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The Little Man has a new toy in the back yard... Some synthetic ice and a radar gun to gauge your slap shot speed....
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...and if you have a few too many cups out of the keg & try to get the slap shot MPH record, you may end up like this.....:r
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Who's rocking the snake boots?

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The Little Man's "friend".....

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1st preseason drop of the puck in 36 minutes!

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My daughter's first day of hockey.

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Actually just my new bag.

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I know where you bought that bag. :r

Going to sign Micah up for Roller Hockey. He wants to play more so I figured I would let him do that also. As opposed to Ice Hockey here Roller hockey for kids 7 and under is 99.00 for the whole year.
http://www.silvercreeksportsplex.com/partners/hockey/
Will be interesting to see if he wants to play the games on Saturday at 10am as he has Ice games from 8-9. Practices are friday night which I think he will have a lot of fun with.

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Laughed out loud at that last pic Joe..... Good stuff...

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By the way awesome setup EJ. Would love to get something like that going eventually.

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http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...y/b7e2ba53.jpg
Going to have the little guy rock this one when the season starts back up.
Debating on 28, 12, 8, 17
Domi, Marleau, Pavelski, his number kast year
Love ebay. Hand stitched everything. 25 shipped.

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Cherish this though, I know he does.

When I was a pup playing peewee my dad was workin in the homicide devision at the time, being that we lived in a large county in SoCal someone was always dying so he was always gone. But to this day one of the best memories I have of my old man is how no matter how swamped he was he'd show up just before my games and tue my skates up good and tight. Even when he couldn't stay for the game.

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Who's the seller? I'd like to order some Adult jerseys. What's on the front?

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Joe its a youth jersey not adult.
Doubtful you could find adult jerseys at that price. I search the youth jerseys regularly for cool jerseys for micah. Hes 4 so they are often cheap.

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gotcha, still 25 bucks for some sown on stitching is great.

I bought two ccm blank jerseys for about 10 bucks each shipped.

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Just won a st.cloud jersey for 12.50 shipped
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...EOIBSA:US:1123

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First day of season today. They have 4 days of evaluations before they set the teams.
Scrimmage today Micah made me proud. Heading up the right boards not enough time to cut to the net sees 2 teammates headed towards the net centers the puck to them. One teammate basically takes out the other teamate scramble for the puck Micah bangs it in. He never stopped skating. When it was over I gave him a lot of praise. He wont be 5 till next month but understands team play, hustle, and sees a lot of the ice.

Proud papa today.

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Excellent Mike!

...and good for Micah.... There are players that have been skating for 20 years and still don't understand those things...:r

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Here is a little snippet I recorded this morning as some fellow Hockey Dads were trying to put shelves up in our boys' locker room.

Our boys get their own space where they play, but we had to build and paint everything. Today was the first day trying out the nail gun.

Queen City Steam 98 AA locker room

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Scott just reminds me of the screwing in a light bulb jokes.


I just love the fact he has grasped passing already. He also calls for the puck if hes open. Hes hilarious on the bench. He doesnt sit. You just see his head and a hand. Headbobbing up and down as he talks to everyone on the ice. :r

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First regular season game for the JV'er tonight.... Played really well and pulled an solid win. Little Man had a great slap shot and was deflected in right at the net. All in all, a good day...
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http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/7153/jb5.jpg



Oh...and he was here twice...:td

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Side note.... Looking at the pics, good thing we picked up that mouthpiece today(he didn't have to wear one in the Summer).... Looks like it fit in his mask quite well....:rolleyes:

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Have to buy micah a new one every few weeks. You would think it was a chew toy.
Good thing the mask is big enough it can rest nicely inside. :r

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Here is one from this morning, Rumble On The Rink Peewee 98 Tourney, my kid throwing a shoulder on some poor kid :)

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Nice pic. Looks like a good hit.

Lindros?

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His number was an accident of sorts. We have always had this little picture hanging in his room of 3 little boys sitting on the ice, all you can see are their backs and numbers. They were 66, 88 and 99, with the respective colors for each real guys team.

Cam never really gave it much thought, in fact for Mite and his first year of Squirt he was 44 in honor of Adam Dunn. A new boy joined the team and he was a whiny little guy, his mom came up to us on the very first day and said that her son was devastated that 44 was taken because he always had it.

I asked my kid if he cared about 44 or not and he said 'Who cares, I'll just take 88, its twice as good as 44 anyway'

So after that, he learned of Big E, and that he had actually been to a game to see him play (well really we were there to see the Pens, but Lindros was playing that game. Cam was about 3 months old when we went to that game in '99, but we have the pics to show him).

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Took micah to a roller hockey class on friday night.
One funny thing was his trying to stop like on ice. Ate it multiple times.

Its weird having had foot issues I have always focused on foot comfort with him. His blades were a little tight as hes growing. He refused to skate after 15 minutes. Literally refused. Whats weird is he had a shinpad dig in during summer causing a silver dollar size welt on his shin and said it hurt but wanted to play and ignored it. However mess with his feet and hes done

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Nice Scott!

Our kids here don't get much of a choice in numbers in rec leagues.... It is 1-16....the low numbers being the smaller jerseys, larger numbers being bigger.... think it was switched once when the Little Man first started playing....

When he finally got to pick his own number, went 14? Not even sure where that came from.......

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Great pic Mike....:tu

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Looks like my youngest starts Sunday....
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How old? Nice Pic.
OOO and what skates? The Graf Supra 370s are awesone I got to say and those feet look like my sons. Nice and fat. :r

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5....

Yes she has THICK feet.... The only skates they had in her size were CCM U+ pros.... We passed, though may may end up with them... I just wanted to see what was available online....

I was late getting her signed up(she has already missed the first day), so we are a session behind already. I am use to the Little Man taking care of all this for me now...:confused:

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What size right now? I may have something.

