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Quality in youth hockey
Guest:
What this person said. Coaching is most of the battle and hopefully you'll end up with some good teammates (parents that is). They can sink the ship even with good coaching.
Guest:
Every rink has + & -. No one will be 100% happy at any rink. Find a coach your kid likes, learn everything you can from them, then find another coach and repeat. That is all you can ask. Most important thing is kid must practice at home on their own. Only doing things at rink will not make kid best player they can be. Kid has to want it to work at game to get better.
Guest:
Feel free to contact me -I’m happy to share my experience as a first time hockey parent. Not sure why the LOL
Guest:
From my time in youth hockey(20yrs) I found that if the club likes you and your kid they will work great with you. If you or kid is disliked than they could give two shits about developing your player. Most fall into the middle were your player is just there to fill the roster with the hope they will get better by just practice but nothing extra.
Guest:
--- Quote from: Guest on October 22, 2024, 06:57:51 PM ---There is a lot of program bashing on this platform. But I am curious, are there any programs where development and love of the game come before profit and politics? I’m not looking for the generic “BlackBear” bashing because those rinks are all ran by different hockey directors. I am more locking for any resource to make a kid better at hockey is provided with in reason and not based on the bottom line.
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Find another sport. Hockey is BS now. Since BB came in, nothing but far travel at all levels. BB loves the stupid Showcase events where you get the pleasure of traveling 2-3+ hours away, paying $200+/night to sleep in a crappy hotel, play games against teams you have already played multiple times and are located only 45min to 1 hour from your home rink and usually play the games in a shithole BB rink! Hockey is a complete money grab. The only good you get is practice if you can find a good rink and good coaches. Corporate greed has ruined this sport!
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