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Originally Posted by GreenLantern
It would be interesting to see the percentage of NHL players who had fanatic parents vs. those who were just out there to 'have fun'.
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You will find as the kids get older the parents tend to mellow, kind of. The highest levels have the fewest problems in terms of both parents and on ice behaviour. I was at over 20 AAA midget games and AAA bantam games were there was no incidents except one on ice fight. At the house league levels midget and bantam can often be a gong show on and off the ice. But the worsre I saw this year was at a tier 5 pee wee game, the kids were going bananas, the parents went bezerk and the coaches were worse then both the kids and the parents combined.
I was at a WHL game about four years ago here in Lethbridge and was sitting next to a players Mom (the kid my bro billeted) and she had her stop watch out tallying his ice time. When I asked her about it she just said it was an old habit....