JD,You're no Bulldog! You make me sick. Haku and Tama sent you to silver.

JD has been screwing people over for years

hahahaha. Don't forget Haku and Tama's big FAT sister Karma. Karma is the real BITC$ ---JD's team were up 4-3 with about 2 minutes left and all they needed was a tie to make the white. They were on a 5 on 3 powerplay and gave up two shorthanded goals in the final minute to lose the game. He's a complete DB and a terrible game coach...those kids deserved better fate!

They are right where they belong.

Why does everyone not like the Bulldogs so much? Sounds like some chick has cow bells, but thats a Mom - to go from black to Silver - did something hsppen?

my son plays in black and said it all year there was not much difference between black & white at 05.

They can’t even field an entire team. The problem is the kids that are on the team now are lucky to even be playing select hockey. The parents think they are or should be playing at a higher level. The coach tells everyone how great he and they are but they are right in the place they should be at the bottom. I know a dad who had his kid skate with them and said the assistant coaches can barely skate. Now go try and enjoy the day. I am stuck in an office looking at these stupid posts about 11 year olds

So what happened to last years team? I heard they all left again

05 group as a whole has a ton of numbers but not much talent in the area

Who's Julie?

Is Julie the Cow Bell ringer?

Thanks Julie

She is the mother of JD Jr who will be reminiscing about the good ole days when her son and hubbys team were so good in their SQ years wondering why Jr can’t make a HS JV team while Sr has no friends. The only trend is the exodus of families from the worst daddy coach in New England. EMHL bound next year. Keep writing those checks to TCs and a few more extra wraps of tape around those ankles for yr bender.

Bulldogs were in black last season. Players left to move up to "elite" at Top Gun. Found out there was no more "elite" at Top Gun and wound up in white next season. Leftover Bulldogs wound up in silver next season. The math tells me that both groups of players moved down levels for next season...try to keep up...

Umm.. so white is higher than silver still right? You can formulate all the equations you want bulldog daddy, but your bender is still playing in the equivalent to town. Those who dwell on the past are certain to always live in it.

The notion that 2-separate groups of 10-12 kids left the 05 Bulldogs in 3 years, simply because they wanted to “move up to elite” is laughable. I spoke with another parent on last year’s team who told me that JD is what’s wrong with youth hockey and he would rather have his son play town or quit playing hockey than to play for the Bulldogs next year.

According to bender, some of the boys on the team were discussing Nepotism during a game…. Having to explain something like that to bender is not one of the life lessons that I wanted him to learn from playing peewee hockey.

IMHO ----JD is an insecure douche who tries to mind Fu4k kids and parents into thinking they are lucky to be on his team and that his little bender (who can’t skate) deserves more ice time and beyond reproach --- JD actually banished the goalie’s dad from behind the bench for daring to point out the obvious about JD jr.!! --- And you wonder why the goalie left the bulldogs?

I am ok with a coach shortening my bender’s shift to put in better players when the game situation dictates (let’s be honest, we probably care more about winning than we should) but even 12-year-old kids can tell when their coach is short-shifting them just to give more playing time to his own kid and the sons and his cronies.

https://www.admkids.com/news_article/show/567871-12u-q-and-a-short-shifted-by-the-shortsighted

Q: My 12U player has been getting short-shifted recently. I don’t want to be “that parent,” but I tracked ice times and my child only got eight minutes of playing time in a game, and almost none in the third period, while one of his teammates got almost 16 minutes of ice time. When I asked his coach about it, he told me it was so that they could win the game. Is it really necessary for coaches to short-shift 12U players in order to win?

A: Absolutely not! If a coach is short-shifting players to win a game at the 12U level, he or she is doing it for ego purposes only.
Great youth coaches aren’t judged on wins and losses; they’re judged on so many other things instead. The No. 1 thing they should be judged on is whether all of their players come back to play the following season. John Kessel, director of sport development at USA Volleyball, said it best at one of our recent coaching clinics when he said the main mission is to “never be a kid’s last coach.”
Other things youth coaches should be judged on are the following:
• Are they preparing their players with the proper skills to keep advancing in hockey?
• Are they fostering passion for the game?
• Are the kids enjoying their experience? After all, the top reason most kids play sports is to have fun, not to win. That’s not to say that winning is a bad thing; it’s just that how you get there that matters. Winning the correct way, by developing every player and letting them contribute, is a great thing. Conversely, kids also need to learn how to lose so that they can learn life lessons from our wonderful game.
On a sad note related to this topic, I recently heard about a youth team that won a state championship but half of the players quit hockey at the end of the season. When I asked why, it was because the coach only played half the team to ensure that they were victorious. Hopefully all coaches get the message that in youth sports everyone should play equally. Knowing what we know about long-term athlete development, the weakest kid on a 12U team still has a chance to become the best at 16U, 18U or beyond. Let’s not cut any child’s development short because of adult egos.

