Any thoughts on the upcoming season??

Huge developmental year for goalies.

Why?

Should be interesting...

why?

what team has the most focused keeper

newmarket/aurora

Saw a few awesome goalies at the Stouffville tournament last spring. Very exciting hockey

A goalie who can't focus will sink a team in a heartbeat.

And a player that has an off game and/or can't focus can be hidden.

Goaltending is not a good position for a kid who has attention problems. His mental lapses won't be noticed as much as a forward.

goaltending is not a good position for psycotic parents. the parents that focus too much and cannot allow the "child" to first have fun, second get past goals against immediately and third understand that they cannot stop everything are sad peices of work.

besides, if your kid is in net, open up the wallets for goalie instruction. if you don't then you are only asking for failure and disappointment for the kid.

oh ya, YS has the best tandem, markham kid is ok but cannot do a season by himself (who could)...barrie hahahahahahahaha

loser

YS goalies are the best tandem in the OMHA & GTHL combined.

Nobody comes close.

How do you know? Have you seen all of them? There are very good goalies in both the OMHA and the GTHL.

I'm assuming you're referring to AAA but what about AA, A, AE

hahahahahahahahaaha

Welland?

In the ETA East for tandems, I like Peterborough and Whitby. Central's goalie was good solo but couldn't go alone (like someone said of the Markham goalies). Put any two of those kids on Clarington and that team are OMHA champs.

not sure about Peterborough, but Whitby's goalies are not AAA material -- AA for one and A for the other (being generous)

Ok 1052 troll. Nice try though.

troll schmole - call it the way I see it - not hard to see if you aren't blind

maybe this is the same troll that is goalie bashing on the Oshawa 98 site

Peterborough

Petes lost their best goalie to Quinte for the coming season. He lives in the Quinte region and only played for Peterborough because Quinte's AAA program does not start until Major Atom. So, Petes tandem will not be as good as last year. Central goalie may have been the best in the Eastern Conference last year? But, as mentioned it was tough for him to go it alone since the team only carried one goalie. Clarington had one decent goalie and one not so good. Whitby had two decent goalies, but neither was top notch. Oshawa struggled in net and everywhere else.

318. We'll see this season but you seem to know quite a bit. Based on your analysis, you are a Clarington goalie parent. There is no way there was one good goalie.

I had heard that the peterborough goalie wasn't much of a loss. Someone said that he was only their back up.

Everyone has a role to fill

Best goalie in the province was Welland's goalie; seen them all last yr.
Mind you, there could still be some late bloomers out there who played
AA,A,or lower. It is hard to tell how good a goalie really is until he faces the top players on a regular basis. Welland goalie proved this last year.

Welland Goalie Dad is a dreamer. This kid is a fast bloomer going in the wrong direction. Needs to see some rubber and requires some investment in goalie instuction. This year he is number 3 or 4 at best in the OMHA.not counting 2 or 3 GTHL goalies who are also ahead of him. Stop pimping your kid. Your back up in Welland has almost caught up.

You saw them all?! C'mon...this must be a pimp job. Tell me, what where the ODMHA and NO goalies like?
Welland must have played like 200 games last year in order to see all of these goalies.

Welland goalie hardly have saw any shots. Welland played great team defense. I would be surprised if the goalie saw 10 shots per game on average.

Best goalie in the province? A statement like that is just plain ridiculous.

Give it up Welland dad. Welland goalie started off very strong in the first couple of years but after playing against him last year in Preston I can see that he has slipped quite a bit. You need to get out and take a look around if you think he is the best. His size is definatley a factor and do not forget he has always had great defense in front of him.

Get the message Welland dad. Pimping your own kid only brings the hounds down on you. If you think he is so good enjoy and keep it to yourself.

At this age, what make's a good goalie?

4:02
Not a clarington parent but I am an ETA parent. I said decent goalie, not good goalie.

They are 10!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

best goalie 98 omha is in Georgetown

Plays for the AE Raiders. Just ask Caledon.

you should get out more.

??? AE is houseleague, He/she might be a good HL goalie.

We're talking AA/AAA here.

St.Catharines had a good dual considering they only had a few players in front of them...

omg, the SC goalie dad is starting again!

boring

well then add some of your own views with more than 1 word

We have good goalies here in the east, too. We are never given credit for that. The Peterborough goalie is now playing in Quinte and the other goalie for Quinte is super, too.

10:16 am, you obviously suffer from the typical "NHL" parent complex. Thinking you are above everyone else and insulting the goalies playing at the AE level. Regardless of the level of play, every 9 or 10 year old develops at their own rate. In my coaching experience, I've watched many kids play at the lower levels for a number of years and than worked themselves up to the higher levels over the years. These kids tend to be the ones who are still playing hockey well into their late teens. A number of kids who are playing a high level of hockey at ages 9 or 10 may be burned out by 13, 14. The kids who truly love the game will prevail. Also, if the goalies aren't investing some time in money into a goalie coach they will definately not be playing rep. hockey down the road.

Well said, 12:25am...I know someone who pulled their kid from rep hockey at age 11 because of a bad coach and their kid played house league for the year. The next year after that the kid wanted to play rep hockey again and didn't look back.

Just play hockey and have fun

There are a lot of good little goalies out there

Not to many dedicated to training though..