I think that Affton cs u16 would beat u16 aaa

No way! Didnt you know they are all graduating early and going to play Division 1??? Each and everyone. Cavallini is gonna make it happen! Here we come Michigan!

I think it would be a good game talk with Paul and set it up.

It would be a good game no doubt, just like Jr B against U18.

u16 aaa won't play any other u16 team in st. louis,if it didm't turn out right they would stop drinking the coolaide

didn't you know half that team is going d1

hopefully with diff coaching this years tryouts will be a little better

Both teams are comparable and it would be a pretty good game. That seems about right since the cost of both programs is about the same.

teams played early in the year and blues won 4-3 with 6 players out sick or hurt. Affton is very good but not going to beat u16 blues very often if at all.

yeah, and stl has sick players on their team that are going all the way...Aidan Cavallini

last year afton tied 3-3 their first game of the year against aaa -when aaa had been skating for months,after that aaa would not play anymore.

Last year, AAA and Affton CS played at the end of the season, 2 games. Affton lost the first and tied the second. They didn't have time to play a third because both teams were going to districts.

too close to say who would win.

Parks is the most over-rated player

Parks is a PUSSY only thing he can do is cherry pick its the roller hockey bull shit. But who cares all Pauls boys are going to play D1 college hockey thats why he wont let them play High school. Paul just a heads up your kid sucks and would not make a good AA team so its not int the DNA, GEENS or anything else so quit being a low class piece of trash.

u16 would be a good game affton majors. u16 would kill minors

5:21, i am pretty sure that the Paul's team is like 12th in the country tier 1? sound about right, and i think someone is just a little angry bc he was cut your bender kids year after year....

wow 5:21, your really tough picking on one of the best 92s in the country and picking on fucking Paul Cavalini on n54. Paul would run your show. If you got a beef with them why don't you say it to their face instead of hiding behind your computer screen you fucking pussy

Maybe if Paul didn't hide his boy behind his resume, maybe then.

11:39 you must be one of Pauls but buddies.

what resume?

o you mean NHL all star right? what were you high school hockey player? Don't worry i am sure if your nice he will give you an autograph some time

parks playing has nothing to do with roller,he just isnt as good any more in roller he thinks he is better than he is also

1:58
yeah I am sure thats it...

wasn't parks the kid who like scored 2 goals in the roller hockey national championship game and in ice hockey went to the select festival?

gezz this kid must suck your right pops

Parks didn't really do that?? I know he went to Select Festival for ice but the 2 roller hockey national championship goals??

he got 0 goals in the narch championship-it was a mistake,alex munt scored along with kyle novak.

parks is the best alright, hes too good play with the U18 team cause he turned that down and he also quit cbc hockey so he must be too good to play with anyone but the Cavallini since they are great coaches and all and move so many kids on....too bad the two Cavallini kids can't even skate

10:15
So Parks turned down a spot on u18, yeah I'm sure, who is your source for that?

yeah right hes a little bitch

Confirmed to be true
Yes that is true, I just talked to someone who said it was true

i am pretty sure this forum is all a bunch of pissy kids and parents who obviously got cut from the team and are mad because they are going to nationals... its ok, there is always next year

Gino was justed recently named to the USHL Central scouting staff so his kid will probably play in the USHL someday. This is another tool he will use to recruit players for his team.

i don't see how gino being a ushl scout could be bad... he played in the NHL, knows more about hockey than any other person in st. louis (maybe less than a couple of alums). and whats wrong with him using that as a recruiting tool, he knows more people in hockey than sanderson, behan, hazelton and any other midget coach in the city put together

Thanks for clearing that one up Gino !!

he probably thinks he is more important than he really is. Hockey career is over buddy.

Being part of Central Scouting is no big deal. The main purpose for Central Scouting is to put together lists for the USHL showcases in April. Most of the teams have their own scouting staffs. Central Scouting does not draft players, they just recommend. Gino being part of Central Scouting is a good thing but I doubt it will have any effect on his son playing the in USHL.

