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Ethics in youth sports? The lessons that some parents teach their kids these days is awful. Not all, but enough. Don’t blame the kids, it’s the parents that disappoint the most.

I'm not sure how much D1 hockey schools are scouting any Jr League other than USHL and the majority of those players are already committed. They are committing players so young now (although I think they finally addressed that recently) or there are some players who develop later that they are just watching those few. What will be interesting is to see how the many commitments of recent local players actually pan out. PE had quite a few at the 02 and 03 levels and some of those have already not panned out.

Hopefully this is sarcasm. Working out for the team isn't an excuse for sacrificing ethics.

Absolutely. Same reason you can play most teams at 6 am and the parents are great but at 9 pm they are out of control.

Great thing about opinions, we're all allowed to have our own.

All the years traveling with my oldest around the country, my experience - the majority of parents yelling at refs & other parents were drinking. Heck, a parent I was very friendly with who never said much - one game he had a few beers. Embarrassed his own kid and got tossed. I’m not saying this is the case for every parent causing problems during a game, just in my experience alcohol seemed to be a major contributor.