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Guest wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2024 4:54 pm
Demographics of Ontario is changing.
All hockey programs are suffering from lack of enrollment, at all age levels.
Many LL/HL programs are gone. So if you can't make a REP team you don't have anywhere to play just for fun.
The changes stop warm bodies (forget about how good a player is) from going to another center and thus having less warm bodies in that players home center.
Many forget that for most smaller centers this is exactly how it worked in the 70's & 80's. If you didn't make the tier 1 team, you either played HL or if you were lucky your association had an informal agreement with some neighboring associations to send players to one consolidated team to play on a Tier 2 team.
OMHA is on the path to have AAA, then A with Contact (labeled AA); & A Non-Contact (labeled A). These levels will all actually be zone teams. With the local level having C/D non contact leagues.
I do feel for those that have concerns about the coaching and how some organizations are run. Those are very valid parenting concerns. Don't like it maybe step up and volunteer. But as it settles in over a couple years, it will just be how it works and everyone will adjust.
It’s not so easy to step up a volunteer. Some groups of people run the organizations with their little circle of buddies. They won’t let anyone in. At least that’s how it is in our small (minded) town.
Guest wrote: ↑Wed Jan 04, 2023 10:21 am
Sounds like mergers and amalgamations are happening within OMHA for small town centres. Minor hockey associations are tight lipped, somethings brewing, who's got the scoop?
There should be a Grandfather clause!!!!!!
OMHA - realignment - NRP program.
Did anyone at the table discuss "what is best for the player" not just what is best for our Ontario Minor Hockey Association? It feels like a board decided that they don't want any movement between Alliance and OMHA unless it's AAA. If it's about the game and development and fun then shouldn't you continue to support all of those things for the players that are in your NRP Program! I wish OMHA would see the effects this realignment with NO grandfather caluse is having on players in everyday life not just the hockey!
#centrerealignment #omha # mentalhealthmatters #OHF #grandfatherclause #hockeycanada
This is just once again a parent that has their kid being an NRP and hoping he's on the team again next year. But remember its not what is best just for that one player.
Guest wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2024 4:54 pm
Demographics of Ontario is changing.
All hockey programs are suffering from lack of enrollment, at all age levels.
Many LL/HL programs are gone. So if you can't make a REP team you don't have anywhere to play just for fun.
The changes stop warm bodies (forget about how good a player is) from going to another center and thus having less warm bodies in that players home center.
Many forget that for most smaller centers this is exactly how it worked in the 70's & 80's. If you didn't make the tier 1 team, you either played HL or if you were lucky your association had an informal agreement with some neighboring associations to send players to one consolidated team to play on a Tier 2 team.
OMHA is on the path to have AAA, then A with Contact (labeled AA); & A Non-Contact (labeled A). These levels will all actually be zone teams. With the local level having C/D non contact leagues.
I do feel for those that have concerns about the coaching and how some organizations are run. Those are very valid parenting concerns. Don't like it maybe step up and volunteer. But as it settles in over a couple years, it will just be how it works and everyone will adjust.