You're ours, coach

Toronto Sun columnist Steve Simmons weighs in on new minor hockey rules in Toronto that will allow easier movement among young players from season to season, but not coaches. It's a bit of problem when so many coaches of kids are also fathers.
Simmons says, "... staid old North Toronto Hockey Association ... has taken petty to a new limit, threatening Select coaches from leaving North Toronto and taking players with them, which may be by the book correct on their part, but in the spirit of the new rule is downright nasty."
Should people volunteer wherever they like, or would it create organizational chaos?
I'm not sure what's right in El Toro, but cities like London there's something good to be said about playing and volunteering for teams in the neighbourhood in which you live. It builds a sense of community and provides an opportunity to get to know your neighbours.
Then again, there needs to be flexibility to have kids playing at the level that's right for them, especially among goaltenders.

'Weather' or not you care

We've all driven through weather we'd rather not to get to minor hockey games. And we know all leagues have policies and protocols for cancelling games due to road conditions. But this house league select situation in North York (Toronto) seems odd and harsh.

As the Toronto Star reports the Ted Reeve team failed to to make it to the first game of a best-of-three playoff series during last Wednesday's snowstorm - the same storm which cause big delays at Pearson International Airport and left my wife without a connecting flight home, but I digress.

The league's harsh answer wasn't to reschedule the game. It wasn't to count the game as a forfeit. It was to deem the Ted Reeve kids as forfeiting the entire series.

Which begs the question: Is minor hockey for kids?