WEHP are pleased to announce the weekly Top 10 Team Rankings for western Canada this afternoon.
1. Cloverdale Colts - The Colts have won a remarkable 16 games in a row overall which has included the Burnaby Christmas tournament win over NSWC and now the big John Reid Memorial victory over Semiahmoo. They have also defeated BWC twice in a row, once in regular season (5-3) and at the John Reid (3-1).
2. BWC Bruins - BWC have been as hot as anyone this year. However, recent losses to Cloverdale have put them to the #2 spot in western Canada now.
3. Semiahmoo Ravens - They have been on quite a roll as of late, going 5-0-0 at the John Reid with wins over SSAC, Bisons, CAC, POE and have won two of the past three games vs. NSWC.
4. NSWC Winterhawks - They have had a tremendous season but lately have dropped several games going back to the Burnaby Christamas Tournament which has now carried over to the John Reid Tournament. They lost games to Sherwood Park, Calgary Bisons and the Calgary Bronks at the latest tournament.
5. Calgary Royals - Have just 2 league play losses in the AMBHL and at the John Reid defeated SSAC 4-1 before slumping a bit near the end. Lost to Semiahmoo and BWC but ended out nicely with a win over Sherwood Park.
6. POE - Lost to BWC, Semiahmoo and NSWC which has all but cemented them in a tier below with the Royals and SSAC now. They have lost one of their leading scorers as well.
7. SSAC Southgate Lions - Have hit a bit of a skid as of late with a couple consecutive losses in league player and then carried that through with a opening loss to the Royals at the John Reid. Ended the tournament with wins over Prairie Storm, Lloydminster and the Bisons.
8. Lloydminster Heat - Had a couple ups and downs at the John Reid Tournament with losses to CAC and a 6-5 loss to SSAC but tied BWC and beat St. Albert and Bronks quite easily. They are 20-4-3 in league play.
9. Sherwood Park - Have been very strong all season long. At the tournament this past weekend, they lost to Cloverdale, POE and the Royals. They can give teams fits and will be a force down the stretch.
10. Edmonton CAC - They have been hot as of late in the AMBHL and continued that in to the John Reid Tournament with two straight wins over the Bronks and Lloydminster. However, they couldn't continue that roll with losses to BWC, Semiahmoo and the L.A. Selects down the stretch.
Honourable Mentions:
Calgary Bisons
St. Albert Sabres
Seafair Islanders
Pembina Valley hawks
OHA
42 comments:
Anybody hear the great news out of the Vancouver Minor Hockey, going to remove hitting from all house leagues up to 19 years of age, so if you have a johnny that really wants to play at the prep level when he turns 13-14, please keep him away from the prep level as these kids have been hitting since the peewee level, what a atrosity to the game, how about we teach our players to hit and be hit at a very early age like right after they learn to skate and how about we teach them that there stick above there shoulders is not how you score and o ya take the armour they were off and teach them the respect for the game and each other, did you know that if you were a mask up to age 19 that you are probably used to it and it shouldn,t affect how you play when you are 20 and older, helmuts for all warm ups and o I bet taylor hall wouldn,t have a 8 inch scare down hi forhead, jeez what a thought, her is a thought, lets all were seat belts and that will stop people dying from drunk drivers, no you just need to stop drinking and driving, take some responsibility for our players as parents and coachs, teach them respect
So Spring you can hit, Winter you can't ?????
Thats going to go over well.....
Why have hitting in house leagues?? Most players only have hitting in hockey until they r 18-20 and then no contact in mens league rec hockey. House is rec hockey. I see no big deal in removing hitting from peewee,bantam and midget house!! Seems silly to allow it for 7 years. Right now in Vancouver they play for 4-6 years no hitting then 7 years of hitting then rest of there life no hitting. What is the point of hitting at all in Rec hockey!! If kids are good enough to play rep they can adjust to hitting and non hitting. Most of these kids are playing for fun and love of the game my guess is this keeps more kids in the game.
Perfect spot for Cloverdale right now. 16 Wins in a row is impressive.
Alberta going be very good playoff series.
Up North going be some tough series and probably most will go 3 games.
Lloy should get out and face the survior and that should be good series and probably go 5.
Down South its going be either the Bisons and the Royals.
The composite record of games in both Med Hat and St Albert involving BC Clubs vs the rest of the West is quite astonishing.
