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Apr 26, 2018 - 9:05PM

Re: Blue Chip Selects.

anon

My son is an 05 and frankly not good enough to be chosen for Blue Chips - however we have played against them many times in the spring. It\'s a very very good hockey team - they play hard and fast and play the game the right way. Although they always beat us by a bunch - it\'s great exposure to top level hockey at that age group and a good barometer to show the type of work needed to get to next level. They also represent New England well at national tourneys - so don\'t bash the team - use it as a barometer for what your kid needs to do to bring his game up a notch.

Great he (MS) cherry picks from the Jr Bruins! They win trophies great!!!!

The skills program have gotten worse. Face the fact!

So please don't promote skills if you are going to change coaches every spring/summer.

Get with the program people.... Skills over games.

Who hurt you?

anon

Apr 27, 2018 - 8:05AM

Re: Blue Chip Selects.

Better blue chip teams remind me of the true Club teams of 25 years ago. There was only a few of them and the true elite kids from a wide geographic area would play on them secondary to their town teams. Now they play on them secondary to their Fed team. Fed and E9 will probably have a handful of Div 1 recruits per league, per age group. These true elite teams of 25 years ago had a handful of Div 1 recruits per team. Just a consequence of too many teams and too many people looking to make a $$$$.

anon

Apr 27, 2018 - 4:53PM

Re: Blue Chip Selects.

anon

Very true. Too many options out there now so it's hard to really get the top kids all together. Bluechip 05 is pretty stacked but a lot of their other years have turned into a bit of a friends & family program so that is another reason why they are not dominating like they once were.

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