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A rule change to Junior A hockey for the upcoming season has left owners
in the Alberta Junior Hockey League feeling like they've been fed so many
rights they're begging for a left. Hockey Canada has imposed a new one fight
rule for Junior A hockey across the country, meaning if you drop the gloves,
you get the gate.
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I'm not a barbarian that wants bench clearing
brawls but I do like a few scraps in the game. I also like a guy that can
score goals and take care of himself every once in a while. This totally
discourages that. It also encourages the bull - you know what that will
happen when player X who skates on one team's 4th line goes after player Y who
skates on another team's top line. If the star player defends himself and
the ref doesn't hand out an instigator penalty, then both guys get tossed and
the Karl Racki's of Youngblood are running the place. It's a bad system
when that happens.
The AJHL saw that and didn't want it, but it was
basically shoved down their collective throats by Hockey Canada and the CJHL.
Not one owner voted in favour of the rule, and at the national level the AJHL was the only league to vote NO in a 9-1 vote in favour of the new rule. Some league Presidents in some leagues didn't vote the way some of their owners would have liked.
Other changes of note, when a puck is shot directly over the glass from
the defensive zone, no penalty will be given, but the offending team will not
be able to change players. Also teams will not be able to change when icing the puck from their own zone this coming season.
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