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i heard that a team of russians are coming over to dethrone LS. all of the kids are 5 ft tall or greater and make jm look like a midget. the tournament directors were thinking of moving this team up a level or 2. if they stay down, ls's team will get steam rolled by the russian bears.
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the montreal kid better bring some photo id. in montreal everyone was questioning his age, however no one challenged it. i guarantee you in this tournament he will need to provide id.
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team from Ottawa will be very strong, kids from Kingston to Hull........ sure your montreal kid hasn't committed to 2 teams........ more double rostering ??
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Last thing I will say about JM is that his dad should wake up and put him on the ice. All kids are working towards catching him, and are on the ice two, three and four times a week . Putting the skates away for the better part of three months will allow that to happen. He should know better. JM fan, out.
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"Last thing I will say about JM is that his dad should wake up and put him on the ice. All kids are working towards catching him, and are on the ice two, three and four times a week . Putting the skates away for the better part of three months will allow that to happen. He should know better. JM fan, out."
Agreed, he is on less than half the time most are. Maybe, just maybe that is why he is as good as he is. Time will tell. My son needs the extra ice.
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If JM is that good then Dad has the right idea. Don't push him and he'll stay fresh! The kid's determination and heart will keep him great. All the skating and practicing will make kids better but if they don't have heart they'll burn out
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He's too busy dominating in soccer and lacrosse and every othe rsport that he tries...this kid is good because he is doing it on pure athleticism, not on extra skating to get ahead of the crowd.
This one is going places...watch and enjoy.
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We play against Jm in soccer and he is by far the best player in our league. He plays two years up in lacrosse and people tell us he is the best player as well. Honestly JM is a freak of nature, and while it was frustrating at the beginning hearing all about him, it's actually kind of fun to watch.
I heard he is setting records at swim meets, and winning track races and cross country as well. Good luck to him as he is the one to catch.
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Before u go bragging about playing two years up please keep in mind the organization u play for in lacrosse. The novice beaches team would lose easily to a rep A tyke team like clarington or for that matter any A or B ranked team. In hockey terms the beaches is like playing for vaughan white team 2000. Get a grip and stop bragging
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Actually it does matter as any kid playing for an A ranked team can fill the net even 4 years up when playing agaist D ranked teams. At D level, most kids are just learning to hold their stick and catch a ball. In lacrosse, each level has 2 age groups so playing against older kids is very frequent and only worth mentioning if the kid in question plays for an A ranked team. Otherwise, grow up and just let ur kid have fun and stop the unnecessary and unwarranted bragging.
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Whatever..lacrosse isn't even the point...the kid is one of the best athletes to come along in years, and he excels and dominates in every sport that he tries...get over yourself.
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Hey my 6 year old AAA kid is playing hockey against 8 year old houseleague kids and scores a lot in 3 on 3 hockey, and he plays tennis against kids 2-3 years older and wins, and although he should have only been in grade one he was too advanced so they put him in a 2/3 class in January, and my kid also swims and beat a kid who was 9 in a meet (although the other kid was just learning the breaststroke it doesn't matter cause he was 3 YEARS OLDER, and finally he had a piano recital and his classmates consisted of older kids and ONE OF THEM WAS 11 YEARS OLD. My kid is a rare breed and many of my freinds and other parents have told me he is a prodigy and is the best. I think he may be going to the show.
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What will be funny will be in 10-12 years, when he is in the show, and all of you jack*sses will be bragging about watching him since he was a kid...I can just see it, "Oh yeah, I knew he was going to be star since he was a kid"
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Is anyone interrested in paying for a hockey card of my son? He's 7 years old and really really good. I'll have him sign it as well so that when he's a star in the show u will have an incredibly valuable collectors item. If u could let me know now, I'll order them. Let's say 10 dollars a card and we'll limit the run to 50 cards....we all know he's destined for superstardom so why not get one now? Ill use the money to buy him better skates which will make him even better....what do u think?
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if anyone thinks AM is on here pimping his son, you don't know him at all. Obviously someone is on here either trying to make a point about how good JM is, or is trying to make AM look like an idiot.
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If its not AM, then what other pathetic and deranged individual would spend so much time slavishly promoting a 7/8 year old? Very creepy to me. If it was my son, I'd have the person picked up.
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You guys responding on this are crazy....you think the only good players are in the league you play in??? It sounds like the league is a joke.....talking about who's coaching where and what kids are going where - kids change over time and the ones you "think" are good now could be awful within the next year as they will be caught up to. As for the coaches- what a mess- wouldn't it mess you all up if none of these guys get a team?? What would happen then???Maybe that's what needs to happen- clean house and start fresh.......but then again- what would you talk about????
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There was about two minutes to play in the playoff game and I was anxiously pacing behind the bench, barking out whatever instructions seemed important at that very moment. You watch the game and you watch the clock in those final seconds, sometimes precisely at the very same time.
We were up by a goal, poised to advance to the next round of the playoffs, when I felt a tug on my jacket.
"Ah coach," one of my players said on the bench.
"Yea," I answered, concentrating more on the game and the clock than on him at that instance.
"Is there snacks today?"
"Whaaaat?" I barked exasperated.
"Did anyone bring snacks today?"
"Huh," I looked away.
"I hope they didn't bring apple juice." The young boy said. "I don't like apple juice."
