Deep into weekends Im wearied by gym-ratting, jogging, recreating in the sun, home cleaning chores, errands, etc., and Im all yawns come 11:00 Sunday night, when Im waiting for the last pickup hockey player to depart my rink so I can turn out the lights and lock the door behind him. Its a great bunch of guys in Sundays final skate guys in their thirties and even fifties, the same set every Sunday, all good cheer, most of them youth hockey instructors who once a week just want a good sweat and our games camaraderie. They get together for a 75-minute skate each Sunday night at my rink, and until this month Id always been cranky about shoo-ing them out so I could get home and crash.
But last Sunday night, while waiting for the their allotted 75 minutes to lapse, I read a reminiscence of the hockey locker room, of a young boy being aided into his gear by his father there, and later of that boy becoming a man and sharing that same room with rec league buddies and beers. My Sunday fatigue, I realized, is no excuse for my crankiness toward any set of hockey players seeking out a weekly retreat in the rink. The ice there and the fun had on it is but one lure; the other is the camaraderie and sanctity of the room.
There they are away from bosses, spouses, irritable neighbors, and the grown-up responsibilities of life. There men become boys again.
No other sport has it. The dugout in baseball is like a bus depot very transitory and not much of a home. The sideline in field sports is transparent and anti-intimacy. Basketball has locker rooms, but have you ever read of them attaining anything approaching the sacred sanctuary of hockeys? Basketballers change and shower and X and O in their room, but hockeys room contains a culture. The amazing thing about it is that its every bit as sacred for the beer league squad as Les Habitants.
Guys in a hockey room are literally and figuratively naked. Divorces, affairs, firings, and mortgage crises get announced in there. I had a beer league teammate known for uttering only ribbings and off-color jokes arrive in the room all quiet one Sunday night and inform us of his wifes cancer a few seasons back. Im fairly certain it was the first instance hed spoken of it outside of commiserating with family.
Thats because the hockey room is a second family room. In Mystery, Alaska Tree rightly rebukes his teammate for betraying the code of the room: s said in the room stays in the room. On the hockey beat any reporter in any city will encounter the wall of player silence when he or she questions what the coach said after the team put up a stinker of a period or made a marvelous third-period comeback. They still ask the question you have to, its the best storyline to pursue but the answer is always the same: Ah, you know, coach said some things.
A special swagger, security, and exclusivity is accorded membership in the room. Individual accountability is executed there. A team lets down its guard in there. Initiations and rituals are meted out most often in the room. I cant count the number of rec league players whove detailed for me the solidarity they honor and nurture with teammates they see but for 90 minutes each week. Those bonds most often arent forged from individual game shifts but rather from the vulnerability and support intrinsic to the hockey room.
Ive learned on the hockey beat that there are places you just dont step, access points you just dont broach, in the room. When media is in the room they are accorded respect, but it is also abundantly clear that we are stranger-guests, outsiders, and that our visit is best kept brief. I like this about our sport.
Great hockey teams, it seems to me, cannot be forged without great rooms. When Capitals management initiated the organizations pre-lockout rebuild it stated that its principal design was to construct a competitive club built and replenished largely from within call it going organic. Now that the team is competitive its interesting to note how many of the teams players reference the strength and caliber of the teams room. The past two summers Ive made a point of asking players in the Capitals organization what if anything they miss about hockey in summertime, and without fail every player includes in his list being in the room with the guys.
Surely Sergei Fedorov noticed the novelty of the Washington locker room. You have to think his experience in the Caps room was a condition of being mutually beneficial for his teammates and him. He sure seemed to meld with his new teammates conspicuously well. You have to think this played a part in his decision to resign in Washington this summer.
And how special that room must have been on and between the nights of those final seven regular season games in 2007-08, when the Capitals couldnt afford to lose a single one, and when they encountered all manner of struggle and frustration in those games and yet perservered and triumphed.
Only about 25 people on planet Earth know what that room was like then. Thats as it should be.

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8.5% unemployment rates.
 
Michigan near the top of the list consistently for home foreclosures.
 
Glut of homes for sale on the market.
 
Families split up to take jobs out of state.
 
10 out of 12 industries in Michigan posting negative employment growth.
 
There is no doubt that the economy in Michigan is one of, if not the worst in the nation.  Manufacturing jobs are disappearing, the big 3 are all suffering, and many are forced to leave the state to find work.  It’s a tough situation out there and the impact is being felt across the board, but how is this impacting youth hockey in Michigan?
 
