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By Jamie Fitzpatrick, About.com Guide to Hockey since 2002

Canadian Junior Hockey: A Teenage Sweatshop?

Thursday December 11, 2003
Canadian junior hockey is in the news this week for all the wrong reasons. A prominent player agent says players at the highest level of under-20 hockey are exploited and mistreated. Gilles Lupien insists that the entire junior hockey system must to be restructured. To begin with, the three Major Junior leagues - which form the primary feeder system for the NHL - should cut back their schedules and reduce travel time.

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