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Rather than simply adding girls hockey without checking like we have now, a little-known niche sport called ringettes was adopted.
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After a survey of high school girls discovered that most of them wanted to play hockey anyway, ringettes was scrapped and girls'
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Player safety was a major reason for adopting ringettes in the first place, but for whatever reason nobody contemplated that giving broken hockey sticks to kids, many of whom were not strong skaters to begin with, and then turning them loose to play a game on slippery ice with relatively byzantine rules might be a bad idea.
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Ice rinks were forced to add additional lines of varying colors and shapes to accommodate the rules of ringettes, although nobody - including the referees, coaches and players - fully understood what the lines were for.
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