I dare say it is having a profound impact in many different ways.  There is no doubt that the number of youth hockey players in Michigan has declined.  You can take a look at the Mlive hockey forums and see many teams posting messages about openings on their teams – looking to fill out their rosters.  I have to imagine that some of this is because of the decline in the number of players.  I’m sure there are other reasons, but much of this can be traced back directly to the declining numbers due to the economy and the mass exodus of people from Michigan in search of jobs.
 
We have also seen more chatter this year than in years past regarding the amount of travel.  I posted previously about travel, but the reality is that many people in Michigan simply can not afford to travel as much as they used to.  I’m sure some families have decided to cut hockey from their list of activities simply based on the cost of travel alone.  It’s a shame, but I believe it is a harsh reality in our great state at the moment.
 
I know there are some associations out there that have scholarship type programs available for families with children that want to play hockey but can not afford it.  My fear is that these programs will begin to dry up as participation and sponsorship decreases leaving kids without the experience of playing this great game.
 
The positives (if they can be found) are that there is some areas of growth in Michigan and there are particular metropolitan areas that are showing better growth than others:
 
Grand Rapids is at 7% unemployment
Kalamazoo is at 6.9% unemployment
Extreme Southwestern Michigan is at 6.4% unemployment
Ann Arbor is at 6.3% unemployment
 
We are also seeing some growth in Professional and Business services, Information, as well as Education and Health services across these same metropolitan areas.  This is good news that hopefully will continue and ultimately stabilize the economy to the point where it can begin positively impacting things like youth hockey.
 
Let’s all continue to do our best to keep this great sport flourishing in Michigan.

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Hold your arms out straight in front of your body. To visualize the closed position, hold the hockey stick so it is sticking straight up and down. Turn your body towards the target, as if it is the gate door closing. Now turn so your arms are pointing towards the target, lower the club to the ground. You should notice that the toe is out in front of the heel of the hockey stick, indicating that it is in the closed position. Now if the heel is in front of the toe, you know it is in the open position. If you are having difficulty seeing what the clubface is doing during the swing, use the hockey stick or cardboard on the clubface. Use a normal swing but only bring it up as high as your waist. Check your hands; if your forward hand is in good position at impact with a flat wrist, facing the target then the blade should be square too.

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Alexander Radulov, the Nashville Predators' best forward, and a young up and comer in the National Hockey League, has decided to blow off the last year of his contract with the Predators, and leave for the Russian Superleague. This comes only one day after the NHL, IIHF, and Russia came to an agreement stating that neither league would dishonor the other's contracts, or in simpler terms, steal players from the other league.

We all know that some Russian hockey people are dirty liars, but this is just outrageous.

TSN broke the news this morning.

These developments do seem to beg the question of what Radulov was thinking. He backstabbed an organization that gave him a legitimate shot to be a star in this league. He puts the Predators in a position to fail for the forseeable future of the franchise.

But this move may prove to have implications far worse for Nashville than just on ice success.

I'm sure word has gotten back to my audience by now, but the Nasvhille Predators future in Tennessee is very much in doubt, and more doubtful now that its best young asset has defected to Russia. The Predators seemed likely to be on the move, possibly to Hamilton, Ontario, even before Radulov left, and now it appears a real probability that this team will be leaving.

A selish act on the part of Radulov.

Now we'll see what effect this has on the future of the Predators.

Peace.

