2024-25 ND High School Hockey

[gfhockey]

Anyone see the parent fight on valley news live Facebook? They quickly deleted the cideo

 

fargo parents started a shoving match with gf playas. Bunch of them suspended 

[UNDMOORHEAD]

4 minutes ago, gfhockey said:

Anyone see the parent fight on valley news live Facebook? They quickly deleted the cideo

 

fargo parents started a shoving match with gf playas. Bunch of them suspended 

I did, Fargo parents have been some of the worst hockey parents as long as I can remember.

[ChadR]

8 minutes ago, gfhockey said:

Anyone see the parent fight on valley news live Facebook? They quickly deleted the cideo

 

fargo parents started a shoving match with gf playas. Bunch of them suspended 

what age group?

[UNDDOM]

12 U peewees from grand forks playing Fargo.  Very embarrassing for GF and Fargo youth hockey programs 

[ChadR]

https://x.com/NDHSHockey/status/1894573226807660714

[Frozen4sioux]

1 hour ago, UNDDOM said:

12 U peewees from grand forks playing Fargo.  Very embarrassing for GF and Fargo youth hockey programs 

Looks like Fargo PW A  vs GF PW A Red?

As if parents fighting parents and parents fighting kids isn't embarrassing enough...

Coach Herb Fargo is bag skating the kids post game....

[yzerman19]

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.

[siouxweet]

Winning or losing in youth hockey doesn't mean squat nor does if a ref makes a call or not.  I am probably in the extreme minority but when my kid was playing I could have cared less if they won or lost but did my kid play hard and contribute on a positive basis and get better over the course of the season.

[yzerman19]

12 minutes ago, siouxweet said:

Winning or losing in youth hockey doesn't mean squat nor does if a ref makes a call or not.  I am probably in the extreme minority but when my kid was playing I could have cared less if they won or lost but did my kid play hard and contribute on a positive basis and get better over the course of the season.

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.

[gfhockey]

46 minutes ago, yzerman19 said:

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.

Also throw in some questionable calls by refs that fuels the fire

 

im a bar pig

 

insee these groups of parents at the bar right when it opens when it’s 9 am or 10 am

[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...

[yzerman19]

I've learned by experience that mixed drinks are a bad idea, because it sneaks up on you over time and you have no idea how many shots are actually in the drink.  I've also learned that IPAs are a bad idea, because after 3 of them you drink them like Coors Light when they are double the alcohol.  Light beers...2 or 3 in the first hour or so then 1 per hour going forward.

[Johnny Five]

52 minutes ago, siouxweet said:

Winning or losing in youth hockey doesn't mean squat nor does if a ref makes a call or not.  I am probably in the extreme minority but when my kid was playing I could have cared less if they won or lost but did my kid play hard and contribute on a positive basis and get better over the course of the season.

Unfortunately, for a lot of parents, this theory doesn't get figured out until well past due.  I remember my oldest playing his first PWA tournament in Detroit Lakes back in the day (he's 22 now).  I went to sit by this Dad who had older kids.  He kept moving, lol.  Dude just wanted to be left alone and watch his kid and the game.  Took me way too long to figure that out (not that I was going to fight with other fans). 

I wasn't a psycho by any means, but my oldest son quit hockey after bantams....what a slap in the dink.  Once that happened, I certainly understood how important it was just to watch my other kids and enjoy it as much as possible.  Quite honestly, it changed I how watched my kids play sports.

Boy 2 just skated off Maysa Arena for the last game of his career.  What an absolute gutting feeling.  However, if the Dad who watched his kid skate off the ice could go back to the Dad who's kid was going to his first travel tournament and tell him to "enjoy the ride, none of this sh*t matters"...

That perspective is impossible to teach young parents unfortunately.  I actually think youth sports organizations would benefit from having a group of parents who've been through the ringer to talk to parents about this.

