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Bret the hitman Hart
Dec 22, 2022 - 5:31PM
Re: Winch

It’s the team one davidians school. I’ll take my 60k and go to an actual school .
Half of Those kids were middle of lineup players where they were. It’s ok you got hoodwinked 😂

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anon
Dec 22, 2022 - 7:41PM
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Bret the hitman Hart
It’s the team one davidians school. I’ll take my 60k and go to an actual school .
Half of Those kids were middle of lineup players where they were. It’s ok you got hoodwinked 😂
I dont have a problem with a hockey academy and you can make the academics work. My issue is this. They have played in one good tournament. How do you sell a 50 or 60k academy and play ****ty competition all year? 14s are ranked 20th and have played VJW 10 x ! NAHA half the price and 70 games a year playing all the MA teams plus Mission, LC. PENNs, CYA, STL etc. Northwood and BK 70 games agaisnt the best teams and schools. That's thr hoodwinked part.

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anon
Dec 23, 2022 - 9:09AM
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anon
Bret the hitman Hart
It’s the team one davidians school. I’ll take my 60k and go to an actual school .
Half of Those kids were middle of lineup players where they were. It’s ok you got hoodwinked 😂
I dont have a problem with a hockey academy and you can make the academics work. My issue is this. They have played in one good tournament. How do you sell a 50 or 60k academy and play ****ty competition all year? 14s are ranked 20th and have played VJW 10 x ! NAHA half the price and 70 games a year playing all the MA teams plus Mission, LC. PENNs, CYA, STL etc. Northwood and BK 70 games agaisnt the best teams and schools. That's thr hoodwinked part.
I would rather my player play local games and balance academics over traveling every weekend for a game.

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anon
Dec 23, 2022 - 10:29AM
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Bret the hitman Hart
It’s the team one davidians school. I’ll take my 60k and go to an actual school .
Half of Those kids were middle of lineup players where they were. It’s ok you got hoodwinked 😂
I dont have a problem with a hockey academy and you can make the academics work. My issue is this. They have played in one good tournament. How do you sell a 50 or 60k academy and play ****ty competition all year? 14s are ranked 20th and have played VJW 10 x ! NAHA half the price and 70 games a year playing all the MA teams plus Mission, LC. PENNs, CYA, STL etc. Northwood and BK 70 games agaisnt the best teams and schools. That\'s thr hoodwinked part.
I would rather my player play local games and balance academics over traveling every weekend for a game.
Do you think the SSM, BK, NAHA or Northwood kids don't balance academics and athletics? That is exactly the problem. Parents don't expect the best when they pay exorbitant amounts of money for an academy. Why in God's name would you send your kid to an academy if you didn't want them playing the best in the country every weekend as well as playing 70 games like the competition is? If you are talking about the Winch proposal what would make them any different then a college traveling or SSM? The kids have to do their work regardless. Most girls going to prep school or an academy have a goal of playing in college. The alternative is conventional club plus prep where the kids spends hours upon hours in the car getting dragged between the two.

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anon
Dec 23, 2022 - 12:56PM
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anon
anon
Bret the hitman Hart
It’s the team one davidians school. I’ll take my 60k and go to an actual school .
Half of Those kids were middle of lineup players where they were. It’s ok you got hoodwinked 😂
I dont have a problem with a hockey academy and you can make the academics work. My issue is this. They have played in one good tournament. How do you sell a 50 or 60k academy and play ****ty competition all year? 14s are ranked 20th and have played VJW 10 x ! NAHA half the price and 70 games a year playing all the MA teams plus Mission, LC. PENNs, CYA, STL etc. Northwood and BK 70 games agaisnt the best teams and schools. That\'s thr hoodwinked part.
I would rather my player play local games and balance academics over traveling every weekend for a game.
You would rather pay 60k to have your kid play VJW every weekend so they can be close to home and stay ahead in their hockey academy studies? Dude, you need help. Sucker born every minute.