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Beijing’s lakes froze in mid-December, the earliest that the ice had come in for a decade. The polar bear swimmers chopped their hole on the south shore of Front Lake, but skating was difficult due to northern gusts that dumped dust and sand on the surface. Clearing a rink required several hands on whisk brooms, and avoiding the revelers on pali, sleds with metal runners propelled with short stakes.
I used to skate on Front Lake because it provided a clear view of the Drum and Bell towers, Beijing’s former timekeepers. On its lakeshore, an old man who advertised himself as the Skate Sharpening King liked to boast that he had stayed open from 1937 through each of the eight winters that Japanese soldiers occupied the city. He was no match for developers, however. In the winter of 2005, his locale had been fenced off with panels of blue-painted tin shrouding the construction of an upscale restaurant. In a sense, the center of the Old City was reverting to its original form, when it was the playground of royalty and its acolytes.
Now the best skate sharpener worked across town at the rink inside Xidan’s mall. The Hand had rubbed out the area – the sidewalk vendors, cluttered storefronts, and crowds – and replaced it with straight lines. Here a bank, there an office tower, here an underground shopping mall, there a widened intersection, and nowhere shade. Beijing’s famous streets were ceasing to be destinations themselves, changing into viaducts between Point A and Mall B. Due to traffic, an errand such as skate sharpening that used to take a few minutes now took at least an hour.
Every season I played hockey with the same dozen Beijing natives. We only knew each other on the ice, for the month between Christmas and the Chinese New Year, whose beginning was determined by the lunar calendar. It was a different sort of Beijing camaraderie, free from the pressure to reciprocate favors.
After Front Lake began charging a higher fee to use its groomed rink – the ticket included a free coffee at the new Starbucks on the west shore – we moved our game to the Forbidden City’s moat. Plywood painted vermilion to match the neighboring palace towers surrounded the rink on three sides. The stones separating the moat from Zhongshan Park formed the fourth barrier. The park filled at dawn with elderly doing exercises. Women rubbed their backs against the gnarled cypress trees. Old men paced while violently crossing their arms against their chest, belting out opera or phlegm-filled groans that went Uhhh! The quieter the surrounding environment, the noisier Beijingers behaved.
The day’s rink conditions were chalked on a board: air temperature, wind direction, and ice thickness in the sun and shade. I laced up on a bench in the pavilion’s courtyard. A steep wooden ramp provided a running start to the ice. The only advertisement on the rink’s fence was a green banner whose white characters reminded Overpopulation is our nation’s most pressing problem.
Not on the ice. No one else was here. In winter, Beijing’s tourist crowds thinned, the skies were often clear and bright, and public spaces became personal ones. I liked to hike snow-covered paths at the Fragrant Hills and draw fortune sticks from the soothsayer at Tanzhe Temple, both of which emptied of people.
Once the elderly exercisers left, the only sounds on the Forbidden City moat were the scratches of my skates cutting into the ice. The sun rose over the palace walls, and at the top of every hour, the melody of “The East Is Red” chimed from the Ministry of Communication’s clock tower, a mile away. I hung my scarf in the center of a goal as a target, dropped the puck, and began taking shots. I savored the routine; it was the most time I spent alone each day.

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As a coveted young defenseman with pro potential, David Carle enhanced his burgeoning talent with poise and maturity beyond his years. Now, the 18-year-old from Anchorage is leaning on those same virtues to deal with the end of his hockey career.

Carle on Friday said he will no longer play the game after doctors at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., diagnosed a heart condition that puts him at risk for sudden cardiac death if he exerts himself too strenuously.

Carle said Mayo Clinic doctors on Thursday diagnosed him with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a thickening of the heart that has been cited in the sudden death of young athletes.

He had been a lock to be selected in today's NHL draft, possibly as high as the second round, but withdrew his name from consideration after receiving the diagnosis.

An abnormality was first detected in Carle's heart by doctors at the NHL's scouting combine in Toronto last month, prompting this week's visit to the Mayo Clinic.

After undergoing tests, Carle said he was informed of the diagnosis Thursday.

He said he felt fortunate doctors detected his condition.

"It's really not the end of the world,'' Carle said by phone Friday from Faribault, Minn., where he is visiting friends. "I'm really quite fortunate they were able to find it.

"I've still got a long life ahead of me. I have a lot to look forward to and a lot of opportunities ahead of me.''

David Carle is the middle son among Bob and Karen Carle's three hockey-playing boys. Bob Carle, who accompanied David to Minnesota and calls his son "a level- headed, pragmatic guy who thinks things through,'' said he was impressed how David accepted the news, digested it and quickly began thinking about his future.

"Hard to believe he's only 18, huh?'' Bob Carle said. "I'm pretty proud of him. I've always told the boys, 'I am more proud of who you are than what you do.'

"The kid amazes me. He's handled this better than I did, for sure.''

David Carle, who was scheduled to begin playing as a freshman on scholarship at the University of Denver in the fall, said he and his father immediately informed Pioneers coach George Gwozdecky of his condition. Gwozdecky quickly told the Carles the school would honor David's scholarship and also make him part of its hockey program.

