Any predictions.

cant see ljk losing any games

No point in playing fc A with no split, might as well play md and have a chance of winning.

Huskies will do well

yea they will

No they won't.

New name how can they miss.

For those of us just getting home from work what team changed it name to the huskies?

Hamilton lol

Heard rumors of a West London / Bandit merge for the 97 division with the west coaches from last year. Anyone hear about this?

Cambridge hawks will defend their title.

LJK will take it in a walk

Team has no track record how do you figure LJK in a walk

It's an all star London A team so they will. You heard it here first

They said Cambridge hawks wouldn't make the A finals either and ended up at the OHFs in AA.
Cambridge has almost all returning players and will defend the title.

Do they still have that non resident player?
Cheaters

Waterloo AA will have a very short bench most will play MD since no A team is around

Both head coaches kid are playing MD next year were they belong............including the non res kid

London has a good team skilled up front and solid on D, they should be a top team this year

solid on D?? you have no idea what you are in for with a couple of them.

What do you mean by Waterloo AA will be short because there is no A team around? do you mean there is no black team?

Waterloo will have only one AA team and an MD team....many players are not to thrilled to play for AA coach as he coached Gold last year

What happened to gold ? They were dominant in the first half and then it seemed like they imploded.

Stratford will be strong

ya right

Sorry stratford no A loop to sandbag this year. Its funny how it happens at every age group

LJK should be strong.

Stratford WILL be strong

Stratford will have the same core back. This group got stronger as the season progressed last year and should continue to get stronger. Same coach as last years MM team. He had that group over achieving. The sky is the limit as he now has some srious talent to work with.

ljk will not be as strong as some think. It may be a FC a/aa all star team but not a lot of talent evident in FC A in this age group last year. Some hard workers but few if any players with any polish.

Stratford should be middle of the pack, if your core stays together. You will still have to plow through KW, Waterloo, Cambridge, Sarnia, St. Thomas and the big question mark the LJK's.
Looking at last years playoffs it looked like you had a tough time getting past Oakridge (arguably one of the worst teams in FC). I would not underestimate anybody this year including and maybe especially the the kids from London FC makinf up the LJK. They also picked up some AAA kids and the best tender in the league from Strathroy.

Don't forget Hamiltion

Hamilton is a joke, who are you trying to kid.

Heard LJK picked up some former AAA's and brought in a few imports (incl the Strathroy tender). This team should compete.

Who are the former AAA players for this team?

st thomas ?

LM, CM and the imports

Huskies all the way

Anybody else heard they maybe reintroducing the split again.

The 96 Bandits proved last season that FC teams can compete at the AA level ... And compete they did by winning the League and Playoffs. At the minor Midget level the type of hockey gets tighter such that any team can win on any given night and the split happening in the playoffs WILL improve all teams during the season and all teams will adapt to playing against better teams.

An early split will only lower the level of play for the A side .... Trust me nobody thought the 96 Bandits had a chance last season.

there were only two teams in JLK. The 96 Bandits team was NOT a surprise they had 11 players in total from the JLK. No FC Team will compete now that JLK is back to 3 teams. parents get a grip

Not even close to being like it was last year with only two teams and your right FC teams do not have a chance this year.

Hence that is why the need the split for those team. Also to give Stratford some where to sandbag and feel good about themselves.

Anyone hold spring tryouts or are they all in the fall?

I think Waterloo and KW are holding Spring tryouts.

waterloo kit cambridge all in august and stratford

im predicting stratford to be the cambridge of this season. the team will be very strong.

Cambridge will destroy you again this year.

of coarse cambridge will again because you executive has screwed everything up again by picking a moron AAA coach for this year, so you will again have AAA players playing in a AA loop

Sorry Cambridge but you will be far from the top. You have lost Both your goalies- 1 to AAA and one has quit hockey. Lost 2 defencemen, again 1 to AAA and one quit. Without your goalies you are done.

Only 1 goalie made AAA. Everyone else cut early on.

And only one def gone. So minus 1def and 1goalie. Everyone else will be back. So look out league, he we come again......

the hawks are going all the way. they are all coming back but 2 players a goalie and a D so they watch out hawks are coming out fast and hungry for the title again

If you lost your bigger goalie cambridge, (which I am assuming is the case if one went to AAA) you wont win like you did last year. you didnt outplay us, we just couldnt beat your goalie.

