Being a Hockey Parent - Page 56

E.J. · 05-09-2014, 11:31 PM

We were at tryouts locally tonight. Skipped all the other clubs, more so just timing related to comp soccer for the little one and the LM making the U....and we knew where we wanted to play(getting a little hard push not withstanding) But she crushed day one, assume she will move from a kid on the team, to a "player"... No one tougher on my pups & she may have been the best kid on the ice as an '05 in an '05-'04 tryout.

E.J. · 05-09-2014, 11:38 PM

...little add, GOOD GOD this has been a fun spring! 4 years ago if you would have said my son could skate with the University of Utah, I'd have smiled at you and bought you another beer. The Little One, following big brother, has always been fun....but admittedly, it's getting smile inducing.... I LOVE being a hockey parent! Hell of a ride so far!

E.J. · 05-21-2014, 04:54 PM

You have to love some ice time with USA Miracle on Ice Hockey Team member and current UW Women's Hockey Team coach....

Ahbroody · 05-21-2014, 08:26 PM

Sweet!!
As for us we are leaving for LA at 5am on Friday morning for a 2pm game in Anaheim. Then a 630am game Saturday morning in Anahiem, then Saturday 545pm in El Segundo. Sundays games are El Segundo at 945am and Paramount (right next to the lovely city of Compton) at 4pm. Possible game monday if we finish 2nd or 1st. Not holding breath.

He got asked to play in the Junior Olympics qualifier in Corona for roller this weekend as well. A club approached us and said if he coukd play a couple of games they would love to have him. So we may play in some games Saturday morning and Monday. Sunday games are out as they conflict with ice. He seemed uninterested when I told him. Lol

E.J. · 05-26-2014, 09:04 PM

Nice weekend, Mike!

Ahbroody · 05-27-2014, 10:33 AM

That was the longest hockey weekend of my life. I cant beleive how much I drove. The end result was pretty amazing. This group of NorCal 05s went down and smacked around teams from Arizona Alaska and SoCal. Even had to overcome a little BS when certain SoCal Club sent out a mix team of kids from multiple clubs half in practice jerseys with kids from teams we had played already. Still beat them. The boys destroyed the first 4 teams they played but in the 5th game we played at Paramount. An Olympic size sheet with water patches and soft ice. The boys play a quick tape to tape passing game. On the Olympic sheet with bad ice it was a series of miss passes and errors that saw them go down 0-3. They scored 3 in the third to tie it up but then lost in overtime when one of our D man crapped the bed falling down at the point resulting in a breakaway goal. That set up a rematch for the final. The final was a 5-3 win which we largely dominated. 2 goals came when the second string goalie was put it and gave up 2 very very soft goals. As a whole the 2nd team from AZ we played was classes as were the parents and im glad we won. Multiple kids didnt shake hands, they had to be stopped from hitting our kids gear on the ice with their sticks and the parents had a million excuses for the loss. Our kids played clean hockey taking very few penalties all tournament.

Ahbroody · 05-27-2014, 10:34 AM

E.J. · 05-29-2014, 12:09 PM

Love it!

Ahbroody · 06-04-2014, 10:27 AM

So after the Grafs ended up being too big I took what I thought was the safe route and ordered 28ks (the new 16k replacement as 30k is 18k and ribcor is 20k)to replace is 18ks which are falling apart. He is *****ing about the heel being sloppy. Im guessing they changed the heel fit in the redisign. We were tempted to go Bauer Supreme 170s, but he had lace bite on the top and didnt think starting with Bunga Pads on brand new skates was the best option. This kid is such a diva with his skates.

Reebok is supposed to be pulling the plug on hockey this year. Really worried CCM wont replace the Reebok fit profile with a new line. The RBZ line has to much arch for him and unless you get the actual $400 RBZ skate the boots are really soft. The Tacks are supposed to fit like vapors. So im hoping they create a 3rd line like Bauer. Hope I wont have to buy a bunch of skates and stockpile them.

