Bob/retired/troublemaker! and Shearer: We'll have to agree to disagree on the term "domination"; I just don't see it - tremendous competition and many close games.
I agree with the congratulations of all of the players, parents, and coaches. In my opinion, Andrew Hyslop and Pearse Tormey deserve a tremendous amount of credit for superb execution of the merger as well. The thing about mergers of anything is that the good ones make it appear deceptively easy, while the bad ones make all mergers look impossible. You've got to look no further than Atlanta at the Silverbacks "merger" to realize all of the possible pitfalls of this kind of thing not done well.
