It's sad to say, but everybody is still looking for Network54 Hockey. Here is a new link:
http://www.network54.com/Index/105734
Please look around this site while you are here. Visit the hockey camps and class pages, and leave a comment if you like. Thanks for visiting.
Showing posts with label Network54. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Network54. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Minor Hockey Blog
Welcome to The Minor Hockey Blog. While you are visiting, please visit the links to the Hockey Camps and Classes and Goalie Camps and Classes. These may be the most complete links available. This website exists to help you navigate through Minor Hockey, and covers player movement , 3 on 3, and any other issues that you would like to discuss, as long as it is polite and does not cover specific people/coaches/players. Please comment, bookmark us and visit again!
Network54 Hockey Forum - New links
As requested, here are new links for Network54 Hockey
http://www.network54.com/Forum/755458
http://www.network54.com/Forum/745822
www.network54.com/Forum/680944
Please post responsibly about hockey, not players. While you are visiting the Minor Hockey Blog, please stay, look around, comment and visit the list of hockey classes and camps at
http://hockeyzine.blogspot.ca/p/hockey-camps-and-classes.html
http://www.network54.com/Forum/755458
http://www.network54.com/Forum/745822
www.network54.com/Forum/680944
Please post responsibly about hockey, not players. While you are visiting the Minor Hockey Blog, please stay, look around, comment and visit the list of hockey classes and camps at
http://hockeyzine.blogspot.ca/p/hockey-camps-and-classes.html
Monday, December 8, 2014
Network54
It seems that the Network54 links for Ontario Minor Hockey have been removed for now. Please update if you have any details. For female hockey, the Ontario Hockey Forum still exists at http://www.network54.com/Forum/745822/
but is being more closely edited. There is also a little bit of posting at http://www.network54.com/Forum/680944 - "New forum for responsible parents to talk about Minor Hockey"
but is being more closely edited. There is also a little bit of posting at http://www.network54.com/Forum/680944 - "New forum for responsible parents to talk about Minor Hockey"
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
What is Network54 ?
Many viewers come to the Minor Hockey Blog looking for Network54 Hockey posts. The Minor Hockey Blog is simply a website using blog format which touches on issues in Minor Hockey such as player movement. It also identifies Hockey Classes, Hockey Camps and Hockey Products. I hope that this is helpful to you.
The Minor Hockey Blog is not in any way affiliated with Network54. Network54 is a social networking website which contains forums created for different topics by various owners. Sports is just one section within Network54, and within the Hockey Category there are many different forums and threads. Users may post anonymously, as they can here, and there are rules in place to prevent children and people from being named, but things can get out of control and inappropriate.
Link to Hockey: http://www.network54.com/Browse/Sports/Hockey
Female Hockey: http://www.network54.com/Forum/752492
Minor Hockey 2002 and Under: http://www.network54.com/Forum/672275/
(It's discouraging how much negativity can be posted regarding kids under 12)
Minor Hockey 2001 and Over: http://www.network54.com/Forum/672359/
I first came across Network54 when I found that all of the parents on a team seemed to know much more than I did about the coaching staff. I was shocked when I visited the site. It was amazing to me how many parents posted about each other while clearly socializing and living next door to each other. Later, I was disappointed to hear that my child was part of a Network54 controversy.
On a positive note, Network54 pointed me to teams that needed players, OMHA movement rules, gave me a heads up about spots being taken during tryouts, and pointed me to some great camps.
Please feel free to post your opinion. Have you ever found anything useful on Network54?
The Minor Hockey Blog is not in any way affiliated with Network54. Network54 is a social networking website which contains forums created for different topics by various owners. Sports is just one section within Network54, and within the Hockey Category there are many different forums and threads. Users may post anonymously, as they can here, and there are rules in place to prevent children and people from being named, but things can get out of control and inappropriate.
Link to Hockey: http://www.network54.com/Browse/Sports/Hockey
Female Hockey: http://www.network54.com/Forum/752492
Minor Hockey 2002 and Under: http://www.network54.com/Forum/672275/
(It's discouraging how much negativity can be posted regarding kids under 12)
Minor Hockey 2001 and Over: http://www.network54.com/Forum/672359/
I first came across Network54 when I found that all of the parents on a team seemed to know much more than I did about the coaching staff. I was shocked when I visited the site. It was amazing to me how many parents posted about each other while clearly socializing and living next door to each other. Later, I was disappointed to hear that my child was part of a Network54 controversy.
On a positive note, Network54 pointed me to teams that needed players, OMHA movement rules, gave me a heads up about spots being taken during tryouts, and pointed me to some great camps.
Please feel free to post your opinion. Have you ever found anything useful on Network54?
