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Guest wrote: ↑Tue Mar 11, 2025 2:20 pm Dec 1 full ice for u9 GTHL. Announcment coming soon. Spring tryout so get ready.

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Mar 11, 2025 8:14 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Mar 11, 2025 2:20 pm Dec 1 full ice for u9 GTHL. Announcment coming soon. Spring tryout so get ready.

They're pushing up full ice from Early January to Dec 1st? Wtf is the point of that?

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Mar 11, 2025 8:14 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Mar 11, 2025 2:20 pm Dec 1 full ice for u9 GTHL. Announcment coming soon. Spring tryout so get ready.

They're pushing up full ice from Early January to Dec 1st? Wtf is the point of that?

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Mar 11, 2025 8:14 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Mar 11, 2025 2:20 pm Dec 1 full ice for u9 GTHL. Announcment coming soon. Spring tryout so get ready.

They're pushing up full ice from Early January to Dec 1st? Wtf is the point of that?

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Mar 23, 2025 10:01 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Mar 11, 2025 8:14 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Mar 11, 2025 2:20 pm Dec 1 full ice for u9 GTHL. Announcment coming soon. Spring tryout so get ready.

They're pushing up full ice from Early January to Dec 1st? Wtf is the point of that?

Is this for OMHA or just gthl?

Guest wrote: ↑Mon Jan 06, 2025 12:40 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Mon Jan 06, 2025 8:18 am The recent loss of Team Canada at the World Juniors highlights the importance of playing full ice hockey. One of the main reasons for their defeat was their inability to connect passes and their high number of offsides calls. This suggests that the team struggled with spacing, timing, and overall awareness on the ice. Full ice hockey, which allows players to develop their skills in a more open and dynamic environment, can help address these issues. By playing on a full-sized rink, players are forced to think and react more quickly, making split-second decisions to create scoring opportunities and avoid turnovers.

Playing full ice hockey from a young age can have numerous benefits for players, including improved passing accuracy, better decision-making, and enhanced spatial awareness. It allows players to develop their skills in a more game-like setting, where they need to consider factors like ice width, opponent positioning, and teammate movement. This, in turn, can help reduce the number of offsides calls and improve overall team cohesion. By embracing full ice hockey, coaches and trainers can help players like those on Team Canada develop the skills and instincts needed to succeed at the highest levels of competition. By doing so, they can build a stronger foundation for future success and reduce the likelihood of struggles like those seen in the recent World Juniors tournament.

This is HILARIOUS. Full ice under the age of U12 slows development so much. It's literally the equivalent of adults playing on a football field. Eight year olds learning offsides and systems over skating, stick handling, shooting, working in tight spaces? Beyond dumb.

The oldest kids to play modified ice under HC new rules in Canada are now U14 -- NONE of the players on Canada's team would have played half-ice growing up. Countries with a fraction of the player registration than Canada are besting us in tournaments because they develop kids using proven models instead of listening to the loud cohort of know-it-all parents/paid coaches who think little no names should be skating 200 feet when he's 3.5 feet tall not because they actually have any research or knowledge to back it up, but because that's their opinion.

You know who DID play modified ice until U12? Every kid on Team USA, Team Finland, Team Sweden and Team Czech.