B level hockey after Bantams

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I noticed the DVHL doesn't have B level teams starting in 16U.  Is this every year or just this year?  What do the players who can't make an A American team do...just do school hockey?  Or is A American the new B?

[Guest]

A American is B. That way parents don’t have to say their kids are on a B team.

[Guest]

It is every year travel hockey looses players at 16 every year because it gets dangerous in lower level. B gets mixed in with cut A players to make A american. Your kid will find a team if they are cut because every team in the league is always looking to find a way to get a full roster.

[Guest]

My experience has been with my son when he played that A American is rough and its what is left over of the kids who couldn't make the national team. It is normally the players that don't know the difference from a legal check and a check from behind. Tell him to keep his head up.

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Half of the AA players in this league can’t even tell the difference between a clean and dirty hit....parents too, every hit is legal, except when little Johnny gets lit up at the blue with a shoulder to the chest 👍

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A American is B. That way parents don’t have to say their kids are on a B team.

My son has been playing for 10 years now I can't even remember a time that the DVHL has had 16B, you played either A or AA. When they introduced the National/American breakout, they then added 16 A American. 18s has had A American as well, but the last 2 years they didn't because not enough teams signed up for it so they lumped everyone just as A.