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This sounds like some really good stick handler parents getting together trying to change hockey's history which started long ago. It is not good for the game to eliminate checking just because a few kids were not taught proper techniques of how to check or take a check. Our program just started to ...

I was just wondering whether any programs run a thorough tryout process nowadays complete with actual athletic testing instead of a talk to the coach approach. the reason why i ask is selfish but i have seen some real selfishness in our program. I have a kid with a 26-28 inch verticle, can do as muc...

[quote="Edgy"]........there are loop holes that allowed the transfer. Having some (although very little) knowledge of the program in question, the kids that got cut couldn't make the JV team - thus they were cut. I know some of the better kids that were cut and the kids that made it are be...

[quote="Edgy"]There are rules for things like these - and if no rules are broken and the kid is good enough to play - it is the coaches decision to play him or not. In the PL situation, it looks like the player is clearly good enough to play even at varsity. The parents complaining about t...

[quote="lxhockey"]Sounds more to me that the player's dad needs his son to make a team. So if he can't make the team of choice he will bully his son's way onto a team that at least his son has friends on. Good for the kids, they will enjoy their teammates. Too bad for the parents who are n...