Reply to Are girls moving from figure skating to hockey?

Forum Index » Sports General Discussion

Reply to "Are girls moving from figure skating to hockey?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This discussion in the last few posts about not having a shot at college hockey is true for boys, but this is a thread about girls hockey. There are plenty of girls from this area playing D3 hockey. There are a far smaller number of girls playing D1 hockey. Most of those girls did go away to Prep/Academy, but not all.

If you like hockey, and your kid likes hockey, and they are good at hockey, let them play hockey.

Similarly, I hate baseball/softball. I find them mind numbing and who wants to sit outside in the blazing sun for a doubleheader? I am sure there are lots of people who enjoy that, and I'm happy for them. I'm not going to try and talk them out of putting their kid in those sports. Their decision whether it is family based, child based, etc. is their decision, just as our family's decision to play hockey is our decision.[/quote]

Nearly anyone can play a D3 sport in college as long as you literally don't care which D3 college you attend.  Perhaps, you mean playing for a top D3 academic program which often have strong D3 teams.

I assume any girl who can stay on her skates and swing a stick can play for King's or Hilbert with their 1-24 records (and you are correct...I have never heard of either and have no clue where they are located).[/quote]

That is not true of men's hockey.  Look up the rosters of even the worst D3 hockey teams, and you'll see Canadians, Europeans, and AAA players who then played 2 years of juniors and started college at 21.   [/quote]

What parent would allow their kid to attend Hiram College (again, who knows what that is) just to play last place hockey at 1-21?

The roster is like 90% US with 10% Canadian.  Don't see any Europeans, but maybe they have a US/Canadian address.[/quote]

Hockey kids let their kids keep going with bad junior teams and start college at 21 just to end up playing ACHA hockey, because hockey parents are kinda nuts. [/quote]

The level of play has to be not good...to put it kindly.[/quote]

There are quite a few kids who go from AAA to juniors who just end up playing ACHA hockey.  Looks like Minot State is ranked number one - here is their roster: https://www.achahockey.org/stats/roster/17/68?division=16&league=1

It's mostly Canadians. Can the middle-of-the-pack American AAA kids not even make an ACHA D1 team anymore? [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics