As I predicted previously, CAHA is going to have to make some arbitrary decisions on cutting off the division at 10. There is a whole range of situations from teams that will come out of the bracket with 3 wins having only played 1 upper echelon team, to teams that will come out 1-3 and lost a number of closely contested games to upper tier teams. A couple of teams have put up results (while arguably playing easier schedules) that did well enough to make an argument that they belong in the top tier. There are teams that will end up 1-3 that clearly should be in the top tier.
Really, what you can see at this point from the Jamboree is that there are a few teams who really shouldn't be trying to play AA. That number, depending on how you look at it, is from 2-4. That leaves 14 teams vying for 10 spots.
Overall, this looks to be a very competitive season, with about 4 frontrunners, but teams that are not far behind and will certainly challenge them. There will be a real battle for the top 8 spots, and the possibility that a lower tier team will knock of the 8th seed is extremely low, however, given a 1 game Peewee hockey playoff anything is possible. Still it's a dumb idea and unfair not only to the teams involved, but to the 9 & 10 placed upper tier teams, who would probably beat the Flight2 #1 90% of the time.
If CAHA sticks with their plan and cuts things off at 10, I expect some serious grousing, and depending on who gets left out, there will be some strong cases to be made that this format did exactly the things that people were concerned about, favoring teams that have more experience playing together, and in some cases, denying teams with strong finishing ability, the chance to rebound from some bad luck, or to pull away in the end. The power plays were a complete joke. When you have runtime on a 1:30 pp, you are lucky to get 25-30 seconds of actual PP time. Ice the puck 2x and by the time the refs setup again, PP was over.