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Message: [QUOTE="KembaKek, post: 4484676, member: 11340"] [USER=549]@huskymedic[/USER] is 100% correct here. I speak of Black Bear specifically because it’s a situation I’m close to but the growth of these big money programs goes well beyond this one sports group and is actually a youth hockey epidemic. I don’t know what can be done to help other than if your kid isn’t a superstar, keep them in the local programs, don’t send them to the CT Chiefs where they’re gonna have a similar development as playing for Central. Even a kid with D3 talent doesn’t need to go play for an elite program, they can play split season with a good team then play for their high school, later pursuing Tier III-II juniors hoping to go play college. In my first year of Bantam I was on the B team at ECHO, by my junior year of high school I was a point-per-game player while kids who spent $10k/year traveling to Pennsylvania every Tuesday for 8 years were the same in production or less than me. The difference was minimal. I can go deeper with so many people that I know, going through many programs, spending different numbers of money… in the end 99% come to the same dead end. [/QUOTE]