We received our schedule for Silver Sticks next weekend.. Boy does it STINK. They gave us a Thursday game... Dont they realize the kids have to go to school. Then a game at 8 am and 8pm on friday. What kind of tournament schedule is that for school aged kids.

Looks good to me. Any day with hockey is a good day.

I looked at your schedule and STINKS is an understatement. No games on Saturday? And what exactly are you supposed to do all day long in Ft. Wayne may I ask? Or are you going home after your Friday night game and showing up on Sunday for semis?

My daughter's schedule is a little better in the B bracket with Friday 1 and 9 PM games and a Saturday 8:15 PM game. Saturday morning, we are going to slip over to Culver for her to take the SSAT, so we won't have any down time.

But these days out of school for tournaments are a problem. With my daughter playing both boys and girls teams, we will be pushing our limit of 10 total absence days (before you must take summer school) if we aren't careful.

You guys were warned about Ft. Wayne. Hotel nights and kickbacks etc...... they are always having teams come in for thursday night stay.

Due to the number of teams & games to be played in a short period, there are some tournaments like silver sticks and USA Hockey Nationals (states/district/nationals) that have games on school days. Been that way for years, will be that way for the unforseen future.

Some of the other bigger tournies will have Friday evening games that sometimes require you to miss some oor all of a school day (depending on travel requirments.

Your team scheduler should be aware of this when putting schedule together and choosing tournaments as to minimize days missed.

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Originally posted by CardsPW92:
You guys were warned about Ft. Wayne. Hotel nights and kickbacks etc...... they are always having teams come in for thursday night stay.

The thing is that we are actually staying one less night. We are only staying on Thur. night. Instead of Fri.and Sat. But the worst thing is that we have to drive 2 hours to go play a team that their rink is 10 minutes away from ours. And out of 12 teams the only out of divison game is ours against this team..... I wonder who put the schedule together.

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Originally posted by Fangers:
Due to the number of teams & games to be played in a short period, there are some tournaments like silver sticks and USA Hockey Nationals (states/district/nationals) that have games on school days. Been that way for years, will be that way for the unforseen future.

I understand this. But the problem is that they are taking kids out of school to play a game 2 hours away to play a team that is only 10 min. away on a Thursday.

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Some of the other bigger tournies will have Friday evening games that sometimes require you to miss some oor all of a school day (depending on travel requirments.

Your team scheduler should be aware of this when putting schedule together and choosing tournaments as to minimize days missed.

The Silver Sticks schedule only comes out a couple of weeks ahead of time. So what can you do.... Oh well... Chalk it up to travel hockey

Your beef about Thursday night is legit, they should try to get more local teams, but at the same time they have to respect the divisions that were randomnly drawn and may not be able to get anyone more local. :dunno:

In the 7 years my son has played silver sticks, we've always had a Friday game, couple years Thursday daytime as well, so anymore I just assume we'll have games and plan accordingly (re: making arrangements with school, etc.).

Like you said, welcome to travel hockey lol