There were 41 total games in Med Hat and St Albert where a BC Team played a team from Alberta, Sask, Man or USA.
The overall record was 32W-8L-1T.
There were seventeen wins and only five losses by BC teams in Med Hat and four of the losses were from Kamloops. Semiahmoo lost one game. BWC, POE and North Shore had zero losses vs Non BC competition.
There were fifteen wins and only three losses by BC Teams vs Non BC Teams in St Albert and all three of those were losses by North Shore. BWC, POE, Cloverdale and Semiahmoo had zero losses vs Non BC competition.
BC Teams won several other events involving Clubs from outside BC - Cloverdale won in Abbotsford, Seafair won in Victoria and OHA won both events in Kelowna and Penticton.
Based on this level of dominance it will be interesting to see the numbers of players from BC that will be drafted in the higher rounds.
again, teach the respect back into the game and all the players can play, we as parents have a choice to protect our children, have a look around, do we do a great job of it, lets seperate our children in areas that affect them each day, johnny cant play sports that we think might hurt him, bobby gets to play sports that are rough, johnny and bobby are best friends, see how that works for you, mary plays sports that are rough, sally plays sports that aren,t best friends again, how does that work out, see what happens when you seperate based on what you as a parent think is right and not what is actually going on, let the kids be kids together, they will figure there own way out, teach them respect for what they are working at and the rest will follow, teach, guide discipline and direction are what need to happen, not seperating our children and players young or old, I hope some real parents step up and challenge this new rule, I know for sure I would as a association, this is completely the wrong message to send to our players and children, pretty sure that this decision is based on a few not on te majority, please do not come crying about the rough part of the hockey game when you leave Vancouver to play in areas were checking is taught at a early age and it gets a bit physical.
Re: 5:27. BC hockey is just like summer hockey teams. Kids are recruited from all over. BC hockey assoc. has very few player juradiction rules compared to Alberta. Combine a couple of teams
from the Edmonton area and have a game, it wouldn't even be close. The only good thing is that scouting can see right through all that. Alberta will dominate WHL drafting as usual.
Abbotsford won the Vernon Tournament this past weekend? could they be coming on strong to be a contender?
Wow what a rule change, lets remove hitting from hockey, maybe we hould take sliding out of baseball, or even better take yelling out of curling, running the football out of football, take the MMA off TV, lets take standing on your head out of sycrnized swimming, lets take using a driver out of golf(god forbid if a stay drive hits someone in the head and gives them a cuncussion) Lets take the game and scrap all the opportunity for players in every sport to stop the need to expel energy and drive for the best they can be, I suppose if we took all the guns away there would be no wars or if we stopped selling cigarettes that cancer would go away or here is a good one, lets stop selling booze and acidents will stop, jeez lets stop all the choice in the world that people make and lets all sit in front of the TV and dy at a old age, that is what we should do for sure,
Or, lets make realistic rules and teach our children to follow them, respect them, and respect the result of breaking or bending the rule, thats what parents do, we should not be taking away life lessons, some lessons in life are a choice the children make, Taylor Hall made a choice to not were a helmut, did he skate again without it, yes, did he learn something from it, likely but he still made his choice, its unfortunate that some choices are harder to come to terms with than others, but then again these are life lessons for all to learn from, not to judge, thats for the law to decide, today I hope at least that the Vancouver minor hockey group that are addressing this rule change take the time to monitor this change to the second and inform all of the other associations around the world the result good or bad with numbers to prove that it has worked, good luck with that,
Agree with 7:51
I would actually go the other way and
teach this in Atom levels,
I said "Teach" I see all these power skating, shooting extra ice classes, However I don't see hitting clinics at all. How to go into the boards, How not to, Show the kids videos, teach them. It not their fault if they are not taught properly, make it mandatory and this is not rocket science.
They are taking the easy way out instead of trying to teach the correct way.
Cloverdale has come along way with this team. However is this team made up of all 97's. How is their A2 or 98's, you don't hear much from them as you do from other associations. Will they continue this next year or is it more of a one and done? AB has many strong 98's and do Langley,BWC and NSWC? I don't see 1 -98 on your list of strong 98 players from Cloverdale.
Except for OHA (which is 90 percent kids from the Okanagan) and POE (all over) the rest of the BC teams do have residency rules . Plus Alberta teams draw from a larger population base in Calgary and Edmonton in particular.
