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Getting off the ice at Stick and Puck. Mike told me I got a "fail" on focus...:r I don't know if it was too much coffee and 2 hours on the ice or what, but I couldn't get a clear pic out of 4... That said, I thought it was a fun pic all the same.
http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/i397/EJB21/AJ.jpg

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Old people have issues with modern technology. :r
Cool picture. Hope to one day have some similar ones.

Micah did the blackstars tryout yesterday. Its the furthest club from us, but he likes the coach and the club has a development option they will allow him to do this year where he can practice with the club, but not have to play or travel with them, which is what we want. They said he may be asked to play in some crossice stuff for them but we can decline. He will be playing inhouse with all his buddies also.

Tomorrow I have to go down to LA/ Anahiem area for a training till thursday. Dads going to be crackhead in a crackhouse. Hockeymonkey, hockeygiant, hockeytron, hockeydogs, and some other shops. Trying to figure out how to stop at icewarehouse in san luis obispo, but its halfway between sj and la and when were traveling and returning they will be closed. There are some other shops also, but want to hit the big ones.

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I'd LOVE to run the gauntlet of those stores one day..... Just made a small purchase at the Monkey....closeout protective stuff with the SUMMER20, it was too good to pass up. Their handling/shipping charges suck balls, but at least this time they shipped same day, which turns into 2 day shipping for me.

Still have never been as impressed with an online hockey retailer, as I am with icewarehouse...those guys/girls kick tail! If you are able to work out getting there, I am interested to hear what you think.

Safe travels!

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@ third rink in 3 nights.... Last Start Smart skate, 1st round of playoffs for the JVers in the mens league & now round 1 for the Varsity in the HS Summer League....

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Well I wouldn't have guess that.....:( Varsity Summer Season is over that quick.... Couldn't get the lead all game long, Good Guys tie it up with about 1:30 to go.....gave up the game winning goal with :12.......ugh...

Little Man slapped this at the goal, rebound was blasted in by a teammate coming in from the left.... Tied the game up towards the end of the second.

http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/...B21/SVvJ20.jpg

Celebration ensues....

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Big smile coming to the bench....

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Couple of the Little One on Monday night......

http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/...byHockey32.jpg

This is a slapshot going nowhere near the net....:r

http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/...byHockey30.jpg

Little celebration after another goal....

http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/...byHockey33.jpg

http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/...byHockey29.jpg

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Awesome pics guys! Love how proud of your kids you all are!

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Micah was offered a spot on the Stars mite cross ice tournament team.
The Stars are doing something unique this year. They have a full blown travel team which will play full ice tournaments and games around the state and also a mite cross ice jamboree tournament team which will only do cross ice stuff in the bayarea. 3-4 jamborees during the season. Both teams will practice together. This is exactly what we were hoping for. He will get to participate in high level practices without the travel stuff. He really likes the coach who is super friendly and positive.

He is also going to do inhouse with his buddies. He is going through withdrawals right now. Hes only been skating once a week and playing roller one day. He got used to skating a lot more and misses skating more.

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Video of Micahs shootout goal from Golden State Hockey Camp allstar game. Goali was 7 or 8. He might be the goalie for his cross ice team. Sorry about the audio. Its from the game video. The shot actually took three tries to complete. The first time either the goalie came out before the whistle or there were kids on the ice still. Second attempt Micah left before the whistle so they blew it dead.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwfcKYEM_4U

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I love hockey. When I was a kid on the farm it was all we had to do in winter. My old man was a fearsome hockey dad... I still remember my 1st goal. Unfortunately it was against my team :sl

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Watched it on my phone this AM.....EXCELLENT! GO MICAH!!!


I almost spit out my coffee.....good stuff, Adam....:r

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Holy chit...the pups won! 2 assists for the LM....

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My boys love hockey as well. It made me miss them while I'm away from them :)

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"Summer11" code at purehockey.com. 20% no tax free shipping after 40.00

Some good deals.

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Had an S19 for the Little One in my cart yesterday, but I had a moment of clarity and moved on....

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Luls Micah has two on the way. That is probably the best youth stick made. Kevlar wrapped really holds up to abuse. Hoping will last him the season. At $40 a pop thats a deal and a half. They are selling for 89.00 plus tax locally.

Grabbed a pair of those Youth Easton gloves also. Broke down to $12.80 for a pair. And grabbed a pair of the youth warrior bentley shinguards. $16.00. There selection isnt great, but given he he really needs a set of cheap gear for roller this sale was awesome. Pretty good quality stuff for very cheap.

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First day of travel practice. Hes the youngest but by far not the worst. Yeah!

So far hes doing pretty well with the drills. All the club skating this summer definitely helped

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Good news, Mike!

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Ordered on tuesday morning from pure hockey UPS just got the notice of label today. Wont ship out till tonight. 4 days to ship. Weak!

