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Originally Posted by troutman
Good points.
I also think that many kids leave hockey early, because they are getting creamed by bigger kids that are the same age. That's why I left hockey around age 12.
If very few of the these players aren't going to play junior hockey, why do they need to hit at all, knowing what we do about concussions.
Maybe there can be two paths - one with hitting, and a more casual path without.
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When I was a kid there was hitting in pee-wee but only above a certain division, so lower skilled kids wouldn't have been in hitting leagues. That seems to make sense, the better players will be seeing high speed contact in a year or two, they should know how to take and receive a hit.
If they're going to remove hitting from games they should at the very least make sure that the fundamentals are being taught at practice, you can't just drop kids into bantam and expect them to know how to hit.