What 16U teams for 2019-2020?

[A1Hockey Fan]

It's getting close to that time...just trying to see who will have what teams?


What are your thoughts?

[mom2five]

I just got an email that Junior Reign will have a Flight I AA (copy/pasted from the email:
* Also playing in the 16AA NAPHL Showcase Division ) and a Flight II AA and an A team. Empire will have one AA team. OCHC will have one AA team instead of two. It looks like Wave is trying to field '03 and '04 AA teams.


*edited to fix mistakes

[area51]

wow, Wildcats have been guaranteed a Flight 1 team!

[SkatingDad]

South:
Ducks(1)
Ducks(2)
Empire
Flyers
Heat
Kings(1)
Kings(2)
Leafs
Mariners
OCHC
Reign
Saints
Wave(1)
Wave(2)


North:
Blackhawks
GSE (1)
GSE (2)
Sharks

[A1Hockey Fan]

wow, Wildcats have been guaranteed a Flight 1 team!

I don't think there is a flight system for 16U. Unless there will be new rules this year?

[SkatingDad]

wow, Wildcats have been guaranteed a Flight 1 team!

I don't think there is a flight system for 16U. Unless there will be new rules this year?

I think it depends on the number of teams.  I hope they scrap the entire flight system...

[lcadad]

wow, Wildcats have been guaranteed a Flight 1 team!

I don't think there is a flight system for 16U. Unless there will be new rules this year?

CAHA in its infinite wisdom reserves the right to Flight or not based on --- well nobody really knows.


12u had 18 teams, 14u had 19 teams and 16u had 16 teams, so I guess they just looked at the number and found that Flighting 16u was more trouble than it was worth, even though if Flighting was worthwhile at any age group, it ought to be just as valid at 16u as it is at 14u. 

[area51]

there wasn't a clear top and bottom to the bracket last season, very heavy middle group of teams, so they didn't flight the division. It should be different this year.

[puckslapper]

Where did the posts on Mariners partnering with Shattuck go? I went to the Mariner website and the info is still there but it’s disappeared from this site? Any thoughts on how that partnership affects teams for the upcoming season?

[Pistonkev]

South:
Ducks(1)
Ducks(2)
Empire
Gulls ?
Heat ?
Kings
Leafs ?
Mariners
OCHC
Reign(1)
Reign(2) ?
Saints ?
Wave(1)
Wave(2)


North:
Blackhawks
GSE
Sharks

Forgot Flyers I think they will have a team.

[jvreagan]

South:
Ducks(1)
Ducks(2)
Empire
Gulls ?
Heat ?
Kings
Leafs ?
Mariners
OCHC
Reign(1)
Reign(2) ?
Saints ?
Wave(1)
Wave(2)


North:
Blackhawks
GSE
Sharks

Forgot Flyers I think they will have a team.

GSE will have two teams

[puckslapper]

I found the Mariner/Shattuck information on another California hockey forum called calhockeytalk.com. Apparently that forum will post everything. So it looks like potentially 18 teams next season for 16AA. That should provide a lot of games and some good competition.

[A1Hockey Fan]

I found the Mariner/Shattuck information on another California hockey forum called calhockeytalk.com. Apparently that forum will post everything. So it looks like potentially 18 teams next season for 16AA. That should provide a lot of games and some good competition.

Some had said that there would probably be flights in the division...it wasn't the case last year so we shall see.

[Fowlmood]

They will most certainly flight it and get it wrong.  Nothing new here.

[Teemu8]

Anyone notice that, on the CAHA site, when you click on the "tier II pre season evaluation weekend" it says it will be in San Jose?