Who are the early favourites?
Top 10 last year (no order): Kingston, Caledon, Orangeville , Oakville, Windsor, TNT, Aurora, Burlington,Markham, Pickering

Who moving up & who is sliding?

Caledon lost players to Brampton and Richmond hill, Oakville lost players to GTHL, Orangevilles big guns went to Halton and GTHL. Burlington should be tops in the tri-county.

From Tri-County:
Caledon will probably not repeat.They lost players to G and Brampton. Well coached though
Orangeville only had 2 players and if they're gone they'll be mid pack at best
Oakville and Burlington will be very strong if they keep their teams together
Brampton will fall to bottom of pack

What about Guelph??? We owned Burlington

It is Aurora to lose this year. Not one of their top kids even went out for AAA tryouts.

3 or 4 would have made YSE but they stayed in AA.

TNT same story. No kids left for AAA. 2 kids there are AAA material

Markham picked up 2 new goalies, well needed. One from RH and other an import I think. Lost one mid pack kid to GTHL.

Guelph is a AAA centre, try fielding a team rather than sandbagging down a division.

yse 99 would be last in this division as well

Kingston -any changes?

Brampton to fall to the bottom? What do you know about Brampton please tell.

YSE 99 is an A team now with the same houseleague coach.

Pretty embarrassing when the AA team and Novice AAA team can beat the YSE Minor Atom AAA team.

Embarassing was last year. This year will be even worse and goes well beyond embarassing. 8 players did not come back, left, stayed away.

Pickering 99 AA will be strong. AAA player from RH not only returned to Pickering, but was convinced to play AA--great coach. Also, a returning player could have easily played AAA, but stayed as well. And, goalies keep getting better.

Oakville?

Lost a bunch to the G and AAA - 5-7 along with both goalies

Will likely start slow and come on near the end - A Novice team won OMHA's so good players coming up. Likely not quite as good as last year but pretty close.

Watch out for Milton, they should be strong, Guelph should have a AAA team this year so good luck beating up on Burlington again this year. Georgetown stayed the same but with teams above them getting weaker they could challange.

what about St. Kitts

nice sandy shores, calm waters, friendly natives

Milton, strong? What has changed here?

A couple of Russian twins moved into the area. Both 5'5" 130 lbs and can throw em with either hand. Watch out!

Burlington any changes?

Heard they lost up to 5 to AAA

TC predictions

1-Burlington
2-Oakville
3-Guelph
4-Orangeville
5-Caledon
6-Georgetown
7-Milton
8-Brampton
9-Stoney Creek
10-Ancaster
11-Flamborough

What about St Kitts????

Guelph way to high - They'll have to field a triple team this year so they wont even sniff 3rd

Flamborough way to low - Not a powerhouse, but won't sit in the basement either.

Georgetown will be 4th or so - still good team

YS League

1. Aurora - lost no kids to AAA. 3 or 4 could of made AAA but stayed at home in AA. Definite OMHA favourites.
2. TNT - lost no kids to AAA. Have 2 AAA caliber kids
3. Markham - lost 2 quality kids. Picked up 2 from AAA, 2 new goalies can only help them.
4. Georgina - lost 1 kid to AAA. Not either of their 2 best though.
5. Barrie - still improving
6. Richmond Hill. 6 new kids from A team. Both goalies left, one to Markham, the other went Novice AAA. They will struggle.
7. Newmarket, just a lack of talent here to compete. Lost one goalie and one defencemen to AAA.

Ajax spanked Pickering in the Playoffs last year, but Pickering finished in 2nd in the league.

Pickering lost a good D to the G, and picked up a player from the RH AAA team do to a lack of ice time. That kid will help that Pickering team next season, including 2 players from A that moved up to AA.

As for Ajax, 2 more players from the AA team made the AAA A/P team. This Ajax AA team is in for a long season.

Kingston will win Lakeshore this year again. Plus their association just merged with another association to make it twice as big. This only makes them stronger.

Kinston is adding AAA this year at Minor Atom Level. It will take away their top players from the Ice Cats. They will not be as strong.

Why Brampton so low. They lost some but replaced with good players and kept core.

who above can Brampton beat?

Early Bird tournaments

Who is enterd in which ones.

Richmond Hill, Flamborough, Kawartha's (Peterborough), Mississauga, any others.

Oshawa has made several changes and should improve this year

Brampton took points from all above last year and seems to be the only team that managed to keep core of team.

What about Whitby? Good team and still together?

Of course they are still together. Where are they going to go. It is not like your LOR and there are 25 to 30 AA team to tryout for.

A kid in LOR has a Total of 32 AA teams they can tryout for.
27 in G and 5 in the OMHA.

Clarington will be better, good skating team.

3:05 pm - Whitby lost 3 AA to AAA, and cut 2 AA from the team. Picked up 2 AAA that were cut and 2 from AE (good D player, ? forward player)as well as 1 from Oshawa

Preseaon AA


Aurora (OMHA finalists only got better)
Whitby (lots of depth in numbers)
TNT (1st place YS league with no changes)
Burlington ( lost some to AAA, can only believe kids that wenn tup ae better than the ones that came down)
Pickering ( little changes picked up a couple o good kids)
Oakville ( like Whitby lots of depth in numbers, lost a few to G)
Caledon ( hurt by defections to AAA organisations in G and Brampton, still have talent from AE to replace however))
Clarington ( improving )
Markham (can only get improve with better goaltending)
Orangeville ( biggest drop. They lost some top talent)


What tournaments are these team heading too in September.

