Count London Knight Michael Moffat, a product of the Waterloo Wolves AAA system, as an opponent of the merger between Kitchener and Waterloo AAA teams. He calls it one of the best rivalries going - the best kid hockey players from neighbouring cities playing against each other.
Ryan Pyette of the London Free Press caught up with Moffat recently. One wonders how, in his AAA days, Moffat might've enjoyed playing on amalgamated teams that could have challenged the best in Ontario, not just bragging rights in the Twin Cities.
Once the new system gets rolling, people will settle in and embrace it as the best thing since sliced bread.
People in London know all about hockey organizations which once thought they were bitter rivals coming together to form teams, albeit at lower levels than AAA. Hockey families from London Minor Hockey Association in the city's east end and the South London Flyers were brought together to form competitive teams under the South-Southeast Wild moniker. Before that, the entire Southeast Bruins organization was folded into the Flyers.
As for the rivalry between Kitchener and Waterloo, that will continue at lower categories of minor hockey and between high schools.
And least until Kitchener, Waterloo and neighbouring Cambridge finally get around to amalgamating their municipalities. The AAA minor hockey merger is just a warm-up act for that.
Ryan Pyette of the London Free Press caught up with Moffat recently. One wonders how, in his AAA days, Moffat might've enjoyed playing on amalgamated teams that could have challenged the best in Ontario, not just bragging rights in the Twin Cities.
Once the new system gets rolling, people will settle in and embrace it as the best thing since sliced bread.
People in London know all about hockey organizations which once thought they were bitter rivals coming together to form teams, albeit at lower levels than AAA. Hockey families from London Minor Hockey Association in the city's east end and the South London Flyers were brought together to form competitive teams under the South-Southeast Wild moniker. Before that, the entire Southeast Bruins organization was folded into the Flyers.
As for the rivalry between Kitchener and Waterloo, that will continue at lower categories of minor hockey and between high schools.
And least until Kitchener, Waterloo and neighbouring Cambridge finally get around to amalgamating their municipalities. The AAA minor hockey merger is just a warm-up act for that.
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