This last weekend was our Thanksgiving tournament. I was optimistic Jr Ducks Mite A & B could make it to the semi-finals with 3 replacement players for each roster. I was wrong. Chalk it up as a learning experience. Whenever there are replacement players there is going to be a disruption in the flow of …
Tournament weekend in Detroit against the best AAA hockey teams in the world. Our first game was against Victory Honda 07 AAA in which we won 6-2. Before the game got started there was trash-talking among the players and the parents. Kicking our player’s bags, “were wasting their time,” oh yeah, today’s lunch special “Duck …
12AA The game is supposed to be fun and what makes the game fun? Scoring goals. Skating fast, handling the puck, making passes are so we can score goals. But, each one of those actions are little victories that should be enjoyed and highlighted. Attitude and mindset is everything. Currently, we are fighting to keep …
12U AA 2007 First CAHA weekend in Vacaville, CA, we earned a record of 3-0 playing against GSE-1, Jr Sharks, and GSE-2, respectively. The lesson we were trying to teach the kids was ownership. We are here to raise these boys to become young men, and young men take responsibility for their actions. As a …
12U AA Preparing for CAHA evaluation weekend, we were feeling really confident about our abilities because we had won the 2019 Chi-Town championship at the AAA 2007 birth year. For the whole month of August, we were preparing for teams we did not know, we did not know if they were good, we did not …