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That’s wild! I had an acquaintance in Charlotte that’s son played on a travel hockey team out of Raleigh. He lived south of Charlotte, 2.5 hour commute one way to practice. And they practiced 4 evenings per week. Luckily there was another local kid on the team so they swapped driving every other practice. Said his son’s goalie gear cost around $15k. Games were in NY, Michigan, Minnesota and Illinois mostly, some out in the northwest also. Said he spent over $75k one year on that hockey league including travel. I asked him why he spent and sacrificed so much, he said they hoped the son got a scholarship to play college. Also admitted he didn’t have the size to ever make the NHL. I told him he will have paid for undergrad, graduate degrees and a PhD by the time his son graduates high school. Just being sarcastic, and he agreed. But it was good bonding time for their family and kept him and his son close.

<blockquote data-quote="Rolltide24" data-source="post: 1600861" data-attributes="member: 13116"><p>That’s wild! I had an acquaintance in Charlotte that’s son played on a travel hockey team out of Raleigh. He lived south of Charlotte, 2.5 hour commute one way to practice.&nbsp; And they practiced 4 evenings per week. Luckily there was another local kid on the team so they swapped driving every other practice.&nbsp; Said his son’s goalie gear cost around $15k. Games were in NY, Michigan, Minnesota and Illinois mostly, some out in the northwest also.&nbsp; Said he spent over $75k one year on that hockey league including travel. I asked him why he spent and sacrificed so much, he said they hoped the son got a scholarship to play college. Also admitted he didn’t have the size to ever make the NHL. I told him he will have paid for undergrad, graduate degrees and a PhD by the time his son graduates high school. Just being sarcastic, and he agreed.&nbsp; But it was good bonding time for their family and kept him and his son close.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Rolltide24, post: 1600861, member: 13116"] That’s wild! I had an acquaintance in Charlotte that’s son played on a travel hockey team out of Raleigh. He lived south of Charlotte, 2.5 hour commute one way to practice. And they practiced 4 evenings per week. Luckily there was another local kid on the team so they swapped driving every other practice. Said his son’s goalie gear cost around $15k. Games were in NY, Michigan, Minnesota and Illinois mostly, some out in the northwest also. Said he spent over $75k one year on that hockey league including travel. I asked him why he spent and sacrificed so much, he said they hoped the son got a scholarship to play college. Also admitted he didn’t have the size to ever make the NHL. I told him he will have paid for undergrad, graduate degrees and a PhD by the time his son graduates high school. Just being sarcastic, and he agreed. But it was good bonding time for their family and kept him and his son close. [/QUOTE]