E.J. · 06-04-2014, 12:10 PM

So the 28K's are a no go? You're running out of options.....

kugie · 06-05-2014, 07:03 AM

My daughters first goal.

So proud of her

Ahbroody · 06-05-2014, 11:23 AM

Awesome man. Something so awesome about watching your kid have fun and score at this game.

Ej he skated on the 28ks and he was sloppy. Going to need to rebake and get the heel a lot tighter. Tied them up Ieft them with the heel area compressed. Going to need to get a much better heel lock. So weird as 18ks had a much tighter heel. This crap drives me nuts. I am making these work as everything else is fine

E.J. · 06-05-2014, 01:16 PM

Joe, STINKIN' AWESOME! Congrats to both of you! Fun stuff....

E.J. · 08-08-2014, 09:08 PM

Just bought my first Jr. Sized Stick for the Little One.....NOOOOOO....

LM got new pants to head to camp with Utah. He's been playing for a year without belly pad in his pants, says he doesn't need it.... Told him there was not a shot in Hell I was sending him up there with his current pants, suck up up and break them in.....it's like 5 good skates?

100% different from sister. She wants new gear without needing it, he doesn't want gear when he does....

.

Ahbroody · 08-23-2014, 09:41 PM

So practices are in full swing for us here. We tried out and made the Sharks 05 team. Team is very deep and very fast. Even though its a first year squirt team which usually plays B it appears everyone thinks the team will play A level. They were discussing travel plans. Apparently we will do at least one SoCal tournament and one tournament in Colorado. There is a tournament in Oregon I want to go to as Canadian teams tend to come down but it doesn't look like we will be going. One of the big plusses about this team is the director of hockey operations son is on the team so we seem to be getting extra ice. Both this week and next we are getting 4 practices. Some are split ice, but I cant complain about 4 skates a week.

icehog3 · 08-23-2014, 09:45 PM

Congrats to you both, Mike!

E.J. · 08-27-2014, 12:49 PM

YES!!!! Took pulling her out of school for a half day and some begging, as they tried to cut the line off 1 person before the Little One was up for her pic, but Mom made it happen!!!! The Little One was soooooooo excited!

Big thanks to Trevor Lewis for bringing the Cup back to SLC!!!

Ahbroody · 09-26-2014, 06:24 PM

Freaking sweet.
So we are almost done with preseason here. 2 more games this weekend. The 05 Squirt team is 4-0 with a 37-7 goal differential. It should be 39-4 but you always get a little jobbed playing in certain teams barns. It looks like we will be moved to the A division because we have beaten the 2 A division teams we have played, but Norcal threw 2 more A division teams at us this weekend. It looks like they are hoping for a slip up to find an excuse to not let a group of 05s in the 04 division. Tomorrow they are playing the 2nd best team in the A division on paper. Sunday we are playing alower A division team that tied a team we beat last weekend.

Our line configurations are interesting. 1st line has weak center with 2 strong wingers. 2nd line is Ms line with him at center and a strong right winger. His left winger is our weak kid. 3rd line is similar to 2nd. Our D pairings are one strong with one weak. Basically given this make up we have 3 really good kids on the ice at any given moment and 2 kids that generally do more good then harm, but not always.

Tomorrow will be a big game for the boys. The team much like last weekends 04 opponent is bigger then our boys. That said our team is very fast, passes well and a lot, and shoots well. This is how they have been successful so far. Our big problem is our weaker kids dont play positional hockey well so the others cant go all out for fear of getting burned. Even with that they have been successful. We will see what happens.

Ahbroody · 10-18-2014, 05:09 PM

Focking long season already. In reality once we got bumped up into higher division all the kids we play against are 1 year older and all played travel last year. Our crap kids our getting worked like mules on the ice all gane long. M and 3 other boys are scoring but thats pretty much it and 2 of them are defensemen. Too good to play our age level. Not quiet good enough to play older kids because our weak kids get exposed badly.

