{"id":1373,"date":"2011-02-25T12:30:19","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T17:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/?p=1373"},"modified":"2011-02-25T12:30:20","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T17:30:20","slug":"bittersweet-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/bittersweet-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Bittersweet Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Its hard to imagine that 13 years ago, I started tying my first hockey skates. Vincent and Peter (then 7 & 5 years old) both needed to rise at 4:30 AM in order to attend learn to skate for Mid-Fairfield Youth Hockey Association (MFYHA<\/strong><\/a>). Some mornings I would put their uniforms on, pads, skates you name it, and carry them to the car, all while they were still sleeping!<\/p>\n

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Peter After Winning His First State Championship<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Both boys had great hockey careers that traveled down different paths. Both boys were on travel teams which meant Lee Ann and I needed to divvy up the driving responsibilities. Little Megan was often along for the ride! With my 60-70 hour work week and 2-3 days of hockey travel, family time was reduced to Sunday dinner. Much to the chagrin of my wife, I wouldn’t have traded in those thousands of hours on the road or in cheap hotels with the boys for anything in the world!<\/p>\n

Vincent decided to stop playing in High School after being part of several state and regional championship teams. He is a great young man and currently a Jr. at Bucknell University. <\/p>\n

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Vincent At Regional Tournament<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Peter on the other hand told me at 5 years old that he was going to play in his words “hockey in college”. At that time I just laughed and thought it was cute but at the same time wondered how it was that a 5 year old would even know what college hockey was. That was the last time I underestimated Peter! Peter devoted himself to all aspects of hockey, playing and training for 11 months a year. His teams won state, regional and ultimately the USA Hockey National Championship in 2007. <\/p>\n

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Peter at Taft Home Game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Taft Played at Fenway Park before NHL Winter Classic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So it goes that Peter plays his last high school game for Taft tomorrow. 13 years of lugging hockey bags, touching smelly pads and nursing broken bones comes to an end. How did Peter do on his prediction 13 years ago? Pretty good if you ask me. He will be playing for Williams College in the fall. Now I am just a spectator for the encore!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Its hard to imagine that 13 years ago, I started tying my first hockey skates. Vincent and Peter (then 7 & 5 years old) both needed to rise at 4:30 AM in order to attend learn to skate for Mid-Fairfield Youth Hockey Association (MFYHA). Some mornings I would put their uniforms on, pads, skates you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyuQ8-m9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}