Peewee AA 2017-2018

[Racetonowhere]

 Tough loss!
IMHO kids that age need a  few months' break from hockey. The season is too long.

[skates]

So does anyone want to have fun predicting the top 4 teams for the season? Who will make it pass Labor Day?


My predictions for the top 4 So Cal teams based off of team declarations is (no particular order):


1. Bears
2. Ducks Kohn
3. Kings
4. Gulls

[Norcal1]

How many of the Bears are returning Tier players?

[Icelife]

Heard the Nor Cal teams are all strong and vetted to make the top flight, so the So Cal teams may have to really get crackin'! Are any of the teams holding official practices yet?

[Hockey05]

Strange things happen in short run time games the very first weekend of the season.  I predict at least one team will be incorrectly placed and all of this will be much harder to assess than this committee could have imagined. 

[6607]

Does anyone know if  SCAHA be segregating flight 1 and flight 2 teams in the exhibition schedule?

[Go Kings_26]

GSE 1 will lead the pack.

[Norcal1]

Nocal predictions:

1.   GSE1
2.   GSE2
3.   Santa Clara
4.   San Jose

#2 & 3 will be close and could switch places. Labor Day should be interesting and it will be good to see all if the teams together.

[Bear71]

Strange things happen in short run time games the very first weekend of the season.  I predict at least one team will be incorrectly placed and all of this will be much harder to assess than this committee could have imagined.

I predict actual game results will not influence the committee's placement process...

[lcadad]

So does anyone want to have fun predicting the top 4 teams for the season? Who will make it pass Labor Day?

My predictions for the top 4 So Cal teams based off of team declarations is (no particular order):

1. Bears
2. Ducks Kohn
3. Kings
4. Gulls

Fill us in on what you mean by "team declarations"? 


Gulls certainly should be a concern for everyone given that they played AAA minor last season, yes?


Bears obviously won Carmen Starr.  I don't see how one or the other or even both OCHC teams shouldn't be considered front runner given their performance last year in Peewee A and at Carmen Starr.  Kings and Ducks both played well in Carmen Starr, but it is hard to know what the final teams ended up being, as there were all sorts of kids scattered about the rosters. 


A big remaining question is what happens after SJ.  With 18 team declarations, will CAHA have 10 in Flight 1, 8 in Flight 2?  What will happen when teams in Flight 2 drop? 

[skates]

So does anyone want to have fun predicting the top 4 teams for the season? Who will make it pass Labor Day?

My predictions for the top 4 So Cal teams based off of team declarations is (no particular order):

1. Bears
2. Ducks Kohn
3. Kings
4. Gulls

Fill us in on what you mean by "team declarations"? 


Gulls certainly should be a concern for everyone given that they played AAA minor last season, yes?


Bears obviously won Carmen Starr.  I don't see how one or the other or even both OCHC teams shouldn't be considered front runner given their performance last year in Peewee A and at Carmen Starr.  Kings and Ducks both played well in Carmen Starr, but it is hard to know what the final teams ended up being, as there were all sorts of kids scattered about the rosters. 


A big remaining question is what happens after SJ.  With 18 team declarations, will CAHA have 10 in Flight 1, 8 in Flight 2?  What will happen when teams in Flight 2 drop?

I should of said club declarations instead of team for the record.


The OC AA teams are completely different than last years. One is made up of mostly Ontario Eagle kids with a couple OC kids (PDR) from last season and the other OC team  has mostly kids that played PWB from OC and various other kids from different teams with some of their 06's from last years A team. (Bottom Bracket Team)

[6607]

Skates, OC1 has to have more than a couple of returning OC players in order to meet PDR, although I heard a rumor that PDR was an issue for them (since corrected) after the Friday night tryout.  And OC2 is not mostly PWB players.  It has at least 10 players who played PW A or AA (in the case of at least 1 player) last season, and all but 3 of the players are in their major year.  The three 06s all appear to be pretty skilled athletes. But it is a new team, and as any new team, it may be a lot to ask for them to be playing their best hockey over Labor Day.  I do agree with you that the Bears look like the top SoCal team, but I think the OC Eagles look to be stronger than Kohn Ducks.

With regard to Flight 2 teams dropping, I doubt that CAHA or SCAHA will allow it.  Wasn't SDIA denied their move to PWA last season?  If a team wants to drop, it better do so before Labor Day.

[Icelife]

Not sure if true, but heard the main shooter/best player on the Bears isn't returning??? Heard OC lost their best players to Ducks and heard the Kings are struggling on D after kicking the kids to the curb after the Memorial Day touney. It will be interesting to see how the first weekend plays out, I am sure all of the teams will take time to get accustomed to each other unless they have played together already. But by the sounds of it, the old Eagles team may have the advantage because they have all played together before. Also, the coach runs scrimmages weekly to keep in shape and keep them playing together. From what it looks like, teams are just starting to practice.

[lcadad]

With regard to Flight 2 teams dropping, I doubt that CAHA or SCAHA will allow it.  Wasn't SDIA denied their move to PWA last season?  If a team wants to drop, it better do so before Labor Day.

Yes SDIA was denied a drop, but that was after the pre-season games.  Even after pre-season, that was a ridiculous decision by the CAHA board, based apparently on the fact that they had already created the schedule, and of course factoring in that they are SDIA, and pretty much had to accept a kick in the teeth if they ever wanted the opportunity to take a team to Tier2 in the future.  Small clubs seem to get pushed around if history has shown us anything.  Other teams dropped down to A without issue.


This year, we have the jamboree for the express purpose of dividing teams into flights.  If a team is getting lit up both by flight 1 and flight 2 teams, why would CAHA demand that they stay.  And teams will not be entirely sure what flight they are in until after the CAHA flights are announced.

[6607]

CAHA is using the jamboree to parse the teams into Flight 1 and Flight 2 status, and to drop teams to PWA, as CAHA in its wisdom deems fit.  I don't see CAHA allowing a team that they have determined to be be a Flight 2 team to drop to PWA.  My conclusion is that if a team would rather play PWA than Flight 2, its better to seek that change before CAHA determines that they are a Flight 2 team.