Took a beating from the number 2 team today. 2-1 after 2 periods. 7-1 by the end. Sucked because M had some great chances but could not finish anything today. In a way its good. Some of the boys have never been on a losing team so its teaching them a lot.

Ahbroody · 10-18-2014, 05:10 PM

Focking long season already. In reality once we got bumped up into higher division all the kids we play against are 1 year older and all played travel last year. Our crap kids our getting worked like mules on the ice all gane long. M and 3 other boys are scoring but thats pretty much it and 2 of them are defensemen. Too good to play our age level. Not quiet good enough to play older kids because our weak kids get exposed badly.

Took a beating from the number 2 team today. 2-1 after 2 periods. 7-1 by the end. Sucked because M had some great chances but could not finish anything today. In a way its good. Some of the boys have never been on a losing team so its teaching them a lot.

05-09-2014, 11:31 PM	#1
E.J. I'm nuts for the place Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 3,218 Trading: (21)	Re: Being a Hockey Parent We were at tryouts locally tonight. Skipped all the other clubs, more so just timing related to comp soccer for the little one and the LM making the U....and we knew where we wanted to play(getting a little hard push not withstanding) But she crushed day one, assume she will move from a kid on the team, to a "player"... No one tougher on my pups & she may have been the best kid on the ice as an '05 in an '05-'04 tryout.

05-09-2014, 11:38 PM	#2
E.J. I'm nuts for the place Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 3,218 Trading: (21)	Re: Being a Hockey Parent ...little add, GOOD GOD this has been a fun spring! 4 years ago if you would have said my son could skate with the University of Utah, I'd have smiled at you and bought you another beer. The Little One, following big brother, has always been fun....but admittedly, it's getting smile inducing.... I LOVE being a hockey parent! Hell of a ride so far!

05-21-2014, 04:54 PM	#3
E.J. I'm nuts for the place Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 3,218 Trading: (21)	Re: Being a Hockey Parent You have to love some ice time with USA Miracle on Ice Hockey Team member and current UW Women's Hockey Team coach....

05-21-2014, 08:26 PM	#4
Ahbroody Daddy x 4 Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Mike Location: San Jose Posts: 3,708 Trading: (53)	Re: Being a Hockey Parent Sweet!! As for us we are leaving for LA at 5am on Friday morning for a 2pm game in Anaheim. Then a 630am game Saturday morning in Anahiem, then Saturday 545pm in El Segundo. Sundays games are El Segundo at 945am and Paramount (right next to the lovely city of Compton) at 4pm. Possible game monday if we finish 2nd or 1st. Not holding breath. He got asked to play in the Junior Olympics qualifier in Corona for roller this weekend as well. A club approached us and said if he coukd play a couple of games they would love to have him. So we may play in some games Saturday morning and Monday. Sunday games are out as they conflict with ice. He seemed uninterested when I told him. Lol

05-26-2014, 09:04 PM	#5
E.J. I'm nuts for the place Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 3,218 Trading: (21)	Re: Being a Hockey Parent Nice weekend, Mike!

05-27-2014, 10:33 AM	#6
Ahbroody Daddy x 4 Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Mike Location: San Jose Posts: 3,708 Trading: (53)	Re: Being a Hockey Parent That was the longest hockey weekend of my life. I cant beleive how much I drove. The end result was pretty amazing. This group of NorCal 05s went down and smacked around teams from Arizona Alaska and SoCal. Even had to overcome a little BS when certain SoCal Club sent out a mix team of kids from multiple clubs half in practice jerseys with kids from teams we had played already. Still beat them. The boys destroyed the first 4 teams they played but in the 5th game we played at Paramount. An Olympic size sheet with water patches and soft ice. The boys play a quick tape to tape passing game. On the Olympic sheet with bad ice it was a series of miss passes and errors that saw them go down 0-3. They scored 3 in the third to tie it up but then lost in overtime when one of our D man crapped the bed falling down at the point resulting in a breakaway goal. That set up a rematch for the final. The final was a 5-3 win which we largely dominated. 2 goals came when the second string goalie was put it and gave up 2 very very soft goals. As a whole the 2nd team from AZ we played was classes as were the parents and im glad we won. Multiple kids didnt shake hands, they had to be stopped from hitting our kids gear on the ice with their sticks and the parents had a million excuses for the loss. Our kids played clean hockey taking very few penalties all tournament. Last edited by Ahbroody; 05-27-2014 at 10:41 AM.

