What AA Bantam Teams for 2018-19?

[lcadad]

Well from what I heard the Bears essentially played a no-check intra squad game reffed by a former player.   I wouldn't rush to judgement based on the score.  Bears2 has a solid roster and leans a bit towards the 04/05 hybrid.

OC1 picked up kids via various means, to the detriment of a couple of its neighbors.  Kings1 also suffered some quality defections from what I have been told, only in this case they went to Kings2, and Kings2 added to their '05 core.

I'm sure that's not what Kings1 expected, but OC1 looks to be in the mix for the top 5 Flight1 battle.

Looking at the Jamboree I see a lot of games where it seems pretty clear that that the pre-season assumptions as to flighting are in effect.  The vast majority of the games are "assumed flight1 vs assumed flight1" or "assumed flight2 vs assumed flight2".  "Hey lets have Bears1 play Wave1!"  Jamboree continues to look like the dumb, political and meaningless exercise in preconception it was last year. 

[Strawman]

Well from what I heard the Bears essentially played a no-check intra squad game reffed by a former player.   I wouldn't rush to judgement based on the score.  Bears2 has a solid roster and leans a bit towards the 04/05 hybrid.

Still kind of shocking.

[trans4761]

Well from what I heard the Bears essentially played a no-check intra squad game reffed by a former player.   I wouldn't rush to judgement based on the score.  Bears2 has a solid roster and leans a bit towards the 04/05 hybrid.

OC1 picked up kids via various means, to the detriment of a couple of its neighbors.  Kings1 also suffered some quality defections from what I have been told, only in this case they went to Kings2, and Kings2 added to their '05 core.

I'm sure that's not what Kings1 expected, but OC1 looks to be in the mix for the top 5 Flight1 battle.

Looking at the Jamboree I see a lot of games where it seems pretty clear that that the pre-season assumptions as to flighting are in effect.  The vast majority of the games are "assumed flight1 vs assumed flight1" or "assumed flight2 vs assumed flight2".  "Hey lets have Bears1 play Wave1!"  Jamboree continues to look like the dumb, political and meaningless exercise in preconception it was last year.

They play Saturday @ 4 15

[JackBender]

Well from what I heard the Bears essentially played a no-check intra squad game reffed by a former player.   I wouldn't rush to judgement based on the score.  Bears2 has a solid roster and leans a bit towards the 04/05 hybrid.

OC1 picked up kids via various means, to the detriment of a couple of its neighbors.  Kings1 also suffered some quality defections from what I have been told, only in this case they went to Kings2, and Kings2 added to their '05 core.

I'm sure that's not what Kings1 expected, but OC1 looks to be in the mix for the top 5 Flight1 battle.

Looking at the Jamboree I see a lot of games where it seems pretty clear that that the pre-season assumptions as to flighting are in effect.  The vast majority of the games are "assumed flight1 vs assumed flight1" or "assumed flight2 vs assumed flight2".  "Hey lets have Bears1 play Wave1!"  Jamboree continues to look like the dumb, political and meaningless exercise in preconception it was last year.

True, no doubt... but win your games and you will be fine.

[BigIce]

In talking with a Bears1 dad, I was told that Bears1 out shot Bears2 by a significant margin, but couldn’t finish.  He also mentioned that Bears2 had size on Bears1 which seems a bit odd given that Bears2 are mostly 05’s.

[trans4761]

In talking with a Bears1 dad, I was told that Bears1 out shot Bears2 by a significant margin, but couldn’t finish.  He also mentioned that Bears2 had size on Bears1 which seems a bit odd given that Bears2 are mostly 05’s.

If they have problems with size of 05s that presumably dont know how to hit yet, they are in for a WORLD OF HURT vs The Half Offs and the WW.

[JackBender]

OC1 no creampuffs either! Might be a very interesting year...

[Rub One Out]

OC1 no creampuffs either! Might be a very interesting year...

I think he was referring to OC1 ----> Half Offs 

[trans4761]

.....but still dont buy it......

[SkatingDad]

Everyone ready for the CAHA money grab this weekend.

[Fowlmood]

Nailed it!

[lcadad]

Everyone ready for the CAHA money grab this weekend.

The coin operated heaters in Simi are a great metaphor for the entire exercise. 

[Fowlmood]

hahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahaahahahaha!!!!  Nailed it again!  Sooooo true!!

[SkatingDad]

So does anyone know who are the CAHA evaluators for the Weekend? Hopefully they hired an outside agency to do the evaluating so there is no conflicts of interest. 


Or to eliminate all of this nonesense and waste of time and money, CAHA just needs to make a minor and major Bantam divisions. Problem solved.  But that’s too easy for CAHA.

You actually believe there is evaluating happening this weekend?  If this is the same as last year, they all ready have the flights assigned and this exercise means nothing. For example, they did not even bother to remove the teams that dropped or where disbanded from last year's list defining flights sent to the clubs.

[Hockey05]

I guess things are starting to heat up as parents get ready to drive & fly in from all over for run time games that aren't really games but are part of a jamboree.  Whatever you want to call this joke of an evaluation, the whole season very well comes down to this weekend. 

I almost feel like there could be less teams in flight 1, but I can't imagine how that would happen given the politics.  If you were to have 10 teams in flight two then how do you not have some sort of a playoff or play in playoff? 


Tryouts should be 8/1.  Teams should be allowed to have Labor Day where ever they want and to spend time & money however they want.   


All submitted games and scrimmages could be part of the review but real CAHA scrimmages could start in September.  Any questions could be answered with a few special games scheduled in October.  At that point a team might not want to be in a particular flight, and the game might not even be necessary. 


CAHA weekends could then start in November or December. 


While I don't mind flights at bantam.  Most of us have to agree the bantam teams might be significantly different in October than they are this weekend.