Any other rinks seeing issue with player levels at 2012, 2013 & 2014 birth years. Seems there are too many rinks vying for a shrinking pool of players especially at these ages. Too many kids playing AAA and AA/A is suffering. Thoughts?

My kid used to play goalie several years ago. what i have seen (and heard) lately, is that rinks everywhere need goalies.

I see so many teams, even at lower levels with two goalies. if goalies are so hard to find, why arent parents doing more to jump around to find a team where they can have their own

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Good morning. Joey my 2014 beginner goalie, was promised a spot on a developmental team here in Northern New Jersey. We went to tryouts, missing other opportunities to tryout for other clubs. After tryouts they decided to not have that team at all. Now we are without any tryouts left to goto. Now I am

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All the ads I see about about birth year AA teams and full ice mites. Is anyone playing A or B anymore? Is it National-bound or don’t bother playing?

There’s plenty of AA teams that wouldn’t have finished in the top half of A last year. Quit chasing letters and have the kids play.

How did night one go at Jaguars. Enough talent fo 12UAA or 10UAA?

Just wanted to wish all of your players the best of luck with evals this week. Remember to encourage them to work hard and be good teammates. Make sure you aren't the crazy parent in the stands/at the rink.

I am not sure why there is a surprise that costs are slowly heading higher for the BB clubs. You are moving from a not-for-profit model to a for-profit model. It will only get worse. That being said, when comparing costs between clubs, you do need to fully understand what is included in each. Some

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In another post a comment was made about the Wild taking kids from other DVHL clubs. DVHL Executive Vice President, Joe D’Angelo has spent a lot of time with Pottstown Penguins President, Jay Heaberlin and representatives of Campus Wild. Jay Finnigan announced that The Pottstown Penguins and Campus

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Seems like 14u and 12u hockey (even at A and B levels) is approaching $5,000 at some NJ Black Bear rinks. Is this really what parents want to pay for those levels? Nothing against those levels, but do you really need to have 50+ practices and travel tournaments? Whatever happened to semi competitive

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Pricing for tier ll is almost or over 3k over 12 years old. Tier 1 starts at 4.5k for 12u, 5k for 14u, 7k for 16u and 8k for 18u :o

tier ll plays at Twin Ponds and tier 1 plays at klick

https://klicklewisarena.com/palmyra-black-knights/

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