“These kids, who are 12 to 15, they’re playing 70 games a year…All they do is play hockey. They don’t get their feet out of skates, they play too many games and they develop an overuse injury.

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But even then, Atwell couldn’t help but wonder why the other kids from his Keele and Eglinton community weren’t out there with him. “We would play street hockey right around the corner ...