by Guest » Sat Apr 13, 2024 10:43 pm
Guest wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2024 3:47 pm
Guest wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 7:49 am
Guest wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 12:13 am
Next change to drop for 25/26 season will be the removal of body checking from A level U14 - U18 hockey.
OMHA will only have contact for AAA & AA hockey.
First step is the re-alignment of centers. This is actually to keep hockey viable in smaller areas where participation is falling right off the cliff. After this is done is next season, the removal of contact is the next step.
So in 25/26 all B centres move to A and it becomes non-body checking? I’m not sure folks will like that. I understand having a non-body checking option at BB, but forcing it on teams will no go over well, unless they give the option to go from B to AA with checking or B to A without it.
To me it makes sense to just go with AAA, AA, A all checking and allow centres to offer BB as non-checking.
I actually improves choice for those that want REP hockey without contact.
A player can not leave the home centre to avoid contact hockey. So if you are an A centre you do not have the ability to say I'm going to go play in a different city so that I can play BB. Even though the level is lower.
Non-Contact at A works well in the GTHL (excluding the generally mis-workings of the GTHL overall). It will work perfectly in OMHA when the announcement comes next year. It will also impact the newly organized B level.
A hockey in the GTHL is basically RS, wity regard to OMHA teams. The A teams in the GTHL are very watered down.
A teams in the OMHA are either made A because of size/winning% or are a hybrid amalgamation (HA). Many of those HA teams have junior loosely teams tied to them. Their best kids often end up playing there after U18. That is the reason contact will stay.
Toronto people don't get it... probably because, like I said, the GTHL A teams are like RS teams.
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Next change to drop for 25/26 season will be the removal of body checking from A level U14 - U18 hockey.
OMHA will only have contact for AAA & AA hockey.
First step is the re-alignment of centers. This is actually to keep hockey viable in smaller areas where participation is falling right off the cliff. After this is done is next season, the removal of contact is the next step.
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So in 25/26 all B centres move to A and it becomes non-body checking? I’m not sure folks will like that. I understand having a non-body checking option at BB, but forcing it on teams will no go over well, unless they give the option to go from B to AA with checking or B to A without it.
To me it makes sense to just go with AAA, AA, A all checking and allow centres to offer BB as non-checking.
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I actually improves choice for those that want REP hockey without contact.
A player can not leave the home centre to avoid contact hockey. So if you are an A centre you do not have the ability to say I'm going to go play in a different city so that I can play BB. Even though the level is lower.
Non-Contact at A works well in the GTHL (excluding the generally mis-workings of the GTHL overall). It will work perfectly in OMHA when the announcement comes next year. It will also impact the newly organized B level.
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A hockey in the GTHL is basically RS, wity regard to OMHA teams. The A teams in the GTHL are very watered down.
A teams in the OMHA are either made A because of size/winning% or are a hybrid amalgamation (HA). Many of those HA teams have junior loosely teams tied to them. Their best kids often end up playing there after U18. That is the reason contact will stay.
Toronto people don't get it... probably because, like I said, the GTHL A teams are like RS teams.