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Guest wrote: ↑Mon Jun 02, 2025 9:18 am Any Ideas on how OMHA Tri County AA will look this year, did anyone get better? Did anyone get worse? I heard there was lots of movement. I would assume Burlington is the team to beat but can anyone catch them?

Glancaster and Burlington should be top teams.

Guelph and Stoney Creek 3 and 4

Niagara Falls and West Niagara who knows?

Hespler are they dropping down?

Hamilton Huskies (lost all their players to Stoney Creek)

Centre Wellington haven’t heard anything

Brampton not sure who they picked up/lost

Brampton folded. all the kids left for other team. boarders opened and everyone ran

Correct, Brampton will not have a team this year

Centre Wellington and Hespeler dont show they are fielding a U12 AA team(both centres drop down to A?)

Hamilton did lose a lot of their players and likely wont be very strong

Glancaster and Burlington should be near the top(Glancaster gained at least 4 kids from the real strong Haldimand A team and AAA kid from STA

Stoney Creek will be a contender again

West Niagara and Niagara Falls have a few strong kids from the top team from Pelham

Garden City a couple additions but not as many as the other Niagara teams

Just to add to this:

Burlington: Added AAA Goalie (Burlington) Brampton and Flam D

Huskies: Lost players to AAA, and AA centres all over. Lost their goalie and strong forwards to Stoney Creek

Flamborough: Lost players to AAA and AA Centres, added Burlington Goalie

Guelph: No idea..

Oakville: No idea

Stoney Creek: Large turn over, New forwards, D and Goalies, lost their goalie to West Niagara

Niagara Falls: AAA Players (STA) and Pelham players, lost their goalie to STA, got STA Goalie

West Niagara: Added Pelham Players, Huskie?, Stoney Creek Goalie, lost forward to Garden City

Garden City: Added West Niagara player/s and Pelham?

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Jun 03, 2025 6:55 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Jun 03, 2025 10:09 am

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Jun 03, 2025 12:18 am

Guest wrote: ↑Mon Jun 02, 2025 12:17 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Mon Jun 02, 2025 9:18 am Any Ideas on how OMHA Tri County AA will look this year, did anyone get better? Did anyone get worse? I heard there was lots of movement. I would assume Burlington is the team to beat but can anyone catch them?

Glancaster and Burlington should be top teams.

Guelph and Stoney Creek 3 and 4

Niagara Falls and West Niagara who knows?

Hespler are they dropping down?

Hamilton Huskies (lost all their players to Stoney Creek)

Centre Wellington haven’t heard anything

Brampton not sure who they picked up/lost

Brampton folded. all the kids left for other team. boarders opened and everyone ran

Correct, Brampton will not have a team this year

Centre Wellington and Hespeler dont show they are fielding a U12 AA team(both centres drop down to A?)

Hamilton did lose a lot of their players and likely wont be very strong

Glancaster and Burlington should be near the top(Glancaster gained at least 4 kids from the real strong Haldimand A team and AAA kid from STA

Stoney Creek will be a contender again

West Niagara and Niagara Falls have a few strong kids from the top team from Pelham

Garden City a couple additions but not as many as the other Niagara teams

Just to add to this:

Burlington: Added AAA Goalie (Burlington) Brampton and Flam D

Huskies: Lost players to AAA, and AA centres all over. Lost their goalie and strong forwards to Stoney Creek

Flamborough: Lost players to AAA and AA Centres, added Burlington Goalie

Guelph: No idea..

Oakville: No idea

Stoney Creek: Large turn over, New forwards, D and Goalies, lost their goalie to West Niagara

Niagara Falls: AAA Players (STA) and Pelham players, lost their goalie to STA, got STA Goalie

West Niagara: Added Pelham Players, Huskie?, Stoney Creek Goalie, lost forward to Garden City

Garden City: Added West Niagara player/s and Pelham?

I can’t speak to Burlington or Flamborough but you are correct about the Niagara teams

NF-2 strong forwards from Pelham, a couple STA forwarrds and D and gained STA backup goalie

WN-2 strong forwards from Pelham and their 2 top D, Stoney Creek goalie and Hamilton forward. Lost a Forward to Garden City

Garden city-one forward from Pelham and WN forward. Status quo otherwise

Stoney creek-lots of new faces . Pelhams goalie and players from 3-4 other centres

Sounds like a lot of movement happened this season:

Judging by the information here would assume:

Burlington and Glancaster as 1 and 2 teams this season.

