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Thanks Al, I don't know who was happier. :)

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Sitting here killing time....up at 4:30 am to take Jackson to drop in. I have watched SportsCenter, drank a boatload of coffee, read the newspaper & still have 2 hours until I have to take the Little One to school.....

I am interested to see how the first skate with the One100's......

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Said that he didn't notice the pitch much, if at all, and felt he skated well, maybe even better(psychological). Also said his feet hurt like crazy....:r Give it a week....

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My kid hasn't been on the ice in almost 2 weeks. Regular season ended and of course the Spring 4v4 and Spring/Summer Clinic started, which would have had us in the rink 3 times a week.

But...

The kid opted out of Spring hockey (2 days a week) in order to practice and participate in Track this year. He is loving Track and doing well, thanks to the last 3 years of dry-land hockey training, he is very fast.

The weird part is that I miss going to the rink a lot more than I thought I would. I'm having Hockey Parent Withdrawal Symptoms!

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:r:r:r

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JEEZ where have I heard this before. Hmmmm wait I know I have heard this. ooooooo yeah my kid. First I kept the boots loose because I was worried about foot pain. Said boot too loose, ankles needed to be punched. 6 year old asking to have inner ankle punched. I just sat there with this wtf look on my face. This kid gets run over by a big kid and pops up like nothing. However he is a diva about his skates and will bitc& non stop about them hurting. Day two tighten up the boot. Now I get "dad my foot hurts bad and ankle still hurts." He says he is on his heals too much also. Well atleast they were cheap and I think I can move them for about what I paid. looks like we will just go Reebok like his roller hockey boots or back to the Grafs. I know the Reeboks work. He saw the new 20k and 18k Reeboks. He liked the 18k look. Need to figure this out. That summer team tryout is in a few weeks.

What was funny was his coach sees the skates the first day. Looks at me laughs and says dude thats not going to work. This is his third year coaching my kid and our kids ard friends. I want to give it one more shot. He doesnt want to:r

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Took him to drop in this morning at 5:00 AM again, waiting to hear how the skates felt today. Assume a little better. Interesting note, a guy that goes to morning drop in commented that he thought Tuesday was the best he’d seen Jackson skate….maybe it wasn’t psychological. He was in new skates, socks and jersey….that with the Caribbean vacation may have just put him in a groove….;)

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Had the High School Hockey year end banquet last night…. Good food, good company and a nice compellation video to put a stamp on the season. Summer season starts in about 6 weeks…….:banger

New stick for the Little One arrived yesterday(replacement for a snapped APX).
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The other day at baseball practice. flowpsideon. Wife got it cut friday for pictures. Boy is pissed still.

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Nice pic, Mike.....but you cut off the top explosion of flowpsideon...

How much did she get cut off?

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Yeah I didnt snap it. There is a dad who snaps photos like crazy. Was going to ask him if he had any more. Wife took two inches of back but its still to shoulders and some off sides and top. LM is bent whenever he looks in mirror.

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Summer team tryout this friday. Wonder if he will make it. Starting to think no. Looks like they are going to try to take only kids who are 7 or 8. Wont be 7 till mid October so not looking good. If not will do in house and the Hawks summer skate program. Not sure about a camp. He doesnt seem to want to do a camp.

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My kid has his teams' tryouts tonight. He decided he didn't want to even tryout for other teams this year.

I'm just ready to get back into the training aspect. I miss working out with the team :)

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holy crap is that summer or regular season?
Most areas don't have tryouts till end of July after camps etc.

Was at the roller hockey rink tonight selling some mouthguards. In fairness the facility is huge with three rinks. Got approached by the coach of the best 8U team. Asked if we want to play for them next year.

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These were tryouts for next season. Most teams around here, from Tier 1 on down have their tryouts scheduled and posted right as regular seasons are ending.

Ours was actually one of the later tryouts. The two other Tier 1 teams in the region, Columbus and Indy have already had their tryouts for next year.

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crazy our tier teams have not had tryouts. A lot of travel teams are still playing odd games.
Summer tournament teams are a big thing out here. Wonder if that's why

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The summer thing may be the reason. We have virtually zero hockey activity after Spring Hockey ends in May. Regular ice practice for the season starts again in late August.

Our team does dry-land at least 2 times a week throughout the summer, with as much open-ice time as they can find on the weekends, which is usually once per weekend.

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We have reg season tryouts here soon as well. Been talking with the Regulators & Jr. Grizzlies. U14 & U16 Regulator tryouts are actually this weekend. No date on U18, though sounds like Jackson may start training with the U18's and see how it goes. Though I think regardless, he'll skate in the Jr. Grizzlies tryout in June.

He's skating in the Jr. Grizzlies Spring Ice right now as well. Hoping to get in the tryouts of the U18 Utah All Stars Summer League. Have talked with them, but their plans are coming together slower than expected, should know more Thursday.

High School Summer starts in May. I've been approached about being the HS Hockey team trustee....