8;02, Everyone of the teams in bc are no different than any team in alberta, sure the academys recruit for programs to develop fine young men and women for hockey no doubt, also part of this is to develop fine young men and women for the communities and for future education programs, if ya think that you can put a allstar team to tegether and compete against some allstar team in bc have at it, likely would make for some good hockey, put a list together for a future allstar team, Ive seen the list for the bantam allstar group, I would put our third place team against that and it would be a 5-1 game, simple fact is the players are what they are and it is what it is, the draft is what it is, do you really as a parent think that it makes that much difference where these players end up 4-6 years from now, if you do ya got to be kidding me, you actually know nothing about the process and have high expectations that you will be let down on and are likely hurting your player with your views,
maybe you should sit back and enjoy the hockey and and support the process how ever you can, I had a instance recently that a parent told me that a referee was affecting his players ability to go high in the draft, this player had taken 5 penalties in the first two periods of a very good hockey game, do ya think that players parent was accurate in the comments he made about his son, if you do then you are on the wrong path, hockey is for the players, fans are there to watch, sit back and enjoy, who cares who have the best players in the provinces, its a game for us to enjoy
8;46 you couldn,t be more correct, I know a e nhl guy who used to teach this to kids at the earlyage (novis / peewee ) and the association made him stop not only did he stop teaching he stopped coaching for simple reasons that he was told it ws unfair to teach a player at this level because there would be a unfair advantage, can you believe that, makes some sense other than it should be taught at every level everyday, lets get rid of all the extra opportunities for students and take away the extra math and social classes for our kids so that there is not a unfair advantage, jeez to think how stupid that was, again teach the players to be respectfull, teach them to play the game the way the game is, teach them to keep there hands down, teach them positioning along the boards, teach them that it hurts by acknowledging some of the circumstances around those types of injuries, teach them to play the game as if it was a job they loved, suspensions, fines all those things are no different than being suspended from a job, or fired from a job, its all life lessons, teach them as adults to children what the game is about not about what the games is not about
5:27 your statement is very incorrect
BC associations are under the guidelines as BC Hockey which fall under Hockey Canada.
You must play where you live,
unless you start in Novice- then you can play for certain clubs. But you are then carded. For example if you live in Squamish you can join NSWC before Atom, or if they do not have a rep team.
You can not join associations just because you feel like it. If anything the Clubs as you call it are under a microscope when you do move associations. While you may think otherwise, and are looking for a excuse. I dont think you fully understand the process, another example is North Vancouver has a waiting list for novice players to join hockey- So the only way around this is to join NSWC. If you do not want to wait.
how is bc hockey any different than alberta sask manitoba or any other place, been to europe a couple of times with teams, you know what, they all were easton. etc equipment, they all skate on ice, they all have pucks to play with and for the most they have the same thing in mind, to have fun and get better, what a novelty, to have fun, wow we have choices in life some chose to liv were they live, some chose to move, some chose to complain and some chose to support and accept, what a way of life, hope ya all are teaching your children this, doing the right thing is what we teach our children what they do with it has consequences, both good and bad
For 8:09 AM - how was the Vernon tournament? Any coverage on it anywhere?
8:09 How many AMBHL teams were there? The other events all had several AMBHL teams participating. You missed the point.
The composite record this year of BC vs Alberta in all these events is incredibly lopsided. That isn't a normal occurrence as its usually more balanced.
Is this just an anomaly for this age group or is there something about the style of hockey played in each province that is making a difference?
Hockey enrollment is going down and injuries are a major factor in kids moving over to other sports. Our association (in BC) removed hitting from house hockey years ago and players come back. It's a neat game to watch Midget teams in a small rink with no body-checking: all skill, speed, power moves and little goonery.
Hitting will also likely be removed from Peewee rep hockey, for concussion / liability reasons (medical evidence undeniable).
Evolution of the sport... Sorry Don Cherry
Reply to 10:10am.
The Cloverdale Colts have only one 1998 born player.
