![]() If you go: We did lessons at Pines Ice (which always has a good Groupon!) and hid out half of the boiling-hot summer skating inside the Scott Rakow Youth Center on Miami Beach. Learn to Play provides everything but the undergarments.Add skates, jersey, shoulder and elbow pads, gloves, shin guards, helmet, stick and bag, and this single mom was lookin' at close to $1,000.Those " socks" are really just tubes, like leg-warmers. Hockey players wear special underwear, which their socks get stuck to.The intrigue: Parente declined to give a dollar value for the gear, but I can tell you it saves a lot. Roughly 3,000 kids have gone through the program since its inception about eight years ago.What they're saying: "The NHL and NHLPA saw a need for a program run by NHL Clubs that would help to continue to increase youth hockey participation," team spokesperson Chrissy Parente told Axios. There's a $225 fee, but it includes free gear.The Florida Panthers have spots available for their Learn to Play program - developed to reduce the cost barrier for kids starting the sport - at the IceDen in Coral Springs (and Palm Beach County).ĭetails: Kids ages 5 to 9 get six weeks of instruction with Florida Panthers alumni and USA Hockey-certified coaches.What's happening: I had to pay the piper, but other parents of hockey-playing kids may not have to. Did he choose something cheap and convenient, that his mother understood, like running? Of course not.Last year, I told my TikTok-addled kid that he could pick a sport - any sport - as long as he got off the stupid phone.
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