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Originally Posted by blankall
Hockey Canada just seems so bizarre and backwards at this point. The whole Canadian hockey system needs to go. The USA has it right by feeding through the NCAA system. Our current system pulls kids out of school and isolates them. You end up with staff and coaches preying on players, and players preying on women, with little to no oversight.
The concept of teams of high school aged teenagers that aren't affiliated with schools is just weird and obviously leads to all sorts of problems.
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I'm actually in full agreement on how weird the Canadian system is, and pulling kids out of education system is very weird, and feel our athletic systems should get more intertwined back with education. At the very least, I don't think anything bad can come of it.
In regards to deeper issue here though, do we think the NCAA system makes this any better? I feel like the NCAAs have had their share of stories and incidents like this come out quite a bit as well over the past few years. I think it comes down to the cultural issue and power (empowerment?) we bestow upon athletes and young athletes in society in general. That's a big part of what needs to change at the root of this problem.