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There was an article on MSNBC stating that organized sports shouldn't start until age 12.
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Christ 12? I was playing organized hockey at 4, it was Bumble Bee as they used to call it in Ontario but none the less it was still organized into teams. 12 sounds like they just pulled a number out of their asses.
As for getting a young lad into hockey, it's great to play for the fun of it, but the rep and travel teams just start to put pressure on the kids. From the ages of probably 7or 8 until I was 13 I played hockey 11 and a half months out of the year, winter hockey ended time for summer hockey, summer hockey ends time for winter hockey, and I was burnt out by 21, I'm now 32 and have only had skates on once since I quit playing, so if you want to get your kids involved in hockey, just let them have fun with it, and never, ever become a hockey parent, my father was one, we get along fine now, but believe me when it comes to hockey, they're bastards.