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Originally Posted by burn_baby_burn
Late reply, but my son's team rotates the lines to start every game as well. So each forward line and defensive pair will start every third game. They also rotate though the periods. The next players in line at the end of the period will start the next period, unless that line had only been on the ice for like 15 seconds.
I know equal ice time is pretty much impossible to regulate, especially without anyone actually tracking it with a watch. But it is as fair as fair can be. For one game I actually tried to keep track of the defensemen. Some kids are a lot better at changing on the fly at 8 years old than others. And I thought maybe one pair in particular was getting longer shifts (worried about fatigue and giving up goals, not concerned about how much ice time each player was getting). Well after a couple periods I gave up, since all six defenseman where pretty much within 10 - 15 seconds of each other.
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So since you watched it for two periods and it was equal then (you would need 3 periods for 3 defence lines to equal out) then the full season was equal ice time for everyone. I highly doubt you were tracking the earlier changers and the late changers of each line and the 1 defenceman was within 15 seconds of the 6th deference
I have no doubt your sons team was fair then a mojorty that happen and I no doubt also a great effort was made to be fair but to say that every kid got equal ice time is a bold statement that isn't true because it is imposable as too many variables that you can't control in a change o the fly game like hockey...