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Nowhere near this panic

Totally agree that it’s risk management. ensuring financial liquidity and preventing lawsuits would have been a smart move from the federal govt.

I appreciate your opinion and very much appreciate how you ended your post- such is the way it should be in this great country. Fear and the reactions of people are the greater danger than the pathogen itself. With six degrees of separation, it doesn’t take much to quarantine all of society. Is this virus such a threat that stopping its spread is more important than living our normal lives? I haven’t seen facts that indicate that it is. The simple reality is this virus is here to stay now...it will come every year. We will eventually vaccinate, but it will mutate- just like flu and other Coronaviruses. if society shuts down from natural pathogens- we are at midnight on the doomsday clock.

Do they shut it down if a player gets influenza or measles? They certainly don’t from STIs....

Never a bad idea to be prepared. My grandfathers taught me to live off the land if need be. Fishing tackle, shotgun, rifle, ammo, water purification, sleeping bags, batteries, Matches, some basic medicines- you can live a very long time.

The shutting down of American Institutions like the NCAA tournaments and the NBA send the completely wrong message. It invokes greater fear.

I’m with you on this. I feel like the actions being taken are akin to throwing gasoline on a fire...I understand that people are being cautious of a bad case scenario, but wow. we live in a biological world and we are biological organisms. What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. Not to be callous, but the old and compromised who are vulnerable to Covid19 are also vulnerable to any number of pathogens as well as the extremely deadly fall and broken hip. perspective: 37 deaths in US so far from Covid19...49 deaths per year on average in the US from lightning strikes... I recognize that we are early in the potential exponential growth of this virus, and it could get worse. The common sense approach as opposed to the shut down everything approach seemed like the more rationale management strategy. Politics and risk management (aka lawsuits) seem to be the order of the day rather than common sense. Which is unfortunate. the doomsday scenario with people dying in the halls of hospitals while the lucky get vented seems like science fiction. If I’m wrong, then we’re all in deep !@#$.

The voters that left Pinto off their ballots should be ashamed.

I haven’t watched Washe specifically, but generally speaking it’s about not standing square, keeping your stick slightly above the ice, putting your stick into the red dot, not honoring the attacking player first stick on ice rule, etc.

Every center cheats on the draw...it’s kind of like offensive line holding in the NFL...to what degree

I think they are talking about breaking a PWR tie using RPI, which is what the NCAA uses, per my understanding.

I think I’m with you. Here’s what I have: worcester: UND vs Atlantic Umass vs Clarkson allentown: Mankato vs Maine PSU vs Lowell albany: Cornell vs Michigan BC vs OSU loveland: UMD vs ASU DU vs BSU

I don’t respect Omaha enough to hate them...in fact, I forget they exist until we play them and they cry and act classless.

I misquoted this morning. It’s a swap between OSU and Lowell. So just 10 and 11. stupid time change and posting early...I’m on Pacific time...

I think a little pressure from the league for Omaha to consider a coaching change could do wonders to help their program....

Agree. We didn’t hate Gwoz. We loved to hate on Gwoz. Big difference.

Note, my approach has bracket integrity and host schools trumping (not adding to this morning’s political leanings) geography for #1 seeds.

Looking this morning like you can keep Bracket Integrity with all but a Texas two step with the 13, 14, 15 seeds to avoid intraconference matchups. I’ve got UND in Worcester this morning.

This is why the internet sucks.

It’s the standard tournament classification 1. Elite 2. AAA 3. AA 4. A As I stated earlier, if that’s what you took from my post my point was missed. My reference to my own kid was intended to create an understanding, and frame of reference. In particular, that I am not a sour grapes parent upset that little Johnny isn’t winning, developing or getting ice time. It was intended to add credibility to the broader message. Summation is my kid and I could not be happier with the outcome of the model I describe.

If that’s what you’re taking from that long post, my point was missed...

Oh man- this is a huge debate topic across the hockey world right now. As a former coach and now just the dad of an elite 10U player (Brick player) I’ve been neck deep in it for awhile. My coaching philosophy was always to avoid the labeling of players in 8U and 10U. Obviously there are kids who are naturally (or trained) better hockey players, at young ages, but there are more kids who aren’t but could leapfrog down the road...puberty is the ultimate arbiter and development trajectories are neither linear nor consistently sloped. So, you have to balance things to try and 1. Keep kids in love with the game and having fun and 2. Helping each kid develop to the best of their ability at any given time. At 8U you have some kids working on single skate reverse edge pivots and some learning to stop. In games at 8U we used to make gentleman’s agreements with the other coaches to set lines as A and B and stack line A. We’d then only run A vs A and B vs B. We focused on fun and skill. Lots of small area games, so lots of puck touches for everyone. This approach helped both the advanced players and the less advanced players. 10U things get more complicated, because an advanced 10 year old has likely been skating for 6 (or more) years and been playing hockey for 4 or 5. The difference between the advanced and not is huge. Especially if the game is played on a full 200 foot sheet. Many coaches in this zone start to be corrupted by the allure of taking the best skaters and “stacking”. they start to emphasize winning and can’t resist coaching Full positions and a basic system. They de-emphasize individual skill development and emphasize the team concept. As hockey is the ultimate team game, they cut any weaker skaters to avoid a weak link. The result is big wins and fuels the misguided thinking. On the flip, those who stay the course feel the opposite, as the unstacked, puck touch, skill-focused teams lose repeatedly. Now at 12U and absolutely at 14U the focus should start to move towards the team concept and top kids. 10U is just too young based on the science of physical and cognitive development. I am not an apologist dad upset about losing. I have a kid that playing in this approach has helped to become one of the top 2010s on the continent. As a team, we lose a lot to top Teams in AAA programs in the US and Canada, it sucks, but it is teaching a lot to my kid- about hockey AND life. When we move to a stacked roster and team concept at 12U/14U he will be better prepared with individual skills and creativity and be of the right cognitive age to put it into a team concept and structure. Bottom line is stacking and coaching to win at 10U might fuel some egos, but it won’t help a kid play D1 and it might prevent another kid from playing D1 down the road. All that said, there is nothing wrong with exposure to a little mix. The best players can and probably should play with other top players and get exposed to some team concept stuff- but do that in the spring/summer with a couple tournament teams or camps- not for the regular season.

Are they loading a team or holding birth years together aka a top 2009 team and a top 2010 team at 10UA? The top 2009 team would logically seem stacked as they are bigger, older, and more experienced.

If UND stays #1 and DU #6, they will send us to Allentown not Albany or Loveland. They will not put #1 overall with the #6. That makes sense to no one except for NCHC haters

Ortega is playing in Europe. He was a very good player in the NCHC. 3 straight 20 goal seasons. One of those little guys with a knack for the net.