Russia vs North America - The Massacre of the Innocents

While the young Russian hockey players jostle and fight, North Americans lay the technical basis. The decision Federation of Hockey Canada, which recently took a leaf from the United States and banned power play in the children's hockey and 13 years, has caused a flurry of goals in the homeland of conflicting emotions.


And your correspondent - and still quite fresh memories ...

About a year ago my oldest son in a team, "Baltimore Stars" played in the tournament for teams in 2001 and 2002 birth, held in Florida. The tournament was notable for the fact that it has performed the command of Bashkiria (Republic, which, as you know, are very sensitive to ice the game). And the "Stars", which was composed of several Russian guys really wanted to test myself in the confrontation with the principal rival. And check - he played with envoys of HC "Yurmaty" of Salavat in the final. At the Baltimore boys were found individual talents brighter Bashkir, but the coach "Yurmaty" very quickly realized who the Americans leaders and the entire match salavatovskie Bobby Clark gave Baltimore Kharlamov safely ride on the site and meter. This metaphor I did not invent it. After the match, dad of one of Baltimore "stars" showed us the leggings of his son. Each decorated with three or four long cut. The match ended 2-1, and the winning goal three young representative of Bashkortostan pushed (or rather - hacked) into the goal with the goalkeeper covered her Malamud. Baltimore coach immediately poured the whole bucket on the judge "Fakov" received in response to the same amount no less vigorous epithets and set off to write a useless protest. Nothing, surely: the Russians have won the game, and the whole team they had a stronger Baltimore, which left the final riding a three-four young talents.

We left Florida full of respect for the boys from Bashkiria and the way they know how to play hockey. But the most important thing in this story is this: young salavatovtsam cost a lot of effort to restrain yourself and play within the rules of the U.S. non-violent. And after the tournament, one of their mothers wrote in an online forum, which was great to learn something from American children who have come to rely on speed and technique rather than brute force. And then, they say, the home of 11-year-old tournament - not a sight for impressionable ... Now here is the 11-year-old can not be in patsanski hack each other and in Canada. However, the motivation is different from the North American neighbors. In the United States wants to build a hockey school for high-speed and technical basis. Then recently even prohibited for children under nine years of playing the full length of the site to put them ahead of time skating and technical elements. Well, in Canada just concerned about the epidemic of traumatic brain injuries among primary school pupils. Both are correct (all the more so in the NHL from year to year massacre is getting smaller - and the "police" has already brought in the Red Book of North American hockey.) But in Russia, as far as I know, the power struggle though formally under 11 years old and disabled, but, as is often the case - "as if" and "type."

There are no hard and fast rules still do not, it all depends on the specific tournaments and judges, and the sight of 7 - 8-year-old kids who send each other in a short air travel, nobody is shocked. View Dad, screaming from the stands, "aboard his board!" (Reduced by the censor) - as well.About outright horror type proshumevshey recently on the Internet wild fight 10-year-old boys from Novokuznetsk and Astana's really nothing to say. In America, both clubs would be excluded from all competition at least a year in Russia - were the heroes of "youtube" with inspiring music. On the other hand, what is there to wonder if even the Russian sports channels its "prime time" sometimes give rancid North American militants 80s - with blood, fights and shootings ...In any case, all the more urgent this causes problems. First, with what joy the North American and Soviet hockey changed countries? Second, if you are an evil person and live an evil life, then why would you use as a conductor of his own anger as a child when there are so many easy-to-head impacts the walls?Third, how many hockey moms, dads understand the simple fact that a real chance to break out in a professional has the strength of one percent of the boys-hockey players, and the remaining 99 will shake their fragile brains for a way to remember? Fourth, if we have reason to wonder how the recent bloom and ears youth and youth teams of the United States?