NIHL 2012 Seeding Round Update

We are hearing that there was not a lot of movement of teams this year. At least part of the reason was that there were more teams this year. At Squirt, there were 3 more Gold teams and 4 more Silver teams in the seeding round. That resulted in fewer slots needing to be filled. PeeWee had a similar phenomenon, with 4 more Gold teams and 3 more Silver teams.

The Squirt level is likely to see only 2-3 Bronze teams (Leafs #3 and Hawks #3) move up and the 3 winless teams move down (Bulldogs #2, Huskies #1, and Maniax #1). Elite is probably going to come out something like this:

Falcons
Cyclones
Ice Dogs
Hawks
Falcons #2
Northbrook
Wilmette
St Jude

It looks like only 2 Bronze tiers to go with 2 Silver tiers and ... could it be 2 Gold tiers?

The PeeWee level is also going to see those 2-3 Bronze teams move up (Sabres #3, Winnetka #3, Jets #3) and the teams with less than 2 points move down (Maniax #2, Wolf Pack #2, Maulers #1). Elite could be:

St. Jude
Glenview
Hawks
Huskies
Northbrook
Cyclones
Bulldogs
Bloomington


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