There has always been a heated debate on whether or not checking should be legal in youth hockey. You, and some of the people you replaced voted to remove checking in hockey for kids 12 and under back in the 2011-2012 season. Now the debate is whether or not you should remove checking in U14 hockey. You should not, and here is why…
Checking has always been apart of hockey, long back when it was first played. Checking and physicality are one of the reasons many people play hockey. Most people that play hockey are already aware of these dangers in the sport and are okay with the risks. These people and players are okay with a 200-pound person on a frictionless surface skating at them full speed. They enjoy the thrill and If you are not okay with the risks in playing hockey, I suggest not playing and finding a different sport. I am saying this because I believe a very in-depth part of the sport should not be removed because of people
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Many players will check an opponent to create space between them and the puck or to take the puck away from an opponent along the boards. This useful kind of checking is used to stop an opponent on defense and create an offensive push. Without checking, in the open and along the boards, it will be much harder to separate and an opponent from the puck, which makes it harder to become on the offensive side.
Let’s face it, checking will never be removed from adult leagues. Which means the younger kids learn how to check, and how to protect themselves from checks, the more likely they will be better at handling those situations later in their career. If kids don’t learn to check at younger ages, by the time they are in the checking leagues, they will not know how to do things like protecting themselves from a check, and to prevent injury. Also, they won’t be as valuable to the team because they aren’t able to check properly to create an offensive
To understand this phenomenon we must go back to March 13, 1955. On this date, the Montreal Canadians were playing a game in Boston against the Bruins. One of the opposing players, Hal Laycoe, high-sticked Maurice Richard, injuring him to the point of requiring eight stitches on his scalp. Richard retaliated by smashing his own stick over Laycoe's head and shoulders and slashed him with another player's stick until it splintered. Becoming annoyed with the official's interference in the fight, Richard then turned and punched him. Since hitting an official was the least honorable thing to do, Richard was expelled from the game (2000).
Checking is a skill, especially used at the upper levels of hockey. Young players are taught to check the opponent against the boards, but the whole physics of the check changes when you put a pair of 200lb men into the equation. Checking against the boards is often a very violent collision between two hockey players
abuse persists even after the ban the parent should be banned from all minor hockey
Ice hockey, a sport that has been in existence for over two hundred years, has become a fan favorite across the globe. From Canada to Sweden, you will be able to find some of the best ice hockey players in the world; both male and female. This pastime has instilled a unique tradition throughout the years of its practice by a combination of both physical skill and mental strength. Although it did not provide aid to globalization, it has created a worldwide culture that many people are proud to be a part of. Since its inception until now, there has been a great deal of gender stereotyping concerning the sport. Regardless, ice hockey will continue to be a lucrative market, as well as a cherished hobby for many years to come.
style of play of goalies these days has evolved greatly from the base styles that
Kids are playing in a pressure pot full of stress and this is dangerous. They feel over-responsible toward team mates, parents and coaches and in consequence, are playing with chronic pain and even concussions.
Millions of people are registered throughout North America for participation in Canada’s national sport and pastime, ice hockey. Most young hockey players have the dream of making it to the National Hockey League (NHL). Because of this incentive to keep striving towards their ultimate goal in their hockey career, they idolize the players in the NHL. Therefore, youth players may obtain certain habits from the elite, whether those habits are good or bad. Some cases are of bad influences, such as young players obtaining the dirty playing habits of the professionals. The primary action that influences the youthful population is body checking. With the thought of losing a game, it is no wonder why players have the urge to play rough and potentially hurt the opposing team in order to be victorious. For that reason, hockey is a strong collision sport that requires great skill and motivation. Although body checking is believed to be a useful tool in the winning of hockey games, it can be the cause that leads to injury among players. Because of the rougher play, lasting brain injuries are becoming a worry and too many players are exposed to the lasting effects of the head injury. According to Michael Cusimano July 22, 2003 the article entitled “Body Checking and Concussions” states, “With the rising incidence of traumatic brain injury in hockey, too many players are exposed to the lasting effects of such injuries, some of which are not fully realized until the brain completes its maturation.” For this reason, new equipment and regulations need to be devised for use in the near future.
