too funny... while your child is fighting for 1 of 30 spots at college X, he is fighting for 1 of 4k+... and there is exponentially more scholarship dollars available.

or maybe that's why mit, cal tech and the ivys have non-existent or irrelevant sports...

I posted this somewhere else and thought I would share with the group because it is true. What i find shocking is most of the hockey parents never played, i did and I know how hard it gets and the likelihood your kid will not play at the next level. I played for Quinnipiac so I have a completely different view point. As good as Johnny is, there is always someone better. Every pond you move up to, you may do well, but eventually you will go to a pond where Johnny isn't the best anymore. So many of these parents are delusional and because they played for a top 10 ranked squirt team, then they are destined for greatness and put so much pressure on the kid, like waking them up at 5am 5 days a week before scvhool for private lessons, what the f%ck, that is borderline child abuse. More ice time doesn't mean better hockey player, trust me i know. Time off is as valuable as time on. There are around 20K kids available to play div 1 and div 3 college hockey coming out every year spread across all the midget 18u leagues, junior leagues, prep school and Minnesota/Dakota high school, and all Canadian leagues and there are probably around 5-600 college spots available each year for Div 1 and Div 3. That is about a 2% chance your kid will play on the college level if you are from US and Canada and that does not account for all of the Europeans and Russians you are now competing with. Every college hockey team has Russians and Europeans on it. So you are looking at a 1-2% chance your kid will play division 1 or a good division 3 program, so stop taking the fun out of it, let your kids be kids and enjoy the game for what it is because in the end there is a 99% chance your kid will be my right winger in my beer league, and if he did play for a top 10 squirt team, i am interested in taking him

I posted this somewhere else and thought I would share with the group because it is true. What i find shocking is most of the hockey parents never played, i did and I know how hard it gets and the likelihood your kid will not play at the next level. I played for Quinnipiac so I have a completely different view point. As good as Johnny is, there is always someone better. Every pond you move up to, you may do well, but eventually you will go to a pond where Johnny isn't the best anymore. So many of these parents are delusional and because they played for a top 10 ranked squirt team, then they are destined for greatness and put so much pressure on the kid, like waking them up at 5am 5 days a week before scvhool for private lessons, what the f%ck, that is borderline child abuse. More ice time doesn't mean better hockey player, trust me i know. Time off is as valuable as time on. There are around 20K kids available to play div 1 and div 3 college hockey coming out every year spread across all the midget 18u leagues, junior leagues, prep school and Minnesota/Dakota high school, and all Canadian leagues and there are probably around 5-600 college spots available each year for Div 1 and Div 3. That is about a 2% chance your kid will play on the college level if you are from US and Canada and that does not account for all of the Europeans and Russians you are now competing with. Every college hockey team has Russians and Europeans on it. So you are looking at a 1-2% chance your kid will play division 1 or a good division 3 program, so stop taking the fun out of it, let your kids be kids and enjoy the game for what it is because in the end there is a 99% chance your kid will be my right winger in my beer league, and if he did play for a top 10 squirt team, i am interested in taking him