Huskies all the way!

out the door

Sorry about your luck but our bigger goalie is back. He was released from aaa.

The bigger one was the better one though??

Yes and his dad lives on this site, so thanks daddy.

"Huskies all the way!"

Ha! Ha! Ha! Single A at best. Go back to sleep.

Cambridge had a cheater of a coach and he played his midget son to much - looking forward to him going to MD or less
Carma is a bitch

I wouldn't know beacuse I dont know her.

Sounds like 235 son wasnt good enough to be on a AA Championship team.. Poor guy.

hey everyone lets smoke some crack you are an asshole!!!!!

my son played on that team, and is on AAA now - coach was a cheater period

Ex Cambridge Coach is on here again pissing in the wind....poor guy not smart enough to realize which way the wind is blowing and that the piss always ends back on his face.

I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast

You are what you eat LMFAO

You eat pieces of shit for breakfast????

Now you and Shooter McGavin eat pieces of shit for breakfast lol

Who takes this age group?
Waterloo, Cambridge, Stratford, LJK?

Won't be Cambridge or stratford. Cambridge will be back to its ways of old- battling to make AA. Stratford may have got an infusion of players but needs a goalie. My pick will be Waterloo if they don't implode at christmas again.

dont worry Stratford has a goalie.

I'll take the wild card - LJK.

who is the shit eater? What does he eat for dinner?

I'll take the wild card LJK too. There are a few good ex AAA players on this squad and the the back end is solid on defense and in the nets. Forwards may take a while, but a few games together i see this team being a solid contender.

Best to Last

LJK
Cambridge
Waterloo
Kitchener
Sarnia
Bandits
Brantford
Woodstock
Stratford
Oakridge
N London
West London

Ah no

Waterloo
Sarnia
Kitchener
Ljk
Stratford
Cambridge

And the rest will jugle under 500

Waterloo & Kitchener battle it out for #1, but LJK may be the "dark horse".

Hamilton will be top 5 new name new coach.

Cambridge
ljk
waterloo
sarnia
Stratford
Kitchener
Hamilton
oakridge
bandits
brantford
north London
west London
Woodstock

Cambridge best player from last year aaa in another city

"Hamilton will be top 5 new name new coach."
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha. That's funny....when are you appearing at yuk yuks.
Hamilton will be in no way shape or form anywhere near AA this year. Lost good players and replaced them with mid range hub players. A very long year ahead of you.

Dont worry about the LJK their coach has lost interest in the team.
They will not be in the top 5.

Beg to differ LJK coach is dedicated to his team and they will compete.

1 cambridge
2 knights
3 waterloo
4 kitchener
5 hamilton
6 sarnia
7 brantford
8 bandits
9 north london
10 stratford
11 oakridge
12 west london
13 woodstock

Cambridge lost best player too aaa in another city. Get some new glasses ph. In top 10 but not best. Cambridge will not be as good this year. Lost to many defenseman and none good enough to come up.

But you wish your kid made the team though

last year Cambridge coach will be in MD - where he belongs with others

How many cuts were made, movement,on each team???

1 knights
2 cambridge
3 waterloo
4 kitchener
5 sarnia
6 hamilton
7 brantford
8 bandits
9 north london
10 stratford
11 oakridge
12 west london
13 woodstock

where did stratford find a goalie

Stratford has a goalie coming back from AAA

even with a better goalie, stratford will be hard pressed to finish top 10

Stratford finished one point out of AA last year and easily won A. They will be in the top half of the league.

that was last year, this team will struggle

Why will they struglle? Give some reasons

I doulbt they will struggle, but nobody shold hang their hat on a AAA goalie coming back. Most teams have quality tending at this age. Sarnia has a ex AAA tender, so does London and I think Waterloo does as well.

this site is filled with viruses get out while you can.

any exhibition games yet?

Cambridge 6 Acanster 0

Excuse me, but where is ^^^^^^^^????
Acanster

How did the hawks ljks game go

blow-out

yea?

5-1

stronger front end...or weaker back end

I would say one team was way stronger on both ends

which team?

3:20. It doesnt matter they suck anyway

5-1 for who?

LJK

thanks

Don't organize the parade just yet...lol.

