What if I talk about my own kid? Can I call my own kid a moron or a knucklehead?
As for GR and their schedule, MHR has them at 18-0-1 aka undefeated, but digging deeply uncovers a loss.
They went to the Ana Ice Early Bird Tourney and lost in the semi to the Paramount tourney team that goes to every Ana tourney (Quakes). Quakes lost to EHC in the final. 18-1-1...
As for strength of schedule WOW! I had no idea, GR has played ZERO.... ZERO current PWA predicted playoff teams (ONLY possible playoff team is JD3 back in Oct. and beat em 7-3 which is a good win). Otherwise (played a "AA" team twice at Ana Thx Tourney - a "AA" team that played IDs twice and BARELY beat em. Sooooooo a non-"A" SCAHA playoff team also...)
Jmo but at this age its more about the match ups. Just becsuse team A beat team B should beat team C becsuse....etc doesnt mean shit anymore. Sone teams, for whatever season natchup well with certain teams snd struggle whith others that they shouldnt strughls with. As a cocky JK coach once said, "Its all about the matchups."
Holy shit, I agree with trans!
Coaching can also figure into this significantly. There are coaches who will roll lines, and other coaches who will match or shorten the bench in tight games or just to keep scores from getting out of hand. Sometimes it can come down to an assistant coach running the defense, who is good at looking at what the other team is doing, and will match the team's best D against the other team's top O.
Some teams just play a style that negates the things that make another team successful most of the time. Some coaches are good on the bench, and will make some in game changes based on what they are seeing. In general there are a lot of parents who don't really know the game of hockey too well, and base all their analysis on goals and wins and losses and scores. There are close games where a team loses by four goals and beatdowns where a team gets a tie.