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If your kid plays on the Edina White or Edina Green Bantam B1 team, (or WBL Black/Org or EP Black/Red for that matter) how do you feel about having 2 teams representing your association at that level?

Are you bitter that Burnsville, Minnetonka and Stillwater chose to field one B1 Bantam team, when they appear to be deep enough to field 2 teams?

Or, are you pleased that 17 additional kids were given a chance to play at the B1 level ?

taxi43 wrote:If your kid plays on the Edina White or Edina Green Bantam B1 team, (or WBL Black/Org or EP Black/Red for that matter) how do you feel about having 2 teams representing your association at that level?

Are you bitter that Burnsville, Minnetonka and Stillwater chose to field one B1 Bantam team, when they appear to be deep enough to field 2 teams?

Or, are you pleased that 17 additional kids were given a chance to play at the B1 level ?

Put the kids where they belong and don't worry about "pleased" kids. Bottom line, put the kids at the level they belong, if that means two b1 teams, so be it.

gruntcall wrote:Put the kids where they belong and don't worry about "pleased" kids. Bottom line, put the kids at the level they belong, if that means two b1 teams, so be it.

Well of course putting the kids where they belong is always the goal, but that's easier said than done. If you have 22 skaters who "belong" at b1, do you create two b1 teams with 11 skaters each? Two b1 teams with an extra 3 or 4 skaters on each that "belong" at b2 or c? One b1 team and make the extra 7 skaters play below the level they belong? And who decides where a kid belongs? 5 evaluators will give you 5 different opinons as to whether you have 22 b1 kids, 26 b1 kids, 30 b1 kids, 18 b1 kids.