Just read a stat that out of 498 D1 college players - only 1 came directly from u18 Tier 1 hockey. 17 came directly from prep schools.

Agree. Good players are everywhere and the PG factor makes prep an alternative to junior hockey. Go watch a game and you tell me if that is the breeding ground for the better players in the college game.

Actually the PG or kids that are 19 or 20 still in prep arent the ones playing D1.

That's due to T1 feeding the USHL with younger players and preps turning out 19 year old / 20 year old freshmen players. A bit of an anomaly in the numbers. My guess is most T1 teams would kill most prep teams regardless of age.

You would guess mostly wrong as most players on these T1 teams are mediocre at best, there is only a couple of good players on each team. You people are ridiculous, all because there is an alternative league for players to come from, it doesn't mean there is a whole new crop of D1 players out there. There is only so many players from New England that will make D1, all these many pathways just dilute the product.

Sorry your kid got cut. 25% of this year's USHL draft picks played T1EHL. Don't be so parochial, Massachusetts is not the center of the universe.

The league is national, and most of the country doesn't have Prep (although more and more players from out of the area are being recruited into Preps). They play in this league (or in the HPHL) before they play USHL, where they play before D1, and before being drafted.

The good news for Townies like you is, you can hate on this league as well as the Preps and the Catholics.

If you only knew

Don't flatter yourself. I don't give a rat's ass. " "

High school is all political. It's all who you know and how much you donate or if daddies coaching.

Sorry your kid is on the 3rd line at your D2 or D3 school. Complete joke. There are 8 graders who can't even play real club team hockey playing varsity for some of these crappy D3 HS teams. Most U14 teams could beat these teams!

Go watch either of these teams and the competition. None of those U18's were cut from their HS teams. Most are public HS kids that actually can play vs. the total public HS kids, even at the D1 level. Hingham, Marshfield, Braintree, Weymouth, Walpole, Norwood, and so on....The best player on those teams would struggle to keep up with the U18 competition on both BA and other T1 Elite league kids. Stick with the facts folks.

Fact. A few of the teams listed above had kids who played U16 in their 2nd year of U16 for BA...none of those kids made the U18 team, all heading back to their HS's. Good players, but not good enough to play at the U18 level of this league.

U16's are even better, usually because the kids can be smaller and faster, better for the good developing players to play with kids who get it vs. playing the garbage 18 year olds who can't catch a pass or stick handle.

Sorry your kid can't make a team in this league. Keep telling yourself it's not good hockey though and Hanover High is a better option for you :) (You know who you are buddy)

This is such an absurd statement. BA U16 team would not stand a chance against many of the prep school teams. The U18 BA team got smoked 7-1 by Selects Academy, which is having a down year and Northwood Prep.

Not really! They are going prep right out of the gate. Look at every prep roster and you will see it is true. In the Boston area you have six very good prep programs that are day schools; Rivers, Thayer, St Sebs, Nobles, Bell Hill & Dexter. This year 5 of 6 have been ranked top 10 in New England and the other in the top 20. Every high end player ( from the area) ends up at these schools as Frosh or at the other boarding schools throughout New England.