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Anon
Aug 11, 2017 - 12:11PM
Re: E9/BHL teams

anon
aanon
The only quantitative data available (myhockeyrankings.com). Commence debating the formula, but this is the 07 group from last year (top 20 in NE).

Note the actual presence of both E9, EHF-E, and EHF-T1 teams.

Team League Record Rating
Middlesex Islanders (Elite) 07 AAA EHF (Elite) 07 AAA 67-0-1 95.12
Minuteman Flames (Elite) 07 AAA EHF (Elite) 07 AAA 42-13-6 92.17
Mid-Fairfield Jr Rangers 07 AAA EHF (Elite) 07 AAA 36-14-5 91.42
Boston Advantage (Elite) 07 AAA E9HL 07 AAA 41-5-0 91.38
Boston Jr Eagles (Elite) 07 AAA EHF (Elite) 07 AAA 39-14-5 91.18
Boston Jr Terriers (Elite) 07 AAA EHF (Elite) 07 AAA 32-13-5 90.90
East Coast Wizards (Elite) 07 AAA E9HL 07 AAA 30-14-4 90.05
South Shore Kings (Elite) 07 AAA EHF (Elite) 07 AAA 17-32-7 88.94
Assabet Valley Patriots (Elite) 07 AAA E9HL 07 AAA 21-18-7 88.89
New England Jr Falcons (Elite) 07 AAA EHF (Elite) 07 AAA 18-30-2 88.21
Lovell Knights (Elite) 07 AAA E9HL 07 AAA 17-17-4 88.05
Middlesex Islanders (T1) 07 AAA EHF (T1-Black) 07 AAA 53-9-2 87.63
Providence Capitals (Elite) 07 AAA EHF (Elite) 07 AAA 15-34-7 87.61
Seacoast Spartans (Elite) 07 AAA E9HL 07 AAA 24-26-5 87.42
Rhode Island Saints 07 AAA E9HL 07 AAA 14-18-5 87.18
Boston Bandits (Elite) 07 AAA EHF (Elite) 07 AAA 8-30-3 87.17
Connecticut Jr Rangers (Black) 07 AAA EHF (T1-Black) 07 AAA 55-12-2 87.11
Valley Jr Warriors (Elite) 07 AAA E9HL 07 AAA 14-19-9 87.03
Top Gun (Elite) 07 AAA EHF (Elite) 07 AAA 5-31-2 86.95

Take out the Islanders and the top half of that list is essentially interchangable. Slight edge to EHF as previously noted, but not enough difference to have an impact on your player's development, which is actually the objective of youth hockey. I think you'd find a similar trend in most birth years.
That comment makes too much sense to fly around here.

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Boss Man
Aug 11, 2017 - 2:09PM
Re: E9/BHL teams

Think the statement above is about right that most of the top 10 '07 teams, except for the Islanders, are interchangeable. Generally speaking though the difference is the bottom half of the EHF is better than the better half of E9.

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Anon
Aug 11, 2017 - 2:26PM
Re: E9/BHL teams

Boss Man
Think the statement above is about right that most of the top 10 '07 teams, except for the Islanders, are interchangeable. Generally speaking though the difference is the bottom half of the EHF is better than the better half of E9.
True it is the depth of the teams from top to bottom that is the real difference.

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anon
Aug 8, 2017 - 11:26AM
Re: E9/BHL teams

anon
Anon
anon
Anon
Anon
Blazers and Cyclones out. Did NE Edge pull out also? Who is in just TA from Cape Cod?
The website has not been touched since last March
Web sites not updated, no information. A few more of the many reasons the EHF runs circles around the E9 and makes them look stupid at every turn.

I wouldn't go around beating my chest bragging about how well the EHF administers their league. The spring parity round was a fiasco. Would you rather know which teams are in your division in August, or would you rather have a more effective parity tournament and more balanced divisions? Will the EHF move teams mid season if they realize they made a mistake? BHL does.
Substantively you're correct. But, it's all about marketing and selling something to the parents, not about the hockey. On its merits, the EHF is probably slightly better top to bottom than the E9 over most of the birth years (until the hitting starts), but the differences are nowhere near what parents on this board would like to believe. However, as far as marketing, image and salesmanship go - there is no comparison.


lol..."slightly"

Demonstrating the poster's point. You are the fish that gobbles up the bait. Why do you feel the need to extol the superiority of the EHF on this board? Do you own one of the teams? Or do you think that if you promote the league your kid will always have a spot? I don't get it. In the grand scheme of things, the two leagues are virtually the same. EHF gets more of the top end players, so their teams tend to be stronger. That's the difference. That and they have a much better playoff format.

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Anon
Aug 8, 2017 - 12:26PM
Re: E9/BHL teams

anon
anon
Anon
anon
Anon
Anon
Blazers and Cyclones out. Did NE Edge pull out also? Who is in just TA from Cape Cod?
The website has not been touched since last March
Web sites not updated, no information. A few more of the many reasons the EHF runs circles around the E9 and makes them look stupid at every turn.

I wouldn't go around beating my chest bragging about how well the EHF administers their league. The spring parity round was a fiasco. Would you rather know which teams are in your division in August, or would you rather have a more effective parity tournament and more balanced divisions? Will the EHF move teams mid season if they realize they made a mistake? BHL does.
Substantively you're correct. But, it's all about marketing and selling something to the parents, not about the hockey. On its merits, the EHF is probably slightly better top to bottom than the E9 over most of the birth years (until the hitting starts), but the differences are nowhere near what parents on this board would like to believe. However, as far as marketing, image and salesmanship go - there is no comparison.


lol..."slightly"

Demonstrating the poster's point. You are the fish that gobbles up the bait. Why do you feel the need to extol the superiority of the EHF on this board? Do you own one of the teams? Or do you think that if you promote the league your kid will always have a spot? I don't get it. In the grand scheme of things, the two leagues are virtually the same. EHF gets more of the top end players, so their teams tend to be stronger. That's the difference. That and they have a much better playoff format.
Facts and reasonable comments have no place on this board!

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A Non
Aug 8, 2017 - 10:52AM
Re: E9/BHL teams

Anon
Blazers and Cyclones out. Did NE Edge pull out also? Who is in just TA from Cape Cod?
The website has not been touched since last March


Supposedly Walpole Express are supposed to be IN. I did hear that many of the Boch Blazers players/teams were just moving over to Walpole wholesale anyway and didn't pay their "dues" to the league as they knew they would be consolidating with RB. Tough to see how Blazers could make a go with SSK, Huskies, Crimson and Express within like 7 miles.

I don't know how many Express teams will actually make the move out of the PHL but the word on the street is PHL Premier teams would move to E9/BHL for this year.

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anon
Aug 9, 2017 - 7:56PM
Re: E9/BHL teams

Wonderful

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Anon
Aug 11, 2017 - 11:49AM
Re: E9/BHL teams

Any truth to the Springfield Rifles now having an automatic bid for the E9??

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Anon
Aug 11, 2017 - 12:13PM
Re: E9/BHL teams

Anon
Any truth to the Springfield Rifles now having an automatic bid for the E9??
No they have to play in.

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Anon
Aug 11, 2017 - 1:19PM
Re: E9/BHL teams

The Rifles are in, according to sources around the rink.....

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anon
Aug 11, 2017 - 1:47PM
Re: E9/BHL teams

Anon
The Rifles are in, according to sources around the rink.....


i heard they are in. They threatened to jump so they will be given automatic status

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