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Post by Gerard on Oct 9, 2002 5:50:13 GMT -5
I don't really believe it but he jumped, in 2 years, from 'house' league to 'Midget A' to AAA this year. He'll be in a learning curve for a while but being a stay/home def. will allow him to take things a bit slower. You can tell he's 17. One of the last things he mentioned the other night on the phone was the girls. ;D
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Post by Leafs_Pam on Oct 9, 2002 10:12:52 GMT -5
Hey Congratulations, OM!! Please pass my congrats on to your son.  |
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Post by Rusty on Oct 9, 2002 13:38:20 GMT -5
I don't really believe it but he jumped, in 2 years, from 'house' league to 'Midget A' to AAA this year. He'll be in a learning curve for a while but being a stay/home def. will allow him to take things a bit slower. You can tell he's 17. One of the last things he mentioned the other night on the phone was the girls. ;D Send along my congrats also, I only wish my son would have stayed in Hockey. I guess the monetary enhancement of his lavish life style demanded he drop something, either his newly aquired job, or his passion for hockey. Oh well really there was not much I could have done or said. At least he is investing most of his paycheque. Although I had to talk him out of getting a car, I figured a 15 year + a car add up to big time trouble, not to mention the fact that the vast majroity of his pay would be going towards insuring that vehicle. I sympathize with the girls comment really I do, my son gets these weird messages all the time on the answering machine, sometimes this girl plays entire love songs into the phone!!!! who was it that said girls are made of sugar and spice, i'd like to give him/her a piece of my mind (And combat boot for that matter). At the same time I am trying to develope a system to keep my own daughter tied down. Ah such is the life of the 21st century parent!!! Good luck OM Rusty |
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Post by cranapple on Oct 9, 2002 15:06:07 GMT -5
Thats really good "old Guy", how is the calibre in N.S.? A good midget 3 "A" team in Ont. will give a "C" or "D" team a run on any given night , in fact our "B" team used 7 or 8 as call ups last year. Our coaches are paid and it can be expensive but to me its like a higher education class room because most players who get that far at midget are da*n near sure of getting drafted by someone. (JR.A). Its a balancing act from here on!! You will need three hands, school,hockey and the ladies!!!
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Post by Gerard on Oct 11, 2002 15:31:24 GMT -5
I wouldn't lie to you. I don't really think the calibre is very high overall. Sure, there are some guys who can fly but i'm not really impressed and i'm not one of those guys who shouts stuff about the good old days being better when it comes to kids sports. It's just that my son, a solid defensive-minded d-man w/ the occasional up-ice rush, played 'A' last year and I had him pegged for 'AA' and being a fairly important player. The kind you don't often read about but really notice if they're not there. ;D When I heard he made 'AAA' I was pleasantly surprised but still am skeptical as to how much impact he will have. Time will tell. I guess my main focus will be on helping him enjoy his time in the sun, as they say. He has never made a 'AAA' team at any level and, since he's in midget now, the odds are against it happening again. He is very excited b/c they get priviledges at the rink: extra ice time, longer practices and they have to be there hours before the game for the off-ice stuff. To him it's just like the big-leagues. I guess, in a way, it is. He'll be talking about this season for years no matter what their/his record is. |
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Post by freshwind on Oct 12, 2002 6:55:52 GMT -5
Pass on the congrats to your son, it is a fine thing to work towards something and to achieve it. Tell him to keep up the good work! OM, if I have learned one thing over all the years I've spent in rinks, it is this - make sure he enjoys every second of that passion he now feels, support him in it, and share it with him. Far too many kids in rep hockey lose that passion as they grow up. It is a shame, cultivate it, our future in hockey counts on our kids retaining that passion.
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Post by Gerard on Oct 12, 2002 14:17:43 GMT -5
I don't think he'll lose the passion. He's played about 11 years of hockey all of which (except for 2 years) has been house league. Last year, in 'A' he got his first taste of rep hockey and, thru the tryouts this year, he kept saying he just wanted to play one year at triple A. He's glad that they will learn new break-out drills and learn to cycle. Two things that weren't really nec. in the lower levels.
