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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hockey is an unusual sport in that if you want to play in college, you can't even go straight from high school to D1, you basically have to play junior hockey until you age out at 20-21 and then you go to play D1, which is why D1 hockey players are much older than other D1 athletes. A lot of recruiting happens out of junior hockey. So if playing in college is really your aim, then this isn't a terrible model assuming they have connections to the right junior programs.[/quote]

If you want your kid to play D1, you need to move to Canada. Since the NCAA started allowing guys from Canadian juniors in, the pipeline now goes through Canada.[/quote]

Or Minnesota.  We know a family with 3 hockey-loving boys who moved to Minnesota when the kids were still young enough to catch up. They didn't have the time or money to have 3 boys in AAA hockey, but in Minnesota, they never have to get on a plane to play good hockey (in fact, they play better competition locally than our AAA teams play when they travel).  The dad found an equivalent job in Minnesota, and with the lower cost of living plus no longer having to pay for travel hockey, the mom was able to quit her job.  [/quote]

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