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Girl tries out for my team last season. She is 14 and tougher than most of the boys on the team. She is one of my better players and gets through tryouts and in the final scrimmage before picking the team I take the parents aside. I tell them to get her on a girls team. The parents yell at me.

Before the first practice I call a buddy of mine in Wisconsin and secure a spot for her on a girls national travel team. Hour before practice I see the girl and her parents and they are excited she is playing for me. Once again I pull the parents aside, tell them they have a special kid and I got her a spot on a team in Wisconsin. School is worked out, family she will live with, everything including tuition. Parents accuse me of hurting their kids chances at a higher level.

A this point am wondering who is advising them because an exceptional hockey player who is a girl needs to play with girls not boys. First drill I do after warmups is a two on two battle in front of the net. Kid checks the girl, girl falls, girl breaks two bones inner hand, girl done for season.

Get off the ice after practice, mother is screaming. Father thanks me. Following season she played in Wisconsin on the girls team.

Bless their hearts, but girls have no business competing with boys. Not on the playing field, not on the battlefield. Call me sexist, but that’s the way it is.

You’re not sexist. You’re a realist. Mid teen to early 20 year old male athletes (hockey, football, boxing, and wrestling especially) are brutally and ruthlessly strong. Anything else is nonsense
They should have listened to you.
I fear the increase in attacks on young women after dark are in some cases due to their false assumption that some karate or cardio boxing class has prepared them to fight off a male if necessary and so they walk to cars alone from clubs, invite that jerk over for a nightcap, etc.
Stalkers will always exist, women must use brains to combat these animals.

I used to play a lot of pickup hockey, sometimes three nights a week.

There was one group that had two female players, and being a goalie, i was curious about their skill set, so I watched them warming up. They looked fast and shifty, and had somewhat decent wrist shots, though not as strong in a snapshot.

Once the game began, they couldn’t do a thing. It was a no contact (hitting) league, but they simply weren’t strong enough to push a guy or get him out of their way.