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Forgot to update my boys progress.
Two weeks ago my oldest son looked like he was on an island. The defence was horrible and as a d-man he had to take it on the chin. Think he was on the ice for 6 goals against. The other kid paired with him would bail and left my son trying to play a 1 man defence.
Yesterday was a night and day difference. The coaches worked on coverages and it showed. My son played in 2 games; first game they lost 5-2, and he had two real bad clearing attempts that resulted in 2 goals. Before his next game I talked to him in trying to settle the puck first than move it. Next game was an absolute beauty they won 13-2, and he was not on the ice for any goals against. Apparently he ripped one from the blue line that I missed as my daughter was getting fitted for gear as she is doing the learn to play. Everyone was talking about it and I missed it. He had another 3 assists to go with it.
I missed my youngest son game last week as I was with my oldest at his game. They lost by quite a bit but he has the only assist in his game, and he told me he checked a couple kids into the boards.
He had a game today, and his team had to pull players from our other Squirt team and we still only had 9 kids. He played Centre and was really pumped to play. He won all his face offs and was all over the ice. He led a couple of rushes and had to back check like a madman cause the defence thought they were playing forwards. He had an assist and they lost 5-2.
All in all a real good couple of weeks of hockey and a lot of growth and fun had by my boys. The highlight of these 2 weeks may be that my 13yr old daughter is playing, and is doing the learn to play program. I’m not sure I could be a more proud as a Father than I am now.
Two weeks ago my oldest son looked like he was on an island. The defence was horrible and as a d-man he had to take it on the chin. Think he was on the ice for 6 goals against. The other kid paired with him would bail and left my son trying to play a 1 man defence.
Yesterday was a night and day difference. The coaches worked on coverages and it showed. My son played in 2 games; first game they lost 5-2, and he had two real bad clearing attempts that resulted in 2 goals. Before his next game I talked to him in trying to settle the puck first than move it. Next game was an absolute beauty they won 13-2, and he was not on the ice for any goals against. Apparently he ripped one from the blue line that I missed as my daughter was getting fitted for gear as she is doing the learn to play. Everyone was talking about it and I missed it. He had another 3 assists to go with it.
I missed my youngest son game last week as I was with my oldest at his game. They lost by quite a bit but he has the only assist in his game, and he told me he checked a couple kids into the boards.
He had a game today, and his team had to pull players from our other Squirt team and we still only had 9 kids. He played Centre and was really pumped to play. He won all his face offs and was all over the ice. He led a couple of rushes and had to back check like a madman cause the defence thought they were playing forwards. He had an assist and they lost 5-2.
All in all a real good couple of weeks of hockey and a lot of growth and fun had by my boys. The highlight of these 2 weeks may be that my 13yr old daughter is playing, and is doing the learn to play program. I’m not sure I could be a more proud as a Father than I am now.
