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Guest wrote: ↑Sun Jun 08, 2025 9:14 pm Hockey Parents are suckers. If you did the math before handing over money blindly. You would have seen you were paying this guy 1k per game to open a door.

I don't think there are many Spring Programs who are willing to do their whole thing at cost. I get the guy might not be great, I couldn't tell you if thats true or not, but at the end of the day you are paying for someone to organize it and put a team together with jersey's etc.

It's not just spring hockey, it's all minor hockey.

Parents get ripped off all year for hockey.

While Spring Hockey is a for profit business, a lot of rep programs would fall into the same category but you are more than willing to over pay during the winter and not complain.

No one forces you to play spring hockey, AAA hockey, local league, take skills lesson, power skating, etc. You know the costs up front and make a choice to do it. No one to blame but yourself if you have buyers remorse.

You can get lucky and find a good program though, those are the ones to be loyal to. Our Spring team, everything is at cost. Our coach owns and operates it. Shares what everything costs (which is all easy to find anyways) and divides it by kid. He even pays for his own kid to play. He is a good coach, great with the kids, they love him. Couldn't ask for more.

However, I recognize we are lucky, like I said.

Can you share his website or email? LOL

There is nothing wrong with making money. If you see an opportunity where you have a need with people willing to pay money, then I have no problem with that.

Where my issue lies is when people get greedy and way over charge so they can prey on parents just looking to help their kids in getting better or getting to the next step. Even these so called "non-profits" that gouge parent. At least there are a lot more options now it will force associations to look at their costing structure.

no, sorry lol.

don't want to lose my spot for next year. Its 2016 only.

Guest wrote: ↑Thu Jun 12, 2025 2:36 pm
No. His teams haven't won anything in years. Most of them are still looking for their first win in Carnevale because he stacks them with AA kids and puts them in the AAA division. Promises the parents exposure while charging them 400% of what kids on other teams pay.

Fillo is a fraud.