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| Ontario Hockey Federation Removes Body Checking from Recreational Hockey |
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As many Forest Hill Hockey Association families are aware, the Ontario Hockey Federation (OHF) made an arbitrary ruling on May 4th to disallow body checking from House League and Select Hockey effective immediately.
Click the link below for their press release:
http://www.ohf.on.ca/web_pages/headlines_news.php?ID=311
Forest Hill Hockey does not allow body checking in any House League divisions and hasn't for many decades. Our Select teams, which play in the North York Hockey League, do play with body checking at the Peewee level and above.
The Board of Directors of FHHA met at the Annual General Meeting and voted unanimously to oppose this ruling. The Board is not making a statement whether or not we agree that body checking should be removed from Select hockey. However, the Board feels that the process, or lack thereof, that led to this decision was flawed. Proper study and consultation with the various house leagues and, most importantly, with the parent body within the community hockey leagues has to occur before a decision to remove body checking from all age groups should be mandated.
As a result, Hersh Forman, President of the FHHA, sent the following letter to the directors at the OHF:
Click here to view the letter.
If you have any concerns or wish to express your views to the OHF please feel free to do so. The contact at the OHF is Phil McKee and his email is pmckee@ohf.on.ca. Concerns and suggestions are welcome and please direct them to hershforman@fhha.org or markgrammer@fhha.org.
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It's House League Picture Time!
Don't miss out! |
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Click here to see the House League Picture taking schedule.
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| Team Pictures |
House League team pictures will be taken as follows:
Saturday Jan. 21/12
Sunday Jan. 22/12
Saturday Jan. 28/12
Sunday Jan. 29/12
Select team picture schedule to be released in January.
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| Learn to Play Schedule released for the 2011-12 season |
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| Sunday Skills Schedule for Squirt, Novice and Atom players released for the 2011-12 season |
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| 50th Anniversary Video |
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FHHA partners with Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities to sponsor economically disadvantaged children to play House League hockey. Click here for more information.
Click here for the application form.
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| FHHA partners with Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities |
FHHA in partnership with Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities to sponsor 50 children to play organized hockey.
Click here for more...
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GTHL Announces
New Speak Out Certification Mechanism for Bench Staff |
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| House League Rules Reviewed & Updated |
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House League Rules reviewed and updated for the 2009-10 season.
Please click here to view.
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