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Brains help too.

"IF you pick the player, you play him" I agree. In Southern MN there are many towns that field only 1 bantam team. No one picks the team, it just is. We have had several players that have decided to start as bantams, joining our A team. I don't think anyone would disagree that there are ti...

hockeydad0930 wrote:It is true...Edina lost to CC 3-2 in OT in the semis of the EP tourney.

I wondered if they shouldn't have played B...

A common problem in many cities with changing demographics. Small towns with 1 high school with 1000 students. 10 years ago those 1000 students came from families with football, hockey, basketball & baseball traditions. It is now common for 50% of the class to have none of these sports in their ...

mulefarm wrote:

hocmom wrote:How many will start the season with a full roster? We are down a half dozen between booze & chew.

Must be a real dedicated crew?

I don't think dedication is the problem. Brains are.

How many will start the season with a full roster? We are down a half dozen between booze & chew.

During my 15 years on the board I was tournament director for a few, back when we charged at the door. Our assn recently switched to "guaranteed gate", 300.00 per team I think. A guaranteed gate is SO MUCH easier. You don't have to slot in volunteers, no sticky fingers in the cash. We alwa...

Nice post. I hope the last part is not true, though. I mean, during tryouts sure! But once teams form, it's all one happy family, no matter where you come from... for a year anyway.

What if the incoming player is an excellent goalie?....

Amazing day on the ice. We implemented the nutrition training with all coaches dressing within the four main food groups. Although the kids were looking for a handout after practice, we enforced that this is not a Holloween exercise. If we keep them eating right and staying out of "three car g...

I have been coaching for over 20 years in the same successful program Not everyone is the same. Some are just starting out. No one can know how much you know. How do you develop a program that is perfect for the beginner and the veteran? Would some vetrans benefit from a new idea or two? 20 years c...

A bit of nutrition info would be good, but very few would listen. It must be hard to coach that kid that just spent an hour in the car with a 847 ounce Monster drink and two bags of skittles. I would think coaches would prefer this to having to spend a day at a seminar. Outstate you have to pay atte...

In my 20 years on the board I had many jobs. I am more of an organizer than a hockey person. I ran tournaments, did fundraising, I was the pres for a bit, ran the meetings. Flipped lots of pancakes, that type of thing. The power trip is huge. I agree that it is good to have a mix of vetrans and new ...

Local boards reserve the right to refuse service. Our assn came close with one player that could not behave. Tripping, slashing, injury stuff. He eventually got in trouble with park & rec for behavior off the ice and they banned him from the building, solving the boards problem. Parents have bee...

InigoMontoya wrote: Can the local association refuse to allow the kid an opportunity to play hockey?

Local boards are given lots of lattitude. District Boards are made up of mostly former/current members of local boards, same with state boards. These people have had to deal with all of this stuff many times over.

We had one family that bounced all over looking for someone that would recognize just how great Johnny was. They live in the land of perpetual dissatisfaction. There had to be an association somewhere that would recognize that dad was a genius and adopt all of his great ideas while he drank Mountain...

My suggestion would be to allow the player back, but not the parents.

I picture you lacking where it counts.

Illegal curve?

HD41 - Still in Mites...right?

Many people are far to busy doing far much more important things than joining a hockey board. At the same time they are much smarter than the average board member. They brim with brand new ideas that have never been tried before. They have a solid grasp of how hockey is too expensive and too much is...

That makes it much clearer...

I was more wondering it you were thinking:

OH BOY! Another poor unfortunate A player screwed by the man...

OR...

OH BOY! Another goofy hockey parent convinced his son is the 2nd coming...

OR EVEN...

OH BOY! This should be interesting.

One of these?

flexiblefish wrote:
It's a long story. Actually it's a short story. But the one thing I did learn was how good a kid I have and to bring a vid camera to tryouts next time.


Inigo = Oh, boy...

Ingo, what did you mean by "Oh, boy" ?

Sarcasm is lost on some. Over my 15 years on the board we have had mutliple complaints about tryouts. It does seem that the multiple complaints come from 2 or 3 families. Point was that in spite of the dozens of times that our judges have misplaced kids we have yet to see an obviously misplaced kid ...

We have one of those heated boot dryers. Keeping skates dry really helps. I swear when we first got it a skate lost 1/2 of it's weight.

It is good to remember that the grass is not always greener. The stories that parents and board members swap are pretty much the same from one town to the next. Years ago one of my kids played on a B team with 3 or 4 other kids who's parents were convinced they got hosed at tryouts. You would have t...

Out of curiosity, why move?