Pee Wee AA 2018-19

[socalhockeydad]

Pretty sure Western Patriots were alot of SJ AAA Sharks, and some ringers from Vegas. Says something that the other Patriots team was not in the medal contention. Something good must be going on in SoCal with so many hockey families leaving their homes to play here.

Please see my other post regarding the Patriots and what they did to GSE...if you watched the teams throughout the tournament the Finals should have been Patriots vs Patriots or Western Patriots vs Jr Ducks. Those were the 3 best teams IMO with the Western Patriots being the best.


Western Patriots had 4 Jr Sharks AAA kids (a team then went 0-10 with a GD of -89 last season) and then a mix of out of state and socal kids. They played great and deserved to take home the medal.

[socalhockeydad]

Having watched a lot of "AAA" hockey at CS last weekend, it seemed to me that those teams were smaller, slower, younger and less experienced than all of  last year's Flight 1 teams (except Ducks 2) and the top Flight 2 team (the Flyers).  The exceptions were the Western Patriots and the Riley Ice Dogs (who played at the elite level).  Unless some of these teams get a significant makeover this weekend, I think it may create a significant dilemma for CAHA.  I think Flight 1 is likely to be smaller this season, and perhaps, not enough quality teams to flight the division at all.

This I agree with, based on the CS tournament and other spring events there are maybe 3 truly flight 1 teams...the rest, if this was last year, are flight 2 or maybe bumped down to A

[#4BobbyOrr]

Awful quiet out hear tonight any surprises?

[BFinny77]

Any info on bears?

[socalhockeydad]

Any info on bears?

Bears didnt happen - low turnout for Flyers, but guessing they still fielded a AA team. What I saw most of the teams from memorial day are somewhat similar plus or minus a few kids.

[lcadad]

From what I heard, Flyers picked up some kids from the non-Bears team. 

[socalhockeydad]

I heard the Kings AA team added half of Socal to their 06 roster....

[overHEATed]

Lol!
Team is pretty stacked! Everyone one else will be playing for second place.

[6607]

So overHEATed did the roster turn out as you predicted -- a few additions to the Cal Patriots team from CS or was there a major overhaul?   I have no doubt that the the three Kings/Patriots teams could be distilled to a really good AA team even after the out of town guests left.  Still, its a bit early to be claiming the banner. The Kings will not be the only good team out there...

[6607]

So I think after tryouts, we are down up to 17 19 possible AA teams.  Not sure about the status of Gulls 2.  Does anyone care to comment on the 07 vs 06 balance on the Runtso Ducks?  And is Perkins or Wilson coaching the OC group?


Southern California:
Bears
Ducks 1 (Runtso)
Ducks 2 (Tex)
Empire
Flyers
GoldRush
Gulls 1
Gulls 2
Ice Dogs 1 (Riley)
Ice Dogs 2 (Semenov)
Kings 1 (Calder)
Kings 2  (Pitcher)
OCHC (Wilson?)
OCHC 2
Reign
Saints
Wave
PML

SCAHA declarations page shows 14 15, adding PML and still counting the Bears. Earlier post says the Bears did not make...
   
Northern Cal:
Sharks 1
Sharks 2
Blackhawks (Khuong/?)
GSE North (Alexius/ 06-07)
GSE South (Rodriguez/ 06-07)
 

[Bear71]

So I think after tryouts, we are down to 17 possible AA teams.  Not sure about the status of Gulls 2.  Does anyone care to comment on the 07 vs 06 balance on the Runtso Ducks?  And is Perkins or Wilson coaching the OC group?


Southern California:
Bears
Ducks 1 (Runtso)
Ducks 2 (Tex)
Empire
Flyers
GoldRush
Gulls 1
Gulls 2
Ice Dogs 1 (Riley)
Ice Dogs 2 (Semenov)
Kings 1 (Calder)
Kings 2  (Graham)
OCHC (Wilson?)
OCHC 2
Reign
Saints
Wave

SCAHA declarations page shows 14, still counting the Bears.  Earlier post says the Bears did not make...
   
Northern Cal:
Sharks (Hirschel)(06-07)
Blackhawks (Khuong/?)
GSE North (Alexius/ 06-07)
GSE South (Rodriguez/ 06-07)

Bears didn't field a AA team, but word has it that Pasadena might try to depending on the turnout this weekend.

[socalhockeydad]

So I think after tryouts, we are down to 17 possible AA teams.  Not sure about the status of Gulls 2.  Does anyone care to comment on the 07 vs 06 balance on the Runtso Ducks?  And is Perkins or Wilson coaching the OC group?



Bears didn't field a AA team, but word has it that Pasadena might try to depending on the turnout this weekend.

Good for Pasadena...flight 2 could really use another team to compete for last place.

[SDhockeydad07]

Gulls planning for 2 AA teams,




AA1 Pruden -- for flight 1... made primarily of the AA2 team from last season, plus a couple of the top 07 SqA kids from last season and some A/BB kids that made large strides in development


AA2 Birkle -- for flight 2... made from the 07 SqA core from last season, plus six or seven 06 kids from AA2/A/BB last year


Ignore the CS rosters, only about half of the rosters ended up being on the actual AA teams after tryouts

[overHEATed]

Did Flyers end up forming a team?

[Laking2018]

Yes they did