Minor hockey tryouts (was: How to motivate a novice (or any) player for tryouts?)

[Mr Jiggyfly]

AAHA has it in their rules. Player would not be able to play with the new team. Also have rules about a coach leaving after the season bringing players to his new team.

Ya that’s not how it goes around here, unfortunately. Mid-Am doesn’t require players to get a release.

In fact, the guy who convinced the three kids to leave my daughter’s org was their former Pee Wee coach.

As I said though, it’s not a rampant problem or I highly suspect the orgs around here would put more pressure on MidAm to change the rules.

I’m honestly more frustrated with the MidAm rules around here that there can only be one Tier 1 girls program.

The top Tier 2 program is one of the best in the country and they do a better job developing local girls - but they have to bow to the Tier 1 team with BS agreements and lose some of their best players.

It’s a real roadblock in convincing my daughter to move to girls, because she wants nothing to do with the BS politics of the Tier 1 team.