Hockey and its modern roots date back to the late nineteenth century. Interestingly, one of the considered fathers of hockey, Lord Stanley, came to Canada and showed great interest in the amazing sport. He then donated a steel mug of his to the sport which was to become The Stanley Cup. It is the oldest trophy in all of sports. Hockey is the sport of all sports and there is not a quality of another sport one will not find in hockey. If so, it would be a more boring version of something similar that hockey already has to offer. For example, in Golf there is the putt and in Hockey there is the slap shot.
Nonetheless, some parents are still very reluctant to put their kids in football or rugby. This, I believe, is why high contact sports could eventually perish. Fewer and fewer kids are playing sports each year where there is an elevated risk of a head injury or concussion. (Paine) Parents do not want to gamble with their children’s mental ability and thus deny their children the opportunity to participate in high contact sports. In some sports, they have changed all sorts of rules and almost completely changed the game to ensure player safety. For instance, Hockey Canada called for a rule change to delay body checking in minor hockey. Instead of having the kids learn how to hit in PeeWee (ages 11-12), they have pushed it back an age group to Bantam (Ages 13-15). (CBC Sports) Parents were becoming too nervous about placing their children into a sport where there was hitting or hard body interaction for absolutely no reason. Why spend thousands of dollars for your child to play a contact sport and risk having them injured when there is little chance of making it as a professional athlete. Essentially, contact sports are becoming less popular among younger children and
Putting them through possible head trauma so early in life while their brains are still working on developing could cause irreparable damage. There have been studies proving the change in children’s brains before and after concussions. When a brain is changing due to constant trauma, that should be a red flag for parents. According to the director of Marist College’s Center for Sports Communication, Keith Studler, trying to teach complex plays is absurd, since young children barely understand simple concepts. For young kids with developing minds and bodies, moving and exploring should come before memorizing playbooks. Starting them young may result in the child having bad form and skill, due to the fact that they are just trying to hit people, and not actually learning how to play the game correctly and safely. Studler also stated that the sport teaches kids to act rough and selfish, as well as that masculinity is strength, while femininity is cheering from the sidelines. He added that older players may be able to separate the sport from life that's not as easy for the younger
When I think of what it means to be Canadian, one of the first things that come to mind is hockey. This is true for many Canadian’s as hockey was and is an integral piece of the formation of the national identity. However, when people think of playing hockey their attention usually turns to the men in the National Hockey League or other top men’s leagues and tournaments. Even so, Canada has come a long way from its beginnings, when women were not even considered persons under the law until 1929. While it has taken many decades for women to receive more recognition in the world of sport, today shows great improvements from the past. A key reason that women are not treated the same way as men in regards to hockey is due to how the game began;
This study showed that there was a significant difference in the amount of concussions between these two leagues. There were 69 teams consisting of 829 players from Calgary and Edmonton that participated in this research. Both of these areas allow body checking. The leagues that didn’t allow body checking were from Kelowna and Vancouver. There were 33 teams and 379 players from these two areas that participated in the study. This study classifies severe concussions as greater than ten days time loss from being eligible to participate in hockey. The research showed that there were 83 concussions and 53 severe concussions in the body checking league. However there were only 15 concussions and 10 severe concussions in the non-body checking leagues. The researchers suggest that there is a 60% lower risk of having a concussion or severe concussion in these non-elite Bantam teams when body checking is not allowed based on local
There is no questioning that physics is important in the game of hockey. It explains how all the aspects work including skating, shooting, checking, protective gear and goaltending. It also allows for scientific discoveries which continue to improve the sport in multiple ways. Without a doubt, physics is indeed everywhere.
USSF has also limited the amount of headers teams for the ages of 11 to 13 can do at practices according to The New York Times. Reuter and Foltz think this is a bad idea. Foltz said she thinks that banning young players from heading will cause sloppy technique and cause further damage in those players’ future in soccer. Reuter said something similar and that he doesn’t agree with that idea of banning headers for younger players and instead they should teach younger players the correct way to head the ball and help players to learn the correct form. Reuter said he doesn’t push his players to do headers, instead he leaves it up to the players during the game to make that choice for themselves. All he wants to do is teach them the correct form for heading so they are prepared and confident in
youth sports [were] the one haven for good sportsmanship," says Darrell Burnett, a clinical child psychologist and youth sports psychologist. "Not anymore. It's not just a game anymore." With technology (etc) distracting our children with violence and so on, we cannot afford to ruin what sports may do for them. With sports being just one of the few things left that can contribute to success in life, education, and health, parents need not to put any sort of unnecessary pressure on their kids at such a young age, or any age for that matter, ever.