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I have 99' son who has plays AAA hockey in MA and we are relocating to the Eastern MN, bayport/huson WI area this summer. Besides the local town teams what options are there to play at a higher level if the local program isn't that strong.

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If you move to Bayport you have Stillwater. They have a good group. A nd a ex-NHL player coaching. Scott does a nice job w/the kids. Hudson you could be one of Bernies boys. AAA Fire hockey club.

AAA hockey in Massachusetts encompasses almost all the travel hockey. Is he from the "Elite" EHF or a different league? The EHF is a pretty high level.

Hockey in Minnesota is community-based. If being a part of a strong program is important to you, just move there. Woodbury, White Bear Lake, Stillwater, and possibly Hastings should fit the bill. Hockey in Minnesota doesn't adhere to birthyear teams like it does in Massachusetts either.

I would steer you away from the Wisconsin Fire AAA team, but it is based in Somerset and is set up more like the teams from Massachusetts with few geographic restrictions.

The top ten communities field an "A" team that is easily on par with Top 15 ranked "Major" teams nationally. Also, the age cut is July 1st in Minnesota. Not January 1st like the rest of the country.

Don't be spooked by B1 level hockey, especially in your son's first year as a Bantam. In stronger communities it equates to "AA" level or even "AAA" for a Minor team.

The EHF in Boston is not that strong as someone suggests. That league may be the best of the best at AAA in New England, but there seems to be at least a hundred AAA teams in that area. The competition there is very, very, very watered down.

EHF sure looks better than everything else up there.

Skate to Excellence has a good AAA program for the offseason which is worth looking into. Best of luck!

Skate to Excellence has a good AAA program for the offseason which is worth looking into. Best of luck!

Fire hockey would be an option for your son. Go to fire hockey club website and check it out.

If you are still looking leave your email or number I would like to talk to you about joining our team.

Thank you

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I would steer you away from the Wisconsin Fire AAA team, but it is based in Somerset and is set up more like the teams from Massachusetts with few geographic restrictions.


I'm curious why you say that? The 99 team was the #3 ranked team in the US last year per www.myhockeyrankings.com - The 2000 team was ranked #5 and the 97 team # 10.

The Fire program is very well respected in the US and Canada.

Task Force 34 wrote:I'm curious why you say that? The 99 team was the #3 ranked team in the US last year per www.myhockeyrankings.com - The 2000 team was ranked #5 and the 97 team # 10.

The Fire program is very well respected in the US and Canada.

Minnesota association hockey is very well respected worldwide.

If your goal is to be on the #3 ranked team in a computer ranking at an age where there is no meaningful national championship, then yeah...Fire is the place. It's pretty funny. You are impressed with some kids that didn't want to play B1 as 1st year Pee Wees in Edina and chose a AAA team based out of state instead. So they scheduled the Edina Pee Wee A team and got beat 12-3. Whatever trips your trigger.

Remember, the initial poster said he's moving to the area. This means he gets to choose the community where they live. It isn't the proverbial huge fish in a tiny pond or the great player lost in a mega association. I get it, for Minnesotans the Fire provides an alternative to association hockey.

My advice: I would avoid the Fire program entirely and choose a residence in an area where there is a strong youth hockey program. Basically that leaves, oh, about 40% of the Twin Cities.

Take it or leave it. That's definitely my advice. Other advice differs.

Hey, where are the Lakeville kids going to play now that the 98 Everblades lost their money man? Back to the Fire or somewhere else?

O-townClown wrote:

Task Force 34 wrote:I'm curious why you say that? The 99 team was the #3 ranked team in the US last year per www.myhockeyrankings.com - The 2000 team was ranked #5 and the 97 team # 10.

The Fire program is very well respected in the US and Canada.

Minnesota association hockey is very well respected worldwide.

If your goal is to be on the #3 ranked team in a computer ranking at an age where there is no meaningful national championship, then yeah...Fire is the place. It's pretty funny. You are impressed with some kids that didn't want to play B1 as 1st year Pee Wees in Edina and chose a AAA team based out of state instead. So they scheduled the Edina Pee Wee A team and got beat 12-3. Whatever trips your trigger.

Remember, the initial poster said he's moving to the area. This means he gets to choose the community where they live. It isn't the proverbial huge fish in a tiny pond or the great player lost in a mega association. I get it, for Minnesotans the Fire provides an alternative to association hockey.

My advice: I would avoid the Fire program entirely and choose a residence in an area where there is a strong youth hockey program. Basically that leaves, oh, about 40% of the Twin Cities.

Take it or leave it. That's definitely my advice. Other advice differs.

Hey, where are the Lakeville kids going to play now that the 98 Everblades lost their money man? Back to the Fire or somewhere else?

I'm not biting

Inquiry wrote:I have 99' son who has plays AAA hockey in MA and we are relocating to the Eastern MN, bayport/huson WI area this summer. Besides the local town teams what options are there to play at a higher level if the local program isn't that strong.

Here is the initial post. If it was a troll post to bring out a Fire discussion, who cares.

If it is a bona fide inquiry, White Bear Lake, Woodbury, and Stillwater have associations that play at 'a higher level' than the local Bayport (I guess, I don't know what association that feeds) program.

A real poster from Massachusetts would probably identify whether the kid was EFH or NEHL level. 10 weeks and the guy never asked a follow up question or said thanks for the handful of responses?

Troll post.