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Originally Posted by Northendzone
of course my wife is beside herself in how he could potentially be a late cut from the northstars and wind up playing on team 3/4 for our association if he is unable to get to many of his scheduled community tryouts - i tried to explain it to her, but she thought our association should look at it's policy.....
i am happy/proud to report that last night they cut two goalies and he was not one of the cuts - they are now down to 14 goalies. 6 are in the AAA intersquad game and 8 are in the two AA squad game. so to me this ultimately suggests that you have 8 goalies duking it out for two roster spots and there will presumably be some goalies affiliated.
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- What is your assoc. policy? Some will put them wherever and some will presume that anyone lasting through most of quadrant tryouts will be one of the better guys (which is not necessarily true). It would probably be a good idea to check that out. Some associations give more autonomy to coaches than others in regards to stuff like this.
- Likely, yes and no. It depends on what the AAA plans to do. If there is a goalie that is clearly the best, they are really trying out 7 guys for one spot, and realistically only 2 or 3 for that spot (in their mind). The players in the intersquad don't necessarily go to AAA camp or are on the AAA radar. It's likely they take 5 to the AAA camp so they can drop 1 to each AA team. That goalie that doesnt go to AAA camp goes through the AA draft, and that's not to say that they make a team. Goalies are so hard to judge in a few short sessions and rankings can change pretty quickly.
Some of what the intersquad game is is just filling out space in the game with borderline players. For example, our AAA guys had a guy in their intersquad last night that all the AA coaches said they would very likely cut. Since the AAA never really planned on taking that kid anyway, we cut him.