millbank Posted June 25, 2006 Author Posted June 25, 2006 Jesus, 6/2/88? 713859[/snapback] Young isn’t it. Bobby Orr played for the Oshawa Generals of the Ontario Hockey League. Orr played for them when he was 14, against guys who were twenty years old. Orr at that age was property of the Boston Bruins, who owned the rights of players on the Oshawa Generals. As a youth, I played junior hockey and signed a contract at twelve years old, called a "C" form, which made me at twelve property of the Detroit Red Wings. Scouts used to follow hockey players 12, 13 years old, even younger in some cases the young man being rooted up out of his home envoirment and moved to play for a junior team in a city halfway across the country because a NHL team owned the rights to the players on that team. It meant for many young men in hockey the obvious of education and career suffering, and why many of the former greats of the NHL found themselves later in their lifetimes in less than desirable situations. Today’s coaches like Billy Kilrea of Ottawa's junior team work not only with young men to be good hockey players, but assert their influence that the players attend school and attain good grades and a process for career apart from hockey. Also many more young men are attending University and College.
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