Geez, I haven't played hockey since I was a brat, last week...no seriously, in decades. But I don't need to play hockey in order to have an opinion. I thought we were talking about the relative strength or virtue of younger and older people's opinions, not the ability to hammer rubber with wood on ice. I can higher the young and uninformed to do that for me if need be. But I still defend the brilliance of the young and informed and the validity of their perspective. Way I see it, stupidity is just as hard and just as irritating in the old as the young. And stupidity of one kind or another is what makes opinions unacceptable to others.