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How much is the fee for squirt elite tournaments
Too much, they are a waste of both time & money.
Son is heading up to high school next year. We were asked and did Peewee and Bantam spring and summer tournaments. All a waste, just got the promoters rich and my kid burned out. I must have got 10 emails in the last two weeks for upcoming ones for this year. All they care about is the $$$. He will be on the varsity team as a freshman next year, no thanks to these money grabbing tournaments. Chowder Cup & HNIB were the only one I would do again.
bragging about your son playing varsity for a d 3 western mass school is embarrassing. You should have known these spring/summer tourneys are just for the fun of it. If you thought putting your kid in one of these tourneys was in the hopes of getting him recognized, then you my friend are the biggest loser of all. I sign my kid up for these tourneys, and yes, a little pricey, but its all because the kid wants to play. Has a blast and gets to meet kids he otherwise would not meet by sticking with the regular season team. Oh yea, just so you know, my kid is good. Really good. Yet has not had a sniff from a D1 program. ****, I must be doing something wrong!
It's your money spend it how you want. Sounds like you are a little to involved in juniors hockey career. Time to take off the team jacket find yourself a hobby. Lighten update pal, it's all over once they hit high school.
These spring and summer tournaments are great. Hockey season in New England is way to short, only 8 months. Pros and college kids are pussies taking the summer off. Happy to pay $350 per weekend to be in a hockey rink on the 4th of July. Baseball, Lax and any other outdoor activities are overrated.
Depends on the skill level of your kid, usually between 200-250, but there will be several kids on each team that are playing for free.
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Put the scholarship talk aside. It's a pipe dream for most kids in any sport. Not getting money to play a college sport doesn't make your kid a failure. It's the norm. With that said, there are a ton of non scholarship track & field, soccer, football, baseball, lacrosse (name the sport here)...spots available at countless colleges through out the country if kids want to put the work in and try to continue their athletic endeavors after high school. I get it, every kid that plays youth hockey wants to play at BC or BU and then go on to the NHL. What I don't get is why every youth hockey parent in the state thinks it's their kids God given right to get that hockey scholarship, and then proceed to the NHL without passing go. It's totally bizarre and irrational behavior. If your kid is consistently dominating his peers as a higher level Bantam player, continues that dominance as a Freshman and Sophomore varsity high school/prep player with kids that are now older, and gets invited to the USHL combine, than you clearly want to think about specialization. Until then, keep it real. I'm pretty sure your kids will thank you for it later.
I'm guessing your kid was invited to the USHL combine?
so your kid got asked but you didnt want to waste your time and $??? Instead your boy sits home while you troll on the dboard... lucky him!!