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My kid's team played their long time rivals this weekend, and boy are they good. After a loss in game one, I told Cam to stop giving them so much respect. He listened:
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Love it, Scott! & Steam takes the puck & fills the net on the other side...!!
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Varsity preseason starts tonight against old rivals.... Will be extra special, as it is at a rink I have not been to since I was in HS....strange, because it is only 15-20 minutes away... I am sure it will bring back some great memories....
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One of the puck bunnies in the boys class gave him this today.
Kindergarten. Yikes! http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...y/IMAG0399.jpg The back side is covered in flowers, hearts, rainbows, butterflies, and gallons. Ugggh. Micah is a bit confused by her intentions. |
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Waiting for the LM to hit the ice. Another day, another rink. 3rd different rink in as many days..... I need more rest, dragging today...
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Decided to get in a 4th rink....:tu Though I went over it & it is actually 4 rinks in 5 days....but have been to the rink 6 of 7(LM has been all 7). |
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Looking good, Scott!
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Played a split squad exhibition against a local AA Bantam team last night. I really didn't know what to expect. Good guys won 5-2(think that is what it was?). Nothing great of the LM out of the camera, but the shot with the goalie is kinda cool, as it is a friend of his that played with us last night due to one of our goalies being hurt and the other not being able to play. He is a great kid and I try to convince his dad to have him come play for us(he is a freshman and the only 2 goalies in our system are seniors)....
Off to another game(JV) in about 3 hours... http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/...nandRobbie.jpg http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/i397/EJB21/JB.jpg |
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The Little One had her first game as a year 1 Mite today. In reality, her first hockey game with a team. I somehow forgot to shoot in RAW and really butchered the photos, but nothing I can do about it now.
Hat Trick, all cleaning up garbage, including her own rebound. Celebrating her first goal... http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/.../Wildcats1.jpg Staying hydrated http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/.../Wildcats2.jpg Getting some rest... http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/.../Wildcats3.jpg Drop the puck! http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/.../Wildcats4.jpg |
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Celebrating goal 2...
http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/.../Wildcats5.jpg More celebration of goal II http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/.../Wildcats6.jpg Little break away, approaching the goal.... Shot was stopped... http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/.../Wildcats7.jpg But followed it and pushed it in for her hat trick... http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/.../Wildcats8.jpg Pretty happy about her first game.... http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/.../Wildcats9.jpg |
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All three of us in(at) the penalty box yesterday.....
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Awesome picks love the penalty box one.
Dude talk about brain fart. We have a girl on Micahs travel team. She's 8. They are Russian but they change her in the locker room. It totally slipped my mind. It reminded me the other day when they were changing her in the locker room and she was topless and it caught me by suprise She was on the team last year as well. Nobody really even thinks about it. Nobody takes bottoms off. |
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Got his helmet decals on. He has his first jamboree with his club this Saturday night. I will be working so my dad will take him. |
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He has been marked!
Nice.... How is he liking the Cascade(M11)? What are your thoughts now that he has had it for a bit? |
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I like those high kidney pads on your daughter's shorts. After passing blood several times all the way through college, I wish that we had them. Glad to see the improved safety equipment making its way down to the real young players.
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My kid just got an M11, and played a pretty physical weekend in Detroit at the Warrior Invitational Tournament. At first I was a little hesitant because of the back plate that is used to tighten the helmet, but once the helmet is on and tight, it's not really a concern.
I like how light it feels and I know he likes the increased air flow. We have Cleveland coming down for games tomorrow, I'll see if I can get the wife to get a few pics of it in action (I am always relegated to music and timekeeping at home games!) |
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The boys went 2-2, but didn't make it out of pool play sadly. They lost the first 2, and won the second 2. The funny thing is, his team only has 14 players to begin with and 2 of those are goalies. 1 boy is out with an injury and didn't make the trip and after the first 2 losses another boy got sick and went home. So for the final 2 games, they rolled 2 lines. It was insane, I'd loved to hear what those teams thought that were beaten with only 10 skaters. Thanks about the avatar, it's a pic I took a couple weeks ago, and BlackSmyth converted it to the avatar for me. The boys have Cleveland Lumberjacks coming down tomorrow and Sunday, so cross your fingers! |
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So after finding this wiping down my skates after Stick & Puck yesterday....
