Anybody with any knowledge of what Ft. Wayne Komets and\or River Rats intend to do this coming season? will they have BTHL teams, or not? at what levels?
what about Gilmour? website shows them as a potential team - what does anybody know about this program?
those with any info please share!
Posts: 68 | Location: cincy | Registered: June 23, 2004
I assume they skate out of a very nice 2 sheet facility at Gilmour Academy east of Cleveland (near Mentor). I don;t think my son has ever played a Gilmour team, he has played at the facility the past 3-4 years at the end of the year Mentor Tournament. My guess is that they would field a well coached team. However, it would stretch the league into Cleveland (which is both good news and bad news).
Posts: 86 | Location: Ohio | Registered: May 23, 2005
The team listed as "Gilmore" is actually the North Coast Kings. they are a U18 Midget AA team. They are a year round Midget team.
With Cleveland being almost all High School players now, they have no league to play in as CSHL no longer has a midget division. Competition wise they will fit in very well with the other Buckeye Midget AA teams.
Likely teams for this coming years Midget AA division will be Cincinnati, N. KY, Athens, Columbus, Newark, Dayton and now North Coast.
This actually makes an ideal division with each team playing the other teams 4 times (2 home, 2 away) for a total of 24 games (the league max)
Youngstown also has a year round Midget AA team. They played out of Pittsburgh area last year.