"That's real stand-up of them,'' David Carle said. "That means the world to me. I'll still get to be around the team and have those relationships. I couldn't be any happier with the decision to go to the University of Denver.''

Gwodecky, who coached David's older brother, Matt, said honoring David's scholarship was the right thing to do. He said he is excited to include David in the hockey program in some capacity.

"Not only are we morally and ethically obliged, but we have established, and we try to establish, strong relationships with our student- athletes,'' Gwozdecky said by phone. "And we have had that relationship with the Carles for a long time because of Matt.

"David is such a unique guy. We feel so frustrated for him because a big part of his hockey life has ended. But whether it's hockey or not, we want to support him. It was the least we could do in a very difficult time for David and his family.''

David Carle said he will begin classes at Denver in the fall and already has solicited academic advice from his older brother. Matt Carle, 23, a defenseman with the NHL's San Jose Sharks and a two-time All-American for the Pioneers who helped them to two national championships. As a junior in 2006, he won the Hobey Baker Memorial Award as college hockey's best player.

Matt Carle, who described his brother as "a great hockey player and a better person than a hockey player,'' said he knows David will succeed in whatever he does.

"He's still going to a great school and he can do anything he wants to,'' Matt Carle said of his brother by phone from San Jose, Calif. "He'll go to school and work hard, and he has the support of me and my family.

"He still has it better than most kids. But he's worked really hard on his hockey, and to see it end is sad.''

Bob Carle said David's adviser, Kurt Overhardt, on Thursday informed NHL teams that David was removing his name from draft consideration because of his diagnosis.

David Carle has spent the last three years at Shattuck-St. Mary's, a prep school in Faribault, Minn., that regularly develops some of the nation's best young hockey players. As a blueliner coveted for his ability to generate offense from the back line, he helped Shattuck win USA Hockey Tier I Under-18 national championships in 2008 and 2007.

Last season, Carle scored 13 goals and furnished 38 assists for 51 points in 61 games.

The NHL's Central Scouting Service ranked Carle 60th overall among North American skaters eligible for the draft, and there were indications he might be drafted as high as the second round. Matt Carle was a second-round pick of San Jose's in 2003.

David Carle said he has never experienced any indication he suffered a heart problem -- no symptoms like chest pain, shortness of breath or fainting. But he said doctors told him hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a silent disease that sometimes only is discovered after an athlete dies.

That prompted Carle to encourage all athletes, particularly young ones, to be tested for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

"That's why the disease is so scary,'' Carle said. "You don't know you have it. Oftentimes, your first symptom is your last symptom.''

He said an electrocardiogram and echocardiogram he underwent at the Mayo Clinic revealed his condition. Carle and his father both said they were thankful for NHL doctors who first discovered an abnormality in David's heart.

"If they wouldn't have found it, he'd have gone on to college (hockey) and probably placed himself at some risk,'' Bob Carle said.

David Carle said a nurse at the Mayo Clinic who talked to him Thursday provided the first inkling his hockey career was history.

"The nurse, I could tell it was hard for him," David said. "After he left, I just lost it and had a good cry.

"The doctor came in, and I was pretty shell-shocked at first. After a few hours passed, you can step back and evaluate it, and move forward.''

David Carle said doctors told him he has a non-obstructive form of the disease and will be able to exercise lightly. He is awaiting a report from doctors that will outline what physical activity is considered safe.

"It shouldn't affect my everyday life,'' Carle said. "The only real effect is I can't do really heavy lifting, no quick exertion of force. I can probably do light workouts. I can fish and golf too.''

Gwozdecky said Carle would play a pivotal role in Denver's hockey program.

"I'm just formulating this in my mind, (but) it's going to be an important position,'' Gwozdecky said. "He's not going to just be pushing pucks or being a manager.''

Gwozdecky said Carle's emphasis that athletes get tested, and his bright outlook about his future, are both indicative of his nature.

"I don't know how a young person or an old person, or anyone, could handle this as well as David,'' Gwozdecky said. "That's a real testament to him and his character.

