What Bantam AA Teams for 2019-2020?

[bantamparent0516]

Pretty quiet in here, is anybody scrimmaging, any scores to post? looks like kings 1 will be strong, beat empire 7 to 0 yesterday.

[DEFENDERS]

ice dogs beat kings2: 4-2
kings2 beat wave: 4-1
bears2 tied flyers: 3-3

[ABCDE]

Bears2 tied Flyers 3-3?  Interesting, as I figured Flyers would be stronger based on last year's team.  I heard Ice Dogs beat Bears2 8-1 last week.  Anyone have info on Kings 1 new coach?  I heard Tats took a new job in Idaho or something.  Hope the coaching change doesn't impact the team, as they look to be pretty strong.  Any other scrimmage scores going into the jamboree.

[Bystander]

Neither reign team belongs in AA. Why do they keep doing this?

[trans4761]

Neither reign team belongs in AA. Why do they keep doing this?

$$$$$$$$$


My buddy BF needs $$ to pay me back.
Interest is compounding daily. 

[Fowlmood]

Had the talent to make one solid team but instead made two.  Trans may be majorly correct. $$$$.   I do know that they are trying to build for a pool of kids for 16AAA.

[4minuteminor]

Eh...not so much. The latest CAHA Tier I application (on the website) doesn't really have any *requirements* - rather it just asks questions about your clubs plans and make up. Though, with so many years of their a/b and Tier II teams grossly under performing, I can't think that CAHA actually takes an honest read through their application. An what if they both dropped after the jamboree... would CAHA require the Tier I team to fold? Of course not.
I do remember there used to be a rule where you had to have so many of each colour Pokemon...err team to get a Tier I slot - but apparently that was either urban legend - or has gone out of vogue.

[Fowlmood]

I would like to see more opportunities for AAA besides the kings, ducks, and sharks. 

[Hockey sophist]

I would like to see more opportunities for AAA besides the kings, ducks, and sharks.

so would the 150-plus midgets and bantams who are playing elsewhere this season (over 70 in '03 class alone). but caha will point to the two kids who stuck it out here and made the usntdp, and declare their restrictive aaa model a tremendous success.

150 plus midgets and bantams off to prep schools.   Clearly that suggests that ice hockey in California is an affluent, very affluent, family activity.   Comparing hockey to football, basketball, baseball, soccer, and track and field, does not seems like a winning strategy for international competitiveness.   Such a beautiful game for such a narrow slice of our population.   

[b77]

8.3 Eligibility for Tier I


CAHA shall establish the terms that an association must achieve to field state championship eligible Tier I teams.


Member Associations fielding Tier I teams shall maintain a minimum of two (2) teams at their Tier II level in the current and previous seasons. Member Association must have been in existence for a minimum of three (3) seasons.


 

[area51]

I would like to see more opportunities for AAA besides the kings, ducks, and sharks.

in one post your complaining that there are AA teams that don't belong, then you want more AAA teams? If your kid didn't make it this year, he'll have another chance next year. AAA was watered down a few years ago and everyone complained. Now everyone complains because they can't get little Johnny his extra letter.

[SkatingDad]

I would like to see more opportunities for AAA besides the kings, ducks, and sharks.

in one post your complaining that there are AA teams that don't belong, then you want more AAA teams? If your kid didn't make it this year, he'll have another chance next year. AAA was watered down a few years ago and everyone complained. Now everyone complains because they can't get little Johnny his extra letter.

Yes, a few people making a lot of noise which made them believe they should act and enact rules.  Same process with our wacko politicians in sacramento and DC. The majority of the population believe the rules/laws are BS.

[Knuckle Puck]

150 plus midgets and bantams off to prep schools.   Clearly that suggests that ice hockey in California is an affluent, very affluent, family activity.   Comparing hockey to football, basketball, baseball, soccer, and track and field, does not seems like a winning strategy for international competitiveness.   Such a beautiful game for such a narrow slice of our population.

only 2/3rds of those kids at prep/academys; 1/3 playing aaa out of state. your bigger point about cost is valid. the only rink i’ve seen with more expensive ice time than tsc and anaheim is chelsea piers manhattan. $22 for a 6 am stick time @ tsc 

[Hockey05]

Just about anyone with a serious player is considering any and all alternatives to hockey in California. The system in place is a failure. If it was not, then all of these players wouldn't be leaving. 

Studies and statistics have been posted on this board. Say what you want about the watered down AAA product in the past, but those teams did okay on the national level. Players were provided an opportunity and some of those players are still playing. 

[TheFourthA]

Hockey is a cult sport in California.  The fact that we are exporting a relatively small number of players is a sign of marginal progress.  I doubt that many players with matching elite  levels of ambition and skill would stay to play in an expanded version of “AAA”, when most are leaving for either prep school (not a real California option), to play with and for more elite competition (not an option in California) or for greater exposure to scouts (also not an option here)