Its low level hockey. There's no need for their to be hitting. No one is making the pros (statistically speaking, I'm sure 1 of every 50,000 makes it). Tons of kids quit when hitting starts but they are small or late developers or just don't want to bother with it. Even when I think back to my low level hockey as a kid, in Novice and Atom we had 6 teams in our own little organization by the time we hit bantam there was 1 team.
I'm sure all of the ultra tough guys here could have joined a wrestling team or mixed martial arts to get over their lack of body checking in their low level hockey.
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Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus
It's a sad day when you have the minority of people ruining a sport for the masses. It's the ones that aren't interested in pursuing contact hockey that should be pushing to have a more robust network of non-contact leagues put in place and sends a terrible message to the "lower level" players.
I completely agree that there is something to be said, regardless of skill level, to playing a sport within the rules, as it was intended and even overcoming fear.
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Is it really the masses who want body checking? I doubt it. Most players are out to have fun and compete, not get hurt by being hit (even if they aren't injured).