This has to be one of the most disappointing seasons for AP in school history. For the last 6-7 years this team has been a perennial S8 power and given the weak HS field this season, this was their year to finally grab that S8 ring. AP was undefeated 15 games into the season and was ranked Top 5 all season and number 1 at one point. Weak finish at the end of the season put them into a S8 play-in game. Loss to public Marshfield in S8 play-in and bounce to #1 seed in D1N. Bye in 1st round; squeak by a bad SJP team 4-3 in OT and then get eliminated by another public Andover 2-1. This team had plenty of talent to make a deep run into the S8 and certainly should have played for a title in D1. The players don’t respond anymore. Coach needs to graduate along with his kid after this season.

Another case of a parent paying $15k a year for better hockey and better academics and realizing he's getting neither.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ytCEuuW2_A

This is just another parent who's kid is not a favorite and probably got treated like ****. There are plenty of them out there. But I do agree, LF needs to go. He's taken care of his kid. Now time to move on and let the real coach SM take over.

Both LF and SM only cared about their kid. Don't care about any other kids but their own.

There's been a whole lot of shenanigans at AP going back to the little guy era. Everyone looks the other way. I agree. Time to clean house.

Maybe the fact that all of the superstars leave for greener pastures. Converting forwards to D in high school is not an easy task. This team overachieved all year.

You had a player on the team a couple years ago right? I remember you! You would always post when the kid was on JV how they were going to be so dominate once your kid made varsity. Where is he playing now?

My kid played 3 years of varsity and he got plenty of ice. I saw a whole lot of BS with that team. Too bad really. If coached properly, AP could have won 1 or 2 state titles over the past 7-8 years.

I watched ap a lot this year and no question they had all the talent. But LF doesn't know what to do and he is blind. He cut kids down i could see. Always screaming and yelling like a maniac. Multiple times his son made very low hockey IQ decisions and it costed them big time. But he still plays the whole game because he is Gretzky. Hearing a lot of underclassmen are leaving again

That type of crap has been going on at AP for years. My son played at AP years ago. I remember the asst coaches kid made the team as a freshman 8th d-man. There were 3-4 kids that were better that got cut to make room for him. Then when the little grandpa came in and started throwing the $$'s around, his grandson and all his buddys played WAY more than they should have as underclassmen. Some of those kids still left AP as Jrs/Srs. Just goes to show what the favorites thought of LF too. Even with all the $$ the little guy spent on that team, I always wondered how much LF got personally? Must have been at least 5 figures. Little guy was loaded. Sad thing is the AP admin knew what was going on and looked the other way. No wonder AP has such bad karma.

Plain and simple LF needs to go

Just heard over the weekend about AP's Prep "transfer." Give the facts, not sure how the kid got the opportunity to play in a "a Catholic, coeducational, independent school in the Augustinian tradition that strives to prepare its students for success in higher education and in their adult lives, for leadership in a diverse democracy, and for lives of service to others in the spirit of Jesus Christ."

Maybe the Headmaster should be playing closer attention to what the AD and coach are doing?

Lawrence Academy kid?

Yeah they were the reason why they were somewhat relevant because in pre-season AP was wicked low. Not sure what happened with the Lawrence kid.

Yeah I believe so

Winch kid did in the summer. LA kid came half way through the year.

The game has passed the coach by. He has also learned from a Club coach how to berate as many players as possible, which is too bad.