As the GTHL season winds down, changes for the 2015-16 season have been voted upon and decided. Within these changes is the ban on body checking from single A hockey. While seemingly non-controversial, the effects of this decision have a greater impact below the surface, both as a trickle-down effect and from the bottom-up. Body checking is quickly being taken out of minor hockey. The game changes when hits aren’t allowed to be thrown. The number of penalties in a game could

It is well established and widely agreed upon that the Kontinental Hockey League is the second-highest level of professional hockey being played in the world today. Founded in 2008, the KHL has since been home to twenty-eight clubs from countries such as Russia, Astana, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Ukraine, Belarus, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. While generally not quite on par with the National Hockey League in terms of player talent and global popularity, it wasn’t long ago that