Went to E9 tryouts for 05 & 06, numbers were the same or greater than last year.

Same here - 05's might have been very slightly down and 06's were slightly up

The E9 program my child in is down significantly. (mid level)

E9 Squirt last night (good program) numbers are up significantly from what I saw last year.

Are 07 valley warriors making moves. Are players staying or leaving. Tough season it looks like. Asking for a friend

Asking for a friend, his name is Fred Flintstone, he doesn't have a computer. Sorry your friend got cut from technology.

Team is run by nucklehead parents stay away.

Said the guy who can't spell knucklehead...

Grammar police aside the fact remains the same

Said the guy that doesn't know the difference between spelling and grammar.

I'm generally not a d*uche about this stuff. Only when a guy knocks someone for being a knucklehead and in doing so proves himself to be a knucklehead. The post loses all credibility when you misspell the key word. Like we're supposed to believe that this guy is capable of telling us who is and is not a knucklehead.

(sorry for the snide open, I couldn't resist)

That's not grammar, it's spelling.

Play them often and would have to agree with OP

On the whole, E9 tryout numbers have been anemic.

Too many teams not enough bodies to go around. Youth hockey at its breaking point.

How do you know the numbers have been anemic? That seems to be supported, and contradicted, by some posts above by people that have been there. I don't have any insight on it, just curious as to what you're basing your comment on.

You want a spreadsheet or a link to the cloud based solution with all the data? This is the D-board fella. I am commenting on what I have seen and what I have been told. There are lots of people in the hockey world who talk.

So you're basing your analysis on a sample of 10, maybe 15, teams? Out of hundreds across Massachusetts and New England. Cool story bro.

And if people in "the hockey world" said something, take it as gospel.