I grew up in Perth Australia. Where I grew up we had 2 rinks in the whole city. One north of the river and the other south. We couldn't even get rink time because of social skating. We ended up playing inline hockey a lot. A rink wouldn't even let us play on the ice because they needed it for the team that played national competition team. So I can understand both sides of the story
As a Texas youth hockey player (not in dallas but in houston) the stars dont have as much of a monopoly down here but if you want to play at a higher level with support from a wealthy organization the star's youth program is the best way. I mean we have other organizations like the junior aeros but in Southern Texas the star's programs offers the best development and travel opportunities. But if your goal is mainly just recreational hockey then securing ice time isnt nearly as hard as it is up in dallas.
Born in Pittsburgh but grew up in Dallas playing hockey. In Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex there are only 3 rinks that are not controlled by the Stars. This scandal mainly interferes with the youth hockey programs here. Prices are rising big time and parents have no say. I have a brother who coaches my nephew’s he is first showed me this scandal it’s a mess
The only thing I know as a beer leaguer now it’s $270 for this summer season 10 games not bad but I don’t know any better lol
Appreciate your videos man can’t wait till October
I played youth hockey in Kentucky. Lots of traveling was involved. There are only a few rinks in the state and some of them are abysmal (I remember playing with fog inside, ice on bench surfaces, etc). You go up to play teams in Ohio and of course they throw the same jokes about how Kentuckians are inbred around. The dimensions of my rink were smaller than most, so practicing there made it so that you had to adjust when you played on other rinks. Those other rinks also had much different ice conditions that you wouldn't be used to. Our zamboni was so old and busted that it literally exploded one day! For all the annoyances, it was nice in a way for the youth hockey "circle" to be so small. The same people were involved in training so many of the players starting out, including some people who were on minor league teams that used to play in the state. Everyone seems to know each other in that world and it's nice. Pretty much all of the players were sons of yankee transplants and despite us being closest to the Predators you mostly saw people sporting Blackhawks, Red Wings, and Penguins gear :p
okay im from dallas i go to the rink almost every day the i get that prices may be higher but if it wasnt for these rinks there would only be 3 rinks in the metroplex so i would rather pay that 22-25 even if its open hockey or a drop in game rather than drive 20-30 min to the most available rink so i think its stupid outlash you know hockey is expensive and if they did their research they are building new rinks 2 of them are already in the works , to put it simple hockey aint cheap but its available also i yet to see any hockey time at any rink that is 27$ love the vids ech
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Great vid
I thought this was gonna be about the 5 Canadian hockey players recently on trial for what they did to that girl.
Great job Eck as always
yet some americans support fascist trump and corrupt republicans
I grew up in Perth Australia. Where I grew up we had 2 rinks in the whole city. One north of the river and the other south. We couldn't even get rink time because of social skating. We ended up playing inline hockey a lot. A rink wouldn't even let us play on the ice because they needed it for the team that played national competition team. So I can understand both sides of the story
As a Texas youth hockey player (not in dallas but in houston) the stars dont have as much of a monopoly down here but if you want to play at a higher level with support from a wealthy organization the star's youth program is the best way. I mean we have other organizations like the junior aeros but in Southern Texas the star's programs offers the best development and travel opportunities. But if your goal is mainly just recreational hockey then securing ice time isnt nearly as hard as it is up in dallas.
Ohh we're into the "Dallas is monopolizing ice rinks" part of the off-season now…
Born in Pittsburgh but grew up in Dallas playing hockey. In Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex there are only 3 rinks that are not controlled by the Stars. This scandal mainly interferes with the youth hockey programs here. Prices are rising big time and parents have no say. I have a brother who coaches my nephew’s he is first showed me this scandal it’s a mess
The only thing I know as a beer leaguer now it’s $270 for this summer season 10 games not bad but I don’t know any better lol
Appreciate your videos man can’t wait till October
Arizona at least CARED about the YOUTH movement. Dallas is a fart barn that can't get shit done. What a waste of an Org.
I played youth hockey in Kentucky. Lots of traveling was involved. There are only a few rinks in the state and some of them are abysmal (I remember playing with fog inside, ice on bench surfaces, etc). You go up to play teams in Ohio and of course they throw the same jokes about how Kentuckians are inbred around. The dimensions of my rink were smaller than most, so practicing there made it so that you had to adjust when you played on other rinks. Those other rinks also had much different ice conditions that you wouldn't be used to. Our zamboni was so old and busted that it literally exploded one day! For all the annoyances, it was nice in a way for the youth hockey "circle" to be so small. The same people were involved in training so many of the players starting out, including some people who were on minor league teams that used to play in the state. Everyone seems to know each other in that world and it's nice. Pretty much all of the players were sons of yankee transplants and despite us being closest to the Predators you mostly saw people sporting Blackhawks, Red Wings, and Penguins gear :p
okay im from dallas i go to the rink almost every day the i get that prices may be higher but if it wasnt for these rinks there would only be 3 rinks in the metroplex so i would rather pay that 22-25 even if its open hockey or a drop in game rather than drive 20-30 min to the most available rink so i think its stupid outlash you know hockey is expensive and if they did their research they are building new rinks 2 of them are already in the works , to put it simple hockey aint cheap but its available also i yet to see any hockey time at any rink that is 27$ love the vids ech