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Originally Posted by GGG
Someone said there is one. But the point is if you as an adult would choose to play in a non contact league how can their be any justification to have contact leagues for kids. It doesnt make sense. For 99.99% of kids hockey is purely recreational the same way it is for adults.
If you read the studies from the quebec leagues where checking is introduced in Bantam their is no statiscally significant difference between quebec bantam injuries and Alberta Bantam injuries. So the assertion that you just move the injuries is false. Quebecs rate of injuries in pee wee is lower so this decision will lead to fewer injuries in kids.
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There still is a level of contact in beer leagues, at the high level ones I've played its more no open ice hits.
If the kid is playing for purely recreation their are options for that kid to play non contact. Like i said an entire stream from Peewee to Junior exists in Calgary for non contact. Lots of kids love playing in contact leagues why make them wait. They wouldn't do that for football. If you don't want your kid to play contact don't let them, why should it affect every other kid.
Ive coached for 6 years high level bantam and had 3 players receive concussion two minor and one fairly bad one. Only one of them involved a hit and it was a minor concussion.
The study was openly mocked meeting with hockey canada reps. I know a researcher who was involved in the study and she even said it had major biases included. It will be sad when next year they claim its a success because injures in bantam stayed the same and peewee went down when in reality the results won't be known for another 4-5 years.