DougKnowsBest
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I'm curious if this is something that other NHL teams are doing or if its just the blue jackets. Its something I was thinking about and realized this is the perfect place to stop thinking about it and actually find out.
The blue jackets have recently started running the 8u house programs in Columbus. They have enough teams they can keep their schedule insular and not play teams from outside associations. They don't let the parents be involved, very corporate feel. Next year they will be launching a similar program for 10u house teams. "select" or "travel" teams do not seem to fall into their interests. the cbj also seem to have zero interest in club hockey and only have interest in supporting varsity high school programs.
The network of "chillers" ice rinks in Columbus (that are shitty compared to every other regions rinks ive traveled to) have extremely close ties with the cbj. So any programming changes like this trickle through all 6 facilities and their sheets of ice. USA hockey and the cbj always crows about the size of the chillers adult leagues membership. My hunch has always been the reason the leagues numbers are so high when rated against other cities adult league numbers is that there is no competition in columbus... in other large cities there are multiple adult leagues run by different rinks ran by different people. So statistically they dont show up high on the list because the cities adult league usa hockey numbers are split up
so the questions to you my fellow hf'er in the know.
-do other nhl teams run similar programs that im describing for the house programs? The cbj program is rubbing me the wrong way obviously and im just trying to gauge how off base I may be?
-are the rinks in your city managed by the same company? are your adult leagues difrerent leagues rink to rink?
if anybody wants talk through any of these issues or thinks they have some knowledge you can share with me, lets go. I administer programs at a small association and any market knowledge i learn here helps me help people play hockey
The blue jackets have recently started running the 8u house programs in Columbus. They have enough teams they can keep their schedule insular and not play teams from outside associations. They don't let the parents be involved, very corporate feel. Next year they will be launching a similar program for 10u house teams. "select" or "travel" teams do not seem to fall into their interests. the cbj also seem to have zero interest in club hockey and only have interest in supporting varsity high school programs.
The network of "chillers" ice rinks in Columbus (that are shitty compared to every other regions rinks ive traveled to) have extremely close ties with the cbj. So any programming changes like this trickle through all 6 facilities and their sheets of ice. USA hockey and the cbj always crows about the size of the chillers adult leagues membership. My hunch has always been the reason the leagues numbers are so high when rated against other cities adult league numbers is that there is no competition in columbus... in other large cities there are multiple adult leagues run by different rinks ran by different people. So statistically they dont show up high on the list because the cities adult league usa hockey numbers are split up
so the questions to you my fellow hf'er in the know.
-do other nhl teams run similar programs that im describing for the house programs? The cbj program is rubbing me the wrong way obviously and im just trying to gauge how off base I may be?
-are the rinks in your city managed by the same company? are your adult leagues difrerent leagues rink to rink?
if anybody wants talk through any of these issues or thinks they have some knowledge you can share with me, lets go. I administer programs at a small association and any market knowledge i learn here helps me help people play hockey
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