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I agree. Emmerton is the only 'weak link', and the Wings need him to play center. IMO with the lineup Chicago used last night, the Wings don't need to worry about being pushed around. The Hawks do have tougher players in the press-box, but Shaw and Bickell are easily matched by Abby, E, and Smith.

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For me, ~20% of practice time during the weeks before the first games in peewee were spent learning to hit and to take a hit. Coaches have a big responsibility in educating their playersI do think players should learn to play the body before full checking is allowed. This was sometimes allowed before peewee, depending on the refs.

My take on this depends on how the games are called. I remember spending a large amount of time in peewee learning how to check and how to take a check, but there were a lot of players who went for dangerous hits. IMO this would be best as a hybrid. Allow players to play the body, pin along the boards, battle for the puck using the body, etc. but don't allow them to overly physical. That is, allow checking in the basic sense of using the body to get the puck, but don't allow checking for the purpose of knocking another player down. If they can ref this like hooking, where a small hook is okay but when you stop skating and iimpede a player's progress it is a penalty, it should be a good rule change. If they ref the game as they would for squirts, I don't like the change.