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Anon
Dec 23, 2022 - 1:14PM
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anon
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anon
Bret the hitman Hart
It’s the team one davidians school. I’ll take my 60k and go to an actual school .
Half of Those kids were middle of lineup players where they were. It’s ok you got hoodwinked 😂
I dont have a problem with a hockey academy and you can make the academics work. My issue is this. They have played in one good tournament. How do you sell a 50 or 60k academy and play ****ty competition all year? 14s are ranked 20th and have played VJW 10 x ! NAHA half the price and 70 games a year playing all the MA teams plus Mission, LC. PENNs, CYA, STL etc. Northwood and BK 70 games agaisnt the best teams and schools. That\\\'s thr hoodwinked part.
I would rather my player play local games and balance academics over traveling every weekend for a game.
You would rather pay 60k to have your kid play VJW every weekend so they can be close to home and stay ahead in their hockey academy studies? Dude, you need help. Sucker born every minute.
Why not just have the competitive teams in the area (in ma) play against each other more often?

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anon
Dec 22, 2022 - 9:53AM
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It works all the way around. As a player you get to still go to prep school and play NEPSAC teams but also get to travel to the best tournaments and play the top tier 1 teams. As a school, instead of 25 paying customers (1 team) you get 50 paying customers (2 teams) which will more then offset the cost of travel and extra ice. With the growth of academies Im shocked that no local prep school has put this model in play yet.

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anon
Dec 22, 2022 - 12:35PM
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What team (16 or 19) plays in the Prep league or do both? Seems pretty easy for tier 1 games as they are broken up by 16s and 19s but prep is prep. Obviously their 19 team would play a normal prep schedule. Does their 16 team play the same prep schedule and same teams?

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Anon
Dec 23, 2022 - 3:06PM
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Explains why winch recruited every kid under the sun this year.

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anon
Dec 24, 2022 - 12:23PM
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Anon
Explains why winch recruited every kid under the sun this year.
Keep up with the Jones or get left in the dust. Academies and full time teams are the wave of the future. New England is the only ones who don't do it now. Winch was smart.

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anon
Dec 24, 2022 - 2:05PM
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anon
Anon
Explains why winch recruited every kid under the sun this year.
Keep up with the Jones or get left in the dust. Academies and full time teams are the wave of the future. New England is the only ones who don't do it now. Winch was smart.
Cooperalls were also the wave of the future.

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Relax Francis
Dec 28, 2022 - 7:06AM
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I see comments on here comparing the cost of $60k for a traditional prep school versus a hockey academy. The conversation should be what is your perceived value that you are receiving for the $60k. If a family makes a ton of money and $60k spent at either place doesn't hurt them then I would bet they would feel they are getting value for the $60k wether it is a traditional education and good hockey or lower level education (online) but much better hockey competition at an academy. If you see value for money spent you will continue to spend it. Now a family with limited resources or less disposable income may feel spending $60k for online classes and a full schedule is crazy town and they also may feel spending $60k for a prep school is out of question as well. One isn't better than the other but it is the value you feel you are getting. A family with the resources who has a kid who isn't a great student and can't get in to a prep school may choose the academy route because it fits their situation better. A family who values education over hockey may choose the prep school route. One isn't better than the other and to be fair you are not comparing apples to apples they are two completely different options.

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anon
Dec 28, 2022 - 6:19PM
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Relax Francis
I see comments on here comparing the cost of $60k for a traditional prep school versus a hockey academy. The conversation should be what is your perceived value that you are receiving for the $60k. If a family makes a ton of money and $60k spent at either place doesn't hurt them then I would bet they would feel they are getting value for the $60k wether it is a traditional education and good hockey or lower level education (online) but much better hockey competition at an academy. If you see value for money spent you will continue to spend it. Now a family with limited resources or less disposable income may feel spending $60k for online classes and a full schedule is crazy town and they also may feel spending $60k for a prep school is out of question as well. One isn't better than the other but it is the value you feel you are getting. A family with the resources who has a kid who isn't a great student and can't get in to a prep school may choose the academy route because it fits their situation better. A family who values education over hockey may choose the prep school route. One isn't better than the other and to be fair you are not comparing apples to apples they are two completely different options.
Good write up but you got one piece wrong. The majority of these comments were about Lovell. Show me the "much better competition level at the academy " using Lovell as the example. You want to play Nobles, Cushing, Williston or do you want to play VJW 10 x?

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