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Minding your own business seems hard these days

THIS IS GOING TO SOUND CRAZY!!!! How about everyone worry about their own kid!!!! Most of the parents who are raising issues about this are jealous and are the same types of parents that openly complain to their child about the coach or teammates. The supposed favorites are usually the kids that works harder than everyone else, loves the game, wants to be at the rink, and listens, which is the reason why their one of the better players on the team and getting more ice time. It’s not the coach’s fault, it’s the players, because I guarantee the player isn’t working hard, goofs around, doesn’t listen, isn’t skilled enough and causes the team problems. Rather than worry about what other kids and organizations (that your kid isn’t skilled enough to make) are doing you should worry about teaching your kid how to take responsibility for themselves and not shift blame.

For those that have requested refunds we have been sending them out. However, they are few. Most folks still have hopes of playing. Unlike others, we scheduled our tournaments for later into summer. Not sure what other companies are doing?

This is ALL ABOUT protecting my kids. And protecting myself too. No, we're soccer, lacrosse, and track this time of year. Miss those too, but this is really about protecting kids and families at tryouts like I said from the start. It's about staying alive. I like life. Big fan. I like my life, my kids' lives, your lives, your kids' lives, and all the kids' gramma's lives. When my team plays your team this year, I want 100% of your team, my team, every coach, every official, and every cow-bell-ringing gramma to be there. It will be a great game, I'm looking forward to it. What I don't want is any single one of those people to miss out on the fun that is our game. Especially if their absence could have been so easily prevented. My kids are not tested. I'm not tested. We could be carriers. I don't know. You don't know. You and your kids could be carriers. You don't know. I don't know. But our lives, your life, your kids' lives, your gramma's life are all more important than my kids' need for hockey. So we can wait a little while. From the trenches, if you've not been: hockey brings all kinds of opportunity for fluid exchange. Spit. Hockers. Snot. Coughing. Vomit. Blood. Even something as simple as a coach delivering a spirited talk at the whiteboard, spittle flying through his teeth and lips while kids take a knee, shoulder to shoulder, heavy breathing from the last drill, rapidly inhaling and exhaling. We have enough uncertainty with this virus. By getting together in large groups under yellow, some of us are compounding that uncertainty. Do your kids and yourselves and my kids and me and all grammas a favor: stay home for a few more weeks. Hockey will still be there when we go green.