Little One is in Skills Clinic once a week, alonge with private power skating once a week. Summer 3-3 Starts in June...

Thought this was the off season.....:r:r:r

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Todays schedule.
Soccer 945-1045
Baseball 12-2
Hockey 515-615

He made the summer team last night.
Not sure we are going to do it. The practices are Tuesday night and Sunday morning. Its a 40 min drive. Told the coach we were not sure. He is letting Micah come out and practice for free for a while no strings. He said we dont have to do the to Socal tourneys and can just do the local stuff.
Summer is looking like this.
Saturday Morning skills skate at Sharks Ice with former Shark player and hockey director Curtis Brown
Hawks skills skate 2x per week days vary
Summer team or just inhouse games.

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Down goes another APX.....:gary

So the question/dilemma is this, getting 3-5 hours ice time a week, I should just be happy that he is getting 8 weeks out of a stick and pull out the AMEX...or think, this stick is fragile and look at something else?

He loves this stick, I just wish it'd last a bit longer... He'll, his 7 y/o sister snapped her APX within 2 months.... Though our sample is small, maybe just bad luck with the snap... Both his cracked in the blade....

Thoughts?

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I am probably under estimating his ice time.... Hell, he has had 5 hours of ice time in the past 24 hours. 3 hours last night(Jr. Grizzlies Spring Ice) and 2 this morning(drop in).

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Bauer is out and Sher-Wood is in....at least at the moment....

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Every single kid we know that had an APX has broken it. 13 year old kids, and one of those was a pretty small 13!

Since my kid broke his, around New Years I think, he has used a Stealth RS, and he claims he likes it better than the APX, not quite as lightweight but it's close.

At the final night of tryouts last night, a boy broke his RS. Ironically he was the reason my kid ended up with an RS in the first place. This other boy hated the non-grip RS so his dad sold it to us for 70 bucks and bought him one with grip. He broke that sucker almost in half last night.

I laughed at/with the dad for a few, but he wasn't quite as amused as I was. My kid will probably break his next week!

RS and APX are virtually the same price, but for what we've seen, the RS holds up a little better.

:2

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Scott, I had the RS & Mako in the cart at different times, before going with the Nexon12. I have yet to talk with someone who didn't like the t90, save for the weight... Thought maybe the Nexon would solve the weight issue...

Guess we'll find out quick how this experiment turned out....

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From what I have read the mako is the successor to the SE16 arguably the most popular stick Easton ever made. M5 is replacement to the ST I think. RS is lighter and seems to have best kick. Mako has best blade feel.

Saw the stuff about nexion looks interesting.

The boy has really become a fan of the Miken accuflex and has definitely learned to shoot well with it.
Hes playing in a cross ice tournament this weekend. Name of the team. The Ringers. Lol. Some dad we know asked him to play. Name fits the team.

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They beat everyone in the tourney. Issue was we had two kids who decided cross checking was a legitimate hockey play. Got a little ugly.

You know you have signed your kid up for two much stuff when you have two day a week when you have to decide what to go to.

That Summer team is practicing 4 days a week this month for the tournamanet Memorial Day weekend. Tuesday, Friday, Saturday (afternoon), Sunday. I told the coach yesterday we wont be doing either SoCal trip and cant make all the practices. Told him we will do local games. Seems like he wants him for next season.

we signed him up for Soccer classes Friday and Saturday(morning) a while back which he likes.

He has the skills skate with Curtis Brown right after Soccer Saturday mid morning.

There is the Hawks skills skate which days change weekly. We didnt sign up because they allow drop ins.

Then there is Sharks summer inhouse games only which is Saturday afternoons he wants to do as he has some good friends playing.
This doesnt start till next month after the memorial tourney.

Now some of these things end before others, but I need to sit down with a damn spread sheet and figure out what the hell we can and cant do.

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Man, my head is SPINNING......... So I was told a month or so ago, Jackson would be a U18 kid.... After talking with a guy today, he was saying...."No, he'll be a U16 kid."

I have ANOTHER email out trying to get more clarification and cannot seem to google an answer..... WHAT IS THE AGE BREAKDOWN???????

He is 15 as of today.....he turns 16 mid June.... Birth year '96..... So January 1st 2013 he will be 16 years old...

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Nevermind, if I am reading this right....come the next calendar hockey year(Sept.-Aug.), as a '96, Jackson will be a 2nd year Midget(U16)....

http://www.usahockey.com/Age_Classification.aspx

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High School Summer league starts tonight.... I do love Summer Hockey....there is something special about watching hockey in shorts, tshirts and flip flops....

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These pics suck... I was in the PB and did my best.... I was pretty worried about this team we were playing, returned their top 9-10 guys from a better than average team last year, including their two goalies. We were breaking in a freshman goalie, playing his first game and the only one on our team at present....

Anyway....we CRUSHED them.... 10-3 and I don't think it was that close. I think it was a 50/50 thing, we may be a little better than I thought and they are worse than I thought....

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Not bad pics. He still wearing the guard?
LM is skating almost every day. So much ice in summer time. Thankfully baseball is almost over. Constantly having to pick what to go to.

