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I am sorry for not giving more information about my son in my last post however this is the first time I have ever posted any thing. My son plays in the super 98 series (Honey Baked, St louis Jr Blues, Little Ceasars, Bell Tire, Dallas stars elite)ect.. The problem we have is all our games are out of state like Philly,Bos,Den, St Louis. and the cost is killing me. I am from Rochester I moved to TX in 1996 I was thinking of moving back to MN.

Idea behind Super Series is that you occasionally get to host one. It was created by guys from St. Louis and Dallas and they really nailed a cost-effective format to minimize the dollars spent and maximize the hockey played by Sun Belt AAA/Tier I teams.

My son played in one and it was very well organized. Everyone I ask that has atteneded one says the same.

You will have no problem reducing the cost of youth hockey, probably by 85%, if you move to Minnesota. Pick a community with good youth and good HS hockey and hope your son makes the teams.

Some 98s in Minnesota are PW this year. The other half are 1st year Bantams. Different than where you are from.

One question..........is it better to be a '98 born in the months in Jan, Feb, March or later in the year like Oct, Nov, or Dec to play in Minnesota?

Does it really matter?...with a 85% savings in Minnesota I'm going shopping in Florida over Thanksgiving.

Ugottobekiddingme wrote:Does it really matter?...with a 85% savings in Minnesota I'm going shopping in Florida over Thanksgiving.

I meant is it more beneficial for a kid to be a young birth year or one that was born in the beginning of the year since Minnesota doesn't go by particular birth years.

Puckstopper81 wrote:

Ugottobekiddingme wrote:Does it really matter?...with a 85% savings in Minnesota I'm going shopping in Florida over Thanksgiving.

I meant is it more beneficial for a kid to be a young birth year or one that was born in the beginning of the year since Minnesota doesn't go by particular birth years.

If a player is born July 1 - December 31, they are the oldest players on the team in their second year at every level in MN hockey.

In AAA/summer hockey, they are always the youngest players (since, as you know, that is organized by birth year beginning Jan 1).

Whether this is beneficial or not depends, probably, on what you think of Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers," a book which makes the argument (in the first chapter) that Canadian hockey players with January-March birthdays are over-represented at higher levels because they are bigger and faster earlier, and get placement on better teams from an early age, thus better coaching and more ice time.

Minnesota hockey players probably don't fall into the same pattern as much because of the two-year cycle which makes July-December birth months middle of the pack in their first year (with second year teammates who are older) and oldest in their second year (with first year team mates who are younger).