These Canadian teams are like lambs led to the slaughter. They often match up against teams they have no business playing anyway. Massillon Perry played two Canadian squads in their first three games went 8-2 and missed the playoffs. The early poundings caught up to them eh?
The Rourke kid is a big kid. I have stood next to him at Kent and one of the Maction games. A legit 6-4.
The one, West TorontoPrep, played 6 Ohio schools, all of them traditional powers, two of the best schools in Western PA, Brentwood Academy out of Tennessee and a school out of Maryland. Needless to say, they hung a donut.
So what is the incentive for them to cross the border and receive their beating? It seems scheduling them is on the AD when they cost you in playoff standings.
The incentive for the Canadian teams is that most of them are clubs that have some affiliation with a High School or a sanctioning body and the need for games. These games are also a cultural trip, OHIO and PA schools rarely play games in Canada (in fact I know of none who have ever made that trip), as for play-offs if you schedule the right one, they can be a boon for play-off points, and every school wants a good easy win on their schedule.
In Perry's case they happened to be in the toughest DII Region, their Harbin totals would have put them in the play-offs in the other 3 Regions, at no less than a #7 seed. However in their region their point total had them at #14, going 9-1 would have left them on the outside looking in as well.