Minor hockey tryouts (was: How to motivate a novice (or any) player for tryouts?)

[Mr Jiggyfly]

In the case of mine, it is not the leaving that caused it. It was because the kid and/or the parent(s) were a problem when here, left and had a lot to say about how they were wronged and of course it got back to the org. Cases of "been there, done that, not going there again."

That gets back to the “hockey is a smaller community” than most of these parents realize.

Some kids do get screwed with hockey politics being what they are, but you better be careful who you complain to about it.