The skills have 5 stations where kids always touching a puck there is no attention to skating or edgework compare to say BA where there focus is on skating and pucks come after.The way it should be for the younger ones anyway.
If BA is so great, why doesn't every complaining just try to play there? Moreover, I see kids coming from BA that don't skate better than anyone else who does not do skills with them. Not knocking BA, but I think the constant complaints about skills are not fully warranted.