It's not a Preds boast but a prediction of the future of DCE. If DCE is not going to play in Elite, the founder will fold up the club. His son is done with HoCo and he has very little incentive to keep it going. The 2027 feeder BLC team was average before the coach walked out during the pandemic with 13 players and now they aren't very competitive at all. The 2028 BLC team isn't good either. DCE 2027's might make it to the summer season only because they collect the team fee for the year.
You are correct. The DCE 2027 got no one from NL, a couple of DMV ML players, a couple of VLC. and a couple of Team MD. Otherwise, the core is the BLC 2027's and that's not very good.
The 2026 DCE team comes into this because it was a first year club playing Elite.
Hmmm, not sure how you could call 2026 DCE a "first year club" for the spring 2022 season when I'm guessing it was mostly the 2026 BLC Blue team renamed DCE. 2026 BLC Blue played in Elite in 2021, so it was not a big deal that they would continue in Elite for 2022 as the rebranded 2026 DCE.
Unless 2027 DCE puts on incredible fall and spring thaw tournament showings against elite level teams, the competition committee will keep them in AAA.