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That is a pet peeve of mine.... IMO, with today’s tech, anything ordered before noon, should ship that day. Maybe those are unrealistic expectations, but I have them and if a place cannot live up to them, they may not get my business.

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I love ordering from amazon and newgg for this reason.... I know its not hockey related, but still.

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Yeah I was suprised when I got the email today. Assumed it had already shipped. Then got the email today that they had printed a tracking number and not even shipped.

I agree on Amazon being crazy fast. My wife orders things from them just for this reason.

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Anyone have interaction with hockeyoutlet.com before? I REALLY need to find some white/orange/black RBK Edge socks and they look to have them.....so I'm pulling the trigger this morning unless someone would suggest otherwise.

Had the HS Regular Season Meeting/BBQ last night.... First on ice practice in 2 weeks, drylands start next week. The Little One has ratings on the 10th and 15th... Here we go again....:D

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Well, ordered 2 pair of the white and 1 pair of the black(blacks are easy to find) and I recieved a USPS shipping number, so that is good news.....

Now I am crossing my fingers then white show up like I expect(W/O/B) and not like I don't want(W/O)...........

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never dealt with them.

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Arrived in 2 days, just as ordered. Hockeyoutlet.com gets a :tu from me.

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Today was a bit of a culture shock for this hockey family. The Blackstars had the intro team party today. The party was at a parents house. The house was unreal. Based on zillow the house was worth about 5 million dollars. Multiple players parents lived in the same neighborhood. This kind of explained why the lady recommended we buy two home and away jerseys. I am planning on one each. Walking up to the house we felt odd. My wife and I are very low key people.

Then things got more interesting. The boys all went to a 1hr practice on the other side of the property while the parents talked or helped. The dryland practice was run by a coach from Slovakia who has coached nhlers including my favorite Pavelski. We were also informed he will run an on ice practice for the boys tomorrow. The guy is associated with this.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=57925131582

The boys were then told that in September they will play in the Sharks Arena before the teal and white Sharks team scrimage. The boys will use the visitor locker room, meet some of the players, and some of them may skate with the boys. It's capped at 20 for the two squads so Micah may or may not get picked for the on ice portion. He's played there twice though with the san Jose in-house minimite program. Today my wife and I just kept looking at each other like what did we get ourselves into. We just wanted Micah to get better coaching.

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Welcome to travel hockey my friend. You will find a few others like you but not many.

Maybe that's why we get along. :).

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The guy in the red shirt was the guy. They had multiple stations going.
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Al I tell you I can't really write what I was thinking, but we just largely kept to ourselves. The wife tended to Jonah and I kept busy playing with our girls Hannah and Leah. Originally it was just going to me and the boy. Glad the family came as man was I out of place. Send you a pm soon.

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We are right there with you. Virtually every team my son has been on, we were on the low rung in regards to the socioeconomic ladder. We still are. A couple years ago he was on a team with a boy who had his own rink on their property. And I don't mean a backyard do-it-yourself rink. This thing is impressive, they have a zamboni too.

Not to mention their house, which looked like a ski resort. In Dayton Ohio! lol!

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Scott reminds me of this here.
http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/s...y.php?id=11256
He had to take the dome off not sure what the end result was. There are people in the bayarea with insane money. At age 17 out here Tier travel can run over 15k per year.

Little man got his nickname from the coach. Coach nicknamed him Thor. Micah wanted Pikachu the Pokemon, but his coach said he just couldn't see himself yelling Pikachu during a game. :r

Got those S19 sticks for $40 each from pure hockey. Only youth stick who's blade is made like an adult stick with the weave. Hoping they hold up.

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...y/IMAG0491.jpg

The boy was geeked.
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...y/IMAG0490.jpg

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Good stuff, Mike.... I am kinda questioning not buying one.... Though I am sure the Little One will survive..... Back on the ice in 10 days!

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My kids team this year, new jerseys (again? wtf coach!?!?!?) and one new player. My kid is 4th from the left.

2011-2012 Queen City Steam Bantam Minor AAA:

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Looking good, Scott!

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Nice, positive vibes for a great season.

If they take a team pic of his team I will post his up.

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Last night our house league had Ratings & Conditioning for the mites. I was able to bring my son with me to help coach(cat heard) the kids through the drills. Mom was working, so I kept Abby on the ice for both sessions. I could see the smile through her cage, a mile wide, as she would skate by her brother or me, going through drills.

There are times in life that are as close to perfect as it gets, last night was one... Life is good being a hockey parent....

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I go from the perfect night above to getting the shaft...... Go to all the coaches meetings, do my background check, USA hockey, ratings & conditioning ect.... I go to the draft tonight and they pull assistant coaches names out of a hat and I don't get pulled. I should be clear that there were coaches pulled that have been to none of the above....Hell, they were not there tonight....

