Comments on: National championships ahead

By: Next Level

Next Level — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:55:49 +0000

Better yet good luck at Choate!

By: league 2 Fan

league 2 Fan — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:57:23 +0000

Congratulations to Alex Hagen for winning the Puck Control Skills competition this week in St. Louis. He beat out the best from the country’s top 12 Teir 1 Districts. I believe he came 3rd in speed as well.

By: Al Bundy

Al Bundy — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:07:03 +0000

I guess this shows the positive of travel teams. Especially interesting that the kids on the best high school teams put much less emphasis on the midget travel teams since they’re playing on a high profile team already.

But what of the great majority of kids from the mediocre to downtrodden schools, their best players join forces to make very good travel teams.

It’s obvious real great if you play for Mamaroneck, or Suffern or Pelham. But if you toil for John Jay, or New Rochelle, or Carmel, you’ll probably have greater team success on a travel level.

By: viper

viper — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:11:03 +0000

I thought this was a dead issue but apparently not. Just to clarify what any smart person would have figured out when they read it the first time, best team in the country meant the best team at our level (teir 2, which i said), and for the person who talked about getting free food at a deli and praised by there school i say again, NOBODY AT MY SCHOOL CARES WHAT WE DO. if you havent figured it out i dont live in mamaroneck. Emerson used to play vipers and stopped when he started playing high school and thats fine because for him high school hockey means more than the rest of us. And while i am more likely to hang out with kids from my high school team, my viper teammates where some of my best friends and we were much more of a team then my high school team was.

High school hockey has a lot of positives that travel does not, but only about 6 or 7 teams have any chance to benefit from those perks. And while high school was not horrible for me, I would gladly trade in all 4 of my years on varsity for 1 season as the best team in NY and a trip to nationals.