With regards to the statement about how "highly doubt any team from CT will qualify because they can't meet the age and grade criteria" ...
It is true that there area lot of teams out there (most often MD and Canada referenced) that play older kids down. However, there is a bit of a dynamic on this board developing where some LI people automatically assume any good non-LI team must be playing older kids down if they are competitive with the best LI teams. This is being assumed too frequently as a knee-jerk reaction with no actual knowledge. Happening in this thread right now related to the Eclipse team.
LI people, the world doesn't end if legit age/grade teams beat the best LI teams. And it is only going to happen more and more going forward ...
