How strong is SPHL?

[Checkers Hockey]

So Semi should get bonus points for doing both.

He gets bonus points for following his own advice.

 

[SemireliableSource]

He gets bonus points for following his own advice.

Did I though? A lot of random knowledge in this noggin.

 

[alko]

Also, google is your friend and would have answered that question for you.

Common people. He wants only to talk. To friends. And you kicked him out.

 

[JMCx4]

Common people. He wants only to talk. To friends. And you kicked him out.

"Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime." ... That goes for pucks, too.

 

[Checkers Hockey]

Did I though? A lot of random knowledge in this noggin.

Yes, but there are others who don't have your level of hockey knowledge. They come on here to ask questions because it's more fun than just Googling the answer. It never occurs to them that they will be criticized instead.

 

[SemireliableSource]

Yes, but there are others who don't have your level of hockey knowledge. They come on here to ask questions because it's more fun than just Googling the answer. It never occurs to them that they will be criticized instead.

Yeah, I'm not an idiot. I understand that people come here for conversation. Why do you think I'm here?

I was just refuting you saying I followed my own advice.

 

[Checkers Hockey]

Why do you think I'm here?

To tell people to "Google it"

 

[SemireliableSource]

I mean ... there's a difference between discussion and asking questions you could easily answer yourself.

 

[Checkers Hockey]

I mean ... there's a difference between discussion and asking questions you could easily answer yourself.

Questions are what get discussions going. Telling 'em to "Google it" when you probably know the answer is just lazy and dumb.

 

[CHIP72]

"Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime." ... That goes for pucks, too.

I don't think I've ever ate a puck.

 

[CrazyEddie20]

I don't think I've ever ate a puck.

Be a man and take the cage off your helmet.

 

[Amazinmets73]

Yup. Look at a guy like Mark Sibbald, the fourth goalie and rarely saw the ice at Brown, a perennial bottom feeder in Division I, goes to Huntsville and becomes a starter with a winning record for three seasons. There are plenty of other examples, but there's one off the top of my head.

Alec Baer Hockey Stats and Profile at hockeydb.com

Statistics of Alec Baer, a hockey player from St. Louis Park, MN born Aug 25 1997 who was active from 2012 to 2024.

www.hockeydb.com

This guy played Major Juniors and ECHL and he's not exactly tearing the SPHL up.

 

[CrazyEddie20]

Alec Baer Hockey Stats and Profile at hockeydb.com

Statistics of Alec Baer, a hockey player from St. Louis Park, MN born Aug 25 1997 who was active from 2012 to 2024.

www.hockeydb.com

This guy played Major Juniors and ECHL and he's not exactly tearing the SPHL up.

In what world is 80 points in 53 games last season not "tearing it up?" He has 22 points in 16 games this year. The Birmingham and Evansville teams he played on were terrible.

He was a decent player in the WHL in his final season, but plenty of guys like that go on to do nothing in the ECHL. You forget that as an overager in major junior, he's playing against a lot of 17- and 18-year-olds, who, just because of his slight edge in physical maturity, he's going to have an advantage over. Put him in the ECHL, and he's immediately playing against guys bigger and older than him. That advantage goes away, and maybe he's mopes because he's not producing and stops developing.

 

[jabberoski]

Alec Baer Hockey Stats and Profile at hockeydb.com

Statistics of Alec Baer, a hockey player from St. Louis Park, MN born Aug 25 1997 who was active from 2012 to 2024.

www.hockeydb.com

This guy played Major Juniors and ECHL and he's not exactly tearing the SPHL up.

He was the SPHL MVP last season - Peoria’s Alec Baer named SPHL Most Valuable Player

 

[CrazyEddie20]

He was the SPHL MVP last season - Peoria’s Alec Baer named SPHL Most Valuable Player

Come on now, don't let facts get in the way of an idiotic message board post!

 

[DingerMcSlapshot]

SPHL is mostly for players that haven't faced the hard fact. They need to get a real job. Their hockey dream is long over. Make more money slinging burgers at McDonald's.

 

[Amazinmets73]

He was the SPHL MVP last season - Peoria’s Alec Baer named SPHL Most Valuable Player

Yea, I stand corrected on that.

 

[CrazyEddie20]

Yea, I stand corrected on that.

Peoria’s Alec Baer Named SPHL Player of the Week

www.thesphl.com

Keep eating that crow.

 

[jaysoneil]

There's SPHL players that play in my beer league, lol.

The highest level I ever played was high-school. If that doesn't tell you how strong the SPHL is, I don't know what will.

 

[JMCx4]

There's SPHL players that play in my beer league, lol.

The highest level I ever played was high-school. If that doesn't tell you how strong the SPHL is, I don't know what will.

Oh, so you're from "The School of One Point Makes a Straight Line."

 

[jaysoneil]

Oh, so you're from "The School of One Point Makes a Straight Line."

Sometimes all you need is one.

Don't get greedy.

 

[SemireliableSource]

I mean, that doesn't really say much at all. There were former NHLers that played in the beer league in Pensacola,

 

[CrazyEddie20]

I mean, that doesn't really say much at all. There were former NHLers that played in the beer league in Pensacola,

Not just NHLers - two hall of famers, if I remember correctly, would occasionally show up in the Pensacola Beer League.

 

[jaysoneil]

I mean, that doesn't really say much at all. There were former NHLers that played in the beer league in Pensacola,

Key word, former. I get that all roads end up in beer league, but these guys are in their 20's, not 40+

 

[CrazyEddie20]

There's SPHL players that play in my beer league, lol.

The highest level I ever played was high-school. If that doesn't tell you how strong the SPHL is, I don't know what will.

That just tells me there's a big talent gap on the rosters between the top of your beer league, which is almost certainly the SPHL guys, and the bottom of your beer league. And probably not just from the top teams to the bottom teams, but on each roster, too.