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research, review, and a seven-year timetable, two scientists came back with in­credibly significant results. We decided that their findings were significant enough to create a com­mittee that would investigate the matter.
    An important point to reference here is the mem­bers were already surveyed by an independent firm, Provoke. 3600 people participated in the survey and Hockey Calgary broke the data down by community. All of the information was made readily available to all and continues to be availa­ble on www.hockeycalgary.ca , the Hockey Calgary website. A majority, more than 50 percent of those surveyed, wanted a safer environment from body checking for children in Peewee.
    The committee’s 52-page document basically told the Hockey Calgary Board, Remove body checking . Here’s where things get strange. What happens as a result? Was the proposal accepted by the heads of the hockey associations that were a part of Hockey Calgary? No. Eight of the 24 hockey associations in our organization decided that they didn’t like that message. They wanted to keep body checking, despite the risks.
    Believe it or not, those presidents and leaders de­cided not to engage families in their associations, and instead, decided to derail the entire debate, and bully some of the other presidents into joining them.
    What was their argument against body checking? They had three main points:
Kids wouldn’t be allowed to play in tour­naments, because other associations had body checking.
The young players’ hockey development would be negatively impacted.
Let others implement these changes first.
    My answers to those three points are as follows:
Kids would be able to play in tournaments without any trouble; the reality is that tournament play amounts to three or four games of a 20-game season, and there are plenty of areas to go to play in tourna­ments that likewise would not allow body checking.
NHL players have come out to talk about this, and studies also show the opposite of what our detractors believed. Young play­ers might even show better development when body checking is not in the equation during development years. Additionally, USA Hockey had just completed a study clearly identifying that children in this age category do not have the cognitive learning ability to successfully include body check­ing in their game play.
The data show that our children will be safer with a few common sense regulations. There’s no reason to wait.
    Long story short, when all of the presidents and leaders in Hockey Calgary came together, they took a vote that was not indicative of the general public’s desire to eliminate body checking. They overturned the decision that the Board of Hockey Calgary had made. Body checking would stay, at least for now.

    Let’s talk about body checking for a moment. In­juries don’t just happen when body checking is done illegally. A legal hit can cause serious dam­age to kids this age. We’re not talking about some wingnut’s behaviour, throwing a stick around or hitting a guy in the head. We are talking about an open ice body check that results in a child being injured.
    The purpose of a body check is to gain possession of the puck. Essentially, this means that you are moving the opponent off the puck for the sole purpose of gaining possession of the puck. It’s not as simple as it sounds. When two hockey players hit one another this way, they will do a few different (legal) things. They might rub you, push you up against the boards, or body check you on the open ice. And as long as your hands are down, and you’re not making any kind of upper body gesture to the person’s head or sticking your knee out, body checking is allowed.
    For further reference here is the clearly articulated excerpt from Hockey Canada:
    The Hockey Canada Four-Step Checking Model
Step #1 – Positioning and Angling The first step in teaching Checking is to learn how to control skating and establish position to approach the