We are in the home stretch.
AA tryouts start this weekend and I am going to be taking Hockeyplayer to one "just for the skate". I don't think that he is ready for AA, he may be someday, but I don't think he is right now. I would like him to see how things are done, the way the players work, the level of their skills etc. The tryout we are going to was a 500 team last year and the coach said that they were going to have openings on both forward and defense.
A are next weekend and I am trying to keep all of our options open. There are really only 2 teams that I think he might sign with, Up and Coming team and Brand New Start Up team. Up and Coming's tryouts start on Thursday so I can get an idea of where Hockey Player fits, or doesn't fit, in their plans.
Stay tuned.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Crazy Season
The crazy machine is in full gear. It must be try out season.
Actually the tryouts don’t begin until later this month but I know for a fact that several teams are already chosen for next year and some are even practicing. So much for the rules! Now I know that the teams will try to get around the rules by having, say, a parent run a skate instead of a coach, or a team that still has ice time available, will invite a couple of kids for a skate. All of this is against the GTHL rules but it does happen.
Hockey Player is going to a camp tomorrow because he doesn’t have school and then he has a full day camp on a Saturday; A “Pre Tryout Camp”.
I start to sound like a gambling addict with the camps and skates before tryouts; “Just one more. That’s what he needs. Just one more skate to keep him sharp and impress the coaches.”
Actually the tryouts don’t begin until later this month but I know for a fact that several teams are already chosen for next year and some are even practicing. So much for the rules! Now I know that the teams will try to get around the rules by having, say, a parent run a skate instead of a coach, or a team that still has ice time available, will invite a couple of kids for a skate. All of this is against the GTHL rules but it does happen.
Hockey Player is going to a camp tomorrow because he doesn’t have school and then he has a full day camp on a Saturday; A “Pre Tryout Camp”.
I start to sound like a gambling addict with the camps and skates before tryouts; “Just one more. That’s what he needs. Just one more skate to keep him sharp and impress the coaches.”
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Try out angst
The silly season is coming hard and fast. The season of sleepless nights, phone calls to coaches, and the anxiety about where Hockey Player is going to be lacing up his skates next season.
Last season I was quite nervous, as he was making the jump from Select to GTHL for the first time when the try out season came. This year, with a years experience under his belt, and having led his team in goals scored, and coaches who remember seeing him play, I feel quite a bit more confident about his chances of being on a better squad then the start up team that he just finished with.
But it is a great big lottery when it comes to trying out for a new team because there are so many forces at play, so many internal dynamics involved that we, as outsiders to the team, will never really know until you have lived with the team for a season.
I am trying to keep hockey player skating right up to the try outs and hoping for the best.
Last season I was quite nervous, as he was making the jump from Select to GTHL for the first time when the try out season came. This year, with a years experience under his belt, and having led his team in goals scored, and coaches who remember seeing him play, I feel quite a bit more confident about his chances of being on a better squad then the start up team that he just finished with.
But it is a great big lottery when it comes to trying out for a new team because there are so many forces at play, so many internal dynamics involved that we, as outsiders to the team, will never really know until you have lived with the team for a season.
I am trying to keep hockey player skating right up to the try outs and hoping for the best.
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