Thoughts on teams like Guelph who have basically eliminated all of their 90's. Was this the intent of Midget hockey? They have a coach whose kid is an 89 and could not make any other Midget team. Is this what Midget is supposed to be about. And they have 2 - 89 goalies. Both played for Halton last season.

the idea of the age change and combining the midgets was to keep kids in the game, this has failed miserably, basically huge numbers of kids are being displaced from AAA on down etc....and then they limit the number of 16 yr olds in Jr C and !r A etc.....hockey canada needs to rethink this mess

Agreed it is a mess. Maybe we should put more time and effort into High School hockey in Ontario

There had previously been talk from Hockey Canada to limit the number of 2nd year Midgets per team, but that was quashed. Seems anytime Hockey Canada wants to get involved in registration rules, age changes, numbers & restrictions they screw it all up anyway.

Here is a novel idea. Pick the best 17 players for your team irregardless of whether they are 89's or 90's. Some perennial AAA players will not have a spot, but guess what, that would mean they are not good enough for that AAA team. Then it is up to them if they get a release, drop down to AA, play high school or quit or whatever.

but you don't want them to quit, you want them to keep playing

Yes. pick the best 17 guys but also eliminate or further restrict imports.

They should have a rule that prevents Dads coaching from taking their loser kid on the team.

and his kids best friend who is also terrible......

I think the teams that would benefit most are the small ONHA centres. In the past, due to the small selection group, the small centres always seemed to have a wide range of skill from their top players to their 3rd line. The third line players didn't make it this year and have been replaced with a good group of 89s. Overall making for a more balanced and competive team from centres that never were in the past. It will be interesting to see how these teams stack up against the GTHL teams.

Midget hockey is terrible!

Guelph has at least 3 90s in their lineup.Two imports.If the 90s from out of town are better than the ones in town and the league allows imports, so be it. Guelph will be real good, one of the teams to beat, even if your not on the team.

WHY RESPOND TO THIS GUY? The person who started this thread has been bashing guelph all over the place. Remember you have an IP adress idiot. This is stupid did your son get cut from guelph or something wait don't answer i think I already know.

"Guelph has at least 3 90s in the lineup.Two imports"



So only one '90 from Guelph and the surrounding county made this team???
This must be an amazing team- where did all the 90s go?!!

"Guelph will be real good, one of the teams to beat,"

I know we all think that but our team record will do the talking- good or bad! You need to have a winning season before you talk like that.

"Midget hockey is terrible!"

Come on "J". Midget AAA is much better than it was 5 years ago.

You decided to play elsewhere this year. It's not our fault you decided to have your son play with a lunatic the last couple of years.

Put it this way. Midget IS better than Minor Midget but of course not as good as the OHA. The exact same could probably be said of your sons new league. I am sure there are the extremes as well. There are past 90 AAA players that can not make Midget AAA teams. Likewise there are kids in your sons league that could not make a Midget AAA team that have found spots on teams there.

minor midget is way better than midget hockey if you have not realized yet all the good kids leave after minor midget via draft or tier 2 jrb jr c etc.are minors beat the majors 12-2 and chances are if your still playing in your second year of midget your hockey carrer is coming to an end. sad but true.if midget was so good how come a select few get drafted.wake up

You sound like an uninformed Minor Midget parent.

Ask a Markham Waxer parent what teams they lost to last year. One of their few losses was to a U.S. Midget team, that just happened to be a below 500 8th place team.

I guess Cody Hodgson wanted to play Midget last year because it is easier. The boys are bigger, stronger and smarter. Seems to have worked out well so far for Cody, he is the leading goal scorer for all 1990 OHL players.

The reason you do not see many Midget players drafted is because they do not have to draft them. They can sign them on and play them as free agents without ever drafting them.

half the midget teams cant even get enough players.tell me this would the 90s waxers beat 90 percent of the midget teams last year.yes they would my son has played against the waxers several times in the all ontarios and cody is cody regardless of where he played last year.have watched several games in midget and the product is awfull all the good kids would rather play against better competition and the key word for free free free

Tell me, is it really bliss?

Your opinion is one that all these Minor Midget parents loved to spew. The one & two year age difference is more significant than you could ever imagine.

The fact is the 90 Waxers last year lost to an 8th place below 500 Midget team. There is no shame in that. After all Midget is better than Minor Midget.

Even if as you claim they would beat 90 percent of the midget teams last year that would still be less than they beat of the Minor Midget teams last year.

P.S. Some of the good kids can not play for free free free, because daddys of weaker kids of about 25% of the OHA positions available have assured their kids positions that were not properly earned or legitimate.

the team that beat Waxers last year in the States was Detroit Honey Baked ,the best team in Midget hockey anywhere. get your facts straight, they also in the same trip beat 2 other midget teams.

Speaking of getting your facts straight.

http://www.pointstreak.com/players/players-division-standings.html?divisionid=3566&seasonid=948

tHE FACTS ARE JUST THAT, GUELPH HAS FIVE 1990S ON THE TEAM AND ONLY 4 IMPORTS SO MOVE ON LACY SAME IP AS LAST YRS WINER

At the midget age there definitely should NOT be parent coaches. This way every kid gets a fair crack at the lineup and there arent any predetermined "first line" players. So many times you have quality hockey players getting cut from a team just so the coaches son and his friends can all play together...its unfair and any organization with any sense of decency should know better

True. Terrible was the wrong word. Different? Even compared to some tier 2 MM seemed so strong last year.

there were very few parent coaches in the 90 group since Minor Bantam - hasn't been an issue for about 3 years - you must be referring to the 89's - the 91's in the GTHL are the complete opposite of the 90's when it comes to this issue - its rampant in that group!

89 are better

89's are horrible in this league , the 90's are way better the 89's are just there to fill in the 4th line