Category: For Parents
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Metro High School Invitational reports – Saturday
By Brian Kalisher – Temperatures are dropping, the holidays are approaching, and local rinks are gearing up to play host to their respective high school hockey teams for another season. On Nov. 18 and 19, Novi Ice Arena held the 10th annual Metro High School Invitational. While holiday gifts will be unwrapped soon enough, the…
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Metro High School Invitational reports – Friday
By Brian Kalisher – Temperatures are dropping, the holidays are approaching, and local rinks are gearing up to play host to their respective high school hockey teams for another season. On Nov. 18 and 19, Novi Ice Arena held the 10th annual Metro High School Invitational. While holiday gifts will be unwrapped soon enough, the…
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A good time for doing good
We’re heading into the holiday stretch. A little prematurely, I think, so I’m siding with Nordstrom’s on this one holiday at a time thing. Philosophically, of course; it’s not like I’m shopping there (see previous posts about kids and sports sucking up all my money). Fighting my inner Scrooge, I try to recognize that the holiday season,…
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Suburban Stars share hockey, hamburgers with Ukrainian squad
By Brian Kalisher – HAZEL PARK – The words “travel hockey” mean many things for youth players and their families. Long car trips with dad – check. Weekends playing mini-sticks in strange, far-away hotel rooms – you bet. But imagine coming to the rink and competing against a team that traveled not hundreds, but thousands…
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Trick-Or-Treating at Compuware
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By Brian Kalisher – PLYMOUTH – It was quite a frightening sight Saturday evening at Compuware Arena as youngsters from around the area packed the concourse to take part in the Plymouth Whalers’ Trick-or-Treat Night. As a new staffer for Michigan Hockey, I stopped by to check out the action and help pass out candy…
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Keeping kids safe and social services off your back
A ruptured patella tendon. A dislocated shoulder. A broken hand. A broken arm. A bone bruise. Another bone bruise. Torn calf muscle. Strained ulnar nerve. Various bumps, bruises, welts, cuts and scrapes. Those are just some of the ways we’ve managed to hurt ourselves playing sports. At one point, the admitting attendant at the Urgent…
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Concussions: Knowing how to respond
By Michael Caples – The Little Caesars Amateur Hockey League held their annual Face-Off Meeting at Motor City Casino on Sept. 25 to prepare youth coaches for the upcoming season. The league directors brought in two big names from drastically different professions that had the same message for new and old hockey coaches alike. Longtime…
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A Captain, on and off the ice
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By Michael Caples – Chase Podsiad remembers where he was when he heard that the Boston Bruins won the Stanley Cup this June. To any hockey player or fan, that’s like saying “yes, I remember what I just had for lunch”. But when Zdeno Chara lifted Lord Stanley’s Cup, Podsiad wasn’t sitting on his couch…
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A Vapor evolution continues
By Michael Caples – Evan Baker says that the Vapor APX stick “is the perfect evolution of the Vapor X:60 stick”. He should know — after all, Baker is the category manager of sticks for Bauer hockey. And according to Baker, Bauer’s latest stick features what people loved about last year’s X:60, and then some.…
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A Q&A with USA Hockey president Ron DeGregorio
USA Hockey president Ron DeGregorio sat down with MiHockeyNow editor Michael Caples to discuss the state of hockey in Michigan and across the US during the MAHA meetings in Traverse City. MiHockeyNow: How would you describe the status of USA Hockey, as it stands today? DeGregorio: We have some goals and obviously those goals are…