Every time I hear the "too diluted" remark, I want to barf. Why do the big three automatically get AAA? If other clubs are more successful, why should they be forced to hand kids over? This is one big reason why families leave CA.
Totally agree. That and the politcal bs of JK and JD. While my kid isn't some superstar, he somehow wasn't good enough for his old team. Yet had two AAA offers for New England area teams. So we are gone. Good luck to you folks in CA.
WHY would you play AAA in New England. Send him there for Prep School not AAA Club
Never said my son was headed to New England AAA, just offers. Looking at Prep. Meanwhile, he is AAA in another state.
Regardless, this thread is about the attempt to limit AAA programs in CA. Which I find sad.
Just ask the Wildcats, Wave and Gulls if there is an concerted effort to limit AAA to the JK and JD. Look at who gets picked at the SCAHA and CAHA camps - not necessarily the best kids but the ones who are connected to JK, JD and JS (and in the west, going to PacificDivision is the only thing that gets scouted) The JK (more than then JD) get these coaches that the families can't stand and so the parents look for alternatives like Titans, Wave, Wildcats, etc and the JK have to find ways to stop the kids from jumping ship. This is why we went back to prep school, not because we love the terrible weather, but because there is year-round excellent hockey there with year-round scouting and hundreds of good teams and D1 and D3 schools with decent access to those coaches. If CAHA want to really turn California into a hockey Mecca (be a location like Minnesota, Wisconsin, New England) then they need to figure out how to keep players here and to do that you need more than just 2 or 3 AAA teams to compete against on a regular basis. Making parents travel 10 times a season to Tier1 weekends kills the kids grades and guess what, D1 and D3 won't touch your kid with under a 3.0 GPA and less than a 1250 SAT score.
I predicted 5 years ago that High School hockey would kill 16/18 AA hockey, and that's pretty much the case today except what I didn't see, was that Varsity Hockey would drop from AA level to A level (like it was last year). Putting my wizard hat on, here's what I see: CAHA 16AAA/18AAA are going to die within a few years as 17 and 18 year olds move to the WSHL instead of 18AAA (more teams, more ice time, play with european kids, slightly better than 18AAA quality, gets some national attention), 16AAA kids will start applying to mid-west AAA clubs or Prep-School more and more and all that will be left here is watered down high school and Tahoe Prep. That may force entrepreneurial individuals to create non-CAHA teams like the Arizona Bobcats to fill the void but you'll still not have enough AAA level talent left locally to get weekly high-quality hockey. CAHA - you need MORE TEAMS not LESS!!! and you need fair SCAHA/CAHA camps - not rigged. Make California Great Again!!!!
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