AAA Hockey — I call. Who is from what program accepted into WLC and TM — and please list the birth year —
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Anonymous
| I am especially interested in knowing if the AAA teams kept players from last year or are starting with a majority new roster . . . |
Anonymous
| Nobody’s going to answer this. |
Anonymous
I will. No one from the Caps Hockey program in my child’s age group got into WLC. So stick that in your pipe and smoke it previous post. |
Anonymous
Why? This IS an anonymous forum. |
Anonymous
| If you did not receive an email after the first or second day of tryouts, your child was not selected. |
Anonymous
That’s not an answer to the question. He was asking about kids that got into the program, not kids that didn’t. |
Anonymous
If you were to say, my kid made the 15u team Maryland team and played tri city 14aa last year, everyone in that part of the dmc hockey world would know who it is…it wouldn’t be anonymous. |
Anonymous
| Why wouldn’t TM or WLC brag up their new recruits like any school program would . . . E.g., “We get students from NYC to Seattle.” |
Anonymous
Ha!! |
Anonymous
10000% This is an absurd question to even post, OP. |
Anonymous
| The games will be posted soon enough on their respective sites, which won’t be anonymous. Not sure why anyone would worry about someone figuring out who a particular kid is |
Anonymous
Partial because with all of the 24-25 rosters on the tier 2 program websites, it would become obvious that many of the new recruits were 2nd liners on their old AA teams and not true AAA talent. |
Anonymous
Wow, what a rude thing to say, and based on the kids I know, not true at all. |
Anonymous
Don't get me wrong, you can build a solid team by putting together the 4th and 5th best players of every AA team in the area plus a few first liners, since you get good average talent. But it's not a AAA level team, which is why TM and WLC play AA in legit tournaments like Quebec Peewee. If you took every eligible player in the area at a birth year, ranked them, then equally split the top ones onto two equal teams (WLC and TM), you'd have pretty solid teams. But that never happens, so many of the best players stick on AA rosters because WLC and TM are not convenient and haven't historically had the best development models. |
Anonymous
Having experienced both of these in this area there is simply no comparison between the level of competition. Yes, AAA in this area is not the same as AAA in Michigan, Minnesota, New England or Canada but AA in this area is also not the same as AA in those places. If your kid is good enough to make a AAA roster here it gives them the most exposure to higher level competition which is key to development and growth. Short of moving north, there really isn't more you can do in this area to give them the opportunity to explore their potential. If they dominate while playing on one of those teams then you can think about what the next steps might be beyond this area for continued growth. That also doesn't mean there is not development path through AA but ultimately you grow through being challenged at a higher level of competition. In general there is just too much negativity and bitterness in these threads. If someone wants to spend their time and money on their kid playing travel hockey at this level or that, who cares. If they are enjoying it, good for them. If not, that's their problem. |