Forgot to mention if you can find some old youth 492tacks great boot and as wide as U+ its what Micah wore till the graf 370. Hands down deepest widest boot. Available

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11Y

Thanks for the info....

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Yep, my son skated in the 492Tacks for a number of years. Very wide feet.

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Ended up borrowing some skates from a friend of mine with two kids playing(one just a year older than my youngest).

I was chatting in the driveway before we left and the Terrorist decided that she needed to try on the skates in the truck.... The back of the center console in the front seat now is a reminder of her first pair of hockey skates....

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Arent they great: r
Sorry only skates I had close were 10.5 Did the shop you went to have any reeboks? My experience woth them was they are similar cut in the youth size just like in adult size to the Tacks. There is/was a pair of size 11y ccm externos which is the same style boot also on ebay. Micah has been using the roller hockey externo skate with no issues also. I not a fan of the blade holder on these, but the boot is a tank

CCM EXTERNO E10 Ice Hockey Skates Chld / Youth 11

Link:http://cgi.ebay.com/CCM-EXTERNO-E10-...QQcmdZViewItem

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http://www.brunoshockeyshop.com/coll...supra-370-tyke
If you are thinking about the u+ for the price these are so much better.
Micah loves them. Dont forget to have the proshop wedge the back. Tyke skates are way to nuetral. Best thing I ever did for micah was instal wedges. Forced him to have a deep knee bend. I bought mine from a shop in upstate NY but cant find the link, about the same price. The boot runs real big though, so an 11 is probably an 11.5.

Will post pics later incase you are not familiar with wedges. It improved his stride and speed so much.

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Not familiar with this....so let me know...



HAD SO MUCH STINKING MUCH FUN TODAY! First time ever on the ice with gear. She looked to be in over her head to begin and I was questioning my letting her get out there. But half way through, she was doing great.

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They scrimmaged at the end and she put the only one in the back of the net for her team... I caught the sequence right here. She was pretty excited & proud of herself.... Not near as excited and proud as her Dad...



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That's some good stuff right there!

I especially like the guy without the socks on :r

Awesome pics!

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Awesome Pics.

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Wedging is when they place a shim under the boot on top of the blade holder in the back, the wedge is a little hard to see sorry. The easiest way to understand this is to lift your heals off the ground. your body will want to bend the knees to keep a good center of balance. Thats what it does. You can have the blades profiled instad, but with little kids skates its a bad idea as they will grind off a lt of blade and there is not a lot of blade to begin with. Its better to find a good proshop have them wedge and radius the skates and only take them to them. The other thing to note is that on childs skates they generally run an 11ft or more radius vs a 9ft radius. This is done to give the child more stability. More blade surface is on the ice at aany given time. The issue is it leads to a crappy stride when combined with a nuetral profile as the kids dont understand to bend their knees yet. You will see many kids I am sure barely lifting their skates of the ice and instead plodding along. Long story short they will learn habits which will need to be corrected later. Do this tricks them into bending the knees and taking longer strides.

The pic in my avatar is Micah last year at not even 4.5. This was after I had his skates radiused to 9ft then had the wedges put in the back. He went from looking like he was going to fall backwards to a great stride for his age in a few weeks. Well atleast when he cares to skate hard. :r

I actually keep debating starting a blog regarding some of these things to help out parents in non traditional hockey markets like mine. These are little things but all of them together help the child learn a better stride without trying to explin to them. They just adapt. Stride and foot comfort are two things I spend a lot of time on with Micah. If your feet hurt you dont want to skate. If you cant skate you cant play. With a great stride and comfortable feet you focus on the rest of the game.

OOO and the insert on the top in the pick is a CCM Tack 10.5 Y The insert on the bottom is the Graf 10. It is longer then the 10.5. So what ever you decide if you go with the Graf they do run long. This was an issue for Micah at first, thankfully his feet grew and it solved itself. I and most people I know are strongly against oversized skates for kids because it results in bad stride also.


Sorry for the soap box its a particular passion of mine.

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Thanks Mike. I never really played ice hockey but I want my son to. He turns 5 in November and I want to get him a pair of skates for his birthday. He'll be starting from scratch, and to some degree so will I. This kind of info is a huge help.

Thanks again!

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Do it! Best thing we ever did for our youngest son. If there were Youth Hockey Programs in our area when the 2 older ones were growing up, they would have played as well.

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One of our teams Dads works for a video company, and has access to a real nice camera. Here is one shift from a couple weeks ago, it just happens to have my kid in it :)


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Great stuff Scott!

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That is neat... I have never even heard of that....

You should start a blog, that is a great idea.....

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So on Saturday Mich says the words never want to hear. " Dad can I play soccer?" Damn near drove the car off the road. I explained to him that Saturday is for hockey so he couldn't make the games. Hopefully that holds him till baseball season starts. As further insurance I decided to introduce him to a new sport this week. Lacrosse.http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...y/IMAG0008.jpg
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Awesome sport for developing hand eye and puck control skills. He had a goodtime but the coach made him take off the hockey gloves because of the thumb locks in hockey gloves. A few minutes later is scruming with the big kids for a lose ball and gets a cut on his little finger. Couple of tears, but wants to go again next week. Friggin Lacrosse gloves are not cheap, but its better then soccer.

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I'm with you there Mike!!! Lacrosse is a good sport. Tough too.

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Whew! Close one. Our boys play soccer for fun at dry-land sessions, and his baseball team did the same. But as for actually playing soccer, I am glad my son is past that phase!

Not to bash on soccer, MLS and FIFA are ok, but youth soccer is the butt of many a joke in our neck of the woods.

:D

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All too often the joke here is that kids play futbol until their old enough to play football. At that point soccer becomes a distant memory.