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Michael Remmerde over at NHL Draft Notes breaks down the Americans eligible for the draft:

Eric Mestery / Tri-City Americans WHLD-L / 6-4.75, 195 / 28-May-1990Skating: 70 / Skill: 50 / Sense: 20 / Compete: 55 / Tough: 40
Strengths: Tantalizing natural skills. Size and skating combination is rare.
Weaknesses: Does not think the game well at all.Is a long ways away from utilizing his talent. Hockey sense just is not there. Great feet and has a fluid skating stride. Looks to have good hands, but decisions with and without the puck can be astoundingly bad. Tries to compete physically, but usually ends up making reaching hits and is generally ineffective using his body.
Summary: Here's your textbook definition of a project. Draft this guy and you're still going to leave yourself with a tough decision two years from now of whether or not to sign him. But if you're willing to spend the money and be patient, he offers upside that you just won't find in the middle rounds of the draft. Problem is, hockey sense doesn't often improve, no matter how much coaching you give.
Target/Want: Might argue for him with a 4th round pick if others I like are gone. But you have be patient with this one.
My take: I have to argue a bit (go figure) with the lack of hockey sense. I believe, seeing Eric's improvement this season, that is more a lack of confidence than a lack of sense. I've said it before. When his confidence is up, his decision-making improves ten-fold. I do agree that he doesn't use his body effectively often, but I personally think that is more due to his lack of size (SOOO SKINNY) that if he had another 20-30 pounds he would be more effective. Fore sure have to be patient.

Kruise Reddick / Tri-City Americans WHLC-L / 5-8.25, 165 / 06-Jul-1990Skating: 50 / Skill: 40 / Sense: 55 / Compete: 60 / Tough: 50
Strengths: Overachiever. Fearless style. Has a knack for garbage goals.
Weaknesses: Lacks the high end skating ability a player his size needs.
An odd duck - a five-eight player who plays a power foward style. Loves to battle with the giants in the slot and near the crease. Scores all his goals below the dots and near the crease. Knows where to be to get to loose pucks. Handles physical play well. Surprisingly hard to move from the crease. Not sure he skates like a tiny player should - if he's got any speed, I've never seen it.
Summary: I love this kid's heart, but I just can't see how he's going to be able to play this style at the next level.
Target/Want: Late rounder for me, but I think he's likely to go much higher.
My take: I agree with everything except the lack of speed. Which Reddick you watching? He's not Procyshen, but he's no slug. It will be hard for him at the next level, mostly due to his size. But his heart should take him a long way.

Tyler Schmidt / Tri-City Americans WHLD-L / 6-0, 198 / 13-Apr-1990Skating: 45 / Skill: 40 / Sense: 55 / Compete: 60 / Tough: 70
Strengths: Excellent strength. Very effective physically. Solid in his own zone.
Weaknesses: Small frame for the style he plays. Puck skill is limited.Want to like this player more, but is just too much of a tweener for the pro game. Excellent strength and gets really good leverage against forwards in the crease. Punishing hitter along the boards. Dropped the gloves more this season, but still didn't see him stick up for teammates consistently.
Summary: Had high hopes for this player coming into this season, but just didn't show enough improvement with the puck to justify moving up the rankings. Hard to argue to an NHL GM they should spend a high pick on a 6-foot stay at home defenceman.
Target/Want: Middle rounds. If he slides to the fifth, I might start arguing for him.
My take: I also had high hopes for him this season and was let down until he finally showed up in the playoffs. Dropped the gloves maybe twice, didn't use his size to stand up for teammates. I'm also surprised his slllooowwww skating isn't mentioned, tho I suppose "stay at home" could mean "too slow to get out of the zone" I dunno. For sure small frame for his game.

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Okay, this post actually has nothing to do with hockey, really, but it was inspired in part by yesterdays post. As Mark pointed out in the comments, ice hockey is part of Canadas cultural identity. It is in parts of the US, tooprimarily the coldest parts.

But it turns out I had a brief connection with it, too.

When I was nine (a month short of ten), my parents moved us to another town so my dad could be pastor at a different church. It was a completely different sort of townfar more suburban, mostly much newer, and with more kids my own age.

When youre nine or ten pretty much nothing is more important than to be accepted by the other kids. These kids were always doing something active, it seemed. It was easy enough to fit in at first: There was a hill behind the house where all the neighbourhood kids went sleddinguntil it iced over and then theyd slide down without a sled.

There was a toboggan slide in town and, even though my family didnt own one, I got to go along with some kids. Their families were members of my dads church, I think, so they probably had to bring me. At any rate, toboggans were expensive, so my parents couldnt really buy one.

