The age gaps in major junior can lead to boys fighting men – with scary, irreversible results. Time for fisticuffs...
Imagine if a 20-year old adult punched your 16-year old son walking down the street. You’d be outraged, right? You’d probably file a police report and press charges. So why is it any different if the act is carried out during the course of a hockey game?
I played junior hockey during the days of the three-ring circus. It was the NAHL in the late ’90s and early 2000s and – to put it bluntly – shit was crazy. Fights in every zone. Sixteen-year-old kids getting their heads bashed in by 21-year-old goons who weren’t good enough to make higher level junior teams.
Sometimes it was an act of retribution. Other times it was an attempt to change the momentum of the game. But mostly it was sheer bravado. Kids trying to prove they were man enough to play hockey at the higher levels. They would do anything to get on the scoresheet. What if that was your son? It makes me queasy thinking about it. And it was so completely unnecessary. The fight had nothing to do with the game.
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