Port hockey1 wrote:ramrod wrote:This needs to stop !. Every year St Marys gets a gun put to their head by 2nd or 3rd year players that want to go play for a winner, every year one or two players want to go home to London. St Marys is very good about offering players in their final year an opportunity to go play for a contender if the team feels it cannot compete in the playoffs, because of the proximity to London it usually involves them. St Marys usually gets a couple of young prospects in a trade that are not good enough to play in London and the cycle repeats. St Marys needs to tell these kids to grow up and either play here or go play jr.C, if you want to play jr B it will be for us or not at all. and the league needs to back the teams that are put in this position ie St Marys and Lambton Shores as they are currently nothing more than development teams for the rest of the league.
Are you for real? These kids are promised a winning team is being built. When things don't happen that way, they have every right to demand a trade. Why should these kids have to be embarrassed every time they play hockey???
Would you tell your kid to grow up and play for St.Marys or Pelham? I don't think many parents would and I don't blame the kids for wanting out.
Really ? You're asking me if I'm for real. What a stupid comment, but than again who would expect anything less from you.
Nobody promise's these kids a winning team within one year after being acquired in a trade. These kids are not being recruited, THEY ARE COMPENSATION FROM A TEAM THAT DOSEN'T WANT THEM BECAUSE ANOTHER KID AND HIS PARENTS HELD A GUN TO THEIR TEAM TO TRADE HIM IN THIS ON GOING CYCLE. How can a team build a contender with a revolving door where players come in one year and want out the next. These kids and their parent know full well what they are getting into. They know the history of the team that they are being traded to ( its all right there on point streak ) and they don't have to accept the trade. They accept the trade because they are not getting played the ice time that they think they should get with the team that they are being traded from, ( if they are even being played at all ), and they and their parent think that they are better than that
If the players that left Lambton Shores to go to your beloved maroons last year had stayed in Forest they would have had just as much success as they did in Chatham.
Its sad that a team with money can go out and tamper with kids and their parents on another team by promising them money and a championship to demand a trade from the team that they are now on ,,,,,, but than again that doesn't always work out