Being a Hockey Parent

[Ahbroody]

Hellllllo ladies.
Glad you had an awesome time at the tourney Scott.

EJ how did your son do at state high school select tryout?

Micah had 4 goals in his game yesterday. Scored a few times on a squirt goalie. They were scramble goals infront of him, but what ever he scored on a squirt goalie.

[Ahbroody]

Just looked at stats. I see the 02 Sharp shooters won the AAA division. That club is based out of the bayarea, but its a phantom club. They exist outside the NorCal Hockey governing board. They only have 1 or 2 teams. A year or so back this 02 club went down to LA and smoked all the SoCal teams. From what I understand its a team composed of all the best players from a few clubs in the area. I think they cheated playing AAA instead of AAA Elite from what I know of them.

98 Jr. Sharks went 2-1? Not sure what that meant.

All and all Nor Cal showed decent.

[Eleven]

Originally Posted by Ahbroody

98 Jr. Sharks went 2-1? Not sure what that meant.

The website is weird, one page only shows Pool Play stats, and another only shows Playoff Stats. I bet that 2-1 stat is Pool Play. I talked to one of the SJ Jr Sharks dads yesterday, he was pretty cool. But since he was standing with me in Total Hockey, I'm assuming they got eliminated Saturday night in the Sweet Sixteen, just like my kids team did.

If you happen to have made it out of the Sweet Sixteen, then you would have 3 games with very little downtime on Sunday to keep going. They would not have had time to hit up a hockey store between games.

They had 8 pools with 4 teams each, and the top 2 teams from each pool moved on into the Sweet Sixteen. The bottom 2 teams from each pool played other bottom 2 teams in consolation games.

Here are some more pics from the weekend. I do have some hockey action pics, but only from one game and I don't know how well they came out. I'll check those later.

More eye-candy from the Opening Ceremony Reception:



Our favorite Pizza in Chicago, from Giordano's:



More Giordano's Goodness:



And finally my kid chilling at Gino's East of Chicago waiting on yet another Deep Dish Pizza to arrive:

[E.J.]

Originally Posted by Ahbroody

EJ how did your son do at state high school select tryout?

Was waiting to respond until they actually played a game... But he made the team and they play their first exhibition today.... Have NO IDEA what to expect....

Truth be told, it has been a less than stellar experience so far. VERY POORLY run so far from the administration aspect.... Close to zero communication(worst I've had in all my years of sports with the kids), schedule set and then cancelled completely to start from scratch.... LM is excited to be out there, but it has been a bit of a clusterpuck @ best....

So I guess we will go to the rink and see what happens. Prepare to be picture bombed....