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Is rink really opening in December? Where will all the teams practice?
Can we be get our money back? My son was asked to play on another team.
Think twice before you leap.
My son was offered a spot on an EHF team and that was his first choice. Can we get our money back?
Anyone know who the 04 and 05 coaches will be?
Some of you act so surprised that you get the responses that you get on this board. Let me give you a hint...when you ask people stupid questions in real life, this is what they are thinking. Of course, most of us are too polite to tell you what we really think, but this is what we're thinking. So if you are consistently feeling like you are treated rudely on this board, it's likely that you ask stupid questions and in real life too, and people think you are a boor.
Yes Master.
Giants team camps are about to kick off in Raynham. There should be an early indication of how competitive the teams will be.
^Your kid must be too awesome to play on one of those teams.
Some levels are playing Yankee conference for the first few years while they ramp up the program.
Does anyone know when the rink opens? Where will tea,s practice if rink is not open?
The 03 and 07 95 Giants played very well in Foxboro this weekend and took home some hardware.
Actually, try the BJB's
How insightful.
Good job!! Go Giants
So I need to have played hockey for my kid to perform at a high level? I never played or wanted to play hockey, can barely skate for that matter, but my kid actually wants to be at the rink. The decision to play hockey was his, not his dads who maybe played D3 hockey and is forcing hockey in his kid.
Everyone knows the kid/father im talking about...the dad, maybe asst coach but most likely the blowhard in the stands, who is happy to tell everyone how good he was while his kids favorite part of going to practice is playing on his ipad in the locker room. The part i like the most is seeing the faces of you has been, douche bags when my kid is out performing your kid.
Too bad for you, more kids are playing hockey now...its not like 20-30 years ago when anyone who knew how to skate played D3.
Another reply from a know it all, has been who last played a competitive sport 30 years ago.
Team camps start soon in Raynham. Time to see what the teams will look like.
Anyone know when rink will be done?
Are the team camps merged with LK now or will LK teams camps function in same manner as last year?
The thread that will never die!
No retreat, NO SURRENDER!!!
kid being dragged to the rink. Lovell has great Skills, but no magic sauce there, sorry. Many others locally just as good. Same drills, samAnswering a couple of things in one response.
1. Giants will be weak in year 1, watered down like all other Lovell teams now in year 2. Many, many programs are now like this. Kings are in same boat. Ironically, Terriers are on the rise. Go figure. Lovell is a dying program from a quality of play perspective. Great Skills though.
2. Rinks will be up and running in February 2017, just in time for next year's tryouts. Lovell knew this and had the decision to start the program this year or next and opted to take people's money this year and have them practice at 4:00pm at Raynham or through 3 teams on the ice with the Lovell Knights. Either way, some parents are going to walk and some will just be happy their kid isn't on the Town B team anymore and will pay the freight. Suckers are born every minute so there will always be a market.
3. Development. Over discussed term here. Happens many ways, at varying times. Watched a kid last weekend who left an EHF Elite team, went to a BA elite team, and his skill has completely deteriorated. He's over-skated and all the BA pressure to play summer tournaments and attend their camps has burned the kid out. Not even close to being the same type of player. Went to Lovell a kid who loves hockey, has become just another e instruction. My son has done at least 3 others that are just as good.
4. Let the kid choose the team and league. Parents continue to ruin players. Their natural ability will shine if they have it. EHF better than E9 in general, but if the kid likes the E9 team, play there.
Please fill us in on the other comparable skills you mention.
05 and 08 teams are still looking for players.
The rinks will have NAHL games starting in October 2016. Check the NAHL schedule.
Took a ride by the rink the other day barley framed up October may be a stretch. Just sayin
Pay no attention to that poster. It's either TL or JL. Rinks will not be done in 2016. That General's organization is looking for a back up plan for the whole season. 95 Giants will be squeezed in at Raynham with whatever available ice they can get for all of this season.
http://www.thesunchronicle.com/news/local_news/new-england-sports-village-in-attleboro-picking-up-speed/article_33f0f021-2357-5d6f-85fd-e57d761a643a.html
👍 thanks for the link ...great news
lets put all posts on this thread. then we can get to 100 pages and that would be fun
just wait until after parity and the rink not opening, this thread will really take off then !
Development is 60 percent growing into your natural ability, 35 percent hard work, and 5 percent which instructor teaches you skills.
Can we just end the 95 Giants thread?
Pay no attention to that poster. It's either TL or JL. Rinks will not be done in 2016. That General's organization is looking for a back up plan for the whole season. 95 Giants will be squeezed in at Raynham with whatever available ice they can get for all of this season.
This is simply not true. Generals have a great management team in place, as do the 95 Giants, and, although, all contingencies have been taken into account and planned for, there is nothing to indicate that the Generals' schedule will be changed due to the rinks at this point.
Always have felt they just don't sweat the details. Not dishonest just focused on hockey, hockey, hockey and not business. For years on this board people have been posting they should hire one business person to handle the organization, flow of information and growth of the .... well, business. Some ex-hockey kid with a business degree or MBA, heck there is no shortage of $.
This is the program to be in next season. Just look at the support this thread has gotten. Incredible!
Rink estimated to be up mid October !
October 14, 2016.....put it on the board!
Lovell told me December 1.
I have no association with Lovell Hockey, but even if the 95 Giants get off to a slow start next season, there's no doubt they are ultimately going to hit it out of the park with their new digs at the New England Sports Village. Besides being a premier sports facility, it is perfectly located to attract players from a wide area.
The Giants team camps were very well run, albeit light on attendance at 05/04 level, by their skill instructors from BA and AI.
Same thing for LKs. Face it, the BA ship has sailed!
Had a good thing going and greed got in the way. They are now all friends and family. I know two coaches at two different levels that they could've gotten and their kids are very good but they insist on picking the teams themselves, so they lost out. They stuck with the same coaches who can't develop or retain players. Shame. They have good skills but there's more than that to the season to keep people around.
Giants have posted the coaches for every team on their website.
Any idea when rink is opening?
10/14/2016
Sorry typo
I'll bet drinks at the Christmas Part it is open before November 2016
How did these teams do in parity?