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Guest wrote: ↑Fri Mar 21, 2025 10:43 amLet's start

Guest wrote: ↑Fri Mar 21, 2025 10:43 amLet's start

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Mar 23, 2025 4:59 pm Ok, I am a AAA coach. You want your kid to make the show? You need to start now. Or do you want him to be a construction worker? E transfer me $200 right now and I will give you more details about the team’s birthday skate.

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Mar 23, 2025 5:01 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Mar 23, 2025 4:59 pm Ok, I am a AAA coach. You want your kid to make the show? You need to start now. Or do you want him to be a construction worker? E transfer me $200 right now and I will give you more details about the team’s birthday skate.

No names that you?

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Mar 23, 2025 5:20 pm Coach Austin Alexander here. Let’s stop pretending. If your kid was born in 2019 and isn’t already in a structured elite training environment, he’s already behind. That’s not dramatic. That’s just math.

I’ve got 5-year-olds running edgework patterns in weighted vests, stickhandling through traffic cones at 6am, and breaking down game tape before most kids figure out how to tie their skates. Meanwhile your kid is chasing bubbles in a Learn to Play jersey wondering why no scouts are calling.

This is why I started the 2019 ApexEdge AAA Prep Stream. We’re not here for snack breaks and orange slices. We’re here to build habits, hardwiring elite behaviors into the next generation of pro-caliber players before their permanent teeth even come in.

Parents ask me all the time if it’s too early to commit. No. It’s too late to hesitate. AAA isn’t about talent. It’s about reps, mindset, and bankrolling the grind. If you’re not investing in private skills, mobility coaching, mindset seminars, and pre-scouting portfolios by 6 years old, what are we even doing here

You think SC87 or CM97 waited until Atom to get serious?

Spots are limited and we filter out anyone still talking about “having fun first.” Fun is winning. Fun is being first-line center. Fun is the NHL.

Train early. Train elite. Or get out of the way.

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Mar 23, 2025 5:32 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Mar 23, 2025 5:20 pm Coach Austin Alexander here. Let’s stop pretending. If your kid was born in 2019 and isn’t already in a structured elite training environment, he’s already behind. That’s not dramatic. That’s just math.

I’ve got 5-year-olds running edgework patterns in weighted vests, stickhandling through traffic cones at 6am, and breaking down game tape before most kids figure out how to tie their skates. Meanwhile your kid is chasing bubbles in a Learn to Play jersey wondering why no scouts are calling.

This is why I started the 2019 ApexEdge AAA Prep Stream. We’re not here for snack breaks and orange slices. We’re here to build habits, hardwiring elite behaviors into the next generation of pro-caliber players before their permanent teeth even come in.

Parents ask me all the time if it’s too early to commit. No. It’s too late to hesitate. AAA isn’t about talent. It’s about reps, mindset, and bankrolling the grind. If you’re not investing in private skills, mobility coaching, mindset seminars, and pre-scouting portfolios by 6 years old, what are we even doing here

You think SC87 or CM97 waited until Atom to get serious?

Spots are limited and we filter out anyone still talking about “having fun first.” Fun is winning. Fun is being first-line center. Fun is the NHL.

Train early. Train elite. Or get out of the way.

Tell me this is a joke? If you've been around hockey long enough, you know top 5 year olds aren't top players in minor midget bud. Calm down and go take some other schmucks $$$

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Mar 23, 2025 5:20 pm Coach Austin Alexander here. Let’s stop pretending. If your kid was born in 2019 and isn’t already in a structured elite training environment, he’s already behind. That’s not dramatic. That’s just math.

I’ve got 5-year-olds running edgework patterns in weighted vests, stickhandling through traffic cones at 6am, and breaking down game tape before most kids figure out how to tie their skates. Meanwhile your kid is chasing bubbles in a Learn to Play jersey wondering why no scouts are calling.

This is why I started the 2019 ApexEdge AAA Prep Stream. We’re not here for snack breaks and orange slices. We’re here to build habits, hardwiring elite behaviors into the next generation of pro-caliber players before their permanent teeth even come in.

Parents ask me all the time if it’s too early to commit. No. It’s too late to hesitate. AAA isn’t about talent. It’s about reps, mindset, and bankrolling the grind. If you’re not investing in private skills, mobility coaching, mindset seminars, and pre-scouting portfolios by 6 years old, what are we even doing here

You think SC87 or CM97 waited until Atom to get serious?

Spots are limited and we filter out anyone still talking about “having fun first.” Fun is winning. Fun is being first-line center. Fun is the NHL.

Train early. Train elite. Or get out of the way.