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
August Hockey
It's August. The weather is starting to cool off, and the kids are getting a little stir crazy. 3 on 3 has wound down, we've visited every cottage we can get invited to, done some summer camp, and now it starts. Some teams are beginning their dryland training.
Dryland training is a great concept. Fitness and agility are enhanced by off ice exercise. No arguments there. Some team bonding can be achieved. But that's about it for me. After years of dropping my kids off for weekly dryland, or a week or two of summer team camp, I know that real fitness is achieved by participating in a variety of sports and exercises year round. 10 days or so of exercise for a team can give them a little pre-season boost, but for some kids it's lip service only. Some kids love the dryland, as a great chance to hang out with friends, learn some new exercises and access new equipment. But these same kids love being fit, and have created their own workout routines, just because they want to. Others use the dryland as a chance to show how hard they work out, but once it's done, that's it.
So if you are a coach, hoping to motivate the less active kids, you may have some luck, but really it's a great chance for parents to drop off their kids and go back to school shopping. Enjoy the shopping. and try to keep from posting about your fellow hockey parents on Network54.
Dryland training is a great concept. Fitness and agility are enhanced by off ice exercise. No arguments there. Some team bonding can be achieved. But that's about it for me. After years of dropping my kids off for weekly dryland, or a week or two of summer team camp, I know that real fitness is achieved by participating in a variety of sports and exercises year round. 10 days or so of exercise for a team can give them a little pre-season boost, but for some kids it's lip service only. Some kids love the dryland, as a great chance to hang out with friends, learn some new exercises and access new equipment. But these same kids love being fit, and have created their own workout routines, just because they want to. Others use the dryland as a chance to show how hard they work out, but once it's done, that's it.
So if you are a coach, hoping to motivate the less active kids, you may have some luck, but really it's a great chance for parents to drop off their kids and go back to school shopping. Enjoy the shopping. and try to keep from posting about your fellow hockey parents on Network54.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
A few things
First of all, welcome viewer from Qatar!
Next, there has been some posting on Network54 regarding OMHA player movement. I really liked this quote - so here it is:
"This whole residency controversy is a classic case of a few bad apples spoiling the bunch.
Residency places a lot of power in the hands of an organization. If you don't play for your home centre, and they don't agree to let you go, you don't play hockey, or you play at a level or two below what you should, get bored and leave the game.
This power of "ownership", where the children are considered the property of the organizations can result in a culture of nepotism, back-room deals and fear. "Don't complain about anything or your kid can kiss the NHL goodbye".
The closer to being good enough to make the NHL the kid is, the more leverage the organization has over him and his parents.
Certainly all of us have tolerated behaviours from coaches and other association personnel that we would not tolerate in the work place, or at our children's schools. We do it out of fear of being blacklisted if we speak up.
Even the victims of that Jr. coach out west didn't dare speak up about it until their hockey days were over.
Those that have abused this power are the reason that others are trying to remove residency.
There will be freedom to escape bad situations, and the worst organizations will learn to be better, or they will perish due to lack of players.
On the flip side, as an earlier poster pointed out, this GTHL-like model creates a whole new slate of problems, not the least of which is that rep-hockey becomes "all star" hockey instead of having anything to do with representing one's home town. The name on the front no longer matters.
The question is, will the freedom to choose teams benefit more kids than the added travel, costs and individualism will hurt?"
Forgive me for pasting the whole thing - but it was really on the mark. There was a followup:
"If minor hockey's residency rules are so vital and good and just, why has no other sports organization I know of seen fit to adopt/copy them? There's been lots of time to do so -- residency restrictions for amateur hockey date back to 1886, and even the OMHA copied them in its first published manual of operations in 1935, taken verbatim from the Ontario Hockey Assciation (OHA) already existing rule.
Again, nobody has copied them. Nobody. If these residency restrictions are somehow a "best practice," the rest of the Canadian minor sporting world has missed this for over 100 years.
Now, step back for a moment fom the "hockey" scenario and honestly deal with the following question: why won't any minor basketball associations put residency rules in place? What do you think would happen if they tried to? Be honest.
Now justify minor hockey's residency rules. If you started with "umm, ummm, ummm," rest assured that you just finished the strongest section of your argumemt." "
It's true. My boys play hometown hockey because they have to. But they play soccer/basketball/baseball in surrounding larger towns because there are better programs. It's not because I want them to go to the FIFA/NBA/Major Leagues, (whatever). It's because they love sports and want to learn in competitive situations. If there's a silly (not really the word I'm thinking of) coach in our town - we don't need to spend any time with him. Next.......
The above threads are at http://www.network54.com/Forum/672275/thread/1300624553/last-1305586093/New+residency+rules+for+2011-2012
Next, there has been some posting on Network54 regarding OMHA player movement. I really liked this quote - so here it is:
"This whole residency controversy is a classic case of a few bad apples spoiling the bunch.
