Danmark
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- May 5, 2014
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With the changes to IIHF rules (two years hockey in the country from age 10) does anybody know if Josh Cook could be available for the senior GB team?
Cook is one of the largish contingent of Brits in the WSHL. I think him along with David Clements might be shots for the GB senior team long list this season. Having said that I don't know much about the quality of the league, are they playing at a level that is high enough for them to mix it with some of the Elite League Brits?
Apologies, topic jump a little here, but not sure quite where to post this.
I've been flicking through some of the messages and have a couple of questions:
- as a dad living out his dreams through his 10 year old son, what are the rules around him playing for GB if he has only spent 1 year of his life there? He was born in London, moved to Austria where he started hockey at 5, moved to USA for the last 3 years, where he's one of the 3 best players on his AAA team and now we're moving again to Denmark. I have no idea if he will continue to develop but as a kid with dreams I normally at least say well if you don't make the NHL you can always play for England Having read some of the posts on 2 year requirements I'm now a little nervous that I've been lying to him all this time!! He only has British citizenship, nowhere else...
- 2nd question - I've noticed someone with a Danish flag posting here. As we are moving to Copenhagen in a couple of months I've linked him up to Rodovre which I've heard good things about for youth hockey. Has anyone any insight?
Thanks for any feedback
Many thanks to you both
I'll come back and update in a few years' time!
Separately - just in case anyone knows. I know the England U13 team sends a squad to Quebec Pee Wee. Any idea how/who to contact to register some interest - I assume there are some sort of tryouts but obviously we are a bit off the radar and it's always good to benchmark. Wouldn't be for next year of course, but 2017/18.
Thanks again
Thanks again
Will let you know in a few years if his dreams are still alive!
Thanks again
Will let you know in a few years if his dreams are still alive!
This looks like a great move for him. He has been incredibly productive in the EIHA junior leagues, fingers crossed it works out.
It's the sort of move that Kieran Brown could do with making in a year (if not now!).
I've said this before but the EIHA should use some of its £500,000 reserve funds to establish a scholarship for the best young players to go overseas from 16-18 (or even 20). That's the only way our best youngsters will have a chance of fulfilling their potential - by playing at a higher level, alongside and against better players, with better coaches and a daily training regime.
Never going to happen though.
It would send a pretty odd message to the kids staying in EIHA.
"This kid looks good so we're going to pay to get him out of our system rather than spend money on you lot as you rot here in the system we don't feel like fixing"
Maybe the EIHL teams should be the ones doing that, they're the ones complaining that the locals aren't developed to their liking.
It would send a pretty odd message to the kids staying in EIHA.
"This kid looks good so we're going to pay to get him out of our system rather than spend money on you lot as you rot here in the system we don't feel like fixing"
Maybe the EIHL teams should be the ones doing that, they're the ones complaining that the locals aren't developed to their liking.
The vast majority of junior hockey in GB is, essentially, rec standard. And that's fine for the vast majority of players who will never be anything more than rec players, or more likely stop playing once they hit university. But it means that there is a block imposed on the small handful of genuinely talented youngsters playing the game here.
As I see it there are two options: remove the best youngsters from their clubs and locate them at 4 regional academies playing one another at U16/18/20 age groups, or select the very best 4 or 5 at the age of 16 (once they've finished their exams) and give them a scholarship to go overseas to clubs of a certain standard.
The first option would be much more expensive but politically explosive and therefore never going to get the support of the clubs. The second option is certainly elitist but it's cheaper and more likely to be acceptable. If we want to see out best youngsters fulfil their potential, and we want the game as a whole to grow, then we need to do something drastic.
Has Kieran Brown moved to North America?
And how talented is he compared to Samuel Duggan & Richard Krogh?