The owner of this program could care less about what JD as long as he has a coach. Look at the other teams. 06? 07? FED should throw this org out.

Just want to give a shout out to the original poster for the next-level wrestling references. Haku and Tama were indeed the Islanders and Davey Boy Smith, the British Bulldog, would have been ashamed of these Bulldogs. Well done, sir.

Many thanks. Didn't know if anyone would catch on to the "Islanders" being the ones who beat the bulldogs and sent them to silver. In wrestling, the bulldogs and Islanders we're rivals. F Joe!

Be careful who you get your information from. The goalie's dad was an assistant coach. His being asked to leave the bench was because of him not showing up for practices or games anymore. When he DID show up for practice, he would forget his stick. :joy:

This is absolutely true. This same group ruins every team they are on. Top Gun promised everyone Elite and they barely made white this year. These same parents sit here waiting to comment on a team they left years ago, watching every move as if they have nothing better to do. Making up cow bell stories, making fun of 12-13 year old kids. MOVE ON and GET A LIFE, maybe even a JOB!!!

Get a job. I like that one. Funny but true. I know who you are talking about.

Is this the time when TG parents come in on how they would be elite is the Shamrocks didn't steal all they're players.

Actually a few years ago that 05 TG team was pretty competitive, and then the dregs from The Bulldogs went there, and the team went down the toilet. Some of the kids could actually play, but the attitudes of the kids and parents was embarrassing. They were either drunk or delusional. Poisoned the whole program.

I'll tell you this......

It certainly wasn't the players. Not even the parents.
It was the bench and org.

Here we go.
1. Douche personality. Napoleon complex
2. Bench. Culture of team. Divided. Never unified
3. Awful communication
4. No development. A few good players ( favs ) and Jr only.
5. No coaching at practice. Just practice itself. No instruction.
6. No heart. Only in it for Jr sake not org and not for team.
7. Shall I continue?

You didn’t deny them? Must be true.

7. No retention. Not a good sign for current and prospective players esp when top or “elite” always depart.
8. No connections to the next level whether Catholics prep or colllege.
9. Loser coach breeds a losing team. Only good before those “elite” players jump ship.
10. Assistant coaches bail too. Never a good sign. Similar to 7.
11. Shall I continue?

I like this....

The No. 1 thing a coach should be judged on is whether his/her players (who didn't get cut or leave for "ELITE" team) want to come back to play the following season.

https://www.admkids.com/news_article/show/567871-12u-q-and-a-short-shifted-by-the-shortsighted

lot of turn over at the t1 level not just the bulldogs. Look at ihc or the vipers. new teams every year at 05.

Kid’s grandmother rings the bell. She’s done it for years. Get over it!

The B dogs owner must love controversy. Other wise he would be done with this guy and his wife.

Seems like you've glossed over the fact that 2 different groups of 10 or more kids have left JD in the last 3 seasons. Is that normal?

Did the crazy parents from the first group hate JD that much to convince the 2nd group of parents to leave the bulldogs 2 years later?

The owner of the program is a great guy and tries to do what is in the best interest of ALL of his players. He can clearly see most problems are caused by the parents, he has to deal with them too. I'm sure he wasn't sad to see them go! The ones that left, continue to talk bad about the program and bounce around from team to team. No coach or team ever seems good enough for their gifted players. Quite a few left to fulfill their dream of playing Elite hockey with Top Gun. Others have given up playing hockey altogether since they didn't make the teams they thought they would. LOL.

I guess what you are saying is that the 05 bulldogs is where all youth hockey dreams go to die. You want your kid to quit playing hockey? Send him to go play for JD. :joy: