Agree, all true

Better facilities? Ice sheet is still the same size and ice consistency same. That pyramid of deminishing players has always been a part of youth hockey. The quality of the hockey product at all levels town, AA, and AAA has taken the biggest hit. This is all because of our culture of ignorance.

It comes down to the disappearance of frozen ponds in the winter for MA kids. Pond hockey is hours of skating and playing hockey, league hockey games is hours of driving to play 15 minutes at most per game. Even structured practices, once you deduct the time spent standing in lines there is not much skating with that either.

Making ignorant posts like listing the NH hockey teams and their records at a single birth year, and saying that they are suffering from traveling south for leagues and competition, is short sighted at the least. That post shows nothing except that someone can look at MHR for NH and make a post.

The true issue in NH hockey is simply depth. What incentive do the 3 Elite NH programs have to stay in state and play just NHAHA so they can have 6 total competitive games and then beat up on everyone else?

NHAHA is the root of the issue. They start late, do not run any kind of parity, and then are constantly moving teams between tiers. This results schedule uncertainty, and uncertainty on game count, and makes budgeting nearly impossible for the programs involved, many of which are non profit. Then you add in the fact that it is run by dinosaurs that are stuck thinking that the hockey world is still in 1990.

The truth is, NH programs are going south, because that is where the competition is.

These programs that are traveling are putting quality programs together and developing players. However, at the end of the day, there are fewer players to pick from than the AAA/AA programs in Mass. If anything they should be applauded for putting competitive teams on the ice, while drawing from a far smaller player pool.

We are lucky to have the FED'S NH Jr Monarchs and Manchester Flames who are willing to support NH Hockey..The rest need to send some teams back to compete in nhaha on top of their elite OR select schedule down south.

to NHAHA 12 game schedule will not cut it... 5 tiers doesn't work in such a small state. YOU need to change your ways or you will lose more teams to Massachusetts hockey leagues and NHAHA will become a house hockey rec league joke.

Sounds like job for an angry wolverine

Thanks anon I need to reach out to our league delagate and see if we can open up a conversation about structure and participation w. NHAHA.. The top teams will always be playing in the Fed and e9/BHL this is fact. Now we need to move forward

Boring, let's talk hockey "over the bridges" in CC versus Cow Hampshire hockey, NHAHA, GSL, etc.

It is big business and they only care about money

You're catching on! Good for you! Don't ever let anyone tell you, your not well informed! God forbid you were actually gullable enough to believe otherwise. It a Rich Mans Game (Developing, Owning, Running and Recruiting Hockey Teams) you're just a piece of the puzzle. How many camps, clinics are you signed up for so far??
60% of shooting and passing skills are developed in the driveway. Free...

On a side note: How is your retirement investments coming along? We are looking at the largest bear market in history - I am sure that your wise enough to contribution your precious dollars into something that actually matters!!! Ha! Or how about an Education Fund?? Or is Johnny going to be getting D1 Hockey scholarship to school of YOUR dreams?? Fact is most of these kids are 1 injury away from being illiterate, most parent are not investing their retirement and the amount of cash being spent would be 5x what it is now if invested... They versus be some "never was" player, Johnny might actual have a chance at something besides investing 9 months a year in something he won't be doing much longer, after he get injured that is!

More goalies are coming out of Mass. Hockey East is the some of best D1 hockey in the country. But, then just look at Warroad, MN - could MA every really compete with what is happening there - don't think so!

Trust me it's a much better model versus the model here in mass.