Niagara Falls should make a big jump up the standings this year, but losing their goalie will hurt, improved scoring

Garden City similar as last year, tough team to play against

West Niagara improved scoring and goaltending

Stoney Creek improved scoring, good defensive team, goaltending now?

Hamilton Huskies lost a lot of players and first year in tri county, could be a difficult one

Flamborough lost a lot of players, might be a long season

Guelph does anyone have any information on them? Normally a strong team

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Jun 03, 2025 10:30 pm Sounds like a lot of movement happened this season:

Judging by the information here would assume:

Burlington and Glancaster as 1 and 2 teams this season.

Niagara Falls should make a big jump up the standings this year, but losing their goalie will hurt, improved scoring

Garden City similar as last year, tough team to play against

West Niagara improved scoring and goaltending

Stoney Creek improved scoring, good defensive team, goaltending now?

Hamilton Huskies lost a lot of players and first year in tri county, could be a difficult one

Flamborough lost a lot of players, might be a long season

Guelph does anyone have any information on them? Normally a strong team

Any information on Halton Hills or Milton? will they be at the bottom?

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Jun 03, 2025 10:30 pm Sounds like a lot of movement happened this season:

Judging by the information here would assume:

Burlington and Glancaster as 1 and 2 teams this season.

Niagara Falls should make a big jump up the standings this year, but losing their goalie will hurt, improved scoring

Garden City similar as last year, tough team to play against

West Niagara improved scoring and goaltending

Stoney Creek improved scoring, good defensive team, goaltending now?

Hamilton Huskies lost a lot of players and first year in tri county, could be a difficult one

Flamborough lost a lot of players, might be a long season

Guelph does anyone have any information on them? Normally a strong team

Burlington also added two AAA kids from Oakville

Guelph added a good F from Hespeler, but also lost one of their good Fs to AAA

Stoney goaltending will still be good, lost a great goalie, got a great goalie back

Oavkille added a good AAA D from Hamilton

Halton Hills and Milton must have got some players with open boarders happening at AAA and trickling down?

Surprising that Burlington got AAA Oakville players and they didn’t just play for Oakville AA?

Where did all the Stoney Creek players go if there is that many new players? They where a tough team to score against

Niagara Falls sounds like the most improved team

Anyone have confirmation on Woolwich coming to AA?

Sounds like Glancaster and Burlington will be even stronger this year

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Jun 04, 2025 5:40 pm Halton Hills and Milton must have got some players with open boarders happening at AAA and trickling down?

Surprising that Burlington got AAA Oakville players and they didn’t just play for Oakville AA?

Where did all the Stoney Creek players go if there is that many new players? They where a tough team to score against

Niagara Falls sounds like the most improved team

Anyone have confirmation on Woolwich coming to AA?

Sounds like Glancaster and Burlington will be even stronger this year

I think this loop will be very interesting this season. There are a lot of new faces/turnover for most teams it sounds like. Added skill where there may not have been last season. Being these are still 11 year olds, it doesn't mean it will translate into a better team right off the hop. It will take a couple months for these new teammates to build chemistry/systems. As a dad of a kid playing his first year of AA, I for one am really looking forward to seeing how it all pans out. So far what I am seeing is there are more kids playing at the level they should be.

Woolwich did submit the forms request to move up. It's sitting with Tri County now AFAIK. Unclear if OMHA would allow it as they were blocking new teams and such as part of open borders so might end up Woolwich playing in the AA loop, then going back to A for OMHA qualifiers.

Guest wrote: ↑Thu Jun 05, 2025 12:19 pm Woolwich did submit the forms request to move up. It's sitting with Tri County now AFAIK. Unclear if OMHA would allow it as they were blocking new teams and such as part of open borders so might end up Woolwich playing in the AA loop, then going back to A for OMHA qualifiers.

I would think the OHF would decline the request as part of the open borders moratorium rule.
"The Moratorium will establish team allotment based on the 2024-2025 numbers."

It's not a new / added team, just reclassifying an A to AA (no new team will replace that missing A team, and they did not displace any teams either as there is no existing AA team there). This is normal practice for when an A team is very strong. It's also happening post tryouts, so it didn't really open the borders for a new AA team recruitment or anything. The intent is to stop large centers from creating additional AA/A teams with heavy recruitment and killing other local orgs and dragging even more kids into expensive rep and watering it down even more. They want more kids playing at the right levels, and less kids playing rep in general.

Business as usual, strong A teams can move to AA in the Tri.