long time hockey fan

I have been a follower of this forum for years, and until now have never felt compelled to make an account so that I could express my thoughts. This unfortunate incident was the push I needed. You can completely ignore my comments if you think I am out of line, but I hope you will at least consider them. First, I am not going to discuss the issue of blame at all. I have read most, if not all, of these posts and enough comments have been made about who is to blame. Several people bear responsibility, but that is all I will say about that. In my many years of being involved in youth/high school hockey, I have come to know this as an exceptional group of people (adults and kids) who share a love of an awesome game. Are there issues from time to time - sure-but that can be said about everything. What is unique is the concept of "hockey community" that I don't see in most other sports. Hockey people come together like no other when something happens in their community. Think about Kevin Kenny, the Vengeance player who was paralyzed in an on ice accident or the Humboldt bus accident which killed many young players. We all rally together to support each other even if we don't have a personal connection. Our players play together on the weekends and against each other during the week. They always come out friends with respect for each other. We need to make sure this continues. Where we need to focus as a community right now is how do we move forward. That is what is important. How do we ensure that all those affected are OK (especially the goalie). Obviously there need to be some changes and consequences, but instead of spending so much time on blame, and arguing who is to blame and insulting each other, let's all put that time and energy into real solutions. I will throw out a couple of ideas I have (not that anyone cares) and hope that this will refocus this post on making suggestions that will lead to positive change. One, what about making the involved parties contribute to a fund that goes toward paying for a local police officer to provide the security for the games if a security guard isn't sufficient? Second, rather than punishing players who already don't get many fans at their games, make the high school fans from Armstrong be required to attend games with their parent/guardian. Third, for a period of time (maybe the rest of this year) make Armstrong students be required to pre-purchase tickets to get into the game and have to provide their student ID to get one so administrators know who was there if trouble arises. I'm sure some others will have more, even better ideas, but I hope to at least get us as the "hockey community" moving to a place of change and healing. Then, we can have some ramifications in place in the event that any other games/venues/teams face incidents like this in the future. Knowing consequences ahead of time often prevents issues. So, best wishes to the very brave young lady from Mars who clearly deserves all the support she is getting. Thank you to her parents, teammates and other hockey players who are backing her and helping her through this time. Let's get back to being one community wanting only to play and watch hockey!!!!!!