Actually it was a pretty poor game on both sides. Hence both have lots of work do due. London was bigger, both teams D skated like they were in sand. If this is an indication of what is to come, AA will be wide open.

7:32 both teams D skated like they were in sand?
Wasn't the score 5-1?
One team's D may have been slightly stronger with a score like that. Word has it LJK out chanced and out shot Cambridge handily and LJK took 8-9 penalties.

Cambridge tryouts on till next week. How many kids from last year were sitting.

3-4 sitting. Final cuts this weekend.

Is the big dork head coach from last year still running the team? (Cumbridge)

Heard LJK was missing 2-3 players also.

Big load month dork for a coach is gone thank good

nice grammer

Cambridge no wat his said, useguys nede to git sum edgikashun

it's grammar stupid

Like him or hate him, Cambridge won't win the title without their coach from last year. He is golden where ever he coaches.

thanks for the input coach

Golden shower maybe - he is an ego maniac with issues

Is there any other kind. How did the game go today?

4 4 London scored in the last 10 sec with 6 skaters

LJK was that your ex AAA tender, that you have been on about???

I hope not.

yes it was, and the kid did well since he has been bed ridden for over two weeks with a diagnosed disease. Actually he looked very good considering.
Second skate since his set back and he was maybe 50% at best today.
But you didn't know, thats why you made a negative comment....

Daddy on here defending his kid

when does the season start?

As in the past RM lives on these sites. Hope the other goalie parents have thick skin. He will go from defending his AAA goalie to running the other goalie down. Have fun with this guy.

who is rm

are there more AA/A exh games lined up...all teams picked?

If the kid is that sick why would they bring him, move on everyone has a bad game.

London outshoots us 37-19 but only manages a last minute tie.
As mentioned above your tending was off and only a couple of strong D.
1 F strong but has to lose the attitude.
See you in a month or so for a re-match, when the games count.

As a LJK parent i was at todays game and yes our tender was off and so was most of our team, Cambridge played well and yes we will see you again soon.

As a Cambridge parent I was at game today. What a bunch of cheap shot team you have. Keep it clean and play hockey you will be a better team then. As for #9 he's a very good player but all he does is chirp the other team every single time he's on the ice. He even skates over and chirps the bench and coaches. What a disgrace. Parents should be proud.

Your coaches were chirping him too.

Yes they were telling him to go to his own bench. But good one mom you should be proud of junior. Better hope him acting like that all year doesn't get him hurt. There is bigger and badder in this league.

As a London parent reading the posts on the two games, it looks like all assesments for the most part seem reasonable. We do need to loose the attitude out there. The only possible reason I see for it is some of these kids have taking a physical sh.. kicking while on their FC teams at the hands of the some of the AA teams in the loop so they are feeling a little too full of themselves at this point as now they should be able to compete. It does have to change. Not making excusses for the behaviour, just what I think.
As far as number 9, his parents are reasonable people and I am sure he has been told, if the coaches have not already.
My big concern is if our tender was really that sick, what was he doing there and has anybody told the coach and the guy who looks after the water bottles? That is just irresponsible if he was still too ill to play now we can all be sick.

8:14

Relax, I am also a London parent and the goaltender in question is fine. I spoke to his father yesterday and he said he was fine maby not 100% but he is fine. And as far as water bottles, he has his own.
This is network 54 dont believe 99% of the crap that is posted here, because if you do and it concerns you, stay off of it.

How did the Stratford LJK game go today?

6-3 for ljk but stratford outshot them 45-30

Looks like London has very little in the way of defence from what we saw today. Their offence seems solid enough so is their tending. They are a big team but not as large as we were lead to believe.

From what I saw today, LJK has 2 strong D. Rest of D need work.
I assume not all players were dressed today.

No they were not all dress, and pretty accurate.

Stratford is a significantly better team than last year. Should give anyone in the top half of the league a real run for their money.

LJK's goalie ( Left handed ) very good goalie, probaly the best in the league.
LJK very good team, very quick.

Stratford's 1st goalie played well. In talking to some parents, Stratford had 80% of there team playing.

These 2 teams will battle all year long

thanks for the goalie scouting....dad

Not sure if that is goalie dad or not but that kid has always given us trouble in Waterloo.

