Episodit
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Special Announcement from the YHP gang.
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What is the worst thing that someone on your own team has said to you? I can tell you that the nastiest comments come from your "friends" in the stands.
Rolly has some history with parents who have tried to get him banned from a rink. Rolly! The nicest guy around.
Lance is pretty well known all over the country for the skirmishes with parents on his own team
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Lance has a great topic. How do you deal with the outcast on the team. Is there a way to draw them in? Is it better to leave it alone or rally to a cause.
Rolly talks about how friendships are not formed under duress. Sometimes kids need be left alone in dealing with roster issues.
Randall talks about parental friction. Hint. There is lots.
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Rolly knows stuff. He shows it in this episode. He takes on the profiling of skates and how that effects a skater and what they can do on the ice. He mainly sticks to two of the systems for profiling skates, but he gives great advice for those in the market to do some aftermarket upgrading of the blade.
Randall talks about how he always trusts any skate shop that employs a guy named Doug. Doug knows how to sharpen skates.
Lance asks questions about when skate profiling should be on the agenda for a young skater. He also manages to make us all laugh twice.
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Randall has a story from his kids playing league hockey. One kid was getting a beat down and the other came to the rescue. It's not fun to get in a fight, but a brother can sometimes be good at having your back.
Rolly has insights on teams that have multiple returning players and those that are fresh starts for everyone. The chemistry is different. The culture is sometimes different.
Lance loves the ducks. He credits them for the formation of ice in So. Cal. A duck could crap in his path and he would shine his shoes with the droppings.
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Rolly talks about some of the meager options to watch your kid play hockey at tournaments and local rinks. New Youtube options are especially interesting to the crew.
Randall talks about hockey for girls. His daughter is currently playing. The landscape is interesting and the rules are different (just like in the game). But in the end, the sport is a great one for the maidens of mayhem (a real team in Iowa).
Lance is so checked out that when I listened to this, I took a shot every time he talked. Stone cold sober at the end.
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Lance does not like the new numbers for youth sport participation. He remembers some things that pushed his kids away.
Rolly thinks that coaches need to modulate their approach to the younger groups.
Randall thinks that the phone somewhat is replacing the kids' enthusiasm for activity. It also is replacing other parts of the growth of some kids.
Kathy joins the podcast with invaluable insights on how a kid views hockey. And how a mom views hockey through their kids' eyes.
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The podcast talks about how teams sometimes fold in the middle of the season. It's something that seems like it's an extraordinary circumstance, but it happens more than people think.
Lance talks about how both his kids were pushed up on the same team then treated less than generously when the season ends.
Rolly gives us a cautionary tale about sandbagging.
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Randall takes a listener's email on tournaments and turns it into a frenzy of conversation.
Rolly talks about the Boston tournaments that only have two periods for the regular games and only one period for the semifinals and finals. He also has a take on the Brick tournament in Edmonton (in a mall).
Lance talks a little about Quebec peewee tournament.
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Randall decides that the idea of cuts should be part of the stands. Cut the parents. Not the kids. Just kidding, but sometimes it seems like kids are best off on their own.
Rolly reports on the Californians on the national team. There is some good news. Kids from the coast are scoring and winning medals.
Lance talks about the camps that lead to the national program. His kids kept going to the camps and having great memories of hockey glory.
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Lance did not want to leave his home. He talks about how the next generation is just catching up to the experience in his youth.
Coach has a lot of suggestions for what kids need when they leave the home. He has great ideas about how to prepare a modern kid for free range roaming.
Randall runs into a parent who left the rink two years ago swearing that they would never be back. At tryouts. It is a bit strange watching somebody who was too big for the neighborhood rink come back.
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Coach talks about how many players from California are making a splash nationally. Is there a trend? Is there a way to get your kid into that upper echelon? The kids from the west coast are getting opportunities.
Lance looks at how his kids started out and sees if he can refine the process for the next group of mighty mites.
Randall has a new segment to end the show. IDTA (I was definitely the asshole) Youth Hockey edition.
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The podcast is back!
The podcast crew talks about how kids train during the summer. Each member of the team has their favorite activities. From spin class to beach runs. We all have our picks.
The ice is melting at the barns around the summer. Some rinks are holding up better than others.
Fantasy tender is the name of the game to end the show. Where would you like your kid to get a tender from?
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Rolly gets us all ready for summer. It's time to hang up the microphone for a month and get back at it in the fall. He will recharge and be better than before.
Randall talks about bubble players and bubble parents. Are there ways to make sure you kid is not on the bubble? Are there parents who you wouldn't mind if they don't make the cut for the next year's team? It's partially in jest, but there is some truth in it.
Lance talks about how his kid misses shifts for penalties. It can really affect a kid lower on the roster.
We love all of the listeners. Thank you for tuning in. We will be back in the August.
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Coach talks about the update to the Gladwell examination of hockey players in Outliers. There is science to the idea that maturity has a statistical advantage.
Lance examines the break between kids who have hit their growth spurts. The scoreboard is merciless.
Randall tries to give balance to the idea that kids with late birth months are going to always be disadvantaged. They will have their day on the ice!
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Lance talks about the best bantam programs in the nation. He also digs into the SoCal programs. Is there a program that is consistently the best in the region? Are there programs on the rise?
Rolly talks about how programs grow and fade back east. He seems to know every program Lance brings up on the list. It's a bit frightening.
Randall gets questions about the girls. They have some great programs growing across the country. The future feels bright for the women's side.
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Lance takes a strange stance. He backs the refs in youth hockey. He tries to make the case that they are just doing their job and deserve universal respect and patience for a hard job.
Coach modifies this to be a little more in line with the product on the ice. Are they doing the best job possible? Shouldn't we expect the effort to match the level of professionalism they seek to be treated with?
Randall moves on to talk about what it takes to get thrown out of a game in California. Refs have actually thrown out the wrong person in the stands too. It's hilarious.
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Randall looks at the So. Cal landscape and decides to zoom in on the club hoppers. Who are they? Why are they hopping? Will they ever be able to just walk to another club rather than jumping?
Lance decides that it is often about moving up. Lateral moves are not the way to club hop in his humble opinion.
Rolly gets into the stats of how many slots are really open on a given team. The numbers are often disheartening.
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Rolly brings skating guru Jason Yee onto the program to talk about video feedback, shin angle, Finland, Mckinnon and more. He credits this coach as the best resource in hockey for a young player in his developmental years.
Lance asks about the corkscrew. It turns out to be one of the secrets of the game for Yee.
Randall knows when he's out of his depth and stays quiet. You heard right. It's like I'm barely even there. That should improve our ratings. :)
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Randall digs up a hockey league for kids that is totally outdoors. It's the kind of thing that CA kids can't even imagine, but it sounds like the kind of place most of our kids would love.
Lance talks about the way hockey without coaching can be the best idea for a kid who has only seen the game as a structured event.
Rolly talks about how enthusiasm goes hand in hand with pond hockey. There's no pressure. There are no parents. It's just the kids and the sport.
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