Thanks for the advice. My son has played at least 50 games and I've seen good calls and bad ones. This is the first time I've seen a home town ref. The coach said you will see it all and eventually get to the point where you just ignore them and play the game inspite of them. However, on certin bad calls he will get after the ref. He wants the defense to clear the crease so that the hacking stops. Meanwhile I like the advice of tucking the glove where the players can't get to it. I'll see if I can get him to hide the glove and sort parry with the goalie stick. One funny thing came out this. I dropped a puck on the
floor and asked my son to pick it up with his goalie glove. He couldn't do it. I took him to the local goalie shop to get one of his pad straps fixed and while we waited I had him try to pick up a puck with other gloves. He could do it easily with a Brians junior hook glove. This is when I discovered that his second hand Itech glove is too stiff for him work. Suddenly I saw the light. He really has been struggling with his glove hand. It was very easy to knock the puck out of his glove because he can't really hold it tightly. Fortunately the Brians glove was on sale and
I was able to get it for him. So I hope that with the new glove and the new tactics he will be able to ward off more goals. I also asked him to be more vocal with the refs. Not abusive though he has to wait until he's an adult for that. Thanks