Clarington is going to Peterborough

Any of these teams playing as a team in summer tournaments

Kingston may slip now that there is AAA at minor atom

Who let them form Minor Atom AAA team? I don’t want to drive there.

Dont drive. Charter a Bus.

Don't count out Brampton, team looks good.

Is Brampton playing in any summer tournies

nope no tournies in summer

Richmondhill will be the team to beat.

RichmondHill!..is there something here I am missing or is this a joke.

you will see when the season starts

i know

Oakville lost 9 players. 1 to AAA the rest to the GTHL. What happened there?????

Too many rich parents who couldn't handle little junior playing second fiddle to the local AAA's.

That may be the case but, 9???

Oakville will do okay this year but will not repeat as Tri County champs losing this many players. While A team call ups will be good (OMHA's), they'll be average at best in AA. They're well coached so they'll get closer to the top by end of season. Burlington will do well and so will Milton

any chance on seeing thezse teams play over the summer?

Top Teams, Any playing summer tournies.


Aurora (OMHA finalists only got better)
Whitby (lots of depth in numbers)
TNT (1st place YS league with no changes)
Burlington ( lost some to AAA, can only believe kids that wenn tup ae better than the ones that came down)
Pickering ( little changes picked up a couple of good kids)
Oakville ( like Whitby lots of depth in numbers, lost a few to G)
Caledon ( hurt by defections to AAA organisations in G and Brampton, still have talent from AE to replace however))
Clarington ( improving )
Markham (can only get improve with the two new goalies, also pick up kids who opted out of AAA)
Orangeville ( biggest drop. They lost some top talent)


What Tournaments are all these teams entering next year

ok Aurora coach

?

Lost 7. Kids on bubble left because they did not want to play for the bipolar A coach. Not worth the risk so they just left for the G.

what team are you talking about?

Oakville

didn't the A team win the OMHA's?

Yes,despite the coach, too much talent. AA should even be better this year

7 kids from A better? be careful...there's a big talent difference in the AA loop

Oakville 99's are loaded with talent. Earlier thread said 7 players left because they didn't want to go down to A to play for the coach. The point is that they could have been replaced and maybe some would have been sent down to A if they didn't leave. All left to AA teams in the G, that will all be stronger. Know of at least 15 kids, that moved on to the G from Oakville, most AA, some AAA. All were good enough to play for the Rangers, just not enough room, issue's with the bench, or preference, made them choose the G. AAA, AA, A & AE, will win their respective loop hands down.

Could tell you of another dozen that could easily improve any A team in the G as well. Red HL is as good as any select team.

Oakville hockey at this age level will be a juggernaut, all the way up to their minor midget year.

Oshawa - 1st place

Truth about Oakville 99 AA's:
-9 new team members (most left voluntarily), few that remain from last year's team have serious concerns about HC and have considered leaving too
-one of the largest wholesale changes ever heard of in minor hockey...particularly after a very strong season (07/08)
- MOHA strongly considered not giving HC the position this year...main reason he got position again was b/c of an old-boys-club ally on MOHA board
- MOHA realized they made a huge mistake and plans are already being made to replace HC next season (09/10), if not sooner
Kids that left "cut the head coach" for the following reasons...
-HC is very weak with misguided motivations for coaching: supporting his own child and winning
-poor at development, motivation and being objective in player selections
-call-ups from A/houseleague past two years are primarily friends of HC, not ranked in top quartile of A...one new HL player, whose father coaches HC's daughter
-HC's kid is bottom 2 on the team and he is played like top 2 (all key sit's)
- majority of new 99 AAA players are from A team and were not even under consideration by AA HC

omha aa is like a in the west

you mean AAA

Buddy, whatever, you took your kid and left, big deal. Happens every year. Maybe we should just shut down minor hockey cause you don't like a coach. Move on, enjoy the drives to Mississauga or wherever at 530 AM.

aa omha = AAA in G for majority of teams

Not true. Maybe the top O AA team against the bottom G AAA team but there is even a huge difference between the top G AAA teams and the bottom G AAA teams.

11:19

you have no idea what your talking about. Any top A team in the O can beat half the AA teams in the G. We have something called home town hockey.

12:39 - you're nuts. There's a huge difference between top AAA teams in the G and the bottom feeders. Top 8 AA in the O would play at the same or above bottom 8 AAA teams in the G

This is banter and speculation. In all the loops, you can make the same statement, Top A teams in the O can beat the bottom AA in the G. Top A G can beat bottom AA in the O. It goes on and on, with really no way of proving it. The last years OHF's prove that the G had the advantage, when you look at the top teams in each group. Next year the O maybe the team. GTHL AA dad who's son could have played AA in home town, but for the convinence of no am practices, juggling the work schedule and what I perceive to be certain advantages that may only apply to my son and his buddies from town that play with him on the team. We chose the G.

Will the price of gas make me regret my decision, no, will it make me reconsider 09/10 maybe. If he ends up playing in his home town, he'll be the target of some pissed off parent who's kid got demoted to A. I'll be one of the "coach's buddies", who doesn't deserve to be there.

The kids just want to play and really I can't see them wondering if they are better than the teams in the G, never heard that convo the last 2 years. Can't see the kids in the G talking about being better than the O.

Just a bunch of adults arguing about what came first, the chicken or the egg!

How do the Petes and Uxbridge look for next year.They both have some new players.