yzerman19

I like the bar and a good 5-6 beers with the boys as much as anybody...throw a shot in if I'm exhausted from the week and the night before...the issue is as follows: You bring your kid to the rink an hour or more before the game starts. You are there with the other dads. You have time and there is alcohol to kill that time. Then say your first game ends at 11am and your next game is at 5pm...bring the kids to get food...have a drink or two with lunch. You aren't drunk, you've had 4 beers and a bloody over 4 hours, its now 1pm and you have 4 hours to kill. You have had the amount of alcohol and time that you really have 2 choices: keep drinking or go take a nap. If you're having fun with the dads, that decision is easy. So now, you roll into the evening game having been drinking for like 9 hours. Maybe you've kept it within reason with a Coors Light per hour, maybe you haven't...

count me in the minority with you. Does your kid love going to the rink to get better? Is he/she getting better? Are they learning life lessons while learning the game? Do they have a great group of friends with similar goals and outlooks on life? That's the stuff that truly matters. Winning is more fun than losing, but nobody wins every game...in fact losing makes you hate losing and that makes you a more competitive player. I'll take a kid who hates losing over a kid who loves winning. Of course we all want our kids to have success- team and individual- but it is only part of it. go 44-0 and rack up 150 points- great!! do it within the construct of above.

Man, I've seen people lose it over the dumbest things in youth hockey. The alcohol that is a constant on tourney weekends certainly doesn't help. You throw in a very physical sport, a bad day, an element sometimes of protecting your kid...you get group think too with your crew of parents...the mob mentality can get in the mix...nothing good can come of it. Just have fun watching your kids play and take a deep breath. Win a fight and go to jail? Win a fight and put someone in the hospital? Lose a fight and have permanent brain damage? Fall awkwardly and hit your head wrong and die...for what? Gotta keep it packed tight.

I assume that you weren't getting run out of buildings playing A? I agree with playing at the highest level you can while still having a chance to win in 80% of the games you play. Most development is happening in practice, so while game reps are good, they aren't really driving the dev. In the AAA world there are tons of teams that are AAA in name only...they chase the letters...and when they run into a real AAA team they lose by 20...that isn't good for anybody

Other places...Michigan State, BU, etc have poured money into their facilities. Ours are every bit as good, but it isn't the sell it once was. Think...do you want the fanciest house or the best home...

Seriously thats the kinda options the chippahs be having chippahs gonna chippah

$150k, go to Ohio State vs Michigan on Saturday, play at Yost....

very few in hockey, but it is definitely happening.

I cant say for certain and am not "in the know" just remember that those guys didn't commit right before the season, they committed 2 years ago. 3 years ago Jake Sanderson was at UND

Let's be completely honest with ourselves. What we offer to a potential recruit right now vs the other blue blood hockey programs is lacking. Our facilities are at par with the very best, but after that what are you getting that is better than say Michigan or Michigan State or Minnesota or BC or BU or even DU or ASU in our own conference? Lifestyle? I mean would you rather be a stud athlete walking around Ann Arbor or Comm Ave or at the pool at your dorm in ASU vs UND? Education wise, we aren't bad, obv aviation and related is great, but it isn't like going Ivy or Big 10. Facilities wise? Yeah, we are as good if not better than anybody, sure. Development to get you to the NHL...now this is where the rep has fallen...kids would sacrifice lifestyle and education potential if they 100% believed that the dev model was the best to get them to the NHL...why did Parise and Toews come here...yep, that's why...that, my friends, is where we need to focus. We are never going to offer a football game at the big house or the pool at the jock dorm at ASU in january...we need to be the place you go if you want the NHL and don't want any other distractions getting in the way. My two cents.

I'm picking up a fifth tonight too....for consuming during the USA vs Canada game lol

prospects and more importantly their agents are hearing from guys with the same agency about the challenges right now at UND. If you wonder why we haven't landed a chippah, that would be why

counter that with top line and CAGR playing for the multiple...gotta spend to grow...hurts the bottom line, but drives the top and those sweet, sweet 5x 7x 13x

Peluso couldn't skate...if dude could skate he would've been in the NHL as a regular

So Mattern kid is racking up the points! 84 now? What is the record and who holds it from which school? Chad Skarperud was pretty gross, Steve Johnson before him...Panzer brothers were gross..Kulbrunner from Grafton...I am stretching my memory to the 80's-90's...Ascheim and Peluso put up big numbers in a weak West, Phillion. I'm dating myself

Sound reasoning. What if the kid is a potential chippah? Do you then send him off to a prep or a Tier 1 powerhouse before junior? The Twin Cities model would certainly be different in terms of playing high school, as the competition in the MSHSL AA category is strong and well scouted, especially in the power conferences. I don't have a horse in the race as I am not in Minny or NoDak

ha! nope, but I love the swagger

Reasonable, again, like I said there is no right path. He's having a great year, they are winning, and he's having fun and hopefully developing- that's what you want

Anyhow, good luck to the boys! Like I said, I want every single kid to be successful and have a chance at chasing their dreams!

for sure. Team ND has historically been a doormat at tier 1 nationals though. Not sure how the politics work and if GF would beat Team ND?

Yeah, Marto is good. His dominance is part of my earlier question, because a lot of the top minnesota guys in his birthyear are not playing Bantam hockey. Examples: Freddie Schneider is a 2009 and in his second year playing varsity at Edina Nolan Fitzhenry is a 2009 and is playing 16U at SSM Caden Zasada is a 2009 and in his second year playing varsity at Hill Murray Nash Roed is a 2009 and is playing his first year varsity at White Bear Lake I am not casting judgment and don't pretend to know the correct answer here. I guess everyone takes their own path...is it better to dominate the age level or to be effective vs the best competition your birth year? I don't know. I do know that if you are good enough, they find you.

I think Moorhead has a line and a pairing of 2010s that can play with anybody. Depth would be the issue vs the blue blood AAAs- I'd think same of all the top Association teams

They are an excellent bantam team not taking anything away from them, but they also have 2009s on that team. The Shattuck team they play is all 2010s

Seams reasonable. Yeah I'm not thinking the AAA in name only. Thinking Mission, Caesars, Honeybaked, Shattuck, Mount, BK and the like

Not asking rhetorically, but how do you think they'd do against the big dogs in national bound AAA, factoring in birth year, so 2009 players would have graduated bantam and be playing 15O or higher.