“…The more recent trend in youth sport towards increasing specialization, which has resulted in kids being encouraged to focus on a single sport, has been well documented (Jayanthi, Pinkham, Dugas, Patrick & LaBella, 2013;Landers, Carson & Blankenship, 2010;Malina, 2010;Merkel, 2013;Mostafavifar, Best & Myer, 2013). In Canada, a country renowned for producing talented hockey players (Côté & Lidor, 2013;Imtiaz, Hancock, Vierimaa & Côté, 2014), exclusive and year-round hockey participation has become common at increasingly younger ages (Hagen, 2015).…”