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@DMVHockey How many of these teams are pay-to-play? It was originally marketed as the only non-pay-to-play junior league in NE. Can't imagine that's still true.

The NCDC is expanding to 68 teams, not 50. When the league began in 2017 there were 12 teams, and at least three of the teams (Hitmen, Islanders, Jr. Bruins) had 12-15 players on their rosters who already had committed to play NCAA Division I hockey.

@MUFCJay2 @wobblyhedg31106 @NYCMayor @ZohranKMamdani Will haters do math? He walked into a $12b deficit, and without saying how he raised revenue or cut expenditures, he's brought that deficit to $0. How did he do it? Just wave a magic wand?

@wobblyhedg31106 @NYCMayor @ZohranKMamdani Haters will hate.

When we came into office, we uncovered a $12 billion budget deficit. Today, I’m proud to say we brought it down to zero. We didn’t close the gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets and making historic investments in public housing. Call it Pothole Politics. Call it Democratic Socialism. It's government that delivers for the people who make this city run. That’s what New Yorkers deserve. And that’s what we will keep fighting for every single day.

@TheNotoriousHRT 1. Get some roommates. 2. Rent control was prevalent in Cambridge before the late 1990's. The only people with rent controlled apartments were people who didn't need rent control but who were well-connected.

1. be fucking for real 2. fuck the middle class dude. I don't give a flying fuck about the "middle class." I make $20 an hour full time and rent is near 100% of my monthly paycheck. Massachusetts "middle class" can go fuck themselves off back to Texas for a few decades.

@MassFiscal The process is controlled by the government. Rather than working on getting taxpayers to fund the process for illegals, why doesn’t she work on lowering the fees charged by the government and simplifying the process so expensive lawyers aren’t necessary.

Sen. Cynthia Friedman says it's too expensive for people here illegally to obtain legal status, so taxpayers should cover the cost of lawyers to help them apply. But that raises a bigger question. If someone can't afford to become legal, how are they affording housing, food, and healthcare in one of the most expensive states in the country? And if they’re not, who is paying for that? Hint: it's taxpayers. Beacon Hill’s answers to everything is to shift more costs onto taxpayers, without addressing the long-term impact of their policies. Massachusetts taxpayers are already stretched thin. How much more can they be expected to carry?

Hockey ain’t football in the SEC. There are plenty of hockey programs in Hockey East, ECAC, Atlantic 10, and Big 10 that require players put in the effort academically. If CHL players, particularly the depth guys, not the one-and-doners, think schools like BC, Dartmouth, Cornell, etc will pass them like the online school in juniors, they’ll be hitting the transfer portal for Minnesota State and Bemidji in no time.

@Rover2115 @cecidrais You realize a guy whos gonna be a d1 recruit will need the bare minimum to get in and when they do they dont go to class even high school they dont need to do the work and who cares tbh most of them even if they dont make it to the nhl will still make more in their hockey career

It's almost like a lack of attention paid to the academic successes of aspiring male professional hockey players is a real issue. It's almost like most young male hockey players are encouraged by peers, coaches, and teachers to sideline their education

@Wade__Appleby @CatholicCharm Up until 5 years ago, any town in Maine other than Lewiston. Or Vermont.

@CatholicCharm Lmao what fucking town is this that it's 100% white?

POV: you’re at the village square of a 100% white, straight, rich New England town where the residents spent $500k+ on their homes to live as far away from diversity as possible

@BobFunkhouse2 @cheezedawgb @MetamateDaz Get those wealthy people in other countries to contribute to a military capable of defending its citizens, and see how that welfare state continues. Pax Americana makes welfare societies possible, not generous rich citizens.

@cheezedawgb @MetamateDaz In a lot of countries wealthy people contribute for the good of society, they pay for things they will never get back but many are happy to.see.the less fortunate benefit.

Most people don't realize but Americans only pay Social Security taxes on income under $184,500. What that means is anyone that makes over that stops paying Social Security at $184,501. If the Social Security earnings cap were removed they would have enough money for universal health care.

Funny how elitist democrats support MAGA principles in their own lives. Immigrants? They were deported from Martha’s Vineyard to the Army base in the Cape in less than 24 hours. Marriage? Most Democrat elitists, if not gay, are nuclear family participants. Education? Private schools with focus on the three r’s. They make fun of MAGA in their public lives, but live like MAGA in their private lives.

New England is the furthest thing from MAGA culture. They don’t have enough intelligence or class to win here

My son's junior teammate wound up at South Carolina's ACHA team and couldn't be happier. But that decision was made only after he didn't get a D3 spot that he spent two years in juniors trying to obtain. My son's peers who played juniors until age-out are the hyper-competitive sort who made tremendous sacrifice to get a spot in D1 or D3 college hockey...they aren't public high school players in MA having a good time with friends, for whom ACHA is a chance to extend having fun in sports. For them, ACHA is a fall-back. Also, you miss the financial benefit of playing college hockey...even at D3 schools players receive merit aid upwards of $25,000-$50,000 for their ability to play. That's why it is so competitive, and why players have to be the total package of academics and hockey talent. They may graduate a little later, but they won't have six-digit student loans they otherwise would have had they went to the same school to play club hockey.

