| Have you always considered yourselves to be a | | | | always nice to see parents staying involved by helping |
| hockey family, but now your sons and daughters have | | | | other families in areas where they were once helped |
| grown up and left the game behind? Do you find | | | | themselves! |
| yourself missing that early morning rush, the need to | | | | Billeting will also allow you and your family to retain |
| prepare a good breakfast that will give them a good | | | | close ties with the hockey community as a whole. If |
| start for their game, and above all the tense and | | | | you can believe it, there are people out there today |
| excited atmosphere that seems to spread through the | | | | who can say that Sidney Crosby stayed with them |
| house before a tournament or game? | | | | for a weekend during a minor hockey tournament |
| One way that you can keep the thrill of the game alive | | | | before coming into his own in the big leagues! To be |
| in your house is to volunteer to billet youngsters who | | | | sure, the chance to billet a future genuine hockey |
| are still involved in the game. Billeting is a time honoured | | | | super star or even NHL player is rare, but every kid |
| tradition among hockey parents, who know all too well | | | | that plays does have this dream to some degree, and |
| how expensive hockey can be. Travelling from town | | | | their enthusiasm can be very catching. |
| to town for games can really add up if a team is | | | | In addition, the young players you billet will bring an |
| forced to pay for accommodations, and billets are | | | | atmosphere of excitement into your home that you |
| always needed. Consider the following: | | | | may have forgotten about after your own kids hung |
| Every year, thousands of parents and grandparents | | | | up their skates or moved out. There is really nothing |
| make the competitive hockey dreams of minor | | | | like the pre-game breakfast, talking about the game |
| hockey players come true by providing them with a | | | | over a dinner, and about the activity of the next day. If |
| place to stay while they are out of town. For many | | | | you find that you are missing all of the subtle blessings |
| youngsters, these trips would be financially impossible | | | | that being involved in ice hockey has to offer, billeting |
| without a place to stay free of charge! If you are or | | | | might just be the way to get back in touch! For more |
| were a hockey family, you know the importance that | | | | information on this article or a youth hockey |
| billeting volunteers played in your own lifestyle. It is | | | | tournament, visit CHEHockey. |