last game of the year. played at the Van Andel Arena against Hawks #1. Tied 2-2 and Mikey played a great game. Definitely in his top 3 of all time.

And he had a blast.

Mikey had an opportunity to meet and skate with Jared Boll of the Columbus Blue Jackets. Great picture of them at the rink:

3rd place out of 35 goalies!

a short video of mikey working through a few drills at goalie camp:

Mikey at summer camp – day 2 from Dan Woolston on Vimeo.

Mikey and I took a boys only trip to Big Rapids for the Ferris State 3 on 3 tournament. We’re having a great time and he’s playing a ton of hockey. I’ll upload more pictures and video as the weekend comes to a close:
       

If your team pulls a penalty, its a penalty shot instead of the box. Here Mikey stops the shot, followed by ‘ride the pony’, followed by an outstanding glove save:

I would also like to note that, by far, this was the coolest 3 on 3 tournament we’ve been to.
The Ferris State staff were outstanding hosts, the games were all ref’d, each goalie crease was painted and the games were very well organized. Its obvious that they’ve perfected this tournament over the 17 years that they’ve run it and we were very happy with the event. We’ll definitely be back next year!�

Mikeys goalie coach posted a great review of his progress here:

http://www.goaliestore.com/board/bandits-goalie-school-forum/83318-bandits-young-gun-training.html

Mikey at the Bandits 2008 Christmas clinic in Detroit area. I was able to compare video and pictures from last years clinic to this year’s camp and Mikey has made an incredible amount of progress.

  
 
This year it was a boys only trip. We hit Cheli’s Chili for dinner, did some holiday shopping and crashed at the hotel. 

These pictures were taken with my cellphone camera, so the quality isn’t all that great:
At Peranis in Livonia:

A ‘Build a car’ store at the 12 Oaks Mall (RideMakerz):
  

At Chelis Chili:

Can’t wait for next year’s camps!

Mikeys 2008 hockey pictures came in today:

If you click through to the flickr site, you can download the larger size for printing.

I’ll post more later when I upload the hockeymentary video that we’ve been working on, but for now..here’s a shot of Mikey in the semifinals: