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Guest wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2025 7:22 am Wrong. What I said is the truth. Development comes from playing, not sitting on the bench. Everyone knows that, yet you have parents who put their kids on top AAA teams thinking they're doing them a solid, but if they're not playing, they're not developing. U16 is the only year that matters, so why not put your kid on a team where they will get a ton of minutes? Those kids will pass the kids on top AAA teams who sit on the bench and watch.

This is a big problem for Canadian hockey. Development is the whole point of minor hockey. Chasing a logo or trophy or whatever is totally pointless.

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2025 4:25 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2025 7:22 am Wrong. What I said is the truth. Development comes from playing, not sitting on the bench. Everyone knows that, yet you have parents who put their kids on top AAA teams thinking they're doing them a solid, but if they're not playing, they're not developing. U16 is the only year that matters, so why not put your kid on a team where they will get a ton of minutes? Those kids will pass the kids on top AAA teams who sit on the bench and watch.

This is a big problem for Canadian hockey. Development is the whole point of minor hockey. Chasing a logo or trophy or whatever is totally pointless.

You develop more in practice, against better players. So the 3rd line kids taking reps against the top line guys on the top teams 2-3x a week are developing more than playing on a lousy team and getting smashed in a 2.5 team league.

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2025 9:38 am

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2025 7:50 am

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2025 7:22 am Wrong. What I said is the truth. Development comes from playing, not sitting on the bench. Everyone knows that, yet you have parents who put their kids on top AAA teams thinking they're doing them a solid, but if they're not playing, they're not developing. U16 is the only year that matters, so why not put your kid on a team where they will get a ton of minutes? Those kids will pass the kids on top AAA teams who sit on the bench and watch.

This is a big problem for Canadian hockey. Development is the whole point of minor hockey. Chasing a logo or trophy or whatever is totally pointless.

Fully agree with this. If your kid is not getting playing time how will he develop and build confidence. He will keep thinking he’s not good enough. The mental aspect is very important.

You guys are correct, as you may know it actually goes way further than this for development. From your posts, you can see that it is a given that hockey culture has accepted "get a ton of minutes" as the way it works! And this is absolutely true, the strongest players will play more....the big issue with this culture is that the strongest players (99%) are just the most mature players, as reported by Sports Science in about 2000 studies across all sports and countries! They are not the most talented or the most skilled, just the biggest, strongest and fasted due to being an adult. This is particularly true of physical sports like hockey, football etc

We are a country of 40 M and if the opportunity to reach your potential only applies to the early maturation athletes, we are really a nation of 1/5 (bell curve) that or 8 M. That is huge and it is why Finland can out develop us as a Nation of 5 M.

If you would like the link to the Swedish Hockey player study showing how early maturation is correlated with Junior success (drafted) and negatively correlated with professional level success, please let me know i would be happy to post this 16 year study!

Guest wrote: ↑Mon Jan 06, 2025 4:44 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Mon Jan 06, 2025 2:52 pm Nats lose a AA tournament in the USA

Too bad your kid didn't make the cut, it was a fun weekend.

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2025 4:25 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2025 7:22 am Wrong. What I said is the truth. Development comes from playing, not sitting on the bench. Everyone knows that, yet you have parents who put their kids on top AAA teams thinking they're doing them a solid, but if they're not playing, they're not developing. U16 is the only year that matters, so why not put your kid on a team where they will get a ton of minutes? Those kids will pass the kids on top AAA teams who sit on the bench and watch.

This is a big problem for Canadian hockey. Development is the whole point of minor hockey. Chasing a logo or trophy or whatever is totally pointless.

You develop more in practice, against better players. So the 3rd line kids taking reps against the top line guys on the top teams 2-3x a week are developing more than playing on a lousy team and getting smashed in a 2.5 team league.

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2025 6:29 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2025 4:25 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2025 7:22 am Wrong. What I said is the truth. Development comes from playing, not sitting on the bench. Everyone knows that, yet you have parents who put their kids on top AAA teams thinking they're doing them a solid, but if they're not playing, they're not developing. U16 is the only year that matters, so why not put your kid on a team where they will get a ton of minutes? Those kids will pass the kids on top AAA teams who sit on the bench and watch.

