easy ... summer hockey. For all its hate of being watered down and too costly there is a lot of good development that comes from it including exposing players to checking and playing against bigger, faster players. If your good enough to play A the first year chances are you are playing summer hockey.youngblood08 wrote:Again NPC... How are current players that come from Squirts (with no checking) able to make A Peewee teams the 1st year, without all of this checking experience?
In fact many say they get more and better teaching and development during the summer than they do in the association. So ban checking in winter but kids will be checking and possibly getting hurt in summer.