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rmackintosh

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Re: What AA Bantam Teams for 2018-19?
« Reply #60 on: April 21, 2018, 10:29:11 AM »
Blackhawks usually have AA teams every year and show a coach for one.  Colts have no tryout dates for any AA teams this year.


my buddy from NorCal says the Blackhawks likely won’t have a 14AA team as the talent isn’t there. although they have fielded a few pretty awful teams in the past couple years, specifically at this birth year group.


for a different thread, but the same dad said even their 16AA and 18AA will be well below subpar...


Yes, some of the families from BH that I know are talking about ratcheting it back to A next year and taking it a bit easier. They also will have a numbers problem to fill a AA team. You never know until tryouts...but I could see BH taking a year off AA....

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Re: What AA Bantam Teams for 2018-19?
« Reply #61 on: April 22, 2018, 01:56:12 PM »
I don't see Oakland having 16AA & 18AA teams next season. So that would only leave SJ, GSE, and Blackhawks with 16AA & 18AA teams up North.
Is Midget AA dying out in California? Is this another reason to send your kid away to a prep school after bantams?

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Re: What AA Bantam Teams for 2018-19?
« Reply #62 on: April 22, 2018, 05:06:07 PM »
Yeah since NorCal is going back to A teams for 16 & 18 I doubt that Oakland will have AA teams. That and I heard that Chris won't be coaching next year. They have already had problems trying to get coaches too.

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Re: What AA Bantam Teams for 2018-19?
« Reply #63 on: April 23, 2018, 01:58:18 PM »
Is Midget AA dying out in California? Is this another reason to send your kid away to a prep school after bantams?


Cause or Sympton??  The debate will go on.  In any case, buying the stairway to heaven seems to be the trend.

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Re: What AA Bantam Teams for 2018-19?
« Reply #64 on: April 23, 2018, 09:17:33 PM »
They have a phrase for this in the British prep school system (more soccer than hockey):

"Privileged abandonment"

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Re: What AA Bantam Teams for 2018-19?
« Reply #65 on: April 23, 2018, 11:17:38 PM »
They have a phrase for this in the British prep school system (more soccer than hockey):

"Privileged abandonment"


But in this case, who has abandoned whom? 


Personally, I find it hard to begrudge those who find the means to escape the hot mess of California hockey.
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Re: What AA Bantam Teams for 2018-19?
« Reply #66 on: May 04, 2018, 09:12:52 AM »
I think the point Landshark is making, is that sending your kid off to boarding school at 13 comes with a cost beyond dollars and cents.  It isn't the right choice for many kids and many parents. 


Of course I know of 2 former teammates who have relocated to the East coast, and timed it so that they would have the opportunity to find new clubs for their kids to play for.     

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Re: What AA Bantam Teams for 2018-19?
« Reply #67 on: May 04, 2018, 11:52:02 AM »
Did 3 california bantam AA players really get drafted by WHL teams yesterday?

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Re: What AA Bantam Teams for 2018-19?
« Reply #69 on: May 04, 2018, 02:06:02 PM »
only 3 played AA. one played prep school and the rest are AAA

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Re: What AA Bantam Teams for 2018-19?
« Reply #70 on: May 04, 2018, 02:14:13 PM »
Yup, sorry. I didn't read the AA part of the question.
Interesting results.

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Re: What AA Bantam Teams for 2018-19?
« Reply #71 on: May 04, 2018, 02:46:55 PM »
For those in the know, What s the cost of playing JRS on a typical WHL  team ?

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Re: What AA Bantam Teams for 2018-19?
« Reply #72 on: May 04, 2018, 04:01:00 PM »
No. Fifteen did http://carubberhockey.com/slew-of-california-players-selected-in-2018-whl-bantam-draft/


A lot of Jr. Kings players.  They apparently did a really good job of marketing themselves...

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Re: What AA Bantam Teams for 2018-19?
« Reply #73 on: May 04, 2018, 05:44:39 PM »
I heard the went to Calgary and Edmonton this year and the team had good showings at both.

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Re: What AA Bantam Teams for 2018-19?
« Reply #74 on: May 04, 2018, 07:21:18 PM »
I heard the went to Calgary and Edmonton this year and the team had good showings at both.


Not to mention that they have a lot of really good players  on that team.