I know these players are just "kids", but my goodness has player culture changed in the last decade or so.
What I mean by that is the emotional outbursts and general BS that players have no trouble showing. Throwing your medal into the crowd, slamming your stick on the ice like a child, breaking your equipment...temper tantrum type stuff. These are things I was taught not to do in Atom level hockey, and players do it with more and more frequency at much higher levels.
It's jarring and disappointing.
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