This is a big problem for Canadian hockey. Development is the whole point of minor hockey. Chasing a logo or trophy or whatever is totally pointless.

You develop more in practice, against better players. So the 3rd line kids taking reps against the top line guys on the top teams 2-3x a week are developing more than playing on a lousy team and getting smashed in a 2.5 team league.

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2025 4:25 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2025 7:22 am Wrong. What I said is the truth. Development comes from playing, not sitting on the bench. Everyone knows that, yet you have parents who put their kids on top AAA teams thinking they're doing them a solid, but if they're not playing, they're not developing. U16 is the only year that matters, so why not put your kid on a team where they will get a ton of minutes? Those kids will pass the kids on top AAA teams who sit on the bench and watch.

This is a big problem for Canadian hockey. Development is the whole point of minor hockey. Chasing a logo or trophy or whatever is totally pointless.

You develop more in practice, against better players. So the 3rd line kids taking reps against the top line guys on the top teams 2-3x a week are developing more than playing on a lousy team and getting smashed in a 2.5 team league.

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2025 4:25 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2025 7:22 am Wrong. What I said is the truth. Development comes from playing, not sitting on the bench. Everyone knows that, yet you have parents who put their kids on top AAA teams thinking they're doing them a solid, but if they're not playing, they're not developing. U16 is the only year that matters, so why not put your kid on a team where they will get a ton of minutes? Those kids will pass the kids on top AAA teams who sit on the bench and watch.

This is a big problem for Canadian hockey. Development is the whole point of minor hockey. Chasing a logo or trophy or whatever is totally pointless.

You develop more in practice, against better players. So the 3rd line kids taking reps against the top line guys on the top teams 2-3x a week are developing more than playing on a lousy team and getting smashed in a 2.5 team league.

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2025 6:29 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2025 4:25 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2025 7:22 am Wrong. What I said is the truth. Development comes from playing, not sitting on the bench. Everyone knows that, yet you have parents who put their kids on top AAA teams thinking they're doing them a solid, but if they're not playing, they're not developing. U16 is the only year that matters, so why not put your kid on a team where they will get a ton of minutes? Those kids will pass the kids on top AAA teams who sit on the bench and watch.

This is a big problem for Canadian hockey. Development is the whole point of minor hockey. Chasing a logo or trophy or whatever is totally pointless.

You develop more in practice, against better players. So the 3rd line kids taking reps against the top line guys on the top teams 2-3x a week are developing more than playing on a lousy team and getting smashed in a 2.5 team league.

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2025 7:48 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2025 4:25 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2025 7:22 am Wrong. What I said is the truth. Development comes from playing, not sitting on the bench. Everyone knows that, yet you have parents who put their kids on top AAA teams thinking they're doing them a solid, but if they're not playing, they're not developing. U16 is the only year that matters, so why not put your kid on a team where they will get a ton of minutes? Those kids will pass the kids on top AAA teams who sit on the bench and watch.

This is a big problem for Canadian hockey. Development is the whole point of minor hockey. Chasing a logo or trophy or whatever is totally pointless.

You develop more in practice, against better players. So the 3rd line kids taking reps against the top line guys on the top teams 2-3x a week are developing more than playing on a lousy team and getting smashed in a 2.5 team league.

Cmon you gotta be joking. Buddy are you that naive. Practice is practice. As Iverson said when he missed practice “it’s just practice, we talking about practice?”. Nobody goes at a 100% at practice and no if you don’t get to play in high intensity games you will not develop. If you are a 3rd liner parent do your kid a favor. Get him on a team where he will play, feel like he’s important to the team and build his confidence. The biggest development killer is confidence. Do you know how your kid probably feels when he’s on the bench and shift after shift your kid is being skipped over. The team is up by 5 in the 4rd and these kids still being skipped over. Just so you can say he plays on JRC. Have you ever asked your kid his thoughts? Your kid is probably good enough to play on 1st or second line elsewhere and not get skipped over. Just my thoughts.