05-27-2014, 10:34 AM	#7
Ahbroody Daddy x 4 Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Mike Location: San Jose Posts: 3,708 Trading: (53)	Re: Being a Hockey Parent

05-29-2014, 12:09 PM	#8
E.J. I'm nuts for the place Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 3,218 Trading: (21)	Re: Being a Hockey Parent Love it!

06-04-2014, 10:27 AM	#9
Ahbroody Daddy x 4 Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Mike Location: San Jose Posts: 3,708 Trading: (53)	Re: Being a Hockey Parent So after the Grafs ended up being too big I took what I thought was the safe route and ordered 28ks (the new 16k replacement as 30k is 18k and ribcor is 20k)to replace is 18ks which are falling apart. He is *****ing about the heel being sloppy. Im guessing they changed the heel fit in the redisign. We were tempted to go Bauer Supreme 170s, but he had lace bite on the top and didnt think starting with Bunga Pads on brand new skates was the best option. This kid is such a diva with his skates. Reebok is supposed to be pulling the plug on hockey this year. Really worried CCM wont replace the Reebok fit profile with a new line. The RBZ line has to much arch for him and unless you get the actual $400 RBZ skate the boots are really soft. The Tacks are supposed to fit like vapors. So im hoping they create a 3rd line like Bauer. Hope I wont have to buy a bunch of skates and stockpile them.

06-04-2014, 12:10 PM	#10
E.J. I'm nuts for the place Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 3,218 Trading: (21)	Re: Being a Hockey Parent So the 28K's are a no go? You're running out of options.....

06-05-2014, 07:03 AM	#11
kugie Have My Own Room Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Joe Location: Billerica, Ma. Posts: 1,376 Trading: (3)	Re: Being a Hockey Parent My daughters first goal. So proud of her __________________ "Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!" Dr. P. Venkman

06-05-2014, 11:23 AM	#12
Ahbroody Daddy x 4 Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Mike Location: San Jose Posts: 3,708 Trading: (53)	Re: Being a Hockey Parent Awesome man. Something so awesome about watching your kid have fun and score at this game. Ej he skated on the 28ks and he was sloppy. Going to need to rebake and get the heel a lot tighter. Tied them up Ieft them with the heel area compressed. Going to need to get a much better heel lock. So weird as 18ks had a much tighter heel. This crap drives me nuts. I am making these work as everything else is fine Last edited by Ahbroody; 06-05-2014 at 11:28 AM.

06-05-2014, 01:16 PM	#13
E.J. I'm nuts for the place Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 3,218 Trading: (21)	Re: Being a Hockey Parent Joe, STINKIN' AWESOME! Congrats to both of you! Fun stuff....

08-08-2014, 09:08 PM	#14
E.J. I'm nuts for the place Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 3,218 Trading: (21)	Re: Being a Hockey Parent Just bought my first Jr. Sized Stick for the Little One.....NOOOOOO.... LM got new pants to head to camp with Utah. He's been playing for a year without belly pad in his pants, says he doesn't need it.... Told him there was not a shot in Hell I was sending him up there with his current pants, suck up up and break them in.....it's like 5 good skates? 100% different from sister. She wants new gear without needing it, he doesn't want gear when he does.....

08-23-2014, 09:41 PM	#15
Ahbroody Daddy x 4 Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Mike Location: San Jose Posts: 3,708 Trading: (53)	Re: Being a Hockey Parent So practices are in full swing for us here. We tried out and made the Sharks 05 team. Team is very deep and very fast. Even though its a first year squirt team which usually plays B it appears everyone thinks the team will play A level. They were discussing travel plans. Apparently we will do at least one SoCal tournament and one tournament in Colorado. There is a tournament in Oregon I want to go to as Canadian teams tend to come down but it doesn't look like we will be going. One of the big plusses about this team is the director of hockey operations son is on the team so we seem to be getting extra ice. Both this week and next we are getting 4 practices. Some are split ice, but I cant complain about 4 skates a week.