Not sure if that is goalie dad or not????? LOL
The kid played well, but it's only one game dad!!!

Woodstock fold?

Woodstock 97 A/AA no team.

RR you have to stay off this thing! Every LJK goalie post on here is reflected back to you son.
It is AA hockey let it die..........no one is going to the O

My kid is going? WTF

No Woodstock Team ??? where did some of the players go ?

who cares, your kids are A in minor midget they are not going anywhere, wake up

some in Stratford and Brantford

Does anyone have a really strong team out there

WOLVES

Honestly thru and thru no weak d or weak forwards or goalies

I think the best teams will be the one with the least changes

They haven't even had tryouts, how the hell do you figure that?

London if you are looking for a trade. We will take 8 9 10 17 and 30 from your team.
Kitchener Fan

How did the game tonight?

5-0 London.

AAA dad dont worry your kid will not get drafted either

11:36 Not a chance. That is our team.

wow..nice supporter of the kids/teammates

Anymore games this week?

Who really cares about this topic? It's just AA.

Ahhh their parents / families?

the dog cares

One thing to remember doe head bottom 5 AAA are easely switch with top 5 AA

Add to that the AA team may actually have better players than AAA....but parents either don't care to spend ( or have) as much $ == or they aren't complete ass sucker uppers to have that third "A" added to a jacket!

8/29/12 6:43
Who cares about AAA either, at this point the top 4 to 5 kids on gold might/should get drafted into the O, as to whether anything becomes of it is a long shot. Not too many kids from the Knights organization making a living in the NHL or making a real living from hockey related businesses. As for the rest of gold and green, get a reality check, it will come down to how smart your kid is and his work effort in school and beyond that defines the kid into the man. Most the people I know today are difind on personality and accomplishement, not on what level of hockey they played when they were 15. Get a life and help your kids get a better life than you appear to be having.

10:38

Well said!!!

Knob gobbler

LJK 7 Stratford 3

Was that London's AAA tender tonight?

ya

Ljk is a bunch of goons

Whats the obsession of the LJK's ex AAA tender? Is he that good, seen him mentioned a few times on here.

Seen both LJK tenders and both are strong.

Would also submit both tender's parents spend some time on here.

Interesting point 7:33
But if you saw both tenders play and submit that both tenders parents are always on here, then that means you are always here too right? Perhaps a parent on our team? but how would I know right?
Would love to put a face to you're post too, but guess what? I can't
So don't accuse other people or assume they are posting on here, because you can't put a face to these posts either.

Deep.

history has shown that it seems 733 has been mocking both tenders on here for a while possibly a parent of a goalie who was cut-- move on go make up a fc thread

Was 7:33 "mocking" both tenders?

8:13
This is a good team good kids and parents, their are shit disturbers all over this place.

Not a fan of mocking tenders. I prefer chicken tenders.

best of both worlds here -- "mock chicken"

London go to your LJK 97AA thread.
Thank you.

what happened to that weirdo who stalked all the games and gave us his weekly report

I'm back! Who are you calling a weirdo?

Give us your predictions than you superfreak.......

Just kidding. I am NOT CB. No predictions here. I will leave it to the teams to speak for themselves. I'm just along for the ride.

Where is cb maybe his son made the big show

Or has quit hockey. Is the age you see more and more of this.

...or facing charges for stalking all last seasons 97 teams in depth! lol

Huskies will be good this year

"Huskies will be good this year"

Huskies lost on Wed to a team that was ranked 79th last year. Yup, sounds like you will be good this year.

what's everyones record in the preseason?

Does it matter?

everyone is undefeated and scouts are swarming A hockey.

Fuck off with the snide comments about "A" hockey. My point being most pre-season games involve many kids not on the final roster, so what does it matter?

Most teams already have their final roster as their tryouts were at the end of last season. Only a few teams wait until Sept.

and......... preseason records????? is anyone blowing anyone out of the water.

Not so far. Although at this level I would not expect a lot of blow outs. I think the two big unknowns at this point have to be Waterloo and Sarnia. Looks like Stratford, London and Cambridge appear to be the teams' to watch. Should be a fun year for all the teams as this is the kids last fling at this level of hockey.
Does anyone know what is happening to the London FC teams, we have been told they may just play within the MD loop.