http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/...kateHolder.jpg I wondered about getting the holders replaced, but then just decided on new skates. Unfortunately, with a size 13.5-14 foot depending on brand, I can't just go try a few different skates on at the LHS to see what tickles my toes. Started looking at closeout skates at the different online retailers, came down to some X50's and G5's Pulled the trigger on the G5's this morning. Seriously wondering if they will fit length wise, depending on the chart you're looking at, they may be a little smaller than the CCM at a 12... In the end, the Little Man's 11W G5's will need to be replaced at some point, for $300 shipped, can't go wrong, even if they just go to him. I am not sure if it is a big difference, but once you get to 12 in the Graf Skates, it comes with the Cobra NT2000 not the Cobra UltraLight 5000??? Mike??? |
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Micah rocks this shirt and its awesome
http://www.hockeymonkey.com/under-ar...e-top-yth.html He's always camping in front of the net and gets crosschecked and hit with sticks a lot. Never bugs him. that shirt really fills in the gaps as the body moves. He loves it. We got it this summer because he was 5 running around against the 7-9 year olds who don't like a little kid screening their goalie. :r The griptech $hit on it is cool also it really does help stuff stick in place. He only wears it for ice as roller there is not a lot of contact. Although he is usually the one getting talked to at roller for playing to physical. EJ I noticed those pants were huge. I was going to ask if they were JR pants and not youth because them look big. How is the tailbone protection on those? Bauers always seem to have the least amount of tailbone padding of all the pants. I like the CCM/ Reebok pants and the Easton pants for tailbone and kidney pads. With that shirt though its much less of an issue on kidney and spine pad on the pants. As to the holders. Those prolite 3 were some of the softest holders ever so anything is going to feel a lot stiffer. When I was playing I remember seeing that holder brake in a few games. Sometimes it was a puck in the skate once the dude was stopping. Sure it got cracked earlier on that one. If I remeber right the 5000 is just a different zytel(sp) mix. Supposed to be lighter and stiffer. Don't think most anyone here would notice much of a difference skating on either. You would need to be a high level skater to notice imho which I am not. |
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On a seperate note today he played a roller game this morning. He is playing in a jamboree tonight for 2 hours. He is supposed to have ice skrim in the morning tomorrow and then roller practice for that travel roller team he's redshirting with. Dads taking him tonight I am at work. :td The roller club is only charging us $20 a month to practice and be an alternate skater if they are short a kid for tournaments. Atleast he has no hockey non-wed every week.
What was really cool today at roller was not the two goals he got but his play off the puck. On Thursday at blackstars practice they worked on a breakout drill. Micahs job is to go to the half board as the kid circles behind the net call for the pass recieve it and feed a kid for the breakout. Everytime he was out there today and he saw a teammate was going to circle he busted as$ to the board called for pass and played it to a teammate. Watching him do this at his age was awesome and made me happy we made the decision to have him play up. If he had played down he would likely be doing the one man show crap. |
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My kid isn't a huge goal scorer, the team has that area covered. But our team lacks grit, mainly due to the speed and skill, most of our boys don't have to be too physical, they just deke and avoid contact.
My kid on the other hand has found his calling on the team, he is a playmaker and all-around pest. Not the Sean Avery - Matt Cooke type of pest, you can't get away with that kind of crap in youth hockey, but my kid hits hard and finishes his checks and does a great job drawing penalties. He drew 3 penalties on the same kid in one game in Toledo a few weeks ago. He has a way of getting under your skin. He has also developed a great knack for face-offs, over 3 games this weekend I bet he only lost 6 faceoffs. He did take an interference penalty and the other team started to figure him out in the 3rd game. He has this move where he ties up their stick, and swivels around to block off the other guy in the faceoff while moving the puck back to the point. So while he isn't lighting up the lamp, he is up there on the team with assists and no one on the team is as physical as he is. He reminds me a lot of Lindros in his play, and although I didn't have a clear view of his faceoff interference penalty, (I do the timeclock and music so I can't see the corners very well) I imagined it was Lindros-like. So he has been whining for a new stick, I teased him with the "Get me some goals and I'll get you a stick" line. Long story short...(too late!) he got 4 goals and 4 assists in the 3 games this weekend. Then he told what stick he wanted. Bauer APX, *or* if I wouldn't spend that much, Easton EQ50. Does anyone have experience with either of those sticks? Next time I will put a limit on my bribery, like "Get me some goals and I will buy you a new stick with a manufacturer suggested retail price of $150.00 or less!" |
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Love it, Scott.... My kind of player!
