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  1. 3 points
    Top stripes disrupt the balance of the jersey. Should've been eggplant instead of black. #anotherblackjersey
  2. 3 points
    BINGO^^^ If it’s not the kids dream, you’re behind the 8 ball and better rethink. You can’t buy drive. Funny story, we were out in Boston and my pup was crushing. We were sitting around the hotel bar after, having drinks, keep getting “Where is she going to prep school.” “What’s he plan.” It was odd the looks I’d get when I said, there is no plan, just having fun and honestly, probably just going to the U. Wants to be a teacher. Will end up playing beer league somewhere. Looks boarded on disgust. She he has an amazing amount of drive.(funny, my son didn’t get any drive until he was a freshman in HS, didn’t play anything but rec hockey until he was a Jr. in HS). Shoots pucks for hours in the drive. Works hands with a golf ball watching TV. Is becoming crazy on diet and fitness. Comes down and asks to go to S&P or drop ins that I didn’t even know were happening. That said, doesn’t want to billet where offered(no tryout, just camps or word of mouth) and is content & happy. One of the teams she’ll play on this coming year was word of mouth, text out of the blue with offer for spring teams which we declined & then offer for season which we accepted. Guess end of the day, as a hockey parent, I am most interested in raising a great kid(already did one to adulthood), hopefully have them get a good education(X2) & support all their hopes and dream. All three of those have nothing to do with outside forces. I’ll conclude with an awesome story of raising a great kid and tonight. I was working the box and one of her old coaches was coming on next and visited me. We chatted for a bit and the game ended during that time 10M(during game and shorty after) or so. She obviously noticed at some point and skated over to say hello to him, give him a handshake, that became a hug. I just stood there and was proud. I am not sure why that stands out to me, but I guess could have just rolled off the ice, but wanted to touch base and I thought it was awesome. (how’s that for a who I am dump. Probably posted too much in this thread)
  3. 3 points
    It is nice to hear these perspectives, good thread. I'm of the age to have kids playing hockey, but don't have any kids. I do seem to have noticed a shift in the desirability of the low range of higher end teams. Growing up in New England in the '90's, it seemed to me that if you were really good the goal was D1, Jr A, maybe even HS prep. Lower level juniors and DIII seemed to be viewed more as "eh, whatever". Now kids are pushing to try to get on a junior C team, or having press releases for committing to a DIII school that is essentially a community college. There are more kids playing hockey and not many more D1 or JR A teams, so that could at least explain part of it. Pouring money into specialty youth hockey with the goal of playing high level hockey is such a crap shoot, even for very talented players. On my youth teams I played with a bunch of future DIII players, a few D1 players, a 5th round NHL draft pick, and our rival team actually had a guy currently on the tail end of a decade long NHL career. So I did get to see the development of a number of good players. It truly is a crap shoot. The best player I played with just stopped growing at 5'5". Yes, technically not impossible to move up the ranks at that height, but orders of magnitude harder than if you are 6'2" or something. Barring injury or something fluky, I fully believe he would have made it to the NHL if he had decent size. Meanwhile, the kid who was drafted, I was a winger on his line for a number of years. He was very obviously very talented. However, he was also very lazy. He could get away with it as he was just a notch better than 95% of the other players on the ice. But he never went further than a D1 3rd liner. I saw him play a college game and it was amazing seeing the exact same lazy habits on the ice that he had as a 12 year old. He just didn't have the drive on the ice that was necessary. I'm a bit involved with the local youth program and I'm amazed by the apparent indifference by some of the kids. Their parents are spending time and money on travel teams and camps, but the kids show little to no interest in playing informally. For example, I try to organize neighborhood street or roller hockey games and the same kids who will drive 10 hours to a tournament, don't want to get off their couch and walk to two blocks to play street hockey. When we were kids (and somewhat still...) my brother and I would play any type of hockey, any time. Even things like playing in the driveway with a frisbee after losing all our balls and our folks wouldn't take us to the store. So I hope their folks are enjoying the trips because clearly those kids do not have the drive to go much of anywhere playing hockey. Over the years, I've also come to the conclusion that I love playing hockey more than at least 95% of players 🙂
  4. 1 point
    Down to my last new pair.
  5. 1 point
    The Tacks 710 is probably the best helmet on the market right now. It undercuts the Re-Akt by about a hundred dollars and it just fits better around the temples as well as feeing lighter than the Bauer.
  6. 1 point
    The Nashville sale is tomorrow.
  7. 1 point
    Not at all, great posts and good to hears there are still people with perspective, although it seems it is still an uphill battle. i think something that helps just like anything is finding like-minded people to connect to within your org or team. Then the conversations you have with them help reinforce the sanity mindset. The barometer has to be fun, its easy to measure. Th last couple of days at this little camp my son was doing i was justwatcching to see if he was smiling on the ice. He went down jard a couple times diring some skating drills and knowing him that could have made him want to stop, but he kept going and was all smiles th whole time. Told me how fun freeze tag was so he wants to go back to camp. It was a real eye opener for me beczuse during that freeze tag game when they were chasing the coaches they were doing their best skating. He was doing tight turns, edges digging in and ice chips flying and i bet he had no idea. i learned a lot about coaching little kids this week from watching this guy, who was only 26 but was so good with the kids, it was impressive. He kept their attention, held them accountable for doing the skills, made rhem laugh, was super organized, and ran a great camp. He isnt in our organization but i am definitely sending my son to him for anything beyond our regular ADM stuff (plus, as much as i love coaching my kids, it is good for them to have other coaches as well imo).
  8. 1 point
    If anyone has any questions on Bauer’s myBauer program, please feel free to post your questions on this thread and I will do my best to answer when possible. @JRB: Let’s touch base next week on LS5.
  9. 1 point
    I should add too that it is more realistic for the average hockey player to get academic scholarship money then athletic money. I came to that realization pretty early on and put a lot of effort into school and got a nice academic scholarship and played ACHA hockey and had a blast.
  10. 1 point
    My buddy falls into that camp. His kid is around 8 and he was telling me how he justifies to his wife the number of hockey teams and camps he sends his son to. "I just want him to get a little money for college..." I didn't have the heart to tell him yet how few hockey scholarships are available, I think there is time for him to come to his senses. When our kids were skating together playing tag or whatever, anything his son did he would point out. "Did you see how he dipped his shoulder there to fake him out? Somebody was telling me that was really advanced!" "Did you see his feet on that move..?" Etc. People aren't realistic. We had a high school goalie come out to our ACHA practice because he was thinking of coming. He wasn't even a starter for his HS team, got lit up in practice, but proceeded to tell us in the office afterward he is looking at DIII NCAA programs primarily.
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    I had a client who had that idea about his son for baseball. He sent that kid to every camp, private lessons, and the like. When you added it all up, he could have sent the kid to an upper-crust State university on the money he spent. The worst part? No college scholarship for that kid!
  12. 0 points
    Yes, they are custom.



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