Open question for anyone that has kids playing sports, especially in the preteen and teen age groups. Does this sort of news (or the hockey Canada juniors, Kyle Beach, Bill Peters, etc.. ) make its way down to them?
I’m curious, because as a kid playing hockey in the early 2000s, I don’t remember hearing about hockey players and coaches being reprimanded for these sorts of things. Frankly, the only one I remember is the Michael Vick dogfighting (and he was allowed back in the league).
Because my one hope for all these incidents is that they can become teaching tools and warnings.
The vast majority of people don’t need public consequences to do the right thing, but I sadly believe there are people who do.
The boys will be boys era is over. And if we can’t convince people to act respectfully on their own, then I hope we can convince them out of self preservation and not wanting to be punished.
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