Will Street Hockey Survive?

For generations, Canadian kids played hockey in the streets, in the yards, everywhere they found a patch of ice. Many great hockey players started their careers like that. But today street hockey is faced with the threat of extinction. Provincial authorities insist on banning it because it is supposedly unsafe for children to play hockey spontaneously and freely outside instead of being supervised and micromanaged by adults.

I think people should have more children. If you have four or five, you’ll be too occupied to hover over each poor child. Instead, you’ll be ecstatic if you manage to get at least a couple of kids go outside to play and leave you be.