Small town hockey amalgamations

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Nobody really cares!
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An NRP is for one season only that is why it doesn't fall under Grandfathering.
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I'm not sure they are amalgamation as much as A centers being forced to close.

If you live in an A center, and NRP's are being phased out then your kid's only choice is to jump from A to AAA (very unlikely)

Or the center merges with the closest AA center or closes.

Parents are waking up to this new reality and pushing for closures and mergers.
McSteve

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Unless your home association is complete garbage. I couldn't wait to get my kid out and now he has to go back to a total cluster-fack of an association.
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Is he not good enough to stay as an NRP? If he is already an NRP those cards aren’t changing so he shouldn’t have to go back home.
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He's more than good enough to stay NRP. His adopted centre wants him to stay. With the new "merger" or "pilot", no NRP cards will be given out. Trying out for the new AA team is the only option. Normally, close to home hockey would be fine, but we are leaving a 10/10 program for pure garbage in our home centre. I have 2 kids there so I know. I only hope the merger results in a wholesale replacement of our exec. I hate spending $thousands and not being offered a choice on where to spend it.
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Guest wrote: Fri Mar 24, 2023 6:46 am He's more than good enough to stay NRP. His adopted centre wants him to stay. With the new "merger" or "pilot", no NRP cards will be given out. Trying out for the new AA team is the only option. Normally, close to home hockey would be fine, but we are leaving a 10/10 program for pure garbage in our home centre. I have 2 kids there so I know. I only hope the merger results in a wholesale replacement of our exec. I hate spending $thousands and not being offered a choice on where to spend it.
We have the same issue and why I have pushed for a Grandfather clause!!!!! We should have the ability to stay rather then rip kids out of where they belong and go back to garbage!!!! I guess they don't care about the mental health of our children!!!!
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Guest wrote: Fri Mar 24, 2023 4:32 am Is he not good enough to stay as an NRP? If he is already an NRP those cards aren’t changing so he shouldn’t have to go back home.
I think you're confusing AAA with lower levels, at lower levels (AA specifically I guess) NRP is being removed and not grandfathered, starting with the younger ages.

It was a notice that went out from the OMHA a few weeks ago.
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The NRP rule hasn't been removed.

The single A centres are merging with each other and are becoming AA centres.

This has eliminated pretty much all of the single A centres in the GTA which basically makes the AA NRP rule irrelevant.

There are no single A centres left for AA teams to draw from.
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I don't think there are any OMHA A centres left in the GTA.

The York Simcoe league only has Orillia and Collingwood now.
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