Being a Hockey Parent

[Ahbroody]

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. 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.