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Guest wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 8:17 am

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Guest wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 7:39 am What is important to your family? Development, leadership, healthy coaching, team play, individual stats, favouritism? Pick the team/coach that best aligns with your values and do that. The real winners will be the kids who come out of hockey with connections, leadership, and life skills that will carry them throughout adulthood.

If everyone is so unhappy, maybe they should have applied to Coach! ND will be just fine!

In fairness not every paying parent is qualified to coach. But those same parents are still qualified enough to recognize a questionable decision. The answer isn’t always: “should’ve applied to coach”. Parents should trust a responsible board to make decisions with logic based on defined criteria.

Well what if they had no other legitimate options, what do you do then?

Give him a shot or go to Elgin, I hear they are calling around begging for players

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Feb 18, 2025 10:38 pm How does ND get the team when his kid is the worst forward on the AA team and 9th in scoring among the forward group?

What is wrong with LJK? Do they not vet kids of parent coaches to make sure they are at the AAA level? The kid isn't even at the tier 1 AA level! How in the hell does LJK allow a kid who is not AAA to steal a spot from a deserving kid? This is so wrong!!

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 8:43 am

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Feb 18, 2025 10:38 pm How does ND get the team when his kid is the worst forward on the AA team and 9th in scoring among the forward group?

What is wrong with LJK? Do they not vet kids of parent coaches to make sure they are at the AAA level? The kid isn't even at the tier 1 AA level! How in the hell does LJK allow a kid who is not AAA to steal a spot from a deserving kid? This is so wrong!!

Give him a chance. Mm carried players that were boarderline aaa players (not being rude, don’t come at me) maybe this will be an opportunity for some hard working kids to break the roster

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 8:58 am Just remember, one mans trash is another man’s treasure!
ND is a very respected Coach! Stop the trash talk and see how this plays out!

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 8:17 am

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 8:15 am

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 7:49 am

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 7:39 am What is important to your family? Development, leadership, healthy coaching, team play, individual stats, favouritism? Pick the team/coach that best aligns with your values and do that. The real winners will be the kids who come out of hockey with connections, leadership, and life skills that will carry them throughout adulthood.

If everyone is so unhappy, maybe they should have applied to Coach! ND will be just fine!

In fairness not every paying parent is qualified to coach. But those same parents are still qualified enough to recognize a questionable decision. The answer isn’t always: “should’ve applied to coach”. Parents should trust a responsible board to make decisions with logic based on defined criteria.

Well what if they had no other legitimate options, what do you do then?

Give him a shot or go to Elgin, I hear they are calling around begging for players

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 10:21 am

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 8:17 am

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 8:15 am

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 7:49 am

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 7:39 am What is important to your family? Development, leadership, healthy coaching, team play, individual stats, favouritism? Pick the team/coach that best aligns with your values and do that. The real winners will be the kids who come out of hockey with connections, leadership, and life skills that will carry them throughout adulthood.

If everyone is so unhappy, maybe they should have applied to Coach! ND will be just fine!

In fairness not every paying parent is qualified to coach. But those same parents are still qualified enough to recognize a questionable decision. The answer isn’t always: “should’ve applied to coach”. Parents should trust a responsible board to make decisions with logic based on defined criteria.

Well what if they had no other legitimate options, what do you do then?

Give him a shot or go to Elgin, I hear they are calling around begging for players

Come to EMC if you think this isn’t a great choice! Currently looking/calling for 2 goalies, 2-3 D and 2 F.

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 10:21 am

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 8:17 am

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 8:15 am

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 7:49 am

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 7:39 am What is important to your family? Development, leadership, healthy coaching, team play, individual stats, favouritism? Pick the team/coach that best aligns with your values and do that. The real winners will be the kids who come out of hockey with connections, leadership, and life skills that will carry them throughout adulthood.

If everyone is so unhappy, maybe they should have applied to Coach! ND will be just fine!

In fairness not every paying parent is qualified to coach. But those same parents are still qualified enough to recognize a questionable decision. The answer isn’t always: “should’ve applied to coach”. Parents should trust a responsible board to make decisions with logic based on defined criteria.

Well what if they had no other legitimate options, what do you do then?

Give him a shot or go to Elgin, I hear they are calling around begging for players

Come to EMC if you think this isn’t a great choice! Currently looking/calling for 2 goalies, 2-3 D and 2 F.

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 10:39 am

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 10:21 am

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 8:17 am

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 8:15 am

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 7:49 am

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 7:39 am What is important to your family? Development, leadership, healthy coaching, team play, individual stats, favouritism? Pick the team/coach that best aligns with your values and do that. The real winners will be the kids who come out of hockey with connections, leadership, and life skills that will carry them throughout adulthood.

If everyone is so unhappy, maybe they should have applied to Coach! ND will be just fine!

In fairness not every paying parent is qualified to coach. But those same parents are still qualified enough to recognize a questionable decision. The answer isn’t always: “should’ve applied to coach”. Parents should trust a responsible board to make decisions with logic based on defined criteria.

Well what if they had no other legitimate options, what do you do then?

Give him a shot or go to Elgin, I hear they are calling around begging for players

Come to EMC if you think this isn’t a great choice! Currently looking/calling for 2 goalies, 2-3 D and 2 F.

EMC tampering? This is a bad look to post what they are looking for while kids are still playing the current season

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 11:27 am

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 10:39 am

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 10:21 am

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 8:17 am

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 8:15 am

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 7:49 am
In fairness not every paying parent is qualified to coach. But those same parents are still qualified enough to recognize a questionable decision. The answer isn’t always: “should’ve applied to coach”. Parents should trust a responsible board to make decisions with logic based on defined criteria.

Well what if they had no other legitimate options, what do you do then?

Give him a shot or go to Elgin, I hear they are calling around begging for players

Come to EMC if you think this isn’t a great choice! Currently looking/calling for 2 goalies, 2-3 D and 2 F.

EMC tampering? This is a bad look to post what they are looking for while kids are still playing the current season

Don’t be naive. This open borders decision was to promote recruiting!!