Being a Hockey Parent

[Eleven]

Originally Posted by Ahbroody

Today we taught Micah how to ride a bike. He's 6 and has had a bike since 4.5. Its funny as we have spent so much time with hockey and baseball, bikes just never got handled. Not bad though went from not being able to balance or ride to riding a pretty good distance around the school in about 50 minutes. Reminded me need to male sure we have him play more sports

There is a kid on my son's team, the Captain in fact, he is the biggest kid on the team, and one of the older 98's...he never learned to ride a bike.

The boy can play virtually any sport but they said he just never wanted to ride a bike.

On a side note, our boys had 4 games in Detroit this weekend, 2-2 again, it seems to be a recurring theme this year

My kid is settling in nicely to his role as pest, he took a penalty in each game, roughing, boarding, slashing and roughing.
We were in a hurry to get up there Friday to beat the weather (didn't work out too well) and I told my kid I'd pack everything for him so we could leave when he got off the bus. We get up Saturday morning and head to Plymouth and my kid calls me from the locker room, he had NO jerseys or socks. I packed his practice gear. Doh.

So each game this weekend, he wore the jersey of whichever goalie wasn't starting. It was hilarious after a while, the coaches were yelling "Go Hickey! and Go Ison!" (The goalie names, their parents were yucking it up as well when my kid took penalties or scored, it ended up being pretty fun)