Will D6 end support of St. Thomas Bantam B team?

muckandgrind · Post by **muckandgrind** » Tue May 12, 2009 10:04 pm

auld_skool wrote:SSM IS affliated. I'm saying I don't think USA Hockey would allow private schools to form their own league in MN in the winter, if it were possible I think it would have been done already...although I could be wrong.

Who says they need to be USA Hockey affiliated? In the not to distant past, there were private school teams for youngsters that weren't affiliated with MN Hockey or USA Hockey.

auld_skool · Post by **auld_skool** » Wed May 13, 2009 8:15 am

muckandgrind wrote:
Who says they need to be USA Hockey affiliated? In the not to distant past, there were private school teams for youngsters that weren't affiliated with MN Hockey or USA Hockey.

No one said that if you can read.

muckandgrind · Post by **muckandgrind** » Wed May 13, 2009 9:09 am

auld_skool wrote:
muckandgrind wrote:
Who says they need to be USA Hockey affiliated? In the not to distant past, there were private school teams for youngsters that weren't affiliated with MN Hockey or USA Hockey.
No one said that if you can read.

I can most definitely read, and I was responding to you when you said:

I'm saying I don't think USA Hockey would allow private schools to form their own league in MN in the winter, if it were possible I think it would have been done already...although I could be wrong.

My response is basically, "who cares about USA Hockey?" They can't tell a school or a group of schools that they CAN'T form their own league. They can only tell them that they won't be affiliated with them.

auld_skool · Post by **auld_skool** » Wed May 13, 2009 10:31 am

muckandgrind wrote:
Who says they need to be USA Hockey affiliated? In the not to distant past, there were private school teams for youngsters that weren't affiliated with MN Hockey or USA Hockey.

muck,

You said "NEED" in your first post so I responded to that. No one said they NEED USA Hockey affiliation. I merely suggested that a league WITHOUT USA Hockey affiliation would have a hard time getting off the ground here in the winter. Minnesota Made's Choice league proves that it's not impossible however. (I'm assuming they're not affliated.)

Obviously, anyone can start their own hockey league any time they like. Good luck to you if you try.

Community Based · Post by **Community Based** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 9:52 am

Now that there isn't a St. Thomas Bantam B team this year how many St. Thomas hockey players registered to play Bantam hockey with Sibley, the youth association where the school is located? Some may have also chosen to return to their geographical community with their one time exception to the new residency rule.

How many PeeWee players?

Should help Sibley as their numbers, and the strength of the teams, seem to have been on the decline. Can anyone from Sibley update us as to how many new players they have picked up? I know some of the associations on the west side of town have picked up players from the privates in their geographic community.