I am sure Gino and Paul know alot of people in the hockey world but are they respected ?

i think paul and gino are respected a whole lot more than the josts and jack behan. let us remember that they played in the NHL and if that didn't get the respect already, they were all-stars so that should about seal the deal. i think alot of you parents are just jealous that you still talk about high school hockey and they talk about playing in the NHL.

Thanks Paul !!

March 9 2008, 1:58 PM and March 10 2008, 8:57 AM is Kyle Novak. I know both Parks and Novak very well and I know that Novak would say something like that about Parks on network 54.

bull crap

u dont know eiter one of them well if u think that is true

so why aren't the U16's allowed to play high school hockey?

they couldn't play high school because gino needed them ready for the college visits they went on. i think going to play in front of college coaches is a little more important than high school hockey...but thats just me

hey 10:54, thats not paul, it is a parent disgruntled because you would go so low as to take shots at paul and gino cavallini the pussy way (on n54, say it to their face you puss)

11:01- wouldn't that be up to the kid and his parents to decide? I mean aren't these kids old enough to decide what is important to them and whether or not they can play for their High School team if they work out their schedule with the HS coach?

Why would anybody who coaches a kid at AAA deny that kid the fun of playing for his HS team if that kid really wanted to?

The number of control freaks who also happen to be hockey coaches is astounding.

Before you jump all over me, I think it okay if a coach tells a player at AAA that the AAA team has to be the priority. Most people who play AAA don't need to be told that anyway, which goes to the original question which is why wouldn't a coach want his players to be able to have the fun of playing for his school team?

drink the coolaide in the end hit the books

seems like Paul is the only one who gets it. Either take hockey serioulsy or play HS hockey. Kids have that choice. Why play down to HS?

Because Paul is and asshole

I had a couple conversations with Paul this past season about the U16 team. I think he actually believed the stuff he was saying. We will have to wait a couple years when these kids go to college to se if it was worth it. I personally would not take that leap with my son. I was at the game this winter when SLUH beat CBC at Affton. I wonder who will have the better memories from this past season - the boys who played for SLUH in that game or Joe Cella and Conner Frick who quit to play U16. I wish all of those U16 boys who played for Paul and Gino the best of luck. I would love to see 2 or 3 kids every year get drafted by the NHL. That would probably mean that 10 or 15 would have to be playing D1 or higher hockey each year.

It would be nice but it is not going to happen. Also Pauls kid is not a AAA player. Walters and the bunch all bought into Pauls line of shit.

This is such a stupid topic. What coach would tell his kids this? I guess when they are 6 they might believe this crap, but high school kids? Jeez, are the parents THAT stupid??? I've got a pyramid scam I'd like to talk to them about!

is it the scam that sends all the AAA, CS and Jr.B players to one school and the payoff is 3 or 4 state championships each year?

Not everyone from St. Louis lives to glorify their high school hockey days. College success and life beyond account for a kid's true accomplishments occur. Grow up.

Me thinkith you have drinkith to much Kool aid . I kid does measure his accomplishemnts in high school. A young man maybe in college and a mature man in business/career/family.

Don't steal a kids childhood. I wish my biggest concern was passing a history exam. That is what high school kids think about along with girls and playing high school sports. Maybe if they are elite enough they will have college coaches making them an offer to play a college sport.

Do we really need coaches selling high school freshmen and sophmores they will be offered college scholarships at that age and worse yet parents believing it as well?

College coaches and pro scouts find kids if they are good enough. You need to play and practice at a high level but to play 80 + games and forego your high school expereince is more than a little niave thinking by most of those families.

College on a hockey scholarship is a pipe dream they will have to play JR a for a couple years,to get looked at, by that time they should allready have two years of college. So Paul is selling the kids and the parents a line of crapola. A lot of people spend seven years at college and they are called doctors.

I think the main idea of them not to play high school hockey is not to not have of those o so precious high school memories (who gives a shit if you win the state championship?) the point of not playing in that goon-fest is so the kids do not get hurt and are in top shape for when they play in front of those college and jr scouts. How many scouts were at the state championship game? (zero) How were at games Gino and Paul set up for the kids?(alot).

