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Originally Posted by dustygoon
Seems to be two issues.
Hockey Canada not being serious enough and glossing over these cases. Treating each as a one-off. This organization needs to be completely restructured.
But more deeply, who hasn't thought it was odd/unnatural to see kids drafted at 15 and move on their own to another town....away from the protection and guidance of parents. I always marveled at how tough that decision must be and commended these kids for acting so professional despite their age. But the repeated abuse these kids have given and received amongst each other and by adults for decades is kind of a pattern isn't it? It's Lord of the Flies in Moosejaw et al. These kids don't come to HC and suddenly go off the rails.
This #### has been going on for decades at the CHL level in small towns where they learned it away from their parents and beyond their protection.
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I think this understates how excellent most billets are at being pseudo-parents. I don’t think these outcomes are materially different if kids were living at home versus with billets.