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Guest wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 8:30 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 8:11 pmTM 3 for sure

TYN moves to third. Best coach in the loop.

Guest wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 8:11 pmTM 3 for sure

Guest wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 8:49 am JRC & VK are ahead of the other teams.

both teams are making changes to their rosters. Will the changes be helpful or hurt the them - time will tell.

Some of the players leaving the top 2 will be getting more ice time with their new teams and may get noticed for their abilities - hopefully in a positive way.

Should be an interesting season. Most teams are making more moves than expected. Those who get their teamwork sorted out the quickest will benefit. Hitting this year will bring changes to the individual play and change the way to defend those end to end rushes.

My thoughts are that the top 3 are going to be better, although the gap is closing. Places 3 through 7 will be much closer and there will be surprisingly improved teams.

Have a safe and fun summer

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 12:34 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 10:27 am Who is staying on JRC?
By my count 8 players and 1 goalie changing - tough to explain why - they were the best team all year - top line minutes not as advertised for some of the fringe players. How many are going to the team as spectators (third lines)....

Why? Can you say the dictatorship of white T-shirt Napoleon and his mini me Coach DE. No one wants to play in that dictatorship where they only care to develop AA’s kid and the selected few buddies the kid likes. The Asian overagers wear on you and playing behind men dressed up as teens can never be fun. They have their challenges. As do all teams. Through all this they will still finish top 3 next year.

Guest wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2024 1:30 pm As tryouts are mostly finished, what are the guesses for next year's results

1 VK
2 TM
3 JRC
4 TYN
5 DMF
6 REBELS
7 REPS
8 SENS
... THUNDER BAY if still in league
9 NYR
10 TT
11 TRW
12 MM

Guest wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2024 10:23 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2024 6:16 pm Based on comments seems like only top 3 teams in GTHL are competitive. How does this benefit kids playing hockey when there is not enough talent spread out. OMHA probably has better competition. Plus GTHL parents just seem too obsessed.

Based on results OMHAs best teams are behind the GTHL top three. Ideally there should be a 12 team all Ontario league, like Champions League in Europe, to which the best teams from all associations qualify in the fall and then play real top devision in the Spring. So from the two rounds in GTHL JRC, VK, Marlies and (e.g. Nats) would go there, from OMHA there would be Quinty and Oakville and COW, from Alliance Elgin and (e.g. London/Halton) and then Eastern Ontario, Myers and Sudbury. That 12 teams could play home and away round robin and then playoffs.
That would be build up top level competition while letting half of the season to be played in the associations.

But I am sure Ontario Hockey would never allow that. Too radical for the sleepy hollow..

Guest wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2024 6:16 pm Based on comments seems like only top 3 teams in GTHL are competitive. How does this benefit kids playing hockey when there is not enough talent spread out. OMHA probably has better competition. Plus GTHL parents just seem too obsessed.