People love giving their kids extra assists when they aren't even on the ice.

Assists are now useless as they cant be trusted. Only look at goals to determine how a player did.

Great job parents!

It depends on what parent is running score sheet. We had a guy give his kid an assist every time a goal was scored when he was on the ice even if he did not touch the puck. The thing is if you are judging how a kid played by goals/assist/points you are an idiot. There is more to the game than points. My sons team had a kid score a hat trick, but was directly responsible for 5 goals against. Stop worrying about points and get you kid to play a 200 foot game.

This post is almost as bad as putting extra points on the stat sheet, almost.

This post is almost as bad as the daddy coach playing his kid half the game! If you want to make ice-hockey better make it illegal for parents to coach or run the scoresheet. Daddy coach of sons team plays his kid half the game and he is the worst player on the team. Coaches so his son can play a higher level!

Soooooo, who are you going to get to coach all these A and B teams?  As well as increase the cost for all to pay them.  In theory you are right, but its not practical.

Former daddy coach here. The nicest thing any parent said to me was, “If it wasn’t for the name on the back of the jersey, I would have never guessed your son was on the team because you treated everyone the same.” I never spoke to my kids on the bench. If I had something critical to say, I would ask another coach to say something to my son. When I was an assistant coach on my sons’ teams, I would coach the defense because my sons played forward to avoid impartiality. When the team voted for captains, I would ask the head coach not to make my sons a captain for fear of parent backlash. One coach said, “The team voted, not the coaches. It would be unfair to your son to not respect the kids’ votes.”