[quote=Anonymous] Do you really think WCS is made up of the best players west of the Mississippi? Seriously, do you really think that?
Can’t help but notice that WCS came all the way out here but then scurried back home without even trying to play Predators. Telling.
+1 WCS would get rolled by the Preds. The Preds are the premier national club program west of the Atlantic.
+ 100 Predators are talk of Baltimore. Best up and coming Club in Balt/DC . Will soon be a powerhouse that will get the same treatment on BOTC that Hawks, Crabs, ML get now. Cant stop the inevitable
Appreciate the optimism, it’s fun for a chuckle, but this team has a loooooong way to go to even be a AAA team. They lost 15-1 to the first Elite team they played.
Yeah the Preds thing is weird. Seems like it came together quick and then suddenly they are getting beat up by ML every weekend. What kind of plan is that.
At the same time, I think people would agree that FCA White. Blue Claws, HLC are good standards for what a competitive but non dominant AAA team should look like. And ML smokes them all on the regular by 10-15+ points. So I am not sure that is a good barometer for non-elite teams.
That is a great point. It was idiotic to put a brand new team with 4 practices, no goalie and FOGO in two elite tournaments out the gate. And how many teams add players to their roster without knowing their skill set, experience, level of play, etc.?
We played Preds 2028 this fall. Aside from the poor goalie who looked like he was being shot out of a cannon, and the fact that they won 0 FOs using 10 kids........ I don't know....they could pass. They had a couple of decent shots. The poles occasionally woke up and did something other than panicking at being put in a 6v3 drill for the 15th time in the same game. I don't remember them being big.
I would call it the look of decent college football players showing up to scrimmage NFL players. You may have the skill but can you operate in a next level game at full speed? In the case of the Preds, no they cannot.
And guess what, starting over with a 50-100% brand new roster next year will not fix that either. They got 20 kids or whatever who I assume can catch and run laps since it seemed like a bunch of FCA, Crabs, and KP? FH? green helmets. Train them. They stole Koopers practice fields now go beat Koopers for starters. Leave ML to the teams that are actually up to the challenge.
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