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by Alanah McGinley on 02/06/09 at 01:46 PM ET
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This is from a blog post that 11 year old Miller Donnelly wrote for CBC.ca, sharing the story of why he made the remarkable (and effective) video embedded below:

People often ask me why I wrote it.  Well, I was simply fed up with all of the parents yelling at me and my teammates.  They’d yell something like, “Use your head!” and I wanted to yell back “I thought I was using my head.  It was just a bad play I made because I’m learning the game.”  Then the same guy would say, “Good game, Miller!” as I’m walking out of the arena.  What’s up with that?  I felt that if they were going to treat me like a kid when I walked by them then they should treat me like a kid when I’m playing hockey too.  And so I wrote the speech about it.

Well worth taking a couple minutes to watch.

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Alanah McGinley has been blogging hockey since 2003 (with a notable gap in time through 2010, kicking it with new baby Lucy while living knee-deep in chaos while reading “parenting for complete idiots” during every spare minute) sharing opinions, rants and not-so-deep thoughts with anyone who will listen. 

In addition to writing Canucks & Beyond and helping manage Kukla’s Korner, Alanah was one of the founders and co-hosts of The Crazy Canucks Podcast.  She has contributed pieces to FoxSports.com and the New York Times Slapshot blog, as well as other stray destinations in cyberspace.

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