Funny you should mention having fun. Ever since he was a little kid I have always told that to him as he went out on the ice. Now that he's older, and often goes to the rink a couple of hrs early, I make sure I tell him as he leaves the car. It's funny how the little things stick in your mind, isn't it??
ps...A side-note to the 'fun' thing is that he always told me, for many years, that the coach wants them at the rink 'x' amount of time before actual game-time. Last year I came back to the rink early (for me) only to see him hanging out with the guys doing the usual stuff. About 1/2 hr before the game he went in the got dressed. After the game, when I asked him where all the coaches were at before-hand he didn't really have a good answer. He just kinda shrugged his shoulders and grinned. He does love this game. Few things have made me happier to see.
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Post by Leafs_Pam on Oct 12, 2002 15:30:39 GMT -5
OM, I really have no idea what Midget league is since all I have here is NHL. The only AHL I experience are the games I attend in Hamilton and the only Juniors I have experienced is one game between St. Mike's Majors (Toronto) and the Sudbury Wolves, and the WJC games on TV if I'm in the Toronto area after Christmas. Anything below that I have no idea what it is. I don't even know what 'house league' is. As long as your son is enjoying himself that's what is important. You said that the caliber of AAA in Midget isn't that high. Look at it this way. He's in AAA but many other boys will never reach that level. Regardless of what Midget AAA is, he has accomplished something that lots of other boys never will. You have every right to be proud of your son. Maybe he won't ever reach the NHL or AHL but this is still an accomplishment and I don't blame you for being proud of him. Crow all you want to. And please don't forget to pass my congratulations on to him. If he is still having fun after a year in AAA he may just stay with it. As FW said, hockey's future in Canada is with these kids. |
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Post by cranapple on Nov 17, 2002 17:26:13 GMT -5
heres one for you guys, when this happened, 5 years ago, I really didn't know that it was such a big deal with a lot of parents of boys who where / are playing at the high end, triple "A", this was a summer jr. league that my son played in for 3 years, every game was a showcase, at least 5 new kids would show up every sun. and would be slotted in to a team, one of 6, 3 games a sun. , most teams where coached by jr. scouts or jr. coaches who used the league as there try out camp. I was sitting with a father of a 17 yr. old goalie who I usually sat with and noticed on this day he was really upset. outskates the teams and on his sons team there was a tall kid who I had never seen before with new equip. etc. and I asked who is that? H e went on to tell me that it was a goalie brought in by a jr. team, unseen from russia, registered him in school in his town, billeted the boy and basically he was the teams new goalie. I guess this had caused so much trouble and I really didn't understand so I asked why? well he got a bit upset and proceeded to explain the fallout and the cuts from teams as the jr. goalie he was replacing was old enough to go to midget, after a jr. jr. and so on down. anyway, the ripple effect was 5 players moving down as far as bantam. I watched this kid. he was released after a week from "B", the "D" team he went to kept him for a month or so and went to another "D" team and by xmas had gone home. The kid he bounced from the 1st jr. team, to 3 "A" midget,quite and as far as I know, hasn't had his pads on since
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Post by Thibault on Nov 25, 2002 16:23:12 GMT -5
I don't really believe it but he jumped, in 2 years, from 'house' league to 'Midget A' to AAA this year. He'll be in a learning curve for a while but being a stay/home def. will allow him to take things a bit slower. You can tell he's 17. One of the last things he mentioned the other night on the phone was the girls. ;D Had a friend in that league.....aren't the South Shore Mustangs in that league? |
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Post by Thibault on Nov 25, 2002 16:25:15 GMT -5
As long as your son is enjoying himself that's what is important. You said that the caliber of AAA in Midget isn't that high. Look at it this way. He's in AAA but many other boys will never reach that level. Regardless of what Midget AAA is, he has accomplished something that lots of other boys never will. You have every right to be proud of your son. Maybe he won't ever reach the NHL or AHL but this is still an accomplishment and I don't blame you for being proud of him. Crow all you want to. And please don't forget to pass my congratulations on to him. If he is still having fun after a year in AAA he may just stay with it. As FW said, hockey's future in Canada is with these kids. Glen Murray was in that league I do believe. The kid should just have fun....cause it won't last forever regardless. |
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