The local kids were also into ice hockey for a year or two. My parents bought me a hockey stick and ice skates. Id never had any skates before, and didnt really know how to use them, but my parents wanted to encourage me, and to help me fit in, so they bought them.

In the end, I dont think the blades of those skates ever touched icewell, maybe once. And the stick? Well, the other kids wrapped the blade in black electrical tape, but I didnt want to do thatI liked the way mine looked with just the black fibreglass mesh on each side. Yep, I was a totally gay kid. The stick served out its days in a wardrobe.

The attraction of ice hockey faded for me after one winter in the new town. I think the other kids were over it about the same time. Skating, sledding and tobogganing also faded quickly, though our getting older probably affected that, too.

What I remember most about that time was how willing I was to try and fit in (up to a point), and how my parents were willing to try and help me do that (as much as they could). In the years that followed, I became less willing to work at fitting in, but my parents willingness to help and support never changed.

And thats what I learned from ice hockey.

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HALIFAX - The United States lost its lead Sunday - and then, it lost its cool.
Mikko Koivu's goal with 3:50 left in regulation capped a wild comeback as Finland rallied for three third-period goals in a 3-2 win over the U.S. at the IIHF World Hockey Championship.
The Americans took a two-goal lead to the third after scoring twice in the second. But in the final period it was all Finns, as they scored three times on 25 shots. With Finland enjoying a power play, Koivu took the puck from the end boards, came out front and stuffed the puck past American netminder Robert Esche.
After the goal, American forward Adam Burish was tossed for a butt-ending a Finland player. Then, just as the final horn sounded to end the game, American forward Dustin Brown drilled a Finnish defenceman into the boards with a hit to the head. The play led to a post-game melee, and featured a fight between David Backes of the U.S. and Finland's Amsso Salmela.
With the loss, the Americans (2-2) can now finish no better than third in its preliminary pool. The U.S. has already qualified for a spot in Wednesday's quarter-final.
Finland (4-0) moved to within a point of the idle Canadians atop the Group F standings. The teams face off Monday in the qualifying round finale for both teams.
Tom Gilbert opened the scoring for the Americans 90 seconds into the second period. The Edmonton Oilers defenceman skated in from the blue-line and scored on a loose puck from just outside of the Finland goal crease.
Gilbert's first goal of the tournament came one second after Olli Jokinen's five-minute checking-from-behind penalty had ended. Jokinen, the captain of the Florida Panthers, drilled American blue-liner Tim Gleason into the boards from behind to earn the match penalty.
Both teams had numerous chances to score with the man-advantage after Gilbert's marker, but the score held until the 19:15 mark. American forward Phil Kessel drilled a shot far corner from the right faceoff circle that cleanly beat Finland netminder Nicklas Backstrom during a U.S. power play.
Just seconds before Kessel's goal, netminder Esche made an incredible glove stop on Koivu. On a short-handed breakout for Finland, Saku Koivu fed the puck up to his younger brother Mikko, who deked right but had his back-hand attempt go into Esche's outstretched glove.
Two minutes into the third, Ville Koistinen scored on a one-timer during a two-man advantage to get Finland on the board. The Americans disputed the goal, claiming the puck went through the mesh on the side of the net. The play was reviewed and the goal was allowed.
A minute later, and with Finland still on the power play, Esche made another highlight save, as he stuck out the glove while laying on his chest to deny Finland's Janne Niskala of a sure goal.
Midway through the third, Finland scored the tying goal as Saku Koivu made a nice cross-ice pass to Teemu Selanne, who made no mistake from the side of the net.

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waz up every one im starting a new hockey team called the dukes we are going to beat all of the other teams we might even go against bodges team the badgers!! so be ready if you would like to join comment this page by clicking comments where will hockey practice be?? thats a easy qwestion go to the american server mamouth and i will tell you when the first game starts cant wait to meet you there untill then waddle on. [ WE RULE.

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Commenting on the IOA decision regarding IHF, Dr MS Gill said, The decision regarding the IHF, taken on April 28, by the Executive Committee of the IOA, was necessary. It was a unanimous decision, and in my judgment, appropriate in the given situation. I have carefully noted the composition of the new Selection Committee. I would hope that they work in unison, and for the best interest of the hockey and youth of India. In my judgment, it will also be necessary, to have a compact, well chosen, and efficient new administration for the IHF. I am confident the IOA will address this.

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