Body Checking Eliminated in Pee Wee, News (St. Thomas Minor Hockey)

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May 25, 2013 | lsmith | 9869 views
Body Checking Eliminated in Pee Wee
Breaking News - Hockey Canada voted today at their Annual General Meeting to move the introduction of body checking from Pee Wee to Bantam effective immediately for the 2013-14 season.

In St. Thomas these changes will only effect our Travel program there will be no changes to house league, where body checking was eliminated many years ago.

We will post more details as they become available.

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