08-23-2014, 09:45 PM	#16
icehog3 Admiral Douchebag Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Tom Location: Clermont, Kentucky Posts: 71,721 Trading: (60)	Re: Being a Hockey Parent Congrats to you both, Mike! __________________ Thanks Dave, Julian, James, Kelly, Peter, Gerry, Dave, Mo, Frank, Týr and Mr. Mark!

08-27-2014, 12:49 PM	#17
E.J. I'm nuts for the place Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 3,218 Trading: (21)	Re: Being a Hockey Parent YES!!!! Took pulling her out of school for a half day and some begging, as they tried to cut the line off 1 person before the Little One was up for her pic, but Mom made it happen!!!! The Little One was soooooooo excited! Big thanks to Trevor Lewis for bringing the Cup back to SLC!!!

09-26-2014, 06:24 PM	#18
Ahbroody Daddy x 4 Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Mike Location: San Jose Posts: 3,708 Trading: (53)	Re: Being a Hockey Parent Freaking sweet. So we are almost done with preseason here. 2 more games this weekend. The 05 Squirt team is 4-0 with a 37-7 goal differential. It should be 39-4 but you always get a little jobbed playing in certain teams barns. It looks like we will be moved to the A division because we have beaten the 2 A division teams we have played, but Norcal threw 2 more A division teams at us this weekend. It looks like they are hoping for a slip up to find an excuse to not let a group of 05s in the 04 division. Tomorrow they are playing the 2nd best team in the A division on paper. Sunday we are playing alower A division team that tied a team we beat last weekend. Our line configurations are interesting. 1st line has weak center with 2 strong wingers. 2nd line is Ms line with him at center and a strong right winger. His left winger is our weak kid. 3rd line is similar to 2nd. Our D pairings are one strong with one weak. Basically given this make up we have 3 really good kids on the ice at any given moment and 2 kids that generally do more good then harm, but not always. Tomorrow will be a big game for the boys. The team much like last weekends 04 opponent is bigger then our boys. That said our team is very fast, passes well and a lot, and shoots well. This is how they have been successful so far. Our big problem is our weaker kids dont play positional hockey well so the others cant go all out for fear of getting burned. Even with that they have been successful. We will see what happens.

10-18-2014, 05:09 PM	#19
Ahbroody Daddy x 4 Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Mike Location: San Jose Posts: 3,708 Trading: (53)	Re: Being a Hockey Parent Focking long season already. In reality once we got bumped up into higher division all the kids we play against are 1 year older and all played travel last year. Our crap kids our getting worked like mules on the ice all gane long. M and 3 other boys are scoring but thats pretty much it and 2 of them are defensemen. Too good to play our age level. Not quiet good enough to play older kids because our weak kids get exposed badly. Took a beating from the number 2 team today. 2-1 after 2 periods. 7-1 by the end. Sucked because M had some great chances but could not finish anything today. In a way its good. Some of the boys have never been on a losing team so its teaching them a lot.

10-18-2014, 05:10 PM	#20
Ahbroody Daddy x 4 Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Mike Location: San Jose Posts: 3,708 Trading: (53)	Re: Being a Hockey Parent Focking long season already. In reality once we got bumped up into higher division all the kids we play against are 1 year older and all played travel last year. Our crap kids our getting worked like mules on the ice all gane long. M and 3 other boys are scoring but thats pretty much it and 2 of them are defensemen. Too good to play our age level. Not quiet good enough to play older kids because our weak kids get exposed badly. Took a beating from the number 2 team today. 2-1 after 2 periods. 7-1 by the end. Sucked because M had some great chances but could not finish anything today. In a way its good. Some of the boys have never been on a losing team so its teaching them a lot.