Any thoughts on Kings 1 winning play-in over Kings 2 to qualify for playdowns? Kings 1 was originally slated to be the '04 Kings AA team (in flight 1) and Kings 2 to be '05 (in flight 2). Internal politics, etc changed that plan and Kings 1 ended up winning flight 2 & Kings 2 placed 8th with 2-3 wins in flight 2 (only against the 9th place & 7th place teams).
Pretty much the first point of this thread. At least 4 of the teams in Flight2 (Kings1, Saints2, Ducks1, Flyers) are/were as good as the Kings2, Bears2 and GSE2.
This should not have been a surprise to anyone who looked at the Jamboree scores. As one example, Kings2 beat Flyers and Bears2 by 1 goal in the jamboree. Said Jamboree was pretty ridiculous but anyone who saw the Kings/Flyers games would have seen a very close contest. For the Flyers it was literally their 1st game for the team, as they had not even had a scrimmage prior. They still were evaluating whether certain players would be on offense vs. defense. Later in the Jamboree Flyers beat Kings1 by 1 goal.
What then does CAHA turn around and do, before the weekend is even concluded from rumors i was hearing? They anointed Bears2 (and Kings2) to Flight1 and put Flyers, Ducks1 and Kings1 in Flight2. Idiotic would be too kind of a term for the decision making process in light of the jamboree system, and this was during a year where you couldn't even find out the frigging scores from the Jamboree. There was one team in Flight2 that got crushed. They had a hard time in the Jamboree and I'm sure the parents would now agree they should have dropped. Otherwise, Bantam AA would have been a better experience for everyone without Flighting, and certainly for the four flight2 teams that CAHA screwed over.
The problem is that this has happened both years now, where teams have gotten placed in Flight2 when they belonged in Flight1. CAHA has shown they are inept at best, and politically motivated at worst. The main difference this year is that the Kings and Ducks got a taste of it.