My first post

Well here it is not even the end of February and the current season is almost over. It seems hard to believe that it is coming to an end.

My son is playing GTHL; A, for the first time and it has been an instructive experience for all of us to say the least.

The team, last in their division, has definitely improved over the course of the season, and probably should have won a couple of more games then they did over the course of the season if the talent level on the team was more consistent and if a couple of bounces had gone our way. But the last game of the regular season is just around the corner and, obviously, we are not making the play-offs.

It is not too soon to be thinking about tryouts for next season. There are several teams that I would like to see hockey player play for next year. Right now I have a preference for the community based teams, the ones that have their own house league and Select programs, rather then the private ones that seem to be devoid of the sense of community that I think is so important to minor hockey.

High on my list of requirements for a team for next year would be one that wins more then it looses. This getting’ blown out almost every game, because there are too many kids on the team that have no business playing at this level, really stinks. I have to give hockey player all kinds of credit for not letting any of the crap that goes on around the team bother him or affect the way that he plays.