with nationals at chesterfield the defending champs will have a spot at the 09 nationals. they will be returning all 90s and 91s from the national championship team. back to back champs?

The divisions are splitting up next year, all are not at the same rink concerning midgets. Who will be coming for sure?

This is what is on the usahockey website.

Chesterfield, Mo., will be the site of the Tier I and Tier II 16 & Under National Championships from April 1-5 at The Summit Center. The St. Louis AAA Blues will serve as the host for this event.

16 and 18 and the blues are hosting but cfield will still get a host team spot. this year amherst hosted which is a AAA team but suffolk PAL got a host spot for tier 2

I heard Tier 1 18's are in Pittsburgh?

You heard it here, only U16 is in STL and MOHockey is going to have a say in who gets the host spot fo sho!

The Tier II Missouri Hockey Champ gets the host spot, not automatically Cfield. There was a huge debate about this already at MOAM. Obviously the Affton folks had a huge stake in this to make sure the Cfield Mm's didn't have that huge advantage at tryouts.

Kinda blows that whole myth about trying to put together the best team huh? Good to see ole Affton looking out for themselves, again.

you do relize if brian is coaching again there will only be hood rats and one legged blind kids at affton's tryouts so that will kinda help cfield's odds