I can only assume that some of our hockey L colleagues have not had the
privilege of being exposed to HcokeyUSA which is the hockey equivalent of
Little League in the US (there is also the CAHA in Canada). Hockey USA
conducts national championships at various ages beginning at the Pee Wee
(12/13) level and up. I assure all of you that when it comes to chicanery;
stacking teams; recruiting; great parental fights (with players; coaches;
other parents- we may only rank behind tennis) it is not unusual in the east
for players to travel several hundred miles to play on a youth team where the
competition or coaching is better. Jeremy Roenick lived outside DC and played
for the NJ Rockets (outside NYC) as Bantam on a team that won the nationals.
The Ferraro brothers left their native Long Island as squirts (9/10) to play
for the Phila Little Flyers. (There was litigation that kept that team from
qualifying for further play). Regional league meetings were usually run like a
well orchastrated meeting of the Politboro. All in all- I miss those days as
wacky as they were.
 
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