Just anf an FYI, Scott.... Icewarehouse.com is where I buy almost everything now... Flat 10% off everything in their club.... That is $20-25 a stick and free shipping... I shop for deals, but they are the standard.... |
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His name is Cameron, and of course it's just Cam most of the time (Yea, we named him after Cam Neely). I always liked the nickname Pat Verbeek had, "Little Ball of Hate", but Cam is most likely too big to have the word "Little" in his nickname. I'll have to start working on a good nickname for him! |
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Hockey Money sucks so bad.... Just got the call, "we don't actually have those skates..." I can't understand how places are so bad with their online inventory... Well, back to the drawing board....
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Well they screwed me on a pair of skates for the boy. Mixed blessing. How we found the Grafs.
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I have to say, I would have preferred G5's, but these came home from the LHS today... I was not going to pay retail to put G5's on my feet, so my options changed...
These are actually an 11D....which blows my mind, as I am coming from a CCM 12E that was nowhere near too big. I wouldn't cry if they were an 11.5, but it didn't bother me enough that I blinked about saying let's bake, sharpen and ring them up. As far as the D as opposed to the E....I have no answer.... They felt good before the bake....??? http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/...1/Reebok8K.jpg Tried on a CCM U+10 in an 11, fit the same as you could imagine, though I still felt the Reebok was a little longer, though I assume that was just how my foot was lying in there. The Bauer Supreme and Vapor were MUCH shorter. The 11.5 felt like it would be a 10.5 in the Reebok....my foot wasn't close to getting in there length wise.... P.S. NOT A FAN of the Pump.... I cannot get past that it looks gimmicky...:sh |
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Better hope the bladders don't blow. Used to happen a fair amount.on certain models a few years back. The Reeboks are allegedly built off the old Tacks platform so it makes sense they would fit. I thought the boot internal padding etc is different now to accomodate the pump. Problem is on lower models without the pump the boot fit can be sloppy as its the same build just no bladders and you know they aren't spending a lot of effort on low end boots. Don't have them anymore, but had an old pair of pump tacks back in the day. So it makes sense its the same boot concept. Atleast that was the story two years ago. The pumps cute it fits you. :r
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My silent protest against Micah getting jacked on his 3 number choices.
Being the youngest kid on the team and playing up apparently means you are last in line for many things. He wears 8 for inhouse and his roller team so that's my excuse. http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...y/IMAG0025.jpg Fuc& um if they cant take a joke. |
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Love it, Mike!
LM is currently @ tryouts for the Utah HS Select team... I think he is in over his head, but love the confidence and ambition.... It's ice time..... |
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Solid second outing for the Little One.... Another Hat Trick against the goalie, not sure how many goals on the small nets... Good times!
Mini-breakaway, she did not score... http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/i397/EJB21/WCH1.jpg She needs to learn to share the face off circle.... http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/i397/EJB21/WCH2.jpg Goal! http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/i397/EJB21/WCH3.jpg Goal! I can't really remember what happened here or why the goalie was out that far, the net is out of the picture to the right.... http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/i397/EJB21/WCH4.jpg |
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A few from the game Wednesday night....which was the regular season opener. 7-1 win for the good guys.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KEG...e_gdata_player
Thought there were some great points in here on development. I know Al has told me to always be careful about not pushing and always making sure its fun. Had a discussion a week or so with Micahs new head coach who played D1 College. The new coach thing is a long story which I am not happy about. The club has switched coaches and apparently he is going to change up a lot of the system they have been developing. He had largely the same view. We had a long discussion about how some early bloomers who burn out and some don't and what he thought the cause was. Also discussed players who blossom late. I noticed in the video what struck me was not skating the child too much, as much as making sure the child is always having fun when skating and not pushing the child so that the child develops that love of the game. As Micah is skating a lot I always ask him now if he wants to go to hockey. So far he has not said no, but I keep waiting for him to say yes. In talking with the new coach we discussed Micah playing up this year. He was generally not in favor of kids playing up. His view was children need to dominate to build confidence. My view was more of knowing what works for your particular child. Micah had a lot of success last year and is having a lot of success this year. He is very confident as a result which is something I am constantly trying to keep in check. I guess in this situation given his ego and success I don't understand having play down. I think it would give him a huge fat head. I think going forward this point will be a non factor. Nor Cal Hockey which governs all travel teams in the area has banned any child from playing out of age group after Mites. This is the only year Micah will be able to play up. |
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Hey everyone, wish my kid luck, we head out in the morning for The Bauer International Invite Tournament in Chicago.