[yzerman19]

And for all of the parents who think Little Johnny has a shot at going a long way in the game, well your rink etiquette will be noticed by Scouts...

[siouxweet]

16 minutes ago, Johnny Five said:

Unfortunately, for a lot of parents, this theory doesn't get figured out until well past due.  I remember my oldest playing his first PWA tournament in Detroit Lakes back in the day (he's 22 now).  I went to sit by this Dad who had older kids.  He kept moving, lol.  Dude just wanted to be left alone and watch his kid and the game.  Took me way too long to figure that out (not that I was going to fight with other fans). 

I wasn't a psycho by any means, but my oldest son quit hockey after bantams....what a slap in the dink.  Once that happened, I certainly understood how important it was just to watch my other kids and enjoy it as much as possible.  Quite honestly, it changed I how watched my kids play sports.

Boy 2 just skated off Maysa Arena for the last game of his career.  What an absolute gutting feeling.  However, if the Dad who watched his kid skate off the ice could go back to the Dad who's kid was going to his first travel tournament and tell him to "enjoy the ride, none of this sh*t matters"...

That perspective is impossible to teach young parents unfortunately.  I actually think youth sports organizations would benefit from having a group of parents who've been through the ringer to talk to parents about this.

The part I really miss is the rides and the one on one time with the boy.

[Hayduke1]

My nephew and niece play youth hockey and I go to as many games as I can.  Never seen this kind of escalation, but I have heard some incredibly stupid things from drunk parents. 
 

Also, seems like 95% of the penalties are tripping calls because kids just don't control the blade if their sticks very well.    Not that I would have at that age. 😁
 

 

[Clark17]

10 hours ago, Frozen4sioux said:

Looks like Fargo PW A  vs GF PW A Red?

As if parents fighting parents and parents fighting kids isn't embarrassing enough...

Coach Herb Fargo is bag skating the kids post game....

No kidding - that's probably the dumbest thing altogether.  Remind me not get shove the lady in the tan coat.  

[UND1983]

I have attended a handful of ND youth hockey games over the years - 10-13 age range. Never have I heard yelling at the refs like I did with the parents at those games. I would guess they flipped out at the refs 20-30 times over the course of the game.  Absolutely absurd.  I was embarrassed to be there and looking around like wtf is going on?

[siouxweet]

1 minute ago, UND1983 said:

I have attended a handful of ND youth hockey games over the years - 10-13 age range. Never have I heard yelling at the refs like I did with the parents at those games. I would guess they flipped out at the refs 20-30 times over the course of the game.  Absolutely absurd.  I was embarrassed to be there and looking around like wtf is going on?

And these refs are usually HS or college age kids.

[UND1983]

Just now, siouxweet said:

And these refs are usually HS or college age kids.

They were high school at most

[Clark17]

11 hours ago, ChadR said:

https://x.com/NDHSHockey/status/1894573226807660714

No Canada Goose?  Disappointing 

[UND1983]

1 minute ago, Clark17 said:

No Canada Goose?  Disappointing 

of course it was the drunk mom tripping the guy at the end. had to be wearing Carhartt then

[yzerman19]

1 hour ago, siouxweet said:

The part I really miss is the rides and the one on one time with the boy.

I had this conversation with a good buddy back in the day.  Neither one of us was a stranger to a good night on the tourney road, but one of our friends was so hungover that we ended up driving their kid to the morning game.  Our conversation was about how fleeting the time is and how sharing a hotel room and spending time in the car and on the plane was something our children and ourselves would always remember.  

[Oxbow6]

Sports dad bros and alcohol NEVER results in anything positive. 

[Wilbur]

There will be ND state tournaments this year with security guards after what happened at one of the tournaments last year (Fargo parents involved with that one too....surprise.....).

I watched the live barn video of the incident.  As soon as I saw the Grand Forks players go in front of the Fargo parents I knew it was going to reach a new level.

I would have a tough time holding it together if an idiot put their hands on my kid after a hockey game.  Man.....