Welcome
to the GREEN Team (team 6 on the schedule)
Mark and I are planning on
having a fun filled year of hockey. Our contact information:
Angelo Misale
T: 905 730 9842
E:
[email protected]
Mark Fama
T: 905 929 4083
E:
[email protected]
We have only a few things that we ask of the boys...
- Try their best in practices and games
- Listen to the coaches and referees
- Be good sports with their own teammates and the players and coaches on the other teams
- Have fun playing the best game on the planet
At the Atom level, our main goal will be the development of skills. We will attempt to help the team improve their skating, stick handling, passing and knowledge of the game. We will attempt to teach them positional play. We will allow the players to try each position, except for goalie, as we have 2 boys that will share that role. We will attempt to help the goalies improve their positional play, skating and stick handling abilities.
Please note that we feel that practices are more important than games. If they do not attend practice, they will not improve as we will not have a chance to enhance their skills.
If your child is bored, give them a puck, send them outside with a road hockey stick and have them take shots, preferably at a net and not your garage door. This will build strength in their arms and will help them on the ice.
Now for the hard part....what we expect of parents
- Please get your kids to the rink on time. They should be ready to go on the ice 10 minutes before the game or practice.
- Please let us know if your child cannot make a game. We spend time setting the lines and positions before the game to ensure equal playing time and it makes it difficult to change the lineup at the last minute. Give us as much notice as possible. Even 1 hour before game-time is better than no notice at all.
- Pre and Post-Game dressing room time. We ask that parents leave the dressing room about 10 minutes before game-time and don’t come into the room after the game for about 10 minutes. It gives the coaches a chance to talk to the kids about our game plan before and how we did after. We like to end all games on a positive note (whether we won or not) and use the 10 minutes after a game for that.
- Please cheer in the stands. We want to encourage all parents to come and cheer the kids on during games. The only thing we ask is that you do it in the stands.
- Please do not coach your child during a game or practice. It’s confusing to the child because he might be getting mixed messages from the coaches and his parents.
- Help us with the score clock. We need volunteer parents to run the score clock during games where we are the home team. If any of you have experience doing this or would like to learn how to do it, it would greatly be appreciated. Having several parents who can do this is ideal since the workload is shared and you can cover for each other when someone can’t make a game.
- If you want to talk to us about something, we prefer to meet in person. Emails are great for communication of information, but not for discussions of issues.
GAME TIME AND PRACTICES:
Team Calendar
The above link will show you all of our game times and practices. This week, we practice Saturday night at 8:30pm (Morgan B)and play a game Sunday morning at 11am (Spring Valley)
Thank you and should you have any questions, please feel free to call us.
Angelo Misale