Hockey players and parents are the same anywhere. It was funny to see parents in Beijing come to ice level following our skills testing portion grabbing our clip boards from the edge of the boards to compare times of their young players. Parents also ask how old our kids are that are out there demonstrating drills so they can compare their 5 to 7 year olds with our 8 to 9 year olds. On that note, I should say I was very impressed right away when I saw the ability of these young players especially their level of skating. It will be a lot of fun these 2 weeks watching them develop even further and getting to spend time with them and their parents talking hockey. We are in such a different place yet inside that rink it feels like we could still be in any Canadian hockey hotbed.