Episode 17 of the Sports Dad Hub Podcast welcomes author, award-winning television news anchor and hockey mom, Christie Casciano.

Christie writes the popular monthly Hockey Mom column in USA Hockey Magazine.
She's the author of two children's books The Puck Hog and The Puck Hog Volume 2: Haunted Hockey In Lake Placid, and one book for hockey parents My Kids Play Hockey: Essential Advice For Every Hockey Parent. 

On this episode Christie and I talk about: 

• The hockey parent life 
• Life lessons that come from playing hockey
• Opportunities to bond with your kids created by hockey 
• Travel hockey taking us to awesome parts of the country we wouldn't have thought to visit
• How to handle the expenses of hockey 
• How to avoid getting sucked into the sometimes ugly competitive dark side of youth hockey

Many of the topics and lessons we discuss can be applied to any sport, but hockey parents in particular will enjoy this epi.

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