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After talking to my therapist and really doing some soul searching (I really hate this term, but whatever), I have finally decided that what I want to do with my life is help others. Nothing truly makes me feel more accomplished than making someones day better, or even just giving them someone to lay their problems on/small talk with. I plan on graduating in May, and then plan to go to community college finish up my pre-requisite classes so I can apply to med school in a year. I have never felt so right about something before. Feels great.

Non hockey related but one of my customers just stopped by to give me a case of Sam Adams. Best day at work ever.

Belligerent parent has been banned from the rinks for the rest of the season. So one less thing to worry about, I guess? While it does feels like a less than satisfactory outcome, his kid still gets to play, and I'm happy about that. :)

Win-win!! Treat the kid just like every other player and hopefully parent will see that the kid is still getting great coaching in the absence of parent's badgering. Worst case, the kid will become an adult and see in hindsight that the helicopter egomaniac parent was wrong and the coaches were right.

Easton H4799Anyone remember this kind of stick tape (do they still sell it?) it's textured plastic. It's indestructible. I put this on last in about 1995 and it's lasted me since. Occasional applications of heat and pressing it back on is all it needs.This may or may not be legal curvature... :D 19 year old tape: I'm torn between grinding all the paint off and plasti-dipping the shaft... and leaving it as is with it's war wounds or grinding all the paint off and mirror polishing it. Every slapshot I take bruises my hands now that I'm an old man. But with snap shots and wrist shots, it's a beast. You can see it's lifting a little here. has been since 1995 (yes, this tape is OLD)you can see how it sorta shatters rather than falls off Also, the Sherwood blade is indestructible too. this whole setup is as is from 1995.Cooper pants (these are getting replaced with Combat MF 52 Caliber pants) Easton Synergy EQ50 Shinpads Bauer Vapor X20 Gloves CCM Supra SP500 Shoulder Pads (also getting replaced because they're choking me...) Bauer Custom Supreme 1000s (I hated these when I bought them in like 1996... so they sat until last year when my 1992 Custom Supreme 100s split a seam at the eyelets and wouldn't lace anymore... so I baked these and popped them on and they feel ok now. they still pinch my heels a little, but I just need to suck it up and break them in) I also have an Easton S19 helmet and some Bauer Vapor elbow pads Also, here's some of that old equipment back in 1993 The Cooper pants, Supra shoulderpads, H4799 and Bauer Custom Supreme 100s are visible. Kneepads were Coopers that just blew up last year on me (plastic shattered) I miss my Cooper 2000 helmet... the foam got gnarly and I had to junk it.

Went coast to coast and zinged a wrister over the goalie's shoulder, top shelf, literally got it stuck under the crossbar at a ball hockey game not too long ago.

This is the problem with today's youth. I'm seeing a lot of people making excuses for the kid and trying to find ways around the kid not doing what he was apparently asked numerous times to do. A parent found a need to discipline his child and did so. Good on him for making a hard decision.