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Sylvania is not playing down. They are a B team. The team consists of 1st and 2nd year pee wee players and they are a 3rd picked team.

The Tourney in Ft Wayne is "A" Silver sticks. Anyone have info on the other teams I mentioned - USA Eagles - Irish Rovers (2 different teams)?

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My D's bantam team was eliminated in the quarterfinals by a team from Tampa FL. IIRC I believe they either won or ended up being the runners up in the tournament.

Hey Red Wings Guy,
Was that the Tampa Raiders?

In other posts, you've mentioned that you drove many miles for your Daughter to play hockey, Did she play in Nashville and skate out as a forward?

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My D's bantam team was eliminated in the quarterfinals by a team from Tampa FL. IIRC I believe they either won or ended up being the runners up in the tournament.

Hey Red Wings Guy,
Was that the Tampa Raiders?

In other posts, you've mentioned that you drove many miles for your Daughter to play hockey, Did she play in Nashville and skate out as a forward?

I think it was the Raiders IIRC. I remember it being a very good team as well.

On the boys side (where she played SS) she goaltended for Columbus IN as she kinda got knocked off the Nashville AA Bantam Minor (Southern Flyers) and then the A team (Wild)(combinded with Knoxville kids) because she was playing Girls AAA for post season purposes (as a goalie and forward) out of Indy. None of the coaches wanted to touch a goalie who couldn't play with them when they got eliminated in the affiliate post season tourneys. Not that she would have carried them anyways. It is a team sport.

2 years ago, she did skate as a forward part time for a 19U girls Nashville team that played in a girls developmental league in Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, if that is waht you were referring to.

Columbus was even more miles than playing for Nashville, but it was nice playing for a team that appreciated having her. Great bunch of people. Didn't get to thank them enough.

The USA Eagles are not playing in Fort Wayne, they dropped out, Shaker Hills Raiders 95 A? have taken their place. South Bend Rovers 94 A are playing in the Elite AA division of the Chicago NIHL league, South Bend Rovers 95 A also plays in NIHL in the Silver Division. The team to worry most about is the CYHO Fisherman, from what i have heard its a Christian 'Tournament' team that pulls in kids from all over the Cleveland area to play on their team for tournaments. I heard they have a couple AAA players and one kid that is so good he plays up as a AA Bantam on another team.

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Sylvania is not playing down. They are a B team. The team consists of 1st and 2nd year pee wee players and they are a 3rd picked team.

The Tourney in Ft Wayne is "A" Silver sticks. Anyone have info on the other teams I mentioned - USA Eagles - Irish Rovers (2 different teams)?

I can tell you the fisherman can't skate with the Irish Elite Gold Team or The Indy Gold team.
The fisherman lost a 4 goal lead to the Columbus Flames the Flames have 17 players 13 of which are first year peewee's and 4 Second year players they are a good A team. Where they played at Silver Sticks the Fort wayne A tournament was very even except for The Irish and Indy Gold Elite. If you skate in a AA regular season League you should not be allowed to play A or B Silver Sticks. Silver Sticks is just a organizational Fundraiser the people putting the Regional tournaments together do not care about the level of Competion all they care about is how much money there organization generates. If you take the Irish and Racers out of the A bracket you would have had a very exciting championship with the Columbus Flames and the Shaker Raiders 2 true A teams who earned the right to advance to Canada. Sylvania team when you come from a oranization as large as Sylvania Iny and Southbend you should either play with big dogs or stay on the Porch its not fair to show up and push around the little organization Like Columbus Evansville Fort Wayne bottome line is if you play AA you should not be allowed to drop down and Play A or B but when you play down your team does not improve winning by 6-0 7-0 9-0 what is the fun in winning a tournament like that.. OH Yeah Indy Southbend and Sylvania are just all about makeing there organization look good Compared to Cinncinati Dayton Columbus OH.. after all that the Fort wayne Silver Sticks was a great tournament besides the 2 teams that play down to walk through a tournament but it is just as much the Tournaments fault as the organization who did it..

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OH Yeah Indy Southbend and Sylvania are just all about makeing there organization look good Compared to Cinncinati Dayton Columbus OH.

I dont hardly think so.

Welcome to the world of Silver Sticks...always allows teams to drop down to play.
As for Indy Gold, and some of the others, they play AA buckeye or NIHL Elite/Gold. The reason they don't go AA Silver Sticks in Dayton, is they would end up playing Indy's Central States AA team, or some LCAHL AA Ranked teams and would get smoked. You're right, if you play AA all year, don't play in any A level tournaments, not just Silver Sticks...but you may just have to step up and play stronger teams, they way it should be.

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Welcome to the world of Silver Sticks...always allows teams to drop down to play.

I understand what you are saying to a extent. Some teams will do this every year. But it sounds as if there is some sour grapes from whoever gets there butts handed to them. I keep hearing Sylvania Pee Wee team was playing down in Fort Wayne and that is not true. They are a 3rd picked team. They play in L.C.A.H.L. AA bracket because they HAVE to. They are 2-7 and have only beat the 2 teams that are lower then them. They ARE a "B" team they have every right to play where they did. Sylvania has a pee wee team playying in Dayton so why cannot the "B" team play in the "B" divison??? Should the "B" team play in Dayton against the Sylvania team that was picked ahead of these kids and that were told that they could not play on that team? Hell no..

My wife even got jumped from some Fort Wayne Select wackey lady that accused my sons team of playing down.. And yes they are a "B" team also. They were the 3rd team and only had 1 cut because the BTHL will only allow us to have 8 92's.. We only one 1 game. So just because they beat FWS 11-0 doesnt mean that we were playing down either.