If you are a team that was picked at the end of last year and your not doing so well against low ranked teams that may still be looking for players. You're in for a long year.

oakridge,west and bandits have dropped to md with bandits having two teams

oakridge,west and bandits have dropped to md with bandits having two teams

So what team's are you referring too..

Picking your team in the spring is unwise at this age. 4 months is a lot of time for these guys to grow and mature.

Picking your team in the spring is unwise at this age. 4 months is a lot of time for these guys to grow and mature.

So all AAA teams have it wrong doing tryouts in the spring?

Give your head shake.

Well, if that what AAA does it MUST be right.

7:13 is funny. Do you actually think four months will teach your kid the skating, hockey sense, and ability to read the game? You are a dreamer. Top kids by Minor Midget have what it takes to make the next step and if they don't they don't be it spring or fall tryouts. If they didn't have the above to make bottom line of AAA stop wasting your energy and just enjoy your son playing wherever he plays!!!

Sarnia has new coaches and some of its top players are gone. Not the same team as the last couple of seasons. They will fall to probably the top of the A division or lower

There won't likely be an A division with only 9 teams in the A/AA

September 10 2012, 8:05 PM - Really, wow, one kid growing 5 inches and gaining 20lbs of weight is of no importance over the spring/summer? Your a wack. The only reason AAA picks in the spring, is so they can meet all god damn spring and summer and never give it a rest, trying to get the competitive edge. If all the kids in high school are smoking weed, it must be a good idea. Goof. AAA is nothing that special and besides there are plenty of kids good enough to play there, just not enough spots. They don't pick 53 players per team like f**ckin football.

September 10 2012, 8:05 PM ?????

You a fortune teller?? it is only 3:20pm now

^^^what is that???

Can't understand that post.

its September 11, you jerk. Maybe 9/11 is easier 4 u 2 understand

That is a very angry person. Whose kid I guess got cut and whose kid grew the same as all the other kids but put on twenty pounds over the summer eating cookies and ice cream while playing "NHL" on the X Box.

no wrong, eating chicken wings and drinking beer, just like your fat A$$.

2:59 is stuck in the 80's, if someone is bigger and ways 20 pounds more he must be a better player. I will take the kid that has no fear regardless of his weight, great hands and hockey sense to make big turds look silly. Dennis Savard, Theo Fleury, Wayne Gretzky.....should I go on. Wayne Gretzky was a stick in his first year of junior and wasn't even the best skater of his time.

Bigger is still better. .. sure there are exceptional exceptions -- BUT --take tennis. The top 15 in the world only 2 are under 6' tall. 13 are 6' or over and of them 5 are over 6'3". Of the Anaheim Angels baseball roster ( first team I pulled up ) -- only 5 players on their 40 man roster are under 6' tall. Thats FIVE out of FORTY
Of the 30 players on the LA. Kings roster only 7 are under 6' tall. == that's SEVEN of THIRTY Bottom line.... Bigger is better!

The Blackhawks only have 2

Bigger is better if they have the skill and hockey sense. I'd take a smaller player with skill over a mobile pylon any day.

That was my point, bigger is better if they have the skill no doubt. If a kid had the skill in the spring he would make the team even if he was a few inches and pounds short of the bottom 3rd line player.

I've seen small kids with heart and skill and large kids with skill but no guts to go into the corners. When it came to critical situations the coach put the smaller kid on the ice because the larger kid would only go for a Sunday skate and be of no real use out there. Hockey is no longer a cement head type game but more of a finesse game where skill and speed are needed. Big kids usually get skated around because they can't transition fast enough..and I've seen that happen many a time.

bigger is better, remember what happened to Theo???? I bet if he had a bit more size he may have not ended up having to write a book about something not so nice.

The only time 11:25 argument holds up is at the younger age groups or lower caliber levels. ( Of any sport ) By the time the kids get older and/or progress their way up the levels, the "pylons" have been weeded out and only decent bigger players remain. If a 5"8 kid has a skill rating of a 100 and a 6'3" player has a skill rating of 85 ( arbitrary "rating" score ) then almost every coach on the planet will choose the second player.

i agree completely. if you think a kid stops learning or getting better at the game at age 15 you are nuts.

11:54

You sir, are a moron. Size has nothing to do with that, just ask Mr. Kennedy. Ftard.

nice comment, you jerk