Without a doubt we'll see some kids there who will one day be NHL'ers, my kid included! We got to see a few teams at the Warrior Invitational in Detroit a couple weeks ago that were amazing, and I'm sure some of them and more will be in Chicago. There are plenty of Canadian and even Russian teams on the schedule this year. His team played 2 years ago (silly paperwork error kept us out last year) and it was a blast. The talent these boys display is unreal. So, cross your fingers, and I'll report back Sunday night or Monday when we get back. |
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Friggin awesome Scott. Tell him I said givem hell.
Hope one day Micah gets the chance. |
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Good luck, Scott! Sending good ju ju your boys way!
I see the Utah Regulators(U16) are there....I will be interested to see how they do as well. |
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Some kids rock big pants out here. Always notice it. Seems to me it would slow you down a little. Micah has been growing and could likely change from a youth M to youth L, but he says his pants feel good and are not to tight.
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Well, the Little One was shut out today and her team tied. It was good to see them face better competition, but I could tell Ab's was frustrated with her play. She had a nice backhand(shown in pic 3) that was just stopped, but a nice shot anyway.
She played solid and had fun, that is what counts. http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/...ildcats1-1.jpg http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/...ildcats2-1.jpg http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/...ildcats4-1.jpg We head to the Little Man's game later this evening.... Think I am running the penalty box, so probably will not get to take pictures.... |
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The Nike Bauer tournament was a blast this year, our boys did well, made it past pool play but fell in the "Sweet Sixteen". Me and the wife went out of our way to meet and chat with other parents, and everyone was great. Our boys finished in 12th place in the AAA division.
Spent a ton of money on new equipment and deep dish pizza, Chicago is an awesome place. The wife even dragged me into Tiffany's and we looked at some ridiculously overpriced jewelry. Such a huge tournament! The coaches reception was awesome, only our head coach showed up early enough to make it, so he invited me to tag along with him. The assistant coaches missed out on a great time. Free beer, free food and this: http://img848.imageshack.us/img848/3...3171858745.jpg |
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^^^ That is win all day long. Congrats on the finish, happy to hear they played well & everyone had a good time!
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Hellllllo ladies.
Glad you had an awesome time at the tourney Scott. EJ how did your son do at state high school select tryout? Micah had 4 goals in his game yesterday. Scored a few times on a squirt goalie. They were scramble goals infront of him, but what ever he scored on a squirt goalie. |
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Just looked at stats. I see the 02 Sharp shooters won the AAA division. That club is based out of the bayarea, but its a phantom club. They exist outside the NorCal Hockey governing board. They only have 1 or 2 teams. A year or so back this 02 club went down to LA and smoked all the SoCal teams. From what I understand its a team composed of all the best players from a few clubs in the area. I think they cheated playing AAA instead of AAA Elite from what I know of them.
98 Jr. Sharks went 2-1? Not sure what that meant. All and all Nor Cal showed decent. |
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If you happen to have made it out of the Sweet Sixteen, then you would have 3 games with very little downtime on Sunday to keep going. They would not have had time to hit up a hockey store between games. They had 8 pools with 4 teams each, and the top 2 teams from each pool moved on into the Sweet Sixteen. The bottom 2 teams from each pool played other bottom 2 teams in consolation games. Here are some more pics from the weekend. I do have some hockey action pics, but only from one game and I don't know how well they came out. I'll check those later. More eye-candy from the Opening Ceremony Reception: http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7...3172052670.jpg Our favorite Pizza in Chicago, from Giordano's: http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/5...0412183022.jpg More Giordano's Goodness: http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/643...4121841214.jpg And finally my kid chilling at Gino's East of Chicago waiting on yet another Deep Dish Pizza to arrive: http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/3...6160934354.jpg |
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Great pics!!!!
IW is killing my pocketbook.... 2 pants, 2 sticks in a week... That said, I've saved a chitload of money because of them.... |
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