Miss18.1 is finally becoming the player I always knew she could be. She scored a great goal today by shooting right off the faceoff and following up to jam home her 2nd rebound. The D looked stunned at the play. She's tried that one before and will probably try all the time now that it worked.
She was chosen as a co-captain, despite being 2 years younger than quite a few of the girls on the team. I took over as coach and have them all playing like her- relentless on forechecks and backchecks. I modified the old "forecheck, backcheck, paycheck" to be "forecheck, backcheck, tuition check!". A few want to go to prep schools but their parents don't want to foot the bill. So I told them to play their way onto prep school teams.
Miss18.2 is having a ton of fun playing D on her squirt team. She's not so happy that BOTH of our goalies will be away for the same weekend, so she'll have to put the pads back on for 2 games in Dec.
I bought them after she committed to it, and as I told her, she's damn lucky to have two goalies on her team so she doesn't have to play all the time. She got a nice assist the other day, shooting through a ton of skates on net, where a teammate put home the rebound. Of course, that other kid also plays D so I'm still trying to figure out wtf he was doing down there, but it's squirt B so positioning is optional.
Her team is ALL rookies, but are busting their butts to learn the game. Good group of parents, and great coaches.
I haven't had this much fun coaching in years!