Bender, I'm not sure I'd put that win up as the crown jewel of my argument. Looking at the stats on that game (thanks again Hockeykid), Ice Dogs outshot you 21-5. No denying you got the win, but the Ice Dogs may have played a bad game, or your goalie stood on his head, or Ice Dogs didn't play the run clock, or any combination of that or any other thing. I can only judge by the score sheet, but they outshot you by a lot. That said though, I agree Wave got hosed. Wave has every right to claim they should be flight 1 when you have Bears(2) and Flyers in it. Insult to injury, they only put 9 teams in flight 1. Caha got it wrong, just as they did last year. The top 4 teams in flight 2 (Kings(1), Saints, Ducks(1), Flyers) could have easily exchanged with the bottom 4 of flight 1 and had a chance to play for more than 8th seed. Playing for 8th seed only to get blown out by the top teams is a bad system. Add to that they didn't even have a playoffs for flight 2 last year, and the plight of flight 2 only gets worse.
Caha did the right thing in Peewee and forced 6 teams down to A and didn't flight it. Nor did they flight Midgets. It sounded like they were finally getting it right. They could have dropped the bottom 3-4 teams and not flight Bantam, but that would have included 2 NHL franchises, and that's never going to happen. It took a lot to get the Jr Sharks to drop to A last year. Maybe that included some back room deals saying it wouldn't happen this year, I don't know. They will have a rough season, and it will suck for all So Cal teams going up to NorCal to blow them out. I don't know NorCal coaches and organizations, but how can a franchise that made it to round 3 of SCF not attract better coaching? They should have coaches and kids fighting to get in. When you can't manage to put together strong AA teams for years, it's time to take a hard look at their program and restructure.