AC-DC wrote:The Flyers rolled into town with 18 kids on the road, probably left a few behind, and the Flames only have 8. Shame on them and shame on the NDAHA for letting it happen. This typifies exactly why I started this topic and proves that it's not about competition and playing the game, but solely about winning. The HDAHA needs to do something about leveling the competition, because what we have now is a farce.
All hail AC-DC maybe we should elect you president of the world, and get you a big coffee mug that says "THE BOSS". Maybe the next thing the NDAHA should do is remove all the scoreboards in the arenas so there are no winners and losers. I have news for you, in POND HOCKEY there are winners and losers. I would really like to know just how many of your sons play for Crosby, all i hear about is you trying to limit the clubs that actually have a shot at winning this year.I f your small town team cant muster up enough skaters to fuel a program, then it's a bad situation and i feel sorry for the kids that want to play. But this isnt even the case, these west teams have the NDAHA RECOGNIZED AMOUNT OF PLAYERS NECASSARY to have a team. Its this thing called a range, ya see when your in this special zone your team is allowed to play legally, and last i checked Grand Forks and Fargo fall comfortably in said range along with these small town teams (no doubt you're referring to Crosby). All this is, is whining from small town parents who are angry because the flyers just came in and ripped them to pieces. And shame on the flyers??? for what?? having a nucleous of players/freinds who realized that they just wanted to play together and have fun. This is a cycle, like what has been posted a thousand times above me, the flyers are great this year, but they'll lose a lot of players at the end of the season. You dont even realize that the flames and flyers aren't affiliated, they dont like each other at all. Players didnt want to play for the flames because it's not where their freinds are. Winning was not the determinant here i can assure you, these kids just wanted to play together for one great season. Shouldn't we really be happy that the flyers, who just showed up on the JG circut, are getting enough numbers to produce quality teams. This team is going to graduate a large amount of seniors, simliar to the amount langdon had last year.
The point is the rules are set, changing them is just not something that should happen during the season, or anytime soon.
Let the kids play.