"Don't be fooled into paying double the price to play Tier 2 hockey, come tryout at Flyers Youth"
This is great tag line for parents that don't know any better. I was one of those parents, until I left FY for FE and found out what development is all about. Flyers Elite offers so much more in their tuition than Flyers Youth- 3 hr/week spring ice (April-June), 4 day 6hr/day training camp, 4 tournaments included in tuition, 50+ game schedule, 3-1hr practices/week, 1- 1hr training/week (who left FY), 1-1hr video/week, 1-1hr/skills/goalie clinic/week.
20+ FY kids left for FE last season and 15+ will leave this year. FY is losing most of their players to FE and ML is pissed!
If FY can offer the same ice time, training, skills, video, spring ice, tournaments and most importantly a high level skating program, then I would say stay at FY. FY can't and that is what pisses ML off. Every FE team would destroy FY AA teams (except 2013, but that team is no more once JH leaves for PHC). If FY wants to get better take my advice, fire ML, hire a real hockey director that knows how to develop kids, give AAA ice time/training and stop nickel and diming for anything extra!