On Thu, 27 May 1999 19:20:28 EDT Vicki Price <[log in to unmask]> writes: ><snip> > >I concur with the concept of respect and honor. However, right now the >game is taught to include cheap play and winning at all costs. This is just >as true at the youth level. Good behavioral examples in regard to "fair >play" and sportsmanship should come from the coaches and parents. Sadly this >isn't the case very often; too often it's the parents who fight in the >stands over a call or a hit. That's not role-modeling. > ==== YES!!!! The hardest thing a parent has to do during a game is to shut up when your kid has just been run over by an oppponent, especially when it is "unfairly" done. Too often we scream at the ref, the opponent and then at junior to get up and get even. Oops! Fair play and sportsmanship went out the window. I always told my kids to get even on the one place that counts - the scoreboard. In some cases that meant that the don't run it up rule was relaxed. Joe PS When you take a comment out of context (which you did), you can have anyone mean anything to fit any point. You have no idea how I retaliated. Usually it was waiting for the person to have his head down and then deliver a legal hit. PPS Incidence of injury - WHAT TYPES OF INJURY??? Charley horse or broken bones, or lacerations? Geez, Vicki, every time you do one of these things, you're digging a bigger hole. Of couse a full face shield would eliminate facial lacerations. It's like saying that an umbrella will keep you head dryer in a rainstorm than a hat. ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.