Coverdale won a couple of games in the tourney that could have gone either way. They have great coaching, which is why they pulled ahead. Skill level of the players was comparable to Alberta teams. This was stated by many scouts. BC teams did not blow away anyone. It was a great tourney with a lot of close games. All around good hockey from both provinces.
no issue for most for the no hitting rule complexity, if you dont want your plyer to play in hitting leagues then there is figure skating or golf or tennis, or swimming or soccer(oopsthe leading sport for concussions) sorry you cant play that either, how about spelling bees and or any thing else for a energy release for our kids, o shout there are combat video games that teach the kids how to kill and shout and stad and o the fat factor, lets let them sit in front of the TV playing video games for the rest of there lives thats a great life skill maybe we canout armour on them and actually use a gun and kill each other, teach the kids and players at all ages about the respect for the game and stop being who you are, respect for the game, education and all will have fun
On of the problems is that hockey has been become so competitive at almost all levels because there is this notion that all good hockey players have a future in hockey past minor hockey, so people assume we need our children to play like professionals do in the NHL.
It is a delusion and once you have been through the minor hockey system you soon realize that there are many things that could improve the whole experience for our kids. After all, that is who the game is for. It is not for "the much less than one percent" that make careers out of the game.
Perspective here folks. Problem is most parents won't see this until it is too late.
I think it is a great idea and soon people will see why.
Pursuit Bantam AA way underated, very skilled hockey club. There is a lot depth on their blueline.The top 3 lines are very capable of playing AAA. They only have lost 1 game with a full roster and deserve more respect. Any thoughts?
Pursuit AA. Who is the best team they have beat? What was the score? Who did they lose to? What was the score. I personally havent seen them.
The only game they lost was to sefair. But it was a complete homejob in the seafair tournament they had over 90 penalty minutes.They have also beat numerous A1 teams.Including Vernon who they beat 6 to 0.
3-4 players in POE AA seem to be better than some in POE AAA
interesting to see some teams keep slipping while others keep rising. perhaps power of good coaching?
Okay so you know the Vernon score..Vernon would be bottom flight 2 maybe flight 3 in PCAHA. What was the Seafair score?
Pursuit AA also lost to the Arizona Bobcats 5-3. it was a very tight game. And pursuit AAA only beat them 3-2 in a 23 round shootout. Who are the 3 or 4 players that are better than the players on AAA i have seen them play a couple times and have an idea.
3-4 better players on POE AA? Tanner Wishnowski is the only player that I could see getting called up. His physical game and Intimidation factor is unmatchable.With the loss of Williams and Lawrence there is a good chance he could get moved up permenantly. From what I've seen the other recent call-ups have been invisible. With the solid back end on AAA, I don't we"ll be seeing any new d-men.
How can it be when Balgonie is winning, all the comments are on here about how great they are and how great Halbgewachs is, but now that they have lost maybe 6 out of there last 7 games, there is no mention at all.
Any body know why Riddle didn't play against Melville in their last game?
Pretty sure Balgonie is not to worried about losing the odd game at this point.They just got back very late on Sun from St Albert after playing 5 very fast and physical games just to turn around and play Melville the very next night on the road.Melville is a good team but the road to the top is still a ways away.
Cloverdale's streak is now at 17 Wins in a row.
The Storm did happen to beat the top Cagary team, and lost in OT to another! So as we thought the top Sask teams can at least compete with Alberta teams. The Storm lost 4-3 to Melville the day after the St. Albert tournament. Maybe a bit tired and missing top 98 and best Dman.... As for Halbgewachs, looks like he was one point behind Harkins who many thought would lead the tournament in scoring and ahead of highly touted Merkley! Guess he's still ok:)
The Pursuit Bantam AA has some of the top prospects in the 2013 Bantam Draft. With some of there 98 players dominating O.M.A.H.A. League in the Okanagon region. Two of them were playing on the team last year and one of the leaders was a player from Yorkton, Saskatchewan. Next years Triple AAA team could be a great team.
There are a couple people on the pursuit AA team that could be playing AAA i have seen them play numerous times in tournaments. Tanner Wishnowski, Brandon Duhaime, Brandon Whistle, Mckinley Kempf. Those are the ones that i have seen play.
Congrats Cloverdale!!! Why does it matter how many 98's Cloverdale has on their AAA team I am sure their team was choosen based on skill level of their players. Because they are winning all there games it has people asking questions, I am sure they are bright enough to be calling up their 98's for an occasional practice to prepare them for next year! Let the 97's have there time to shine!
Cloverdale will not be beat the rest of the year
i dont see any 98's from cloverdale on the 100 list of this site. Lots from POE,NSWC,Semi,BWC and Seafar. They will be a one and done.
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