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Guest wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:31 pm
That day my friend will be when the “nobody” kids get drafted while the “elite” kids get left behind chasing junior b and C teams
I’m a draft day scout
I went to every tournament on Sunday
I never saw a scta team
So I picked all the sens that live in the Golden Horseshoe
Guest wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:31 pm
That day my friend will be when the “nobody” kids get drafted while the “elite” kids get left behind chasing junior b and C teams
I’m a draft day scout
I went to every tournament on Sunday
I never saw a scta team
So I picked all the sens that live in the Golden Horseshoe
Then you’re a lazy scout who knows nothing about hockey. You looked up the BOB list from last year and made the same calls. Do better.
Guest wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:31 pm
That day my friend will be when the “nobody” kids get drafted while the “elite” kids get left behind chasing junior b and C teams
I’m a draft day scout
I went to every tournament on Sunday
I never saw a scta team
So I picked all the sens that live in the Golden Horseshoe
Then you’re a lazy scout who knows nothing about hockey. You looked up the BOB list from last year and made the same calls. Do better.
I took my lazy butt to magna
I was correct picking the sens
Time to be quiet now your league is not very good right now
Might just be a phase
Not going to single anyone out but there are questionable choices from the actual league as well as ones who used to play in the loop.
Find it hard to believe draftday picked this team. Hardly the best of anything.
These teams were picked months ago. They call you up - ask if you’re interested and then send you a link to sign up. I’m guessing some guy watched an early bird tourney, asked a few coaches he knows and then asks the guys that recruit kids for the agencies. It’s honestly not that big a deal. They are making money running spring tournaments. They hope to get some good kids - but there are no objectively best 13 year olds and they know it - so they don’t worry about it and cash cheques. If you can’t help your kid to have a little resilience about being left off one of these teams your kid is in for a tough ride in life. There is no fairness in hockey or life - as there is no omnipotent being that decides right from wrong. Buckle up and have some fun and don’t worry about this sht. throw the puck out there and get after it and have some smiles. It’s a game!
Our team doesn’t deserve any kids on the draftday team, but seeing only one from first place team and zero from second place but two from third place. Smells fishy. Unless those other kids said no?
Not a big deal but also not a great look. Just call the team something else like best of the best of the best only better.
The company is called draft day. The biggest spring hockey company is called pro hockey development and they are most famous for 9 year old tournament. The newest kid on the block is best of best. The most popular spring division is “elite” talking about 10 year olds. And this is the name that is over the line. lol.
And I don’t blame any of these companies. It’s decent business separating us from our money by stroking our egos about our average kids.
These spring tournaments are meaningless cash grabs. But if you have a team called SCTA then you should probably have more than 3 kids who play in the loop. I get that Elite in hockey means that you have more cash than the rest of us but I also know that if Draftday did a little bit of work they could put together a team of players from the loop that would compete.
I keep waiting for the time when talent will be recognized over a thick wallet.
We play in the worst league in Ontario. Unless you're on the top couple of teams nobody is watching, that's just the unfortunate reality.
Guest wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:31 pm
That day my friend will be when the “nobody” kids get drafted while the “elite” kids get left behind chasing junior b and C teams
Hey Mr.Draftday...let me make a team of Allstars from SCTA 2010 and let us play a 1 game take all game vs your Sens and then we see who the real team is...and the few kids that actually play in SCTA will stay with me...you can ask a few more Sens to fill those spots. We will run the clock on you guys 5 mins into the 2nd.