If you have a chance you need to get this movie and watch it. You will see what some of the greatest names in hockey say about all this AAA play year round garbage that everyone talks about on this site.
I would love to see of the people on here and there backgrounds match up aginst the people in this movie.
Any true hockey fan will love this movie.
Pond Hockey Movie
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Tenoverpar
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Facts
FACT: 99.999999% of players are simply in your beer league farm system from the first day they put on skates so-
FACT: -the best Mites are the kids that started skating the earliest
- the best Squirts are normally these same kids because "they can skate", it carries over but catch up is happening with the help of coaching
-the best Pee Wees are a mixture of these skaters and the Man children that hit puberty early and simply have size over the tiny tots, by 2nd year Pee Wee's, someone who was amazing as a squirt just gets knocked off the puck by "beefcake Magee"
-the best Bantams are typically the kids willing to take whatever god game them, mix in the previous 6 or so years of coaching, and put it together into either a good or bad package.
-the best High School players are those who survived the peer pressure of high school, survived 8 years of youth hockey and a couple of maybe JV, survived girls, drugs being introduce, the lure to another sport and giving it up altogether, were willing to go that little extra distance their friends didn't, and took the one thing that makes them better than others and became the best at that thing, they may have speed, it may be hitting, it may be sniping, it may be moving the puck, whatever it is, they do it better than others
-the few kids that make it past high school are those that possess whatever talent trait that some guy in a rink watching hockey is looking for on that day. Size, speed, tenacity, vision, whatever it is they have it
pond hockey is fun, period. Is it a development tool by choice or is it more of a Mister Miagi wax on wax off thing? You get on the pond, play hockey for 3 hours a day all winter and all of a sudden without instruction you learn to puckhandle, pass, skate on your edges, and most importantly have fun doing it....
Hooray beer!
FACT: -the best Mites are the kids that started skating the earliest
- the best Squirts are normally these same kids because "they can skate", it carries over but catch up is happening with the help of coaching
-the best Pee Wees are a mixture of these skaters and the Man children that hit puberty early and simply have size over the tiny tots, by 2nd year Pee Wee's, someone who was amazing as a squirt just gets knocked off the puck by "beefcake Magee"
-the best Bantams are typically the kids willing to take whatever god game them, mix in the previous 6 or so years of coaching, and put it together into either a good or bad package.
-the best High School players are those who survived the peer pressure of high school, survived 8 years of youth hockey and a couple of maybe JV, survived girls, drugs being introduce, the lure to another sport and giving it up altogether, were willing to go that little extra distance their friends didn't, and took the one thing that makes them better than others and became the best at that thing, they may have speed, it may be hitting, it may be sniping, it may be moving the puck, whatever it is, they do it better than others
-the few kids that make it past high school are those that possess whatever talent trait that some guy in a rink watching hockey is looking for on that day. Size, speed, tenacity, vision, whatever it is they have it
pond hockey is fun, period. Is it a development tool by choice or is it more of a Mister Miagi wax on wax off thing? You get on the pond, play hockey for 3 hours a day all winter and all of a sudden without instruction you learn to puckhandle, pass, skate on your edges, and most importantly have fun doing it....
Hooray beer!
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GoldenBear
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Can't Never Tried
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Re: Facts
Nice post 10^ ! some very true points, especially from HS and after.Tenoverpar wrote:FACT: 99.999999% of players are simply in your beer league farm system from the first day they put on skates so-
FACT: -the best Mites are the kids that started skating the earliest
- the best Squirts are normally these same kids because "they can skate", it carries over but catch up is happening with the help of coaching
-the best Pee Wees are a mixture of these skaters and the Man children that hit puberty early and simply have size over the tiny tots, by 2nd year Pee Wee's, someone who was amazing as a squirt just gets knocked off the puck by "beefcake Magee"
-the best Bantams are typically the kids willing to take whatever god game them, mix in the previous 6 or so years of coaching, and put it together into either a good or bad package.
-the best High School players are those who survived the peer pressure of high school, survived 8 years of youth hockey and a couple of maybe JV, survived girls, drugs being introduce, the lure to another sport and giving it up altogether, were willing to go that little extra distance their friends didn't, and took the one thing that makes them better than others and became the best at that thing, they may have speed, it may be hitting, it may be sniping, it may be moving the puck, whatever it is, they do it better than others
-the few kids that make it past high school are those that possess whatever talent trait that some guy in a rink watching hockey is looking for on that day. Size, speed, tenacity, vision, whatever it is they have it
pond hockey is fun, period. Is it a development tool by choice or is it more of a Mister Miagi wax on wax off thing? You get on the pond, play hockey for 3 hours a day all winter and all of a sudden without instruction you learn to puckhandle, pass, skate on your edges, and most importantly have fun doing it....
Hooray beer!
In our association, there are a couple of dads who believe in the Pond Hockey philosophy, even in the summer. They rent ice time and run 2 programs, one late spring and the other early fall, about 18 1.5 hour sessions each at the local rink. They spend a short time at the beginning on skating drills, but most of the time they let the kids skate--no coaching, no refs, just someone on the buzzer to make sure everyone gets in.
It's cheap, so if you have to miss a session it's no big deal, but most of all it's fun. Is it the most competitive group around? No, because kids of different abilities are invited to participate. No pressure, no checking, different kids on your team and line every night. Most of the kids hate missing a session. Spin-o-ramas, fake fights, 5-hole competitions, it's all there. The one downside is that, because of space limitations, not everyone who wants to can sign up.
Coincidentally, I was looking at the Bantam A roster for our association this year, and 10 of the 15 skaters and both goalies have participated for a number of years. I'm not saying that this is what made them good, but it shows that the kids interested in just getting out their and playing for fun also seem to be skilled in the more organized programs. These are also the kids with backyard rinks, garages banged up from shooting practice, or who you find skating outside in the winter at the local rinks before practice, after practice, on days off from practice. . .
It's cheap, so if you have to miss a session it's no big deal, but most of all it's fun. Is it the most competitive group around? No, because kids of different abilities are invited to participate. No pressure, no checking, different kids on your team and line every night. Most of the kids hate missing a session. Spin-o-ramas, fake fights, 5-hole competitions, it's all there. The one downside is that, because of space limitations, not everyone who wants to can sign up.
Coincidentally, I was looking at the Bantam A roster for our association this year, and 10 of the 15 skaters and both goalies have participated for a number of years. I'm not saying that this is what made them good, but it shows that the kids interested in just getting out their and playing for fun also seem to be skilled in the more organized programs. These are also the kids with backyard rinks, garages banged up from shooting practice, or who you find skating outside in the winter at the local rinks before practice, after practice, on days off from practice. . .
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