I'm curious, how do you define "way more"? Although I agree his numbers are a low, outside of the "stacked '08's", how many kids from any given birth year do you think will end up playing DI or DII hockey from New England?

I have stats from a few years ago that says 103 Mass. kids were on D1 rosters. So roughly 25 per birth year for 4 years of college. I dont have any data on D3.

Except that in D1 College hockey (and throughout college hockey)teams aren’t made up of 4 birth years. Most have 6 birth years on their roster. Ranging from 1993’s to 1998, so even at 100 you’re talking 15 or so. For the entire US the odds of playing any level of college hockey is 10%....odds of playing in D1 is 3.2%. I believe in 2017 there were 113 MA D1 players. This ranked 3rd behind MN & MI. There are 61 D1 college hockey teams, so on avg there are less than 2 MA players per D1 team. Lastly, there are quite a few youth “elite” teams in the area that have kids from multiple states...so you’re lucky is 2-3 or so kids per birth year per program in MA will sniff any level of college hockey

There are only a dozen or so DII programs (St. A's, Springhill College, couple others) and, as I was explaining to my kid last night, they mostly play DIII opponents out of conference.

As the previous poster said, I would think 20 - 25 is a pretty good number for DI, could be higher, I'd doubt it's lower. I'm sure there's a way of figuring it out, if someone were really interested.

DII/DIII? That's a lot of schools. 100? More than 100? Totally a a SWAG.

somebody worried their kid might lose his spot?

Great post. I wish people could realize what you are talking about. I have seen it through the years. Good kids on good teams and Dad or Mom has to have them play”up” and they lose their friends and end up on losing teams. Then they hate the sport.

Except, kids progress at different rates. Yes, too many parents leave a good situation too soon. But, sometimes parents and kids get too comfortable when there's more upside that moving up a rung will help to discover.

Every kid is different. What's right for one kid isn't for another. Even within the same family, sometimes.

There are some serious miscalculations being made by both hockey and non hockey parents.. and some bad ethics by managers and owners. Good situations are hard to come by in youth hockey. If you happen to be in one be patient, develope and most important have fun.. hockey when played proper is fun.