I fail to see why everyone is bitching about this. Highschool hockey sucks, these kids are serious about hockey and want to play college and hopefully in the NHL. Stop bitching about it.

If they are afraid of getting hurt maybe the little benders should play chess. Lets face it for 99.9 % high school will be the high lite of there hockey life. With all the scouts you say looked at them how many received a sholarsip to a D1 school? oh thats right they are 9th or 10th graders and have 2-3 more years of high school

Get your facts straight. Gino let Cella play for his HS team in the semi's when the u16's had a game on another rink at Chesterfeidl. No one was forced to quit

The Cavalini's think they are in Canada. If we were in the great white North, their way of thinking would be the norm, however the talent pool would probably be much deeper. I like the comment about the memories, nothing is more memorable or fun than playing in front of your peer group whether it be in soccer, hockey or club racquetball. Unfortunately, those kids who were convinced will never get to experience that and it's a shame.

If the kid is good enough, has the right attitude, and receives the right training/coaching he will be found by scouts without his parents having to spend thousands of dollars to get him noticed. The AAA program in this town is a solid program however, is publicized as the best of the best which is simply not the case because the normal induvidual can not afford to have their kid play to the tune of $10000+ per year.

Let the kid be a kid and if he's good enough he will get the opportuites to play elsewhere and further his career.

5:16 I don't see what the problem is, you state that "if a kid is good enough ....... the scouts will find him" then simply choose HS over AAA and he will be found anyway........right?

no scout will ever come to missouri to find players, so your statement is so false... scouts won't even go to central states games or jr b's games

and up in the "great white north" high school hockey is comparable to in minnesota and the scouts come watch them play because the real players there play highschool as well as their aaa teams. here in st. louis however highschool hockey is a joke; there is only 1 line of kids on a team that can actuallly play and the rest are a bunch of benders who don't know what the fuck they are doing.

and for just so you know, alot of kids have scholarships that are in 9th and 10th grade, and i promise you not one of them wasted their time playing highschool hockey (they played where the real hockey is, aaa)

6:08 you are full of shit Paul keep up the good work you have this one fooled

6:08, this is not paul, but if your so fucking smart tell me how you get these kids infront of colleges better than paul and gino.. do you know any one in hockey that matters? do you think the fucking highschool hockey coaches do? Unless you fucking want to play in the beerleauges jost and behan are no good...

please o great poster 6:08 tell me who knows more about hockey and can promote kids better than paul and gino cavallini?

You guys are so retarded, Paul and Gino don't waste their time on this slanderous website

The 8:01 post is an idiot....AAA and Jr. Blues have many players playing in the USHL, D1 and a few cracking the NHL ranks....make all of the dumb comments that you want...the facts are each program has sent kids on to higher levels and both are good for St. Louis....you freakin hater!!

I want some of whatever the Cavellinis are givin these parents. Must be some really good shit! Makes for some good trippin! I guess this is how a cult starts. People believe what they want to believe. Scholarships in 9th and 10th grade?? You have got to be kiddin me. Please do not use the f--- word to reply. It really doesnt make you more believable.

Dont be fooled Paul and Gino are there for one reason and one reason only, and thats to take care of there kids that with out there name and being the coach would not make a AA team much less a AAA team

10:28- prolly the most accurate statement on this thread to date. All the others have their respective position but the conversation is always tainted when dads control the situation and their children are suspect in terms of how they made the team.

Paul and Gino are a disgrace to St. Louis hockey. They should go back to Chicago because they are messing up a great orginization that has moved many players on. Its sad they are ruining players that do have a chance to play at the next level but they are ruining them because their own kids are not good enough. Don't drag other players down because your kids suck.

