Old Time Hockey Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 It's a shame this is happening in the squirt level. These for the most part are 9-10 year olds that just wanna be out there having fun with there buddies. Parents ruin it mostly by wanting to win more than the kids. Hockey at this level should still be more about developing skills and having fun, not winning and losing. On the other hand, if player safety is the issue, officiating needs to be addressed. This level is still suppose to be about developing skating and stick-handling, not about separating a player from the puck with a solid body check. If the real reason Eastview left was due to concerns for player safety I support their decision. If it was due to the fact Minot was rolling them 6-1 and used player safety as an excuse, I am disgusted by their decision. What I love about youth hockey is that you are not just teaching kids about a game they love, you are teaching them lessons in life. Unfortunately this gets lost along the way in today's society. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iluvdebbies Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 It's a shame this is happening in the squirt level. These for the most part are 9-10 year olds that just wanna be out there having fun with there buddies. Parents ruin it mostly by wanting to win more than the kids. Hockey at this level should still be more about developing skills and having fun, not winning and losing. On the other hand, if player safety is the issue, officiating needs to be addressed. This level is still suppose to be about developing skating and stick-handling, not about separating a player from the puck with a solid body check. If the real reason Eastview left was due to concerns for player safety I support their decision. If it was due to the fact Minot was rolling them 6-1 and used player safety as an excuse, I am disgusted by their decision. What I love about youth hockey is that you are not just teaching kids about a game they love, you are teaching them lessons in life. Unfortunately this gets lost along the way in today's society. I've watched the protesting the officiating walk off twice .....and I've read it about quite a few times.....the weird thing is, it's always the team losing that is so "concerned" with player safety. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fetch Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 This has been a excellent discussion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MafiaMan Posted March 4, 2015 Author Share Posted March 4, 2015 I've watched the protesting the officiating walk off twice .....and I've read it about quite a few times.....the weird thing is, it's always the team losing that is so "concerned" with player safety. Could you in your wildest dreams imagine Hak taking the 2005 squad off the ice in the FF game against Denver after Bina was squashed by Paukovich? Me either. You're down 6-1 and concerned about player safety? Uh huh. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Time Hockey Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Could you in your wildest dreams imagine Hak taking the 2005 squad off the ice in the FF game against Denver after Bina was squashed by Paukovich? Me either. You're down 6-1 and concerned about player safety? Uh huh. That was not squirt hockey and Mr. Prpich and Mr. Greene dealt with that later on. I have my hunch on what caused the walk out, but not being in their shoes I would be cautious to pass judgement either way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siouxman Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Speaking of youth hockey, my son (8 years old) wants to join hockey. I have heard it's expensive and very time consuming. There are two leagues he could join this upcoming fall/winter a recreation league or a travel league. Travel league is more competitive but they travel in a 100 mile radius of Fargo (I wouldn't mind a trip to GF) so we are leaning towards the recreation league just to get his feet wet as he just learned to skate and is now in love with the sport. Can anyone shine the light on the truth/ myth about it being expensive and time consuming?We did a lot of traveling with our oldest. The weekends in the hotels and hockey rinks were great times, and increased family time. Expenses were reduced because our hockey association hosted a skate exchange where people could buy and sell used equipment, thus reducing cost for everyone. This was especially true for the younger ages. When our son was finally done with youth hockey, I expected to have more money and more time. Funny thing, I never saw it so I don't know what the heck happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yzerman19 Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 If it was unsafe, both coaches should've talked and pulled both teams off. Petty behavior example...every moment is a teaching moment... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post MafiaMan Posted March 4, 2015 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 4, 2015 That was not squirt hockey and Mr. Prpich and Mr. Greene dealt with that later on. I have my hunch on what caused the walk out, but not being in their shoes I would be cautious to pass judgement either way. I coached a 9-10 year old city semi-final baseball game back in 2011 where, with the bases loaded and my team in the field, a kid hits a pop-up about 10 feet in the air that lands 3 feet to the right of home plate in fair territory (untouched) and bounces into foul territory and then rolls toward the dugout. 15 year old umpire calls it "fair ball" - two runs score and the batter winds up on 2nd base. I protested (not to the point of being an a**, but was obviously not happy with the call) to no avail. The other coaches snickered and said "the ump made the call...gotta go with that" when I challenged them to not let such an egregious error stand. We wound up losing by 1 run. Some fellow coaches told me later they would have walked the kids off the field. Some of the parents wanted to lynch this kid. We show up for our loser-out game the next day and the same kid is doing our game - along with his more experienced umpire dad. In a private moment in the dugout before the first pitch, this poor kid broke down and cried - he literally sobbed while apologizing to me for making such a bad call. His dad was almost in tears as well. I told him to look me in the eyes directly, dry his tears, and forget about the day before, because I had a game that I wanted to win TODAY. We won that game that morning and won the 3rd place game later that day. Now, could I have marched the kids off the field in protest? Sure, I suppose I could have...I could have scarred that kid for life, too, so that he'd never ump again. Instead, I challenged all 12 of those kids who were balling their eyes out on Friday night to suck it up and go win a 3rd place trophy on Saturday afternoon. And I don't regret doing it. Friday night's game, BTW, was our only loss of the season. Now, I'd like to think that this coach would have pulled his team off the ice with them AHEAD 6-1 if he indeed was concerned about the kids' safety, but something tells me he'd have told 'em to just suck it up and be careful out there. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MafiaMan Posted March 5, 2015 Author Share Posted March 5, 2015 If it was unsafe, both coaches should've talked and pulled both teams off. Petty behavior example...every moment is a teaching moment...And I'm not sure if this rule applies to teams when playing out-of-state, but if this were in MN, the coaching staff would be suspended immediately pending a hearing in front of their district board. I believe the "player safety" issue was a flash-bang grenade lobbed out there in order to cover up being sore losers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yzerman19 Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 What are these kid hoping to do when they don't get 250k per and a mil to sign as regular joes coming out of college? Not talking pro athletes here.... If you don't get everything you want, do you quit? Do you file suit? Do you go on the dole? Our society is doomed; just another example Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cratter Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Kids are doomed because of what older people taught them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yzerman19 Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Kids are doomed because of what older people taught them?t The wrong older people...who fail at life...and live vicariously Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxbow6 Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 The wrong older people...who fail at life...and live vicariously Agree! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fetch Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 When 8 - 9 yr olds really lose ithttp://uproxx.com/sports/2015/03/youth-hockey-brawl-russia/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoiseInsideMyHead Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 http://www.usahockey.com/news_article/show/804355?referrer_id=752796 USA Hockey eliminates shorthanded icing for 14U and younger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cberkas Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 4 minutes ago, NoiseInsideMyHead said: http://www.usahockey.com/news_article/show/804355?referrer_id=752796 USA Hockey eliminates shorthanded icing for 14U and younger. USA Hockey needs to stop ruining hockey. #makehockeygreatagain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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