Andrew's First Away Hockey Tournament

Last Friday, Saturday, and Sunday we all piled into our Kia and headed to Kenora for Andrew's first out of town hockey tournament. His team played four games; two on Friday and two on Saturday; and his team finished with a record of one win, one tie, and two losses. Andrew actually scored a goal in their first game, but his shot went in off of a team mate's stick so the other kid got credit for it.

The tournament had sixteen teams in it and for the most part was organized and ran very well. If I had to make one complaint, it would have to be about the referees. No, the refereeing did not cost us any games, but a lot of penalties that should have been called were not; and I was terrified someone was going to get hurt.

Anyways....... We stayed at the Best Western Lakeside Inn in Kenora; which was nice because it had a pool and it was right next to one of the arenas Andrew played in.

In between games we killed time mostly by letting the kids go swimming. There was a pool in our hotel but there was also a REALLY NICE pool in the arena, so needless to say the kids were pretty waterlogged by Sunday morning!




In the evenings most of the parents got together for a drink while the kids all played with each other, or we were all up visiting by the pool while the kids went swimming. It was a lot of fun. Jennifer and I planned to use some downtime to visit some stores and maybe shop a little, but surprisingly, there wasn't much time for that.

If any parents are reading this and thinking about putting their kids in hockey, I would say if your kid wants to play hockey, then go for it, but don't encourage them to play if they don't want to. Hockey is alot of fun, but at the same time it's expensive, and even a little dangerous too, so kids have to learn to be careful. And it's a real hassle to get kids into all that equipment!


To go to Andrew's hockey team's website; click here.