Paul and Gino go back to the windy city and see how much of your shit they put up with

They are not even coaching the Blues next year. Guess what, they are creating ANOTHER independent AAA team. Does anyone see a pattern?? Why did Gino even come to St Louis? All I hear about is how much better the hockey/recuiting is "up north". Why come to St Louis? maybe "I got nowhere else to go"???

he can't coach his kid next year because the club knew he was doing it to get his kid noticed and finally they said your kid isn't good enough so they kicked him so he goes and forms a aaa tourney team just so his kid is playing aaa. the sad thing is his kid is going to be crushed when college or the real world hits and daddy can't get him on the team. he's setting his kid up for a fall. The other crime is that the kids on his team this year wil probably follow him to the rogue aaa tourney team and leave the blues high and dry.

If the parents follow this looser then they will get what is coming to them.

is a "looser" the oposite of a "tighter"?

YEP

can some answer how paul and gino putting our st. louis boys infront of college scouts and coaches a bad thing?

also how are they "ruining" hockey here in st. louis? wouldn't getting st. louis more attention from scouts be a good thing?

12:48 gino came here because his brother lives here you fucking idiot

YOU ALL ARE A GIANT BUNCH OF PUSSIES. I BET NONE OF YOU WOULD HAVE THE BALLS TO SAY ANY OF THIS STUFF TO PAUL OR GINO. STOP HIDING BEHIND YOUR COMPUTER SCREENS YOU PUSSIES

IF YOU GOT A PROBLEM WHY NOT BRING IT TO GINO OR PAUL INSTEAD OF POSTING IT ON HERE?

Because thats what NETWORK54 is for, sounds to me like you have some but buddie problems, Oh ya I seen both Paul and Gino play and they plyed like PUSSIES so who cares what you think. The facts are what the facts are if you dont like reading the facts I suggest comic books would be more to your liking

haha paul and gino were not pussies, i think your jealous because they lived the dream and your hockey stopped after highschool you bum

HOW QUICKLY YOU SLANDEROUS LOSERS FORGET THAT POSTERS WERE EXPOSED BEFORE ON THIS SITE. WHERE WILL YOU HIDE WHEN IT HAPPENS AGAIN?

they will have no where to hide.
you all tortured jack behan for the things he said but you all are hypocrites because the only thing i see on this forum is a bunch of washed up loser dads bad mouthing the cavallini family and their kids and then the few people who are actually standing up for the cavallini's because they are a great family, and know a sure of alot more than any of you dads

I don't have a problem with the two brothers but why do they hang out with the dude from the Geico caveman commercials?

what guy from the caveman commercials?

your retarded.

no you are retarded

Does someone want to take a stab as to why having 2 Midget Major AAA teams next year is a bad thing for 90/91 birth years and St. Louis hockey?

Simple. The only reason shown so far is to be sure a certain parent, I mean coach, can be sure his kid gets placed on one of them.

Do you have any other reason why this would be good? Besides the usual BS about talent level and exposure. Unless you can state why this is good, most people see why (read above) and don't like the politics involved.

My response is surely selfish, but I think it's a good thing for 90's/91's that want to play competitive hockey before they age out. 2 choices are better than one.

There is enough talent to feild two teams

Here is one problem. WHo will the kid try out with first. IF he trys out for JRB he is done. Noone will want him then. Next which AAA team do you try out with. They will not have tryouts at the same time. If you tryed out for the Cav. team and made it but wanted to also try out with the BLues Sanderson would probably cut you right away. If you got cut by either team would the other still want you. They would be forced to take you like it or not because at that point the talent pool will be way down. The only way it could work is to bring in kids from out of the area. Then you could pull it off.

How come Noone won't want him any more?
Who the heck is Noone?
Is he a AAA coach?

good comeback

If this is the only age level that a second AAA team is being proposed than I see it as nothing more than a parent looking out for his own kid. If this is going to be taken seriously at all it must be for all age levels accross the board. Personally I don't think there is enough talent to field two competative AAA teams in this city.

What ever you do dont say anything negative cause the IP addresses will come out and then what are we going to do. I think Paul and Gino are great guys and both there kids are going into the NHL first round draft pics. Also I think both are great people and have all the players best intrest at heart. :) wink wink cough cough

good luck to every player and coach whatever team you represent in stl

wow 5:44 is a d-bag