The moment froze me in all the playoff excitement, the way all special and meaningful moments should. If somehow, I could have captured that conversation on tape, I would have had one of those special sporting moments for parents everywhere, the kind you need to play for coaches and executive and trainers and managers and all of us who take kids hockey way too seriously. It isn't life or death, as we like to think it is. It isn't do or die as often as we pretend it to be. In one tiny moment in one game minor hockey was reduced to what it really is about. Apple juice.
OK, so it's not apple juice. But what apple juice happens to represent in all of this. The snack. The routine. The ritual. Kids can win and lose and not even give a second's thought about either, but don't forget the post-game drinks. If anything will spoil a good time, that will.
You see, it's all part of the culture of hockey. Not who wins, not who scores goals, not which team accomplished what on which night, but about whether mom and dad are there, whether their grandparents are in the stands watching, whether their best friend was on their team and they got a shift on the power play, and yes, about what they ate.
When you get involved in hockey, when you truly put your heart into the game and into the environment and into everything, it can be when it's at its best, the game is only part of the package. It becomes a social outing for parents. It becomes a social outing for children. It should never be about who is going for extra power skating and who is going straight from minor tyke to the Philadelphia Flyers but about building that kind of environment - the kind of memories kids and parents and families will have forever.
Sometimes, when I stand around the arenas I can't believe the tone of the conversations I hear. The visions are so short-sighted. The conversations are almost always about today and who won and who lost and who scored. Not enough people use the word fun and not enough sell it that way either. Hard as we try to think like kids, we're not kids. Hard as we try to remember what we were when we were young, our vision is clouded by perspective and logic - something not always evident with children.
Ask any parent whether they would rather win or lose and without a doubt they would say win. But ask most children what they would prefer - playing a regular shift, with power play time and penalty killing time on a losing team rather playing sparingly on a winning team - and the answer has already come out in two different studies. Overwhelmingly, kids would rather play a lot than win and play a little. Like we said, it is about apple juice. It is, after all, about the experience.
You can't know what's in a kid's mind. I was coaching a team a few years ago when I got a call from the goaltender's father. It was the day before the championship game. The father told me his son didn't want to play anymore.
"Anymore after tomorrow." I asked.
"No," the father said. "He just doesn't want to play anymore."
"Did something happen?" I asked.
"He won't tell me," the father said.
I hung up the phone and began to wonder how this happened and who would play goal the next day when I decided to call back.
"Can I talk to him?" I asked the father.
The goalie came on the phone. "I don't want to play anymore.
"But you know what tomorrow is, don't you? Are you nervous?"
"No."
"Then what? You can tell me."
"I don't like it anymore."
"Don't like playing goal?"
"They hurt me," he said.
"Who hurts you?"
"The guys," he said
"What guys?"
"Our guys. They jump on me after the game. It hurts me and scares me."
"Is that it?"
"Yea."
"Do you trust me?"
"Yea."
"What if I told you they won't jump on you and hurt you anymore. Would you play then?"
"Are you sure?"
"I'm sure."
"Then I'll play."
And that was the end of the goalie crisis. The kid was scared and wouldn't tell his parents. The kid loved playing but didn't love being jumped on after winning games. You can't anticipate anything like that as a coach. You can't anticipate what's in their minds.
It's their game, we have to remember. Not our game. They don't think like we do or look at the sport like we do. They don't have to adjust to us, we have to adjust to them. We have to make certain we're not spoiling their experience. Our experience is important too, but the game is for the children and not for the adults. We can say that over and over again, but the message seems to get lost every year.
Lost in too many coaches who lose perspective and who think nothing of blaming and yelling and bullying. Lost by parents who think their son or daughter is the next this or the next that and they are already spending the millions their little one will be earning by the time they finish hockey in the winter, 3-on-3 in the summer, power skating over winter break, special lessons over March break, pre-tryout camp before the AAA tryouts in May and a couple weeks of hockey school, just to make certain they don't go rusty.
I have asked many NHL players how they grew up in the game. My favourite answer came from Trevor Lindon, who has captained more than one team. He said he played hockey until April and then put his skates away. He played baseball all summer until the last week of August. He went to hockey camp for one week then began his season midway through September with tryouts.
No summer hockey. No special schools. No skating 12 months a year. "I didn't even see my skates for about five months a year. I think the kids today are playing way too much hockey and all you have to do is look at the development to see it really isn't producing any better players. "We have to let the kids be kids."
When, I asked Gary Roberts recently, did he think he had a future in hockey. "When I got a call from an agent before the OHL draft," he said. "Before that, it was just a game we played."
Do me a favour: Until the agent comes knocking on your teenager's door, let's keep it that way. A game for kids. And one reminder, I don't care what the age: Don't forget the snacks."
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That message is old, with the one exception that the child was asking about the juice after the game.
Get some new material. LS's taem of destiny will crush all.
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GO GET THEM LS. YES YOU WILL DOMINATE AT THIS TOURNAMENT AND WHO GIVES A SH**, ITS NOT LIKE YOU HAVE ANY OF THESE KIDS FOR THE WINTER TEAM. LETS SEE YOU RANT AND RAVE ABOUT YOUR WINTER TEAM, OH YEAH YOU DON'T HAVE ONE THAT RIGHT. BYE BYE MISSISSAUGA REPS, THAT TEAM WAS ALSO TAKEN AWAY FROM YOU. WOW THATS QUITE A STREAK YOU HAVE GOING, CONGRATS.
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