HOFam'r wrote:Pucknutz69 wrote:HOFam'r wrote:
Another loud endorsement of Elite Too Hockey! Like I said...I would not do it again and dont believe it helps a lick unless you are a bantam trying to make the high school team. It is a HUGE money maker regardless of what anyone says. The attitude above is why we have too many choices as Hockey parents...people are consumed in making sure Little Joey has a 'we are Elite Too' hockey jersey. Parents there are sharks out there feeding on your billfold...please dont feed the sharks boys...if joey is good enough they will ask him to play elite 1 and then you'll know you have something.
So just put the skates away and call it quits if you don't get asked to skate for the Elite 1 or don't make a team? My son doesn't play for Roseau, Hill nor Edina so I guess I should just tell him to quit go live in the basement and play computer games non stop, cause his HS team will never have a chance at making as he is not playing for one of the ELITE HS Teams! The league may have had a rough start when your player skated but it has made strides in the right direction. You are just one of the parents that paid a lot of money through the years on nothing but hockey (forgetting that education does matter) and now that your kid is done and you have nothing else to do you just want to blame someone else for your kid no getting that D1 scholarship. Thanks for the input but my son and my money will take our chances with the ELITE 2 again this year. Bad hotels, sharks and all.
Have at it! Like I said some people might feel differently but I know how i feel...throw some weights in that basement and run outside and skate in a cheap 4 on 4 league close to home if you dont play football and you will light years ahead of elite too. Sorry, but the experience I had was terrible.
The Elite 2 is a good league for player development IMO, especially for high level players making the adjustment from Bantam hockey to HS hockey...it really helped my son progress in preparation for his sophomore HS season.
Now for kids going into their junior years, while it's not nearly as good as Elite 1...its still much better than anything you could do with you're HS team in the fall (or 4 on 4 leagues) so its still worth doing IMO.
My son played Elite2 for Section 4AA/4A in 2005 and we we carried 13 forwards, 6 defenseman and 2 goalies... so 1 forward and 1 D was healthy scratched for each game. Does playing 4 lines
suck regarding number of shifts you get?.. yes...but that's the way it's going to be going forward in Elite 1, Juniors and D1 hockey...so kids better get used to it if they want to move on to those levels.
Is it expensive, sure...but so is Elite 1, Model Camp, MN Selects, etc...but hopefully the experiences a player gains along the way....(whether they play beyond HS or not) justify the money spent in the long run.
