“I don’t know if the US Women’s National ice hockey team still does it, but several years ago, they lost to the Warroad, Minnesota (population 1,800) high school boys hockey team. They also lost to a few other Minnesota boys high school teams too.”
One year my Bantam hockey team (13-14 year olds) were asked to play the women’s junior national team who were in Dallas for practices. The only rule was no checking. We held up pretty well until my kids decided to start checking. They stopped counting the goals at 9. Every goal they scored against us was on the power play.
It was a great lesson learned and it was the key factor in our team’s championship run.
It was a great lesson learned and it was the key factor in our team’s championship run.
Couldn't follow that description - but it could have gone either way:
Sounds like your boys began body-checking the older (more experienced) women's team.
From then on, either the women began body-checking as well, but lambasted the boys by so many goals that they stopped counting past 9.
Or the women's team was blasted out of contention completely once “the gloves were off” and they were not cocooned by the precious silk-wrapped toys.