@Rover2115 @matthew_auch The reference to ACHA is for kids and families that dont want to go down the path laid out by college coaches. You can still play college hockey. SEC schools and others in ACHA bring in more fans than some D1s. Experience is great and not a terrible path

Getting the 63 men’s D1 hockey coaches to agree that the sky is blue is a difficult task most days. A unanimous vote against this rule should be an indication to the NCAA that they’ve got a massive problem.

You are proposing exactly what will happen for a lot of American male hockey players: forget playing at the highest levels, take your club hockey spot & be quiet. Ever see the online school experience for a high school academy hockey player? And you want to push that on more students that have college hockey aspirations? My son played academy hockey in HS, thankfully in a brick & mortar environment. The teammates who were ‘online’ students at some point in their careers never spoke highly of the experience. Disciplined? Fortunately my son got his college spot without exhausting his junior eligibility. But a year or two playing for lunatic coaches for nine months on teams rifling through 70-plus rostered players, spending six hours/day at the rink between ice/treatment/gym with constant travel & threat of trade/scratches/injury will hone anyone’s discipline. Pushing 16-year-olds into that environment on a large scale is not the progress some people think it is. My son’s peers (not the top 5%) nearly all were driven players who had to do nearly everything perfectly (play/train/nutrition/recovery) to get that ticket to a D1 spot, or the golden chance at earning a place at a NESCAC or similar school. They show up at college as 20 or 21 year old freshman eager to re-start their academic careers while continuing to play the sport they love competitively. They are good students (most D1 schools are great academic colleges with many more at the D3 level) who have higher college graduation rates compared to other college athletes in different sports. That’s the applecart success story the NCAA wants to overturn in the name of uniformity.

@Rover2115 @matthew_auch Is what it is. Why you consider going the ACHA track amd just play HS or play a different sport. Also, online schools are good. States have them as choice in options so free or you pay an online academy. Kid just has to be disciplined.

Not much of an education taking online courses at the back room of the rink at the nearest hockey academy. And pushing 16-17 year olds into billet situations to play junior hockey on a grand scale won’t be the ‘typical’ high school experience that other athletes have access to. Tough to tell a 16 year old he has to leave home to pursue playing hockey in college so that we can have a 1 rule fits all.

@Rover2115 @matthew_auch They dont have to play HS hockey. Go to juniors at 17 and play for 2 to 3 years. Switch to online high school like many junior guys. You will not see 20-21 year olds in juniors anymore so everything gets younger.

Hockey has a disadvantage in the high school pipeline in most of America compared to most other sports. Jr hockey gives players a chance to develop/compete with the Canadians before college starts. Also, most players are done by 24, & there aren’t the extended eligibility to 7,8,9 years like football.

@matthew_auch But they dont. Doesn't matter if they like it or not the rule has to be consistent across sports to hold up. NCAA Hockey needs a development league through age 21 but others dont? College coaches get use to coaching 19 to 23 year olds. Juniors switches to U20.

@MattMcCarthy985 Can’t have it both ways.

Valdez should hide his grips and not be a little bitch.

You’re “old school,” yet you’re bitching about being hit? Story was drilled for relaying signs, which is the old school punishment for relaying signs. I personally don’t think we should throw at guys for relaying signs. Story does, unless it’s him. Can’t have it both ways.

@JakeSotir Ghoul.

since it appears this has fully broken containment, some notes: relax, this is a joke. protect trans youth. long live punk rock. donate to RIAF: riabortionfund.org

yeah I’m sure an all-female catholic school in indiana that has an 81% acceptance rate is just absolutely crawling with liberals lmao

@JakeButkowski @billyho179 So you believe Benson and McAvoy are dirty slewfooters. No argument here.

@billyho179 If this isn't a slew foot then neither was Bensons. Thanks for playing inbred dumbfuck

That's weird, I don't see a single Boston fan talking about how the Sabres should've axe chopped mcavoy for this.... Dirty mcavoy got what was coming to him and I'm sorry if hearing that truth hurts your feelings

@sappho2000 @wroyrose @ksorbs False flag is the left's modus operandi, e.g. SPLC.

@wroyrose @ksorbs Tommy Robinson would burn it down himself if he thought it would make people hate Muslims.

This is insane. The historic Église Saint-Cyriaque church in Montenach, France, was just set on fire. Survived both world wars but couldn’t survive diversity.

@DuaneS39 So we're all in agreement, Benson, like McAvoy, is a dirty player.

Hey Bruins fans. Pot. Meet kettle.

@1hunitprctsilk @dan_grice @NotTheJoeMarino

@dan_grice @NotTheJoeMarino The rule literally has the word simultaneous in it.

It’s very clear that these braindead Bruins fans need to look up the definition of what a slewfoot is because what Benson did was simply a trip Which is what he was penalized for

@BettingThePitch Benson’s left foot is to the outside of McAvoy’s left foot. That doesn’t happen without the intention to slewfoot him.

This is one of the dirtiest things I’ve seen in a very long time. McAvoy is a coward. Anyone who says Benson slew footed him doesn’t know puck and has never touched the ice before.