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The penalties are really the same length... about 10% of the period.

Outdoor Rinks, Parks, Park & Rec, Youth Football, Open Skate. Many of these things are run under umbrella policies held by municipalities with much less bs... The MOST dangerous on ice activity my kids participate in is open skate at the indoor rink. Why is the city not ham strung the by same re...

As a former board member I cringe when I hear about more rules. It is hard enough already to run a practice. God forbid you get stuck as tournament director. The kids get dropped of 2 hours before practice (mom and dad have bowling). They mill around the arena getting on the arena staffs nerves. The...

I have run the clock at a 1000 games, squirts - bantams. I have a great vantage point to watch coach/ref interaction. I am amazed we don't see MORE bench minors. I am amazed that the social graces that some of coaches MUST know to even hold a job are left at the door of the arena. You would NEVER ta...

Austin 6
East 5

Yep

it is a MAN'S game

Played by kids.

Is the problem checking, or anger? Always amazes me the amount of anger that can be conjured up by trying to get a little biscuit in a net.

mankato west now 1-4, their only win against a Canadian team that could not beat any JV teams in the state of Minnesota, whats going on with these guys ??? looks like its going to be a very long year for them, they might beat Austin or St Peter but that will be about it What happened to Mankato Wes...

Another thing about standings is that you then are required to play a set group of teams. This may not be a big deal in the Twin Cities, but in out state areas it causes tons of travel, beyond where you would go if you were not required to play the games. It really makes me wonder about standings at...

Also, the nature of doing business is 100% different from the nature of playing a contact sport. EXACTLY my point. Why is this? Why are we so willing to accept risk in one area, and be so willing to take legal action in another, when presented with a similar amount of risk? I know a man that plays ...

Young people don't understand risk. They are invincible. See the article below from ABC News. Teen Brain Blamed for Reckless Driving Researchers Link Underdeveloped Brain to Unsafe Driving Among Teens WASHINGTON, Feb. 1, 2005— Teen drivers often take chances behind the wheel. Those pushing for tough...

Injury in sport is something that I have thought about off and on over the years. I have had several in hockey and seen some pretty bad stuff. During one weekend Bantam A tournament we saw three ambulances. I can't get my arms around it. If a business had a safety record like this it would be shut d...

Fred, who are you? How do you know this stuff? Do you type this whole thing? With respect...why?

Several years about at the VFW Bantam tournament I spoke to a team manager from the Rochester Bantam A2 team. This was in March. He told me that the team had lost 3 or 4 games that season and that he was questioning if his team was a "real" A team. He wondered if B would not have been a be...

A goalie is transferring into Mayo from Century . Family is not moving, and kids does not have to sit out from varsity play. Reason for transfer and not having to sit out, kids were picking on him. :( Mayo picked up a couple of guys from Austin last Feb. I think they found a way around too. Not sur...

Each time I see a thread like this one, it smells of "politics". It's unfortunate that "politics" play such s big role in youth hockey, but it does. Wouldn't it be nice if we could get back to the days of the kids walking to practice at the outdoor rinks, getting the three handl...

It is always a guy on his first time through that want to know why we are playing A...shouldn't we have played B and C, or B1 and B2...or maybe B1 and B1.5? OR... how is the coach going to play it... equal lines, stacked lines? What kind of forecheck? How about the goalies... equal time or do you ha...

I have often wondered if a good prerequisite for coaching should be that you have been a parent of a kid the age you are about to coach. A guy in his mid twenties that does not have his own kids does not grasp who they are. This is particularly true of teenage players. Somehow these young guys think...

Dad, I have been on our hockey board for 10 years. We don't have too many waivers, but we have seen a few. I can tell you that no one has ever requested to be waived to a weaker team. Each and every time it has been to play with a stronger team or having a beef with a coach. These players then went ...

I am not against rules. What I am for a waiver process that addresses the needs of the family before the needs of the association. I think some associations do that fairly well and others have a standing procedure of rejecting waivers unless it benefits the association. Dad, I think you unwittingly...

I am from Austin... when my kids were mites the Packers played to a packed house. We had a great high school team that made a run at state many times. We were very competitive with the bigger towns, often beat teams from Roch. That was 10 years ago, today we can't win a game....we are seeing some pl...

Time passes so fast. I remember starting out, 3 kids playing...one time I had 3 kids traveling. Down to one now. I had the chance to sit in on a squirt parent meeting last fall, I realized this must have been the 7th time, 6 times for my own kids, now this one. You could look around the room and pic...

HockeyDad41 wrote:

a1puck wrote:

HockeyDad41 wrote: I like it. Could there be appeals? If so how would they be handled?

Appeals? Are you for real?

Yes I am for real. Thanks for checking.

Sorry about that, it just seems so involved for a kids game.

Do you think an appeals process is required or should the decision be final?

HockeyDad41, you asked "how would waivers be handled?" Good question. Here's my response: All waiver requests could be decided by an independent panel of 3 individuals, appointed by the MH Board (the "waiver review panel"). Each member of the waiver review panel would be appoint...

I am becoming more convinced that associations should not have the ability to deny exit waivers. Chances are if someone wants out it is for a legitimate reason, and I for one believe an association putting out a crappy product is a legitimate reason. From what I have read here, a lot of association...

The genesis of these rules is not hard to understand. It is much like your local youth baseball organization trying to put kids from each neighborhood together into teams, not letting one dad/coach cherry pick the best players from across town. The idea is to have a few more teams to play and have t...