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One governing body in Ontario, all these member partners need to go.
Open boundaries for all. Bad associations and poor coaching gone in no time, hold people accountable.
Agreed!
Disagree. Will end up with several super teams and then all the other just filling teams with unskilled players.
Option 1: Open boundaries for AAA level play. But limit the total number of AAA teams allowed to enter.
Option 2: Keep boundaries, but make the areas much larger; thus reducing the total number of AAA programs.
AA hockey and down, lock the boundaries down, again maybe at AA make them larger to lower number of teams, but don't allow releases. If you can't make AA in your home center, go play on their A team, not transfer to be on a lesser team elsewhere.
I disagree and think they should all be removed. The Rules in place are horrible and only hurt kids development.
I am currently stuck in an an association that has volunteer parent coach's with limited knowledge of the game.
My Son is a mid level AAA player who got cut at the last tryout leaving him no where else to go play AAA since all the other tryouts are done. Due to the current rules he could not even tryout for a 2nd or 3rd team as a backup.
He is wanted by 3 of the top AA teams in Ontario
Now the current AA team for our association is really an A team at best and even thought the association recognizes this and is willing to give me a release because we are outside of the LOR boundaries he can not go play in the GTHL at the AA level.
With all this said I live 8 mins north of a LOR association and 5 mins west of a GTHL association.
Whitchurch-Stouffville?
While you couldn't go to the official tryouts until you are released there are development skates and other ways to be seen by coaches in advance of securing a release. Were you going to skates?
Yes I had him skating with the teams I identified I wanted to play with.
unfortunately I did not understand the rules at the time and was under the impressions that I could be an import in the GTHL AA as I can for AAA but not for A or AA. Had I know that I would have focused only on the AAA teams.
I was more focused on who the coach was then weather is was AA or AAA as my goal is development. He skated with the 4 of the top 10 AA team in Ontario and all coaches want him the their team. He had interest from other AAA teams however I can't do 80-90 minutes drives each way 4 times a week and did not want to spend $12K to go 0-34 with the GTHL.
I am not that crazy parent that will jump through all the loopholes to do an address change to play in the G I just want development that we won't get from a 50+ rank team with a parent coach.
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One governing body in Ontario, all these member partners need to go.
Open boundaries for all. Bad associations and poor coaching gone in no time, hold people accountable.
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Agreed!
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Disagree. Will end up with several super teams and then all the other just filling teams with unskilled players.
Option 1: Open boundaries for AAA level play. But limit the total number of AAA teams allowed to enter.
Option 2: Keep boundaries, but make the areas much larger; thus reducing the total number of AAA programs.
AA hockey and down, lock the boundaries down, again maybe at AA make them larger to lower number of teams, but don't allow releases. If you can't make AA in your home center, go play on their A team, not transfer to be on a lesser team elsewhere.
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I disagree and think they should all be removed. The Rules in place are horrible and only hurt kids development.
I am currently stuck in an an association that has volunteer parent coach's with limited knowledge of the game.
My Son is a mid level AAA player who got cut at the last tryout leaving him no where else to go play AAA since all the other tryouts are done. Due to the current rules he could not even tryout for a 2nd or 3rd team as a backup.
He is wanted by 3 of the top AA teams in Ontario
Now the current AA team for our association is really an A team at best and even thought the association recognizes this and is willing to give me a release because we are outside of the LOR boundaries he can not go play in the GTHL at the AA level.
With all this said I live 8 mins north of a LOR association and 5 mins west of a GTHL association.
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Whitchurch-Stouffville?
While you couldn't go to the official tryouts until you are released there are development skates and other ways to be seen by coaches in advance of securing a release. Were you going to skates?
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Yes I had him skating with the teams I identified I wanted to play with.
unfortunately I did not understand the rules at the time and was under the impressions that I could be an import in the GTHL AA as I can for AAA but not for A or AA. Had I know that I would have focused only on the AAA teams.
I was more focused on who the coach was then weather is was AA or AAA as my goal is development. He skated with the 4 of the top 10 AA team in Ontario and all coaches want him the their team. He had interest from other AAA teams however I can't do 80-90 minutes drives each way 4 times a week and did not want to spend $12K to go 0-34 with the GTHL.
I am not that crazy parent that will jump through all the loopholes to do an address change to play in the G I just want development that we won't get from a 50+ rank team with a parent coach.