Welcome to Your Team Blog

Hi Hawks. Welcome to our team blog, Hawks Hockey Nation!

I’m going to try to start most blog entries with a hockey-related joke. Here’s the first:

At one point during a game, the coach called one of his 7 year old hockey players aside and asked, “Do you understand what cooperation is? What a team is?"

The little boy nodded in the affirmative. “Do you understand that what matters is not whether we win or lose, but how we play together as a team?"

The little boy nodded yes. “So," the coach continued, "I am sure you know, when a penalty is called, you should not argue, curse, or attack the referee, or call him a bad names. Do you understand all that?"

Again the little boy nodded. The coach continued, "And when I call you off the ice so that another boy gets a chance to play, it’s not good sportsmanship to call your coach bad names either, is it?”

Again the little boy nodded. "Good," said the coach. "Now go over there and explain all that to your mother and father ..."

There’s a message in that joke!

So, Hawks, I want you all to know that I’m very excited about this ball hockey season, and very happy, and proud, to be working with such a great team.

We’ve only had the one weekend together, and then a two-week break. We’ve only played two games. I unfortunately missed the first game. And despite all of that, we came away with two wins. That’s great, but it’s not what I’m most excited and proud about.

During those two games, two weeks ago, even as the second game transpired, you all grew together as a team. You started to work together. You started to pass the ball more. You started to anticipate where your line mates would be. You started to cycle the ball down low in the opposition’s zone. A “TEAM” is far more than the sum of its parts, and you started to become that during your second game together! That’s VERY exciting!

Please feel free to talk to me or any of our assistant coaches at any time about anything. We’ve volunteered for these roles because we enjoy working with you. Let’s have some fun.

You’ll find lots of useful information and links down the right hand side of this page, including your coach’s names, our record, SWO links, etc.

Hawks, this is OUR team blog. It’s not my blog, or the coaches’ blog. It’s yours too. And we want YOU to all contribute. You can type a message by replying to any blog post. Please do so.

We’ll use this blog to share celebrations, information, tips, etc. We get very little time together before and after games. This blog will help us all share ideas, insights, comments, praise and questions. We won’t get into too much detail on our systems or strategies, just in case our opposition finds this blog. We don’t want to give away too many of our secrets.

Some posts will be longer, like this one. Some will be very short. For now, I’m going to start preparing for our Saturday evening game.

Your coach,
Stephen