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Originally Posted by showtime
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.
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Can we stop pretending that concussions aren't a big deal? This seems to be prevalent in this thread, 'oh it's just a little concussion, that developing brain will just bounce right back'. That attitude is ridiculous.