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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hockey makes it easy.  Birthyear.  Period.  So the "golden ticket" for hockey is to be born early in the year.  And there is really no arguing about it--if your kid is born on Dec 31, that's unfortunate.  He's still a 2008 or whatever.[/quote]

Yep, and Canada also set up their developmental system by birthyear. The birth months January-June are overrepresented in the NHL. I will say, so far it hasn't made a whole lot of difference for my January born 8U player. He's decidedly a 50th percentile kid, there's kids 6+ months younger than him that are way bigger and heavier. Maybe it'll make a noticeable difference as he gets older, but I'm not holding my breath.

And before someone jumps on me, yes, there are exceptions. Alex Ovechkin is a September birthday. He's also an absolute freak of nature and it wouldn't have mattered when he was born.

OP, I hear you on the complaining. My nephew is an April birthday, 3 months (to the day) younger than my son. They decided to redshirt him--which may have been for the best because of his specific needs. But my brother and SIL whine constantly about how he's being "forced to play up." He's not playing up and certainly no one is forcing it. He's placed in the appropriate age group based on his birthday. I'm sure he would love to play sports with the kids in his class. But when sports are organized by age and not strictly by grade this is what happens. It's not some grand conspiracy to screw over their child. My favorite was the one time I answered my mom's questions about how DS was doing in baseball and said "he had a pretty great season." My brother shot back with "Because he's not forced to play up." So now we just don't talk kids sports when my brother's family is around.[/quote]

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