I love how everyone bashes Flyers Elite on this site. I am not associated in any way with FE (my kid plays AAA in PA) but know people there very well. While you bash the 2011 FE team, you should remember FE had no teams at SQ or PW Minor in 2022-23. Last season was supposed to be played as an independent AAA/AA "transition year" team but BB put them into the THF. I was told by the end of the year 3 of the 2012 players were AAA level and about 5 of the 2011 were AAA level. The rest were AA at best. FE 2013 was a mess last year due to a bad mix of ages (2015, 2014 & 2013) with the 2015 dads as coaches. I was told the team was very competitive until the 2015 coaches decided to leave for PHC and things fell apart. My contact said FE is still rebuilding from Venom leaving in 2021. It took time to rebuild but Pilots program is thriving, both SQ teams look good this year, 2013 will be .500 at best (but has 3-4 really good players) and 2012 will be good to very good. 2011 has not been picked yet so that is up in the air, but pre-skates and tryout sign ups look promising. Older ages will struggle because a bunch of kids left for juniors and prep schools, which says a lot about the programs quality if kids are wanted at higher level programs.
I look at other AAA organizations and certain ages struggle their too, why single out FE? I heard rumors that FE would not have enough players for pure age teams. My contacts said this caused a lot of 2013 & 2012 kids not to try out. I wonder who started those rumors? FY (who lost about 15 kids to FE)? Hollydell (PHC & Hurricanes- who lost about 10 kids to FE)? Parent/coaches that left? I just do not understand why so many other rinks want FE to fail? Is it because of BB beef with FY? Is it because Hollydell (who rarely promotes kids from Hurricanes to PHC) wants to avoid losing AA players to FE? I am not sure what the issue is? My kid used to do privates at Pennsauken and JP's coaching was awesome. I saw PHC, Mercer, JRF, VF & LF AAA kids at privates with JP. I saw Igloo, FY, Hurricanes, Snyder, Grundy, Blazers and Deloco Phantoms kids at privates with JP. If he is such a bad coach, why do some of the top players in the area do privates with him? Something is just not adding up with the hate against FE/coaches on this board?
I will admit there are too many AAA teams, but that is the world we live in at the moment. Would it be better if some AAA orgs were demoted to AA, yes. AAHA will sort this out after this upcoming season. I am told FE will be much better this year so maybe your tune will change. I doubt it as you seem to have a personal beef with FE!