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Monday 13 October 2014
Wednesday 8 October 2014
Tuesday 9 September 2014
WHY "NATIONAL ICE HOCKEY" BANS BODYCHECKING
This following article has been published in "The Hockey News" on several occasions.
It has encouraged "Hockey Canada" to change certain criteria in the minor leagues & put alot of parents on alert for the safety of their children.
Please read the following supplements from that article OR, if you would like to read the entire article- follow the link at the bottom of this post.
When Hockey Canada announced in late May a ban on bodychecking until the bantam age group, I wasn’t sure what to think. That’s because I can appreciate both sides of the argument. I’m inclined to agree with those who believe not allowing bodychecking until the age of 13 will keep our children and their brains safe.
But most of all, I couldn’t help but think of Matthew Kostuch, and how this ruling came almost six years too late for him. As a 10-year-old playing AAA youth hockey, Kostuch was drilled into the boards, right in front of a referee, by an opposing player who chased him down from the other side of the ice like a predator.
Six years later, Kostuch can no longer play contact sports of any kind and still suffers from discomfort, nausea and severe headaches. “The game he loves the most,” said his father, Jim, “took him out of the game he loves the most.”
In 2009-10, Hockey Canada recorded 1,543 concussions, which is a small fraction of how many actually were sustained because that number reflects only the injuries in which an insurance claim was made.
I bet the vast majority of them were because of predatory hits that go way beyond the rules, like the one Matthew Kostuch took when he was just 10 years old. And that, to me, is why there has to be a ban on bodychecking at the lower age levels. Actually, I’d be all for taking it out completely at every age level below AAA, which is the elite level of hockey in most jurisdictions in North America.
It’s kind of like fighting. If all NHL fights were the result of two players, who can actually play the game, settling a score in a highly emotional affair, that would be one thing. But once you condone – and promote – fighting, it leaves it open to be used as a tactic, or at the very least, a sideshow.
To read the entire article, follow; http://www.thehockeynews.com/articles/53038-where-does-bodychecking-fit-in-minor-hockey.html
It has encouraged "Hockey Canada" to change certain criteria in the minor leagues & put alot of parents on alert for the safety of their children.
Please read the following supplements from that article OR, if you would like to read the entire article- follow the link at the bottom of this post.
When Hockey Canada announced in late May a ban on bodychecking until the bantam age group, I wasn’t sure what to think. That’s because I can appreciate both sides of the argument. I’m inclined to agree with those who believe not allowing bodychecking until the age of 13 will keep our children and their brains safe.
But most of all, I couldn’t help but think of Matthew Kostuch, and how this ruling came almost six years too late for him. As a 10-year-old playing AAA youth hockey, Kostuch was drilled into the boards, right in front of a referee, by an opposing player who chased him down from the other side of the ice like a predator.
Six years later, Kostuch can no longer play contact sports of any kind and still suffers from discomfort, nausea and severe headaches. “The game he loves the most,” said his father, Jim, “took him out of the game he loves the most.”
In 2009-10, Hockey Canada recorded 1,543 concussions, which is a small fraction of how many actually were sustained because that number reflects only the injuries in which an insurance claim was made.
I bet the vast majority of them were because of predatory hits that go way beyond the rules, like the one Matthew Kostuch took when he was just 10 years old. And that, to me, is why there has to be a ban on bodychecking at the lower age levels. Actually, I’d be all for taking it out completely at every age level below AAA, which is the elite level of hockey in most jurisdictions in North America.
It’s kind of like fighting. If all NHL fights were the result of two players, who can actually play the game, settling a score in a highly emotional affair, that would be one thing. But once you condone – and promote – fighting, it leaves it open to be used as a tactic, or at the very least, a sideshow.
To read the entire article, follow; http://www.thehockeynews.com/articles/53038-where-does-bodychecking-fit-in-minor-hockey.html
Sunday 17 August 2014
A Little Hockey Humor
It's career day in elementry school where each student talks about what
their dad does.
Little Johnny comes to the front of the class.
'My daddy is a dancer at a gay bar. He takes off his clothes for other
men, and if they pay him enough money, he goes into the alley with them.'
The teacher is shocked, and she calls for an early recess for the rest
of the class. She sits down with Johnny and asks him if this is really
true about his dad.
Johnny says; 'No, but I was too embarrassed to say he played for the
Chicago Blackhawks.'
Saturday 16 August 2014
A Guinness World Record?
Guinness World Record-challenging street hockey games lasts 4 days 9 hours 44 minutes
40 hockey players played for 105 hours and 44 minutes, now Guinness has to verify the new record
Read the full story here;
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/guinness-world-record-challenging-street-hockey-games-lasts-4-days-9-hours-44-minutes-1.2734796
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Wednesday 13 August 2014
A Brief History Lesson
The first amateur hockey
league was organized in Kingston, Ontario
in 1880. During the next decade ice hockey
quickly became popular in Toronto, Ottawa,
Montreal and other Canadian cities. By the
end of 1893, there were more than 100 hockey
clubs in Montreal alone. About that same
time, the first hockey games in the United
States were played at Yale and John Hopkins
Universities.
Monday 11 August 2014
Sunday 10 August 2014
A LITTLE HOCKEY TRIVIA
How many gallons of water are needed to make a regulation hockey rink?
Find the answer here; http://www.hockeycanada.ca/multimedia/kids/games/quizzes.php
A HOCKEY HISTORY FACT
The Earliest Hockey Games Were Played With Chunks of Frozen Cow Dung.
This dates back to the game’s outdoor roots. For understandable reasons, modern athletes prefer the vulcanized rubber disc we all know today … although the game might be a bit more interesting if they brought back the old method.
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