Question about leagues

[yokes]

I feel like its five years ago with MLRH & PIHA going head to head. Anyway I was wondering with the AIHL having a tournament style schedule and more than likely PIHA will fill in the teams that left in some areas, will something be in place to where a player can only play one league? MLRH had this in place years ago but PIHA did not. Also has anyone emailed PIHA and if so was there a response?

[Phelan96]

Also has anyone emailed PIHA and if so was there a response?

I sent an email with a basic question just to see if they would reply within 24 hours like they said, its' been about 3 weeks now. All I asked was is there going to be a '09 season. I couldn't even get a yes or no.

[jamiyoder]

My name is Jami Yoder. I would like to take a minute to let everyone know that my father and I have been responding to all e-mails sent to [email protected] We check this account at least 5 times a day. So if you are a player or owner with questions please feel free to e-mail or call Charley, CJ or myself at any time.

Looking forward to the "08/"09 PIHA season. Hope to see you on the floor,
Jami Yoder

[Center_ice]

That could be the fasted response ever from someone at piha!

way to go jami.

[cal16]

I dont think anyone ever said AIHL was doing tournament style play.

[minutemen]

It is not final on what AIHL will do. What was discussed at the meeting was that they MAY do both. It was proposed that each team will have 4 homes games vs one team and then each team will host a weekend. I could be wrong, so if anyone has more imput, please elaborate. But all this will be voted on by the owners as many other things.

[SPORTSPLEXJEFF]

Anyway I was wondering with the AIHL having a tournament style schedule

AIHL is leaving scheduling up to the divisions team owners. That will be their choices of format

[shootthepuck]

That could be the fasted response ever from someone at piha!


I guess we will be waiting 3 weeks for the next response :rolleyes:

[HockeyFan1989]

Has it been set, to when the season is going to start?

[minutemen]

The attacking of PIHA needs to stop. I respect Jami for posting but make sure to be more public as a representative of PIHA front office. Now I am one of the people that went to the AIHL but this battle of what league is better has to stop. Like I have posted before PIHA and the AIHL have to move on. Best of luck to both and maybe someday in the near future they can merge.

[FrankFrank]

Justin... Amen.

[yokes]

Sorry for the wrong info about AIHL playing tourney style, I was under that impression.
And I have received a response from PIHA both on IHC and through my email answering my questions.

[SPORTSPLEXJEFF]

You are right Justin. Lets stop the bashing and move on. I know I have!

[RichardGraham]

Hi Jami,

Thanks for posting. I appreciate it, especially knowing that many of the knocks on the PIHA have been over the top and unfair. (Specifically, the anonymous postings.) I think it's classy for you to come here and post after all that's transpired.

I'll cover the PIHA and the AIHL as fairly and honestly as I try to cover every other aspect of inline hockey.

Good luck in the future, and thanks again for posting.

[The_Bobcat]

This might seem like a very dumb question. But does anybody know if the players in the PIHA, or the AIHL for that matter, get paid to play.

[MrCanada]

Some do, some don't!

[growl89]

actually as of last season, none do

[Robins #2]

i enjoyed playing piha. However, my current team is merging over to the aihl, as long as its a good league i am fine with. Especially because my organization foots the bill to allow us to play for free, and travel free for the most part. As far as i know, no one currently gets paid to play. A few players told me there teams were switching as well because they were tired of traveling 4-8 hours to play two- 24 minute games and go back home. Personally, i dreaded those 6-8 hour trips. I was also told aihl was going to attempt to make a tournament style weekend. example, a team like richmond would travel 6 hours to harrisburg and boston would travel to harrisburg and those few teams would play eachother to make more use out of the weekend. I hate to see so many good teams split across two league (being piha and aihl)

[alex]

Does sound like AIHL offers some positive changes. Looking forward to that. Kinda disappointed about no cash prize though.