Kevin

Yeah...you can't start much better than that! Nolan's off to a strong start too. 13 Goals, 9 Assists in 16 games on a fairly weak team.

The Brick! Instant stud.

I know that this doesn't happen often enough but they really need to start considering some of the parental makeup before forming teams. I hate the overly involved parent. "Joey is the star of the team and needs to be playing every other shift." "Jimmy sucks he shouldn't be out there." I fucking hate that team wrecking shit. We have one on our team that it doesn't matter what the coaching staff says, he continues to do his own thing on the ice because that's what daddy wants. This kid is pretty talented but he's going nowhere until his dad cuts the cord. Sounds like you made the smart choice. I'm not a fan of travelling all over the place...and certainly not for practice. I feel that the kid will rebel in that situation and that's not what I'm looking for. We already had four of our kids from last year leave for the Mercer Chiefs team. They all are hating it now in part because of the long commute to practice. Bottom line is hockey is still a game and supposed to be fun. Being on a team that's only let up 6 goals in 10 games sounds pretty fun to me!

There hasn't been much discussion here lately on everyone's season to date. My son is now playing pee-wee minor. It's been an interesting year to date but one thing I feel very comfortable with is the coaching that he has been receiving this year. Two outstanding coaches running the team. One guy is extremely sound at skill building and the other is excellent at game concepts. They complement each other very well and the kids are improving tremendously. The only problem I see right now is that the game concept coach just got hired by the new Las Vegas franchise to be a pro scout. It will impact the amount of time he will be able to practice with us.

He probably told him to "get that weak shit out of here!" We run into a lot of poor officials although the guys we had on Sunday might have been the best I've seen.

Nice saves! After the penalty shot one I thought he was going to fire the puck back at the shooter a la Roger Clemens with the broken bat at Piazza!

:thumbs: How about Rem Murray? 2001 - 2003 played 43 total games for the Rangers with 7 g and 8 assists. http://cache4.asset-cache.net/xt/53126473.jpg?v=1&g=fs2%7C0%7Ceditorial_other%7C26%7C473&s=1

Who? :confused:

Is there anything good about this time of the year with tryouts looming? It seems like every kid is going to different places and teams are jockeying for replacement parts. I'm kind of jealous of Victor Hedman's youth experience! http://www.theplayerstribune.com/victor-hedman-lightning-sweden-hockey/ One team, one place for the youth career! That'd be nice lol.

Are you guys sticking with the Avalance this year? He's going to be Bantam major, right?

Yeah, and that just compounds the other issues. I like the idea of the other league for the older kids but it doesn't make much sense for the younger guys. Unfortunately I don't think they had an option to stay in the AY with the younger guys once they committed to the other league with the older guys.

This is our first year being in a place that has a tier 1 program and I can't believe the drama that is taking place now. Five kids just left the team. The coach isn't coming back as the head coach. Major problems with the new guy. The stuff that I heard that was happening the whole season was ridiculous with the in-fighting, the parents not getting along, kids cursing out the coach...and this is with 10 year olds!

Was this because of curriculum's not matching up or did your parents make you repeat that year?

Repeating 1st grade is a little different then doing it in high school. In 1st grade you can make the argument that you're holding him back for other reasons other than possible future athletic success. At that age it's kind of tough to determine if you have a future star player anyway. Shoot, we held my oldest back after kindergarten (June b-day) but this was more for social reasons than any possible athletic benefit. But now that we're on it, I hope I reap the benefits of it athletically lol.

Wow...crazy. I never heard of this. I have seen some kids graduate high school and then do a 5th year at a prep school as a way to make themselves more appealing (didn't Boo Nieves do this?) but to basically hold out and not play one full year to make sure you're one of the older kids playing high school almost seems like cheating.

Red shirt in High School? I didn't know that was such a thing. Or is that only because they can do that extra year of prep school?

Awesome!

Did you guys win the tourney? That's a fantastic goalie stat line...4 goals in 3 games. We head up to Marlborough, MA this weekend.

Apparently our manager screwed up and didn't realize we had a league game scheduled. Hopefully we still play you guys at your place in January.

Yes

Too bad. Come over and say hello though. I am one of the assistant coaches. I'll be the bigger one. My son wears #21.

NJ Rockets AA. And '05.

I just went back and checked previous posts. He's an '05. We just scheduled a game against them for 12/5.

That sucks. What program does your son play for?

A release? Didn't every team have a chance to take him right now? Does he need a release to go play in Europe?