Residency places a lot of power in the hands of an organization. If you don't play for your home centre, and they don't agree to let you go, you don't play hockey, or you play at a level or two below what you should, get bored and leave the game.
This power of "ownership", where the children are considered the property of the organizations can result in a culture of nepotism, back-room deals and fear. "Don't complain about anything or your kid can kiss the NHL goodbye".
The closer to being good enough to make the NHL the kid is, the more leverage the organization has over him and his parents.
Certainly all of us have tolerated behaviours from coaches and other association personnel that we would not tolerate in the work place, or at our children's schools. We do it out of fear of being blacklisted if we speak up.
Even the victims of that Jr. coach out west didn't dare speak up about it until their hockey days were over.
Those that have abused this power are the reason that others are trying to remove residency.
There will be freedom to escape bad situations, and the worst organizations will learn to be better, or they will perish due to lack of players.
On the flip side, as an earlier poster pointed out, this GTHL-like model creates a whole new slate of problems, not the least of which is that rep-hockey becomes "all star" hockey instead of having anything to do with representing one's home town. The name on the front no longer matters.
The question is, will the freedom to choose teams benefit more kids than the added travel, costs and individualism will hurt?"
Forgive me for pasting the whole thing - but it was really on the mark. There was a followup:
"If minor hockey's residency rules are so vital and good and just, why has no other sports organization I know of seen fit to adopt/copy them? There's been lots of time to do so -- residency restrictions for amateur hockey date back to 1886, and even the OMHA copied them in its first published manual of operations in 1935, taken verbatim from the Ontario Hockey Assciation (OHA) already existing rule.
Again, nobody has copied them. Nobody. If these residency restrictions are somehow a "best practice," the rest of the Canadian minor sporting world has missed this for over 100 years.
Now, step back for a moment fom the "hockey" scenario and honestly deal with the following question: why won't any minor basketball associations put residency rules in place? What do you think would happen if they tried to? Be honest.
Now justify minor hockey's residency rules. If you started with "umm, ummm, ummm," rest assured that you just finished the strongest section of your argumemt." "
It's true. My boys play hometown hockey because they have to. But they play soccer/basketball/baseball in surrounding larger towns because there are better programs. It's not because I want them to go to the FIFA/NBA/Major Leagues, (whatever). It's because they love sports and want to learn in competitive situations. If there's a silly (not really the word I'm thinking of) coach in our town - we don't need to spend any time with him. Next.......
The above threads are at http://www.network54.com/Forum/672275/thread/1300624553/last-1305586093/New+residency+rules+for+2011-2012
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Network54
Have you been to Network54 ? This site is frequented by people who anonymously post comments about their teams and issues. The site can be hysterical, offensive and downright mean. I have never posted there, but I occasionally find myself checking in to see what is being said. What do you think? The worst day ever was when I found one of my kids initials posted there. Thanks friends.
http://www.network54.com/Forum/672275/ This link is now for 98 players and under. This link is for the main menu,: http://www.network54.com/Browse/Sports/Hockey. This link is for players 97 and over: http://www.network54.com/Forum/672359/ Finally this link is for female hockey http://www.network54.com/Forum/679250/ Have a look around from the main link, in case I've missed something.
Welcome to this blog, which is about Minor Hockey or Youth Hockey. This blog has absolutely no affiliation with Network54 and there will be no tolerance of gossip or criticism of players, coaches or teams on this site. Please visit the Minor Hockey Blog's other pages, and comment, if you like. Most of our visitors come in looking for hockey camps and classes, OMHA boundaries and looking for Network54. Comments can be anonymous - so go for it, but be polite please. The blog will cover boundary type issues if anything new comes up, and our experiences in hockey, and any hockey camps or clases we find along the way. Keep visiting!
VISIT AUG 26/2014 POST FOR NEW LINKS
http://www.network54.com/Forum/672275/ This link is now for 98 players and under. This link is for the main menu,: http://www.network54.com/Browse/Sports/Hockey. This link is for players 97 and over: http://www.network54.com/Forum/672359/ Finally this link is for female hockey http://www.network54.com/Forum/679250/ Have a look around from the main link, in case I've missed something.
Welcome to this blog, which is about Minor Hockey or Youth Hockey. This blog has absolutely no affiliation with Network54 and there will be no tolerance of gossip or criticism of players, coaches or teams on this site. Please visit the Minor Hockey Blog's other pages, and comment, if you like. Most of our visitors come in looking for hockey camps and classes, OMHA boundaries and looking for Network54. Comments can be anonymous - so go for it, but be polite please. The blog will cover boundary type issues if anything new comes up, and our experiences in hockey, and any hockey camps or clases we find along the way. Keep visiting!
VISIT AUG 26/2014 POST FOR NEW LINKS
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