Being a Hockey Parent

[J0eybb]

Originally Posted by Ahbroody

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.

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

[Ahbroody]

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.

[J0eybb]

Originally Posted by Ahbroody

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.

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

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

[Ahbroody]

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

[Ahbroody]

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.

[E.J.]

Excellent Mike!

Originally Posted by Ahbroody

He wont be 5 till next month but understands team play, hustle, and sees a lot of the ice.

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

[Eleven]

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

[Ahbroody]

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

Originally Posted by E.J.

Excellent Mike!



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

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.

[E.J.]

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...

[E.J.]

Oh...and he was here twice...

[E.J.]

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....

[Ahbroody]

Originally Posted by E.J.

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....

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.

[Eleven]

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

[Ahbroody]

Nice pic. Looks like a good hit.

Lindros?

[Eleven]

Originally Posted by Ahbroody

Nice pic. Looks like a good hit.

Lindros?

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).

[Ahbroody]

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

[E.J.]

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.......

[Ahbroody]

[E.J.]

Originally Posted by Ahbroody

Great pic Mike....

[E.J.]

Looks like my youngest starts Sunday....