Announcement
2007 - Pa Hockey Solution – Part 1 – Better Alignment and Competition – FOR ALL !
Posted by Jeff Mauro on
Mar 01 2007
at
04:00PM PST
I have talked to many of you in the rinks about the potential for change in the PIHL and in April there will be a slate of people who run for the office of the Executive Board. I will NOT be one of those people nor am I interested in being in any paid position, but I am consulting with this group of people as to what needs to happen to FIX the 7-year mess created by the Villans. People who say I use Pa Hockey as a forum to bash the PIHL are very misinformed and those who characterize anything I write as a rant, don’t really understand either.
I will not go into a long dissertation about what’s wrong because everyone knows it, everyone complains about it and now its time to do something about it. I will not be releasing Part 2 of the Solution as that will be in the hands of the people who run for office and it has to do with one thing and that is saving people a lot of money and simplifying hockey to allow more kids to participate in hockey and potentially saving some of the programs that are dying in Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Hockey. Remember one thing, there are NO promises and the people who are currently running the PIHL have had 7 years and have done a mediocre job at best because they are all about the money and NOT about providing a service to the member teams;
The Alignment Philosiphy is simple. 1) Return Interscholastic Hockey to Class AAA, AA and A + 2) create a long term solution to allow ALL pure scholastic programs to compete for the Penguins Cup and Pennsylvania High School Hockey Championship and 3) simplify the scheduling process and reduce travel.
Class AAA will be an Open Classification with the top 16 schools and schools must commit for a two (2) year period.
Class AA and A will be classified by enrollment and have a cut-off of 400 using PIAA Enrollment Numbers. Below is the proposed alignment for the 2007-2008 season (Please keep in mind this scenario takes into account Solution – Part 2):
PENNSYLVANIA INTERSCHOLASTIC HOCKEY LEAGUE - CLASS 'AAA' STANDINGS- ALIGNMENT PROPOSAL
NORTHEAST CONFERENCE
PIHL AAA EAST CENTRAL CATHOLIC 634
PIHL AAA EAST FOX CHAPEL 651
PIHL AAA EAST GATEWAY 610
PIHL AAA EAST NORTH HILLS 705
PIHL AAA EAST PENN-TRAFFORD 630
PIHL AAA EAST PINE-RICHLAND 522
PIHL AAA EAST PLUM 606
PIHL AAA EAST SHALER 798
SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE
PIHL AAA WEST BALDWIN 622
PIHL AAA WEST BETHEL PARK 810
PIHL AAA WEST MCDOWELL 945
PIHL AAA WEST MEADVILLE 416
PIHL AAA WEST MT LEBANON 729
PIHL AAA WEST NORTH ALLEGHENY 1044
PIHL AAA WEST SENECA VALLEY 938
PIHL AAA WEST UPPER ST. CLAIR 571
Schedule would be 22 Games including 14 Divisional (7x2) and 8 Inter-Conference & Schools would be required to obtain 15 Ice Slots
Top 8 Schools by Winning Percentage would be in the Penguins Cup Playoffs.
PENNSYLVANIA INTERSCHOLASTIC HOCKEY LEAGUE - CLASS 'AA'
STANDINGS- ALIGNMENT PROPOSAL
NORTHEAST CONFERENCE
PIHL AA LAUREL ALTOONA 974
PIHL AA LAUREL GREENSBURG C C 214
PIHL AA LAUREL GREENSBURG SALEM 475
PIHL AA LAUREL HEMPFIELD 812
PIHL AA LAUREL HOLIDAYSBURG 532
PIHL AA LAUREL INDIANA 422
PIHL AA LAUREL LATROBE 555
PIHL AA LAUREL STATE COLLEGE 1264
PIHL AA EAST BUTLER 1044
PIHL AA EAST CONNELLSVILLE 757
PIHL AA EAST FRANKLIN REGIONAL 514
PIHL AA EAST HAMPTON 399
PIHL AA EAST KISKI AREA 588
PIHL AA EAST KITTANNING 311
PIHL AA EAST NORWIN 653
PIHL AA EAST WOODLAND HILLS 779
SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE
PIHL AA SOUTH ALLDERDICE 709
PIHL AA SOUTH CANON MCMILLAN 581
PIHL AA SOUTH CARRICK 551
PIHL AA SOUTH ELIZABETH FORWARD 389
PIHL AA SOUTH PETERS TOWNSHIP 534
PIHL AA SOUTH RINGGOLD 468
PIHL AA SOUTH SOUTH PARK 332
PIHL AA SOUTH THOMAS JEFFERSON 401
PIHL AA WEST AMBRIDGE 424
PIHL AA WEST CANEVIN 168
PIHL AA WEST CATHEDRAL PREP 440
PIHL AA WEST CHARTIERS VALLEY 467
PIHL AA WEST MONTOUR 436
PIHL AA WEST MOON 488
PIHL AA WEST TRINITY 467
PIHL AA WEST WEST ALLEGHENY 415
Schedule would be 22 Games including 14 Divisional (7x2) and 8 Conference & Schools would be required to obtain 15 Ice Slots
Top 16 Schools (8 in each conference and play cross bracket by winning percentage) by Winning Percentage would be in the Penguins Cup Playoffs.
STANDINGS- ALIGNMENT PROPOSAL
2007-2008 SEASON
NORTHEAST CONFERENCE
PIHL A EAST BISHOP MCCORT 189
PIHL A EAST CONEMAUGH VALLEY 107
PIHL A EAST FERNDALE 85
PIHL A EAST JOHNSTOWN 391
PIHL A EAST WESTMONT-HILLTOP 268
PIHL A EAST WINDBER ??
PIHL A LAUREL BISHOP GUILFOYLE 135
PIHL A LAUREL DERRY 366
PIHL A LAUREL FOREST HILLS 337
PIHL A LAUREL LIGONIER VALLEY 376
PIHL A LAUREL RICHLAND-CAMBRIA 209
PIHL A LAUREL SOMERSET 376
SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE
PIHL A SOUTH DEER LAKES 257
PIHL A SOUTH FREEPORT 260
PIHL A SOUTH KNOCH 384
PIHL A SOUTH MARS 319
PIHL A SOUTH SERRA CATHOLIC 103
PIHL A SOUTH VALLEY 277
PIHL A WEST BEAVER 285
PIHL A WEST CENTER 267
PIHL A WEST QUAKER VALLEY 224
PIHL A WEST QUIGLEY 58
PIHL A WEST SEWICKLEY ACADEMY 115
PIHL A WEST STEEL VALLEY 316
Schedule would be 21 Games including 15 Divisional (5x3) and 6 Conference & Schools would be required to obtain 15 Ice Slots
Top 12 Schools (6 in each conference and play cross bracket by winning percentage) by Winning Percentage would be in the Penguins Cup Playoffs.
Division Winners would receive a bye and be re-seeded by Winning Percentage in Round 2
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