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Different one, not sure what it is....will ask him. VERY clear, not sure where he got it....

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Watching the Little One in a Skills Clinic Camp she has been going to, amazed at her progression this past year, night and day... I actually was sort of shaking my head watching...

Same with JB, I had not watched him skate a ton since the end of the regular season last year.... Kid is jumping...

It really floors me the pride and enjoyment I get from sitting here on a hard aluminum stadium bench, watching this stuff....day in, day out, night in, night out, morning..... The driving, the time & financial commitment...wouldn't change a thing. Well, maybe I'd wish for cheap ice time & great $20 sticks...

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My kid wanted to participate in Track this spring, so that pretty much cut out Spring Hockey, and he missed a few Wednesday Clinics, but in the end I'm glad he chose Track. It gave him a little break from hockey, kept him active, and he bonded with a whole new set of athletes.

Most of the season he ran relays, with a few individual events sprinkled in. He's a 7th grader, but was able to hang with the 8th graders, I'm sure because of his previous hockey dry land training. He was the starter for the 4x100, 4x200 and 4x400 relays almost every event.

Only on the very last meet, the championships, he got a charlie-horse in his butt that hurt, so he pulled out of the 4x400. The team went on to win it anyway, and it gave 4 8th graders the chance to finish strong as a group. Most of the season there were 2 8th graders who were battling for the 4th spot on the 4x400 team, we were actually glad they didn't have to chose between them, they were all great kids.

So now Hockey Dry Land kicks in full speed, and with Track being over, its perfect timing. Cam's Track coaches made the choice to keep all the medals for the season and hand them out when it had ended. Since we don't have a "Being a Track Parent" thread, here is my kid with his medals, they are all 1st, 2nd and 3rd place relay medals:

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Awesome, Scott.... Added bonus, all that running will make drylands a little easier...

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Nice Scott. Got my kid swimming almost everyday now trying to build legs and stamina.
Todays a good test. Summer team practice a bunch of kids were fighting, not mine. BAG SKATE! These kids are getting worked but he's hanging with the big boys. 20+ minutes of really hard skating.

Now he's explaining life to them and why everyone gets punished. Good stuff. He looks over at me and I'm laughing.

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Just dropped the LM off at Regulators tryouts.... Not sure if I made a mistake letting him skate with the U18's before the U16 tryouts. The U18 coach told him to come to both, my assumption is that he is worried about his U18 numbers and sees my son as a body. Would hate for him to get worked for the first session and then go into his session gassed.....:confused:

Well, it's done now and tomorrow the sessions are split by 4-6 hours or something like that.... Think I'll go back and watch the last half of the U16 session and see what I think.

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Well that went even better than expected.... Assume he's a Regulator if we want....

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Nice.
What level AA or AAA

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AA

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He's back up there now and then again at 1:00....then done. Will be interested to hear what they say, but will wait until Jr. Grizzlies tryouts next month to make a decision. Wish the tryouts were not 3 weeks apart...

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Celebrated his invite to be on the U16 AA Regulators with a 3 point(1 goal, 2 assists) night on the ice with the HS team in the Summer League.

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Added bonus, not one trip to the box....:tu

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Little back yard play.... Listen to his sister chuckling in the back....:r

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KILLING ME!!!! Note, this is day 30 on the nose from purchase and 28 from when I received it.... email just went off to Sher-Wood....I'm praying that they take care of me. I don't have the reciept, but assume if they want to push it, I can get one from the vendor. Sent the email, so they have it date stamped as broken within 30 days....:hm

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That's piss.
Easton ST time I think or having him stop digging a hole to China. :r

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Is the Mako = to the ST? It is that stinking slapshot... He kills it, but because he isn't buying sticks, he doesn't worry about firing 50 a practice... I fear that we'll be doing this again and again and again....

Sher-Wood is sending me a new one, they sure have that end of things dialed in. I was surprised at how easy and painless the warranty process was. Kudos to Sher-Wood....

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http://www.hockeygiant.com/easm5stksr.html
Mako M5 is the ST replacement.

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At the rink 2x today.

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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The boys first same age hockey friend. Good kid great shot.
Funny how even at this age you can see where kids strengths will be. Theyre only a few weeks apart.

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We actually signed him up for summer league inhouse just so he could play with this kid. The two of them terrorized mite inhouse summer game today. He's always played with older kids and it has created weird issues at times. Recently he was invited to a kid turning nine birthday who he played inhouse with this year. We ended up not taking him which created a little riff which I was suprised by.

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^^^Nice, Mike... Just seeing this. The Dynamic Duo, soon to be popping nets in an arena near you!


Little One is on the ice for the first time in 2 weeks.

The Big One's team takes on the defending State Champs tonight. Should give a good idea of where they are at....

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Ohhhhh that was a SWEET win!!! LM was a plus 2 & didn't allow a goal. Just a solid game at the blue line, against a very good team. Wins like this are soooo fun!