This was brought to my attention by someone recently. Ducks were given a bye directly to the District playoffs apparently, and are going to forgo a CAHA banner in the process. I also heard that this means that 2 out of the 3 competing CAHA teams will get to the Districts.
If I have any of these facts wrong, feel free to correct me. The one thing that is clear is that the U16 CAHA playoffs is a 3 team contest between the JK, Reign and Sharks.
3/19 - JK vs JR @ 6:30am
3/19 - Sharks vs JR @ 11:50am
3/19 - Sharks vs JK @ 5:20pm
So, not only are the JR getting about 3 hrs 50 minutes between games, but they also get to play the Sharks who are on their first game of the day. Well, that doesn't seem real fair, but --- apparently there isn't much ice available in Vegas, and CAHA is real sorry. At least you could argue that there are only 3 teams and somebody has to play a 2nd game against a team on their first.
Then you look at the schedule for 3/20:
3/20 - 6:50am JR vs Sharks
3/20 - 2:20pm JK vs JR
3/20 - 8:20pm Sharks vs JK
Wait --- you don't mean that the JR AGAIN has to play a 2nd game vs. a team that is on their first game of the day?
I'm sure that CAHA is again, real sorry
On a positive note, at least these games are being played when 15-17 year olds are at their peak, which is the 6am - 7am time period.