well, I have taken all your thoughts into consideration and I find myself at peace with the following decision:
I am going to back away and let the team and my son figure this out. In fact, I am going to go so far in saying that I am going to go back to the coach's and say, you know what, forget about what happened at the evaluations, we chose to disagree about my son and thats fine. its your team, handle it the way you see fit and make my son work for what he gets. it will only make him a better goalie. If i find that my son is being unduly ridiculed personally, then I can always have another talk with them, at this time, my son needs to figure this out too, and I need to learn to be a parent in this situation. If we feel that after this season, he continues to play in B hockey or Division 2 or whatever, thats a choice we can make then. but it will be up to him as to what kind of an experience he has at this point forward.
I may have been somewhat unjust in critizing the coaching staff but its a bit like a mother bear with her cub. I tend to be quite protective of my family and maybe I need for my kids to figure things out on their own.
I can always be the sounding wall if conflicts arise. and if they are too harsh then we can always approach it together with his coach.
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