if anyone plays icehockey, dont really now alot of people that do here, i think i am gonna switch from goalie to foward next year, later on when i get more confident i will post it in my xanga and other such places. but i think i will sell all my goalie stuff, buy the necassary foward equipment i don’t already have, pay for the rest of my europe trip if any, and if my europe trip is payed for i will plan on getting a kh or bedford muni or trials!
What is driving your decision to switch positions? If it’s anything like soccer, goalkeepers are hard to come by. Seems no one really wants to be in the goal.
Of course there’s always more limelight on a forward rather than a defenseman, but here’s something I put to my soccer teams to consider, “Offense sells tickets, defense wins games.”
However it ends up, life is short so go for your goals at breakneck speed.
Bruce
well, i have just gotten tired with goalie, being on a travel team for the second year and in the middle of things this isn’t the greatest time to decide that, but i will stick it out, for the rest of this year, then sell all my stuff, the end of this year is certainly the right time to be doing it, cause there is one more goalie coming up from the younger level so he can take my spot, then if i dont make the team as a foward, i can just play house(non-travel), so either way it should work out,
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in hockey it seems there is more limelight on a goalie then defensemen and the same as a forard, in hockey a goalie also sell tickets if he is acrobatic and can make flashy saves, i guess in soccer the ability for flashy saves is no with a big ball that requires both hands to catch it, so i guess goalie and foward would have the same amount of people focused on so that isn’t really the reason i want to switch, i just i guess want to score some because my team this year isn’t the best at that, so i wanna see if it is really as hard as they make it look
Friends of ours were taking their two boys to ice hockey lessons and leagues. I was astounded when they told me of their equipment costs. Seems the equipment costs for each boy was upwards of $800. I could’t imagine! I guess that’s one reason we play soccer; cleats ($50), shinguards ($12), and a ball ($15).
800 is for top of the line stuff though, all the pros stuff, for one player not including sticks is around 800-900, per game, then the sticks almost all pros use are compostie, so anywhere from 125-250 times 2-3 sticks a game, but they get all there stuff free, and then theres weekly skate sharpening at 5 bucks, thats nothing though, ice time is like 400-600 so a league can get expensive also