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Originally Posted by DJones
If it's a competitive team no problem with it. Especially if he's the younger year. Played 5 minutes a game or the equivalent on a couple team sports growing up and was the starter the next year. Way she goes. On the house teams in the off season I'd get starter minutes.
If it's house, screw that coach. My step-dad coached me in basketball one year when I was 10-11. We only had two players that were any good. He took me and the other guy out the same as everyone. Last half of the last game of the year he asked the team if it was alright that us two play the whole half. They said yes, we won the worst division in Calgary haha.
20 years later I still remember that, probably a lot better lesson than if I'd have been overplayed all year.
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Came to post something similar. I am not dismissing what happened here, because I don't know all the details.
However, I am also not going to crap on them, simply because this kid is 9 years old.
When I was 7, I made the tyke team (8 and under, might be atom now). I played a fairly regular shift most nights, but in big games, my ice-time was always cut back.
I remember vividly (even though it's a long time ago) one particular game as it was the finals of a big tournament. I got 2 shifts. I didn't like it. It was the least amount of ice-time I ever experienced in my life (and I was 7).
However, I was the captain of the team the next year.
And it didn't take all that long before I fully understood the situation. Some lessons are hard - but those are usually good lessons.