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So, why the title for this post? Well, we hit a major milestone on Monday. I took Felix to Lacroix Sports and bought him his first hockey equipment. So there's going to be another Aylen hitting the ice in Ottawa this year! He took skating lessons the last 2 winters and they went relatively well. We weren't sure if he was going to want to play hockey or not and we didn't want to push him into it. But over the last little while he has been very excited about playing hockey and we've had a number of talks with him about it. It's definitely something he wants to do....in fact he's quite excited about it.
We kind of figured he'd end up playing hockey, after all he's surrounded by it. Both Mel and I play hockey and are avid Sens fans so he's seen it all his life.
When we arrived at Lacroix Sports he proceeded to tell me that he wanted to buy goalie equipment. I had to explain to him that with Timbits hockey there are no goalies at first. Of course his response to that was that I was a goalie so why couldn't he be one? I had to explain to him that I had to start as a player too and that if he still wanted to be a goalie in a year or 2 from now then he could try it. Poor little guy....we haven't even suggested to him that he should be a goalie and he's already wanting to play what's got to be one of the strangest positions in sport. Nothing like putting on a suit of armour and choosing to try and get in front of hard rubber pucks flying at you!
So after about 45 minutes we had a full bag of equipment and Felix was very excited.
Registration is this week. It's going to be really weird going to hockey registration for my son. I'm looking forward to putting on my skates and helping out as a coach.
Once we got home he wanted to try everything on.
Future 2022 draft choice.......maybe if he has his mom's natural talent!
Jeff
