he does is win. He’s the real champion here for this development.

What round did the AA KID GO IN

Rumour is he paid over 7k

Wow, that’s incredible. They really got a great deal. Not only did they pay $3k for the year to play AA, $10k all-in to get drafted is like a used 2010 Honda civic. That’s a fraction of what any teams AAA fees would’ve been and that’s just to get on the team (not including extra money for ice time), as well as not including their own OHL draft fees. Never mind how most AAA kids pay for private school which is $30k a year for a cheap one.

I need to meet these parents, they know what they’re doing. Some parents here will pay $7k just to sit down with a coach in the war room for 10 minutes.

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Apr 13, 2025 11:09 am

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Apr 13, 2025 10:57 am

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Apr 13, 2025 10:45 am

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Apr 13, 2025 10:04 am

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Apr 13, 2025 9:46 am Anyone else from some small centre, bullshit OMHA and Alliance teams want to argue that if you’re good enough scouts will find you anywhere? You don’t become good with farmer coaches and playing against dogshit players. This was a harsh lesson for you folks. You lost.

What happened to the omha champions? Lots of players there expecting to go, had been planning this day for years.

A lot of programs in the OHL decided to tap into the American market for better, more skilled players.

Down south they didn’t have 3+ years of lockdowns and limited hockey. They were going balls deep to the floor training. 3 years of gaining skill is a lot. You may clue in why this 2009 draft class sucks here in the GTHL, well that’s why.

When a kid is only 15/16 years old and he lost 3 years of development compared to his competition in the States that’s HUGE. Imagine a kid started hockey at 10 years old, that’s considered way too late. Well, these kids all had no shot here in Canada.

You can thank you Liberal gov for that one

Haha , hockey is a late specialization sport. Meaning you don’t focus in on it to about 14/15 in an ideal world. It is the Canadian system and draft schedule that is broken. I’ve seen athletes start a sport at 16 and become Olympic level by 22! A more globally competitive sport than hockey as well.

Are you drinking this early in the morning?

Give your balls a tug.

Not following you, does that mean you have deemed hockey not a late specialization sport? Or does that mean an athlete cannot start a sport at 16 and become Olympic level?

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Apr 13, 2025 11:22 am

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Apr 13, 2025 10:54 am

Guest wrote: ↑Sat Apr 12, 2025 1:56 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Sat Apr 12, 2025 1:51 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Sat Apr 12, 2025 1:34 pm And the lone AA kid! Hahahahahahaha

Les jealous? BIG thumbs up to the coach of VP. All he does is win. He’s the real champion here for this development.

What round did the AA KID GO IN

Rumour is he paid over 7k

Wow, that’s incredible. They really got a great deal. Not only did they pay $3k for the year to play AA, $10k all-in to get drafted is like a used 2010 Honda civic. That’s a fraction of what any teams AAA fees would’ve been and that’s just to get on the team (not including extra money for ice time), as well as not including their own OHL draft fees. Never mind how most AAA kids pay for private school which is $30k a year for a cheap one.

I need to meet these parents, they know what they’re doing. Some parents here will pay $7k just to sit down with a coach in the war room for 10 minutes.

I love when parents think their kid is nhl bound and drop thousands and thousands of dollars into the sport.

Think what we are seeing here is legitimate disappointment on the part of many players and their families. The rules have changed and many kids that would have been picked in rounds 10-15, and would have still had that slim window of opportunity to continue the journey, are now feeling like the OHL has let them down with their speculative picks of USA players. Many of these American kids have grossly inflated point totals from their 10-0 and 15-0 victories against weak opponents. Add to that some of the very strange picks by certain teams in the closing round, and of course the integrity of the choices and the teams are being questioned. That said, this is the reality and kids will need to accept it, move on and work harder if they want to be seen or have any chances in the future. Still, it is a pretty sad state of affairs.

Hahahaha…dumb Canadian families living a life centred around their little Johnny’s hockey career where little Johnny has a .01% chance of ever earning a living in this sport not let alone playing in the NHL. A complete waste of time and little johnny will end up struggling in his life to make ends meet. Way better off focusing on education and putting hockey a much distant second but the vast majority of folks are dumb and have no idea how to take a step back and see the big picture.