Mind you, he told me he cut the list off when it was full, so the director obviously added names.... Pretty pissed off right now, but what am I going to do about it....

I have really been looking forward to coaching the Little One.... What a shitty night....

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That's crap brother I am sorry that happened. Part of the reason I buddied up with his inhouse coach and our sons became friends was so I could help coach on the ice. That and I play the heavy so he can be the nice guy. I have been tempted to offer to assist coaching his travel club because at.times the practices are very disfunctional, but its our first year so I am just keeping my mouth shut largely. Just been giving Micah direction off the ice on who to avoid, but its tough some of these kids need a swift kick in the ass because the parents clearly have failed.

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Thanks, Mike....

It is disappointing. In fact more than disappointing, I am sad about losing out on this and pissed feeling like I was mislead. I will see what I can do to make sure this doesn’t happen again….(latch onto a head coach to be a #1 assistant, which is assured a spot). The Little One is good enough, I assume it shouldn’t be a problem.

I went online shopping at Ice Warehouse to drown my sorrows. The Little Man needed new gloves(have promised him X60’s for 2 weeks) and the Little One needed a neck guard. I put in wrist guards(LM) and an Ai9(LO) as extra treats. Have NO IDEA what prompted the Ai9.....talk about impulse purchase....:r:r

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Ai9 has been dumped.... It was going to hold up the entire order for 25ish days(pre-release order), so I dumped it, added a new jock/cup and it should ship today.


High School plays an intersquad scrimmage tonight....:tu

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Fun game tonight, Little Man found the back of the net on an adequate slapshot mid way through the first. He said that he didn't get it all and tells me there might be something wrong with his stick....not what my wallet likes to hear....

http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/...Scrimmage5.jpg

http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/...Scrimmage6.jpg

For no apparent reason, he started dancing a jig late in the third, before a puck drop. There were some girls there banging on the glass calling his name, but he already has a date for homecoming Friday....;)

http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/...crimmage25.jpg

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Gotta love the Puckbunnies!

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They can ruin a season :r. I have learned they come at all ages. This week in kindergarten was sharing things that start with the letter S. Micah brought his S19 Stick and talked about playing for two hockey teams this year and how he also plays roller. He has some fans already, but yesterday I had a two moms come up and discuss how their daughters talked all about Micah being a hockey player all night.

Playing for a team who's kids has money has a plus. Free lightly used Bauer Total One Yth.
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...y/IMAG0372.jpg

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WTF someone dumped you a TotalOne?????

SCORE!

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He moved to squirt this year and transitioned to Jr. Sticks now. I no care I can haz free total one. $60 in my pocket. Sticks in really good shape. As discussed prior he plays with a longer stick, but damn I can't imagine him using a stick that short in 2 years.

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That is win all day long.... I thought old sticks always became garage sticks...having someone give you a stick that fits(or is even close) is a huge bonus....:tu

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Went to the Little One's first practice last night.... It is disappointing that I am not on the ice with her, but I will say that I am impressed with the coaches that are.


So give me some advice, being that the Little Man never had a girl on his team through all his years, until half of last year with the HS(her mom pulled her because of grades apparently). Is it unreasonable to ask the coach(s) to have the kids show up dressed enough(hockey jock shorts or the like) that she can be in the locker room full time?

She is the only girl on her team and even through Start Smart has always dressed in a locker room by herself and went on the ice to meet everyone. Same with yesterday, she is dressing by herself, can hear all the banter next door, finishes about the same time and everyone heads to the ice. To me, it doesn't feel like you're part of the team. You're missing out on some of what makes a team, a team. I can tell that she wants to be in there, talking, laughing ect.

There are private bathrooms and there are moms in there anyway.... I understand that there will come a time when this is not reasonable, but at the Mite level?

Maybe that is just the way it is and we have to deal with it.... Just trying to feel out what is the norm.

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^^^^ see above....help me out!!

But on to other things.... Homecoming 2011....

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That's a tough one.E.J. I see your point, but parents will just as quickly say I don't have time or can't dress them at home. The other thing is your now the person asking the whole team alter the behavior which is part of the game. You may also see backlash from the boys who have to accommodate. I know Micah has begun to become more modest in the locker room as he approaches 6. I would attempt to accommodate the parent who asked, but know some parents who wouldn't. I guess just email the coach and ask. I have not dealt with this yet, but if a parent asked me I would attempt to accommodate and have parents put bottoms on early. You are always going to have parents who show up last minute though and this will likely never work smoothly.

Tell those damn kids they need get off the grass. Ahhh to be young again. Youth is wasted on the young.

Boy is happy I am burnt out.
THURSDAY~SUNDAY he was on the ice everyday and played roller on Saturday and Sunday.

I am done. Laying on couch, wife is not bugging me to do anything. Micah is still going hard running around the house.