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KICKED-IN-THE-PRIVATES wrote:You are so far off on this, it is crazy... This is youth hockey, not varsity hockey. Are Little Falls kids (or wadena, sauk centre, M/B, DL, Long Prairie) expected to compete with the Moorhead's, Brainerd's, and St. Cloud's of the world year-in Year-out at an A level? NO. The pure numbers game say this is unrealistic. That's why the Minnesota State High School League set up AA and A varsity levels. The fact that some associations have decided they need to always play "A" Hockey is their own mistake. You have to realistically judge your own talent. Hockey is suppose to be fun. What fun is it to get your head beat in every Game? I could see you point if LF beat everyone in the Pee-Wee tourny 8 -0 etc, you may of had a point. But that was not the case. 6-3 over a good alex team and 2-0 over Brainerd sounds like very competitive games. Isn't that what we want?

Since we are making proposal's to district 15, how about we go by enrollment. Say... for every 500 students you have in grades 9-12, you have that many A Teams and the rest would play B's. For example:
Brainerd 1964 Students 3 A Teams
MoorHead 1527 3 A Teams
Alex 1278 2 A Teams
Northern Lakes 1185 2 A Teams
Apollo 1165 2 A Teams (St. Cloud Youth Hockey would have 5)
Willmar 1119 2 A Teams
Sartell 885 1 A Team
Little Falls 854 1 A Team
Fergus Falls 814 1 A Team
D.L. 785 1 A Team
LP/SC 760 1 A Team
M/B 583 1 A Team
Wadena 458 1 A Team

Brainerd has 1500 more kids than Wadena and that's going to garner a level playing field? What do they do at the youth baseball levels? They have AA and AAA. Flying V get a clue....