Who says there isn't politics in ice hockey - no one! This is not our first rodeo of travel hockey, more like 6 years of travel hockey. Why can't things be simple anymore? After my son has been on a travel team all season long, had a great season with the team, and now the season has ended. We are now flipping the switch to tryout mode. Which clinics to partake in to prepare him for the upcoming tryouts.
We heard from someone, that his travel team he just played the season with has since formed a tournament team to play together, which is fine, however, the coach apparently formed this team without telling some of the kids, including my son, and did it behind their backs! I find something wrong with this. Not that there is a tournament team, just that it wasn't even offered to some kids, done behind their backs and in secret. They are not even given an opportunity to tryout or participate. The worse part about all of this is he is hand-picking his team for the upcoming season, and two of the kids that are on this tournament team and the upcoming team are board members'kids of the hockey club!
Why would you do something like this? How does this show what type of person and coach you are? The kids are suppose to be looking up to the coach as a role model. This to me is no role model for my son? This just shows me of what type of person I do not want him to follow, and shows me how dishonest of a person he is. He should be ashamed of himself, but sadly, he doesn't care of whose feelings he hurts, or who he doesn't include. He is forgetting one main thing, that these are still kids! He has fallen into the hockey club politics trap at it's best!!
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