USA Hockey wants to raise fees another 10.00.

[The Enlightened One]

I figured this is stage two with stopping checking in peewees to keep more kids in hockey so they will pay their fees as stage one. Watched some more PeeWee hockey again this weekend. Does anybody else find themselves asking a parent whether it is PeeWees or Squirts on the ice? I think the whole "improve their skills crowd" missed the mark on this deal. The end of the season so these coaches and kids have had several months to radically improve their skills and all I saw was heads down right down the middle of the ice as fast as they can go, pass the puck??? Who is gonna be the judge of whether or not this works so that we can go back to what worked?

[JSR]

Winter association team fee = $850
USA Hockey Fee = $30
Skating lessons this winter = $165
The one away tourney fee we went to = $50
Away tourney hotel, gas and food = $220
Skate sharpenings for the year = $100 ($5 per around here)
AAA Tryouts = $60 (2 of them)
AAA Team fees for both teams total = $570
Travel, hotel, gas to three AAA tourneys = $660
Summer Camps = $300
New skates (well sort of...) = $100

So that totals $3,105.

Forgot MN Hockey fee $10
Team Fees - ours $125
Coach Fee - $100
You got off REALLY cheap if you had an away tournamnet and only spent $270. I am happy if I can get by with $400 and that is without bringing the hubby.
Cost for most summer teams is over $1000 generally in the $1500 range.
I wish I had your winter hockey fee's - ours are $1350 which I thought was about average.
Forgot SNACK BAR
To spend over $5000 isn't that hard on a Peewee age kid for hockey.

Sorry surehockey, I thought you realized I was from WI. Here we do not have team fees, coach fees, MN Hockey fee, nor do we pay our coaches. Also, my kids aren't allowed to purchase anything from concessions for the most part. Our AAA programs for spring and summer tend to be alot less money as well, but also we probably get less ice time so not sure how to equate that.... As for the tourney, tourney fee was $550 divided equally by the 11 player families on our team. Then our hotel was $70 per night for two nights. Had about $50 in gas and then we always bring alot of food from home and don't purchase or eat out much at all. Like I said, I try to keep things as affordable as possible

[old goalie85]

JSR- our kids don't get much from the"stand" either. She was talking about me!!!! She also forgot beer. Good luck the rest of the way. Maybe see you this summer>>>

[JSR]

JSR- our kids don't get much from the"stand" either. She was talking about me!!!! She also forgot beer. Good luck the rest of the way. Maybe see you this summer>>>

Hope so OG85, we missed eachother this past go around even though I think both our